South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-04-10
N e VS. OF THE DAY.

and Great Britain. The greatest num-
Der of clocks manufactured in The world, is
turned ont by tho small State OF Connecii-
cut. FLORIDA is now advertised as pro-
duciog Strawberries as large as pears.
THERE are nov 100 totally disabled SOL
diers on the United Ss'os Pension Rolls
receiving So, l25 monthly ...IN recent
trial in Baltimore i, was shovn IN, patent
medicine meu can get almanac certificates
of the wonderful virtues Of their medicines
for fifty cents per head Missouri has
not dollar 10 its military chest, nor a SOL
i,ary mililiaman, but there is an adjutant
7 general, squad of clerks, an nrmory -.
Tue world uses 250, 900, goo pounda OF tea
and 7l8,000,000 pounds of fee every
/ year. China furnishes neatly al the teo,
aud Brazil more than IL che coffee
THERE are niue hundred aud nine conyiots
in the Missouri STATE Pcuitcrdary. Or
The 81 ,962 soldiers buried 10 TIE national
cemeteries the ulmes Of 147 S23 Gre IN
known. .TnE body Of DR. LIvIYGsroNE
will soon reach England, Ond The great ira
veier will fnally res; after lis wludcrings,
tina opposition steamboats, ca the
Hudson river are carrying passengers from
New York to Albany, l56 miles, for 81 a
head ; deck passengers so cents. The
largos. p)rk-packiog house 10 the world
has been erected in Indanapolis. That
city now claims the third place in the list
of the pork packing cities. -. REV. DR..
SToEK, prominent Lutheran minister,
died in Philadelphia on Sunday last A
NEW Texas meat company proposes to can
all the beef they raise, and raise al the
beef they can. -. MORE snow has flllon on
tho Sierra Nevada mountains tho present
season than ever before known. This looks
well for prosperous season in the milling
and agricultural industries Of tina. region.
IA SCHOOL mistress at Felix, Oaic, re
Gently attempted to punish an unruly boy
he made savage rush st hor with club.
when she seized n chli. to d.foDd herself.
and struck bin a blow which proved fatal.
-.CHRIsTIAN SHARP, the inventor Of the
famous Sharp rife, died suliculy at Bis
residence iu Vorou, Connecticut, last week.
Of hcmorTLage of tho hugs, at the age Of
sixty-thfee years .TnEY have big trees
in Texas a pecan tree IN Navarro coun-
/ IS, on the banks Of tho Trinity, measured
twenty-three feet in circum ference. TIE
cedars are cflen more than ore hundred
feet high..--A FRENCH Custom House Of,
fcer, possessed ofan iuquiring turn ofmiad.
noticing the arrival ofa large herd of rock
ing horses, thought he would see what those
animals lived on. IL opened several and
found their little stomaohs full Of CHARS.
IA Pension Agent named BENNETT
disappeared some time since from San Fran
cisco, and i. now turns ont that he Is .
heavy defaul;er. 80. BowLEs, Mississippi
negro, is said to banker after social equal
lty disturbances. lie goes arounl ON steam
coats asking for bridal chambers. and
things which be knows be can't get, and
then prosecutcs the captains FIR not giving
them to him. TWENTY thousand par=aos,
1t IS estimated, have been drowned in I,,to
Erie during the present century. FIVE
negroes cut Of party Of ten that were
crossing from Portsmouth, TO N5rrls. Va
carly on Monday morning las, in small
boat were drowned by the sinking OF the
boat. FATHER Ryan, the celebrated
poet, has accepted an invitation 20 address
the literary societies Of Tho University Of
Z Virginia OF tho first day Of July. Elk.
JUDGE EDMoNDs, the w,ll-knowD New
York lawyer and spiriiualj.l is dead
ONE-THGnD Of the missionaries supported
abroad by the Baptist church are from Viz
giDia,--.A LADY at Chester, Pa, died re-
Gently from hemorhago caused by having
fifteen teeth extracted az one tims. SIe
/ WILLIAM SIMS was Drowned o, safar,v
years ago. There is nothing very remark
able about THE, for other m m and rroba-
bis other SnisEs have met The same fac.
bat il is remarkable that O. co3f "a should
have turned Up, caught at LEru. which.
upon being opened, Disclosed g. Csc aston
ishcd eazo # SIMS descend nls Tie poke,
bible That ilei, anccslorclrricIin lisr ckst
90 Che ualucky dly when be went down.
We should hesitate ab5u. implicitly blisv.
iog this story, were 10 no. youched ar by
o respectable EDglish p1rrr which permi.s