South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-11-13
N E VS. OF THE DAY


30 minutes. The distance traversed over
1900 miles aud the message passed thro'
80 hands "A CHILD in Seymour, India.
pa, fell few days ago biting his tongue
10 such manuer that be bled 10 death.
49,. MILWAUKEE, census shows a popu.
la'ion of 9i,405, an increase of 22,955
since 1870. THE suicides in Paris aver
age 10 dsy.. A FARMER in Csliforpi,
has raised 60 tons of cabbapes on 3 acres
OF land, and realized 81, 900 in gold for the
crop Tue Astors own 500 houses in
Ne" York city. -. A PROMINENT Wheel.
lnr Republican lost 1900 betting on
GoFF. DIR AVER, of lowell. will leave
his handsome daughters2 600, 900 in green
oacks, aud there's sugar coated pill worth
taking. The Chicago Times rerereutlv
calls clereymeu ,inkers of the soul
Mrs. JAS. KNOX Polk, widow Of the
tenth Presiden, Of the United Sts,es lives
in an old fashioned M nsion in N.sbv;,,.
lem. She Is slender, graceful oil lady.
WIN 'no"'"hi'e hair, but With eyes as
bright and step as quick - . girl.
MORE than 1000 houses have been erect.
ed 10 San Frsucisco within the las, tvs,vo
months. NINETY miles Of track If ,h.
Houston and Texas Central railroad vo,o
changed In one day from the broad 10 n
narr'w gauge, so as to agree with the gang.
OF 'he International and Great Northern
road. $50 in greenbacks is the standing
price 10 Savannah for 81 900 in Confeder.
ate notes. JOHN ERODE is no mora
lou probably didn't know hiu. He lived
10 Western Missouri, and in en,eripp III,
smoke'house of a friend to see how tho
hams got along, n trap gun blew his head
on LIN New Orleans, nearly ST, 500 600
capital is employed in The manufacture Of
oil and oil cake from cotton seed Non
musk your corn, and kiss q girl with evsrv
red ear, and, if you can't get red ear .nv
0ther way,pinch it. CAREFUL estimates out
ene yield of The precious metals this wear in
Utah at Sl0,000,000. This is against S.
ooo'oUo last year. .KULMAN, who A.
tempted to assassinate BIsMARK, has been
sentenced to II years imprisonment,
FORMULA Of divorce used by negro Jus.
'lco III Dssha county, Arkansas "a,
Jlhed you SO L bust you 'suuder. S, On
you nIggers. You co.. Two HUNDRED
Mormons from Europe arrived 10 Now yo,t
last week, on their way to Utah .JsN
T., last week, Wu. SAMPSON was s.n,sr
yea 10 ten years 10 the peniten,iary and
n''u so,ooO for sending obscene matter
through the mails. IA SPECIAL train mr..
com plished the distance between Phil,de,-
ph's and Jersey City, on the PennsylvaD;,
ra'lFoad' the other evening, in one hour &
~ m'nu'e'--dlstance 50 miles. The quick.
sS' TINE made was from pbiladeIphia to
trenton, 30 miles in 80 minutes
witness in the Supreme Court. on balm,
asked ny one of the counsel if he corId
swear to certain question, replied, "Yes.
can swear to it, and tell the truth, too. i"
-. FORTY car loads of wheat were rec,;v.
cd IL Richmond on Thursday of las, week
% the chesapeake and Ohio railroad from
The West. -.TRIpE is recommended for
persons engaged in active, nervous mr.
suits. MIR. NEwRY HAMILTON, an uo.
der'aker OF Brooklyn, N. Y, recently dis,
inierr' d the body of one Mrs. RYAN md
while performing the work cut bi, hand
he injured limb came in coutac. with tho
corpse, inoculating poison into Mr.. HAM.
ILToN S sys'em, developing at once tho
prevalence of blood poison, from the eff.o,s
OF which Mr.. HAMILTON is now SUFFERING
with very faint hopes of his recovery
A MAN in Rutland, eating roastod obs.,
nuts, put a hot one between bis teeth and
BIT The nut thereupon exploded, and se.
riously burned and lacerated mis- mouth
For some years past there has been an an.
nnal emigration Of 80 900 per,ons from I.
isly..-.A NEW town 10 the Califo,n nj,
quicksilver region has been named Mercu-
~. WHEAT is suffering from drought
ere....DURISo an alteration on Sunday
last at Salisbury, N. H., between two lads.
aged j year,, named CoUcH and CUSHION.
the former was chased into his fathers
house and killed with club by tho latter
Tine oldest iOhsbitant has no recol-
lection OF such su Oc,obsr. 1t was dry
hevond al nroooJ.n. -