South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-08-21
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N E WIS OF THE AY,

I o-aNo iuiV P'per- tAR1LASD lays claim
to producing more watermclons than any
others States. - HAY is selling 10 Wheel
ing at s25 per ton .MINNEsorA has
spen. s3,OO0,000 entertaining grasshop-
pers. WHEELING makes wine glasses
holding JUS: spoonful of wine. FIVE
years ego there were bu. six Protestant
Churches in Mexico. Now there are %.
IA MAN in Stark conaty, Indiana, pays
bis boy III cents quart for potato bugs,
aud the boy says that If next yesris as good
as this he can buy the old man cut A
SENSITIVE girl has broken off the match
because he said she had foot like raisin
box. .OH Saturday last ono Cum beilaud
firm received loo watermeIons A Lsb-
anon (Ky.) gent 10 urlea,ly greeting
long parted wife, broke one Of her ribs. :.
iT ia cow estimated that about $4,000 600
wor'h OF sugar was lost during the food in
Louisiana. >. MICE fat.en SLOW 10 a church.
They can't live on religion, any more than
minister's eau - THERE has been rush
Of mechanics to Chicago recently, aud now
there is sn army Of ii!ers ,hors :. INDI-
ANA people who haven't grit arc said to
lack sand. -NoSEY quoted easy Would
nj hard money be better ?..-.A CHAP
who spent S 500 to graduate from Har.
ward, is Postmaster in Iowa at S24 per wear.
Where would he have been but for his Lat
10 aud Greek 2. = THEY arc making it
lively for the backp4y Congressman in Ia
diaua- The log cabin which Mr.. LIN
COLIN made when sixteen years old, stand,
ia seven different COUNTIES 10 Ilinois.
and they haven't got through counting yet.
line body Of u man was found in
room in the Ashland House, New York, on
the l3ih inst, which has been identified at
tho lnorgue as that of Henry s PRIrcn
ARD, formerly in the drug business in Win.
chester, We, and known in Baltimore.
where 1t Is supposed he had recently lived.
~ phial containing morphine and chloro.
form was found in tho room near the corpso
AT Ithaca, n. Y, an old man named
lABEH was stabbed On the afternoon of the
IAN lnst.i b. ayouGg man named THoMp.
son. Tue latter married TABER's dauph-
ter last night against the will of her pa
rents. After the marriage the girl return
ca to her fathers house This noon the
young man went to TABER's house and
claimed her, An afrsy took place, result
ing as stated above. TABER is supposed to
be fatally injured. &. = Ir is asserted tha,
IILTON is opposed and BEEoHER in favor
OF third party. The last baby born in
Pennsy lvania weighed nineteen pounds,
1t would be cruel to ask any body TO "boat
that" IA MAN in MuhIonburg county,
Ky, fory-sevon years OLD, is living with
his SIKH wife. lie buried two wives and
one child in six weeks. THE Supreme
Court of New York has jusi made high
~ important decree, uuI.jfying a marriage
on the ground that the woman had been un-
chaste before we5look, the fruits of gull.
appearing shortly after. Now that the
word "himeneal" is so commorly used 10
reference to weddings, it is sugges ed that
births should be headed 'crymeneal" and
deaths "diomeneal." A Boy named AN
DREW JACKSON, 10 years Of age, while at
play on Monday evening last at Columbus,
Ohio, fell over large s.ouo and dislocafcd
his neck, killing him instantly. TIE
Lexington, Va, Gazetc says the fruit crop
is the ligh.est ever known in that section.
Peaches are out Of the question. Apples
are very scarce The Supreme Court Of
Minnesota has decided that tho conditions
of a railroad pass, protesting to exempt the
carrier iron all responsibility for injury to
person or property Of tho person gratuitous
ly carried, DO not so discharge the carrier,
Whica will be interesting to large class of
persons known as "dcadhcads. -. IT is
said that The extreme dry hot weather dur
log the past ten days in Arkansas, has in
jurcd the crops all over the State TO such
al extent TIA! not more than ouo-fourlh Of
0 crop is now expected to be raised AN
Iowa editor had branded his contemporary
as "m'ogy dog, disgrace to his own Geas"
....i'isNARcK is now called the Iron
prince. .FouEIdN immigration has
faIIon oil about one holf this year SoNa
for BEEcnER-"When the swallows home
ward fly go. MosEs, q South Carolina,
bas pardoncd ONLY A1l conpin,a in 10