South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-09-04

NEW s OF THE DAY

OF September, to devise means for relief OF
settlers whose crops wero destroyed By
grassaoppers. u. l.. BARTON, banker
Of Stone Lake, Iowa, recently failed, having
absorbed 800, 900 belonging to the taxpay-
ors and to poor people of the neighborhood.
He did not wait for the appointment of
receiver, but struck out on foot over the
prairie. AT las, accounts be had made 80
miles. IT may be Interesting to know
that the autumn bonnet will have a high
box-plaited crown aud q rim turning up
directly 10 front held in position by huge
bow. We fancy this head gear will look
unique. :. In the swimming races which
came of at Cambridge, Eog!and, on Aug
ust ID, in connection with the Long VAca-
ton Club, Mr.. DRINKwATER, of Trinity
College, performed feat which is believed
to be without parallel. He swan under
water distance of 81 yards, AMI was i'm
:nersed 10 the current for one minute and
seven seconds. Upon emerging, he appear
ed little the worse Cor the exertion THE
Sacramento Union says that there is a snow
bank in the Rocky Mountains which sends
its waters into the Colorado, and thence to
tue Gulf of California to the Columbia
river md the North Pacific Ocean and IL
SO into the Missouri and the Gulf of Mex.
leo. AMONG the archives of Missouri is
a resolution passed iu 1924, and still in eff.
feet, requesting the Governor, Lieutenant,
Governor, judges, and other State officials,
and members of the General Assembly to
dress 10 clothing, the growth and manufac-
ture of Missouri. A New Orleans young
woman died the other day at tho age of %,
and her disconsola;e pa did sing:
Farewell, my daughter, born for heaven,
| fain, to-day, would follow thee
To thy loved mansion there at even,
And weep beneath that greenwood tree.
80 BRAQUET, ;eroDaut Of Bordeaux, was
about to make his SO lst ascension on Mon
day afternoon, August 10, at R,yan (Cha-
rente- lnferieure), when, by some accident,
the order to DIET 60" was given too soon
The balloon, in rising, came ia contact with
ladder, and the jerk dis!odgod BRAQUET
who was seated on his trapcz,. He, how
ever, caugh. the salvage rope and by al.
most suporhuman efforts had nearly gain,
ed the car when the cord broke, and he fell
from height of 500 yards. The body
was horribly shattered when it was picked
up, and life was, of course extinct. %
Moths Is new word lately invented
and being gradually brought into use, as
substitute for "post -olfce money ORDER"
just as Telegram" has been adopted in
the place of photographic dispatch" 1t is
very good word, and its adoption will
be great convenience. We trust that
hereafter we will find ourselves in receipt
of many pomos daily. North PLATTE,
Nebraska, was once O vrtuous and happy
town; not swear was ever heard there,
and the people just spent their time in
preparing for heaven. Now oil is chang.
ed In an evil moment brass band wss
organized IAN elderly lady purchased
one Of the Egyptian mummies at the Mag
ara Falls museum, the other day, for a per
lor ornament. She said it would seem bet.
ter to have q man around, even if he was
advanced in life aud 8ithered COLONEL
DAVID JONES, an old citizen of Petersburg,
Virginia, who has been i'll for some time
died in tina. city on Thursday morning Of
last week, in the 66ih year of his ege
SALT LAKE has been vic;imized by a show
man, who announced that he would cause
"hum1n body to appear and disappear be-
fore the audience" lie appeared, got
their money, AMI disappeared. lie lied
the programme THERE were els deaths
10 New y ork last week The japanese
census shows only 5000 ciminalsi in pop.
ulation Of over 33,OOOOOO souls. FE-
MALE physicians are popular 10 London,
aud strange to say they are especially pop.
ular with their own sex. SENATOR
THURMAN Of Ohio will doliver 40 address
at the annual fair, at Lynohburg, Virginia
that being bis birthplace Mr. w. II.
/ GREGORY has, since h3 has been Governor
Of Ceylon, restored the Kings pa lace al
Handy, which is one Of the finest things 10
the East. DIR. GEORGE ScuwRINFURTu
the African traveller, has refused tho offer
Of tho London Tclcyroph and New York