South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-01-09
N Z VS. OF THE DAY.

wv hEhfEit, OF fhSinia, has ueSiu-
ed the present of fine pair of horses and
a carriage which his admiriug friends desir-
ed TO present him . L.. THE fare from Wheel
/ ing to Baltimore is only s5. TWENTY
: ONE United States pensioners are said to be
among The inmates of Auburn prison -.
SOME of the French papers advise the
drowning of criminals convicted of capital
offences. Or Spaiu's fifteen millions of
/ people, only one-6fth can read OF write -.
NEW YORK imports seventy thousand let
ters a week FROM great Great Britain -.
AT late auction in New Orleans, two fue
pianos were sold at 81 so. ..AS Ohio la
/ dy bases her claim for divorce on the
ground that on one occasion her husband
( put her to soak in the rain water barrel 80
BRIGHAM YOUNG is said to have sent or
ders to his agents in Europe to send over
no female saints over 80 years of age -.
THE number of deaths in Baltimore from
all causes during the past year was Z, 1888.
--.- Mr.. JAS MARSHALL, of Hagerstown,
Maryland, who claims to DO seventy years
old, was presented with q christmas gift in
the shape of twins by his wife, who is about
sixty years Of agc :. ONE thousand work
men were. discharged from the Brooklyn ma
vy-yard on Friday last. "A BERLIN sci.
enlist says that all are born with blue eyes
The darker hues come afterwards "A
CITIZEN of Prairie City, Indiana, went to
drug store few nights ago for bottle
of whiskoy for a sick child, but the drug
gist refused it, and during the night the
child died. A suit for damages has been
brought. wv. b. LANDACRE, of Hardy
county, killed, few days ago, hog weigh
ing Gel pounds net A YOUNG lady in
| tends to sue her father for breach Of prom
Use. He said he would consent. and then
wouldn't, tho hard hearted old daddy.
! HoRsEs appear to be drug in Australia
In many of the old districts of New South
Wales they run wild in thousands, they are
not worth looking after, and are very diff.
cult to collect in any way they eat the
food of other profitable stock, and are only
a scourge upon the pastures Hence they
have to be ezterminated like vermin. In
many parts of the country they are shot by
hired men, for 50 much per head, and are
collected and destroyed systematically
They abound 10 wild mobs upon mountains
of the most rugged and inaccessible char
acter, as well as upon the widest plains of
the interior always degeneratng, becom-
! ing smaller, weaker and wilder THERE
was 1872 800 40 in the Virginia State
Treasury on the LIST instant - .FoUR hor-
ses of the fugitive Genet, were sold at auc-
ton, in New York, on Tuesday of last
week, for 81 400. =. LOUIS KossUTH, rev.
dictionary Governor of Hungary in 1910,
and now old and poor, gives lessons in Ger
man, English and Hungarian in Turin >.
GEN. b. SWEET, Deputy Comm issioner
of IuterDal Revenu-, died at Washington,
on yesterday week. Four hundred and
ten deaths occurred in the city of Wheeling
in the year 1878. CAPTAIN J. n. NICH.
OILS, one of the,most distinguished and wide
ly known citizens Of Petersburg, is dead
On her dying bed, Mrs. Scott,o D,l.,
wrote, among other things at is also my
earnest wish that my darling husband shall
marry ere long, nice, pretty girl, who is
good housekeeper. BALTIMORE dis
tributes weekly $500 gallons of soup and
Clio loaves of bread, supplying daily 100
families, representing 700 persons. THE
receipts Of the Chesapeake aud Ohio Canal
for the week ending Saturday, December
q, 1878, we're S7,149 So. THE Presi-
dent has approved the bill removing the
political disabilities of Il. j. HARvIE,
TuoMAsJ BocOcK and DANIEL TRIGG, Of
Virginia, and JOHN II. REGAIN, Of Texas.
-. A FAMINE prevails 10 FIVE districts Of
the Russian province of Samura, on the
lcfl bank Of the Volga. POOR Cuban
editor, who stated 10 his paper that Ryan
and others met their death brayely has been
fined $500 and sentenced to tho chain gang
for eighteen months. The scholars Of
Dover school, Scotland county, Missouri
took q vote TO determine whether thoy
should treat their teacher or duck him
The vote stood 81 for treating to G for
duckinp. a MINNEsoTA mechanic has
solved a difficult problem 10 railroading by