South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-09-25

The Minnesota wheat crop this year is
estimated at 5000, 900 bushels. Ice =
quarter of an inch thick was reported 10
the northern part of Maine few days ago.
---- MAINE has gone Republican by its
usual majority JOIN II. SURRATr is
living at Eumittsbure, Frederick county,
Md, where he is teaching school. DAN
TEL BURKuART, the oldest citizen Of Mar
tinsburg, died on Wednesday of last week I,
in the S4'h year Of his age. Texas can't
get much ahead Of Massachusetts. Ia Tex
as men out of 10 are "colonels," but 10
Massachusetts,, Q men out Of 10 answer
prompt when aperson shouts "profess IT J"
..-.A MANCHESTER, n IL, man has died
of an over dose Of chloral. JUDGE BEN
JAMIN r. CURTIS, Of Boston, one Of the
most distinguished lawyers in the Uuited
States, died at Newport, r. on Tuesday
of last week JOHN LAWSON, a miner,
was so badly injured by fall Of coal, in
tho franklin mioe, Allegany county, Nd,
on yesterday week, as to cause his death in
two hours Afterwards. Deceased was ma
two OF Scotland, about 80 years of aga, aud
leaves q wifo ADD two children THE
Massachusetts, district in which Lowell is
si;uated is known Familiarity as the "pill
district" /, is principally run by AVER,
the patent medicine IAN. STEPHEN VIII.
LIAMs, was killed on the 18th inst while at
work in the rolling mill Of the Baltimore
4 Ohio Railroad Company at Cumberland.
He was struck by hook at the rolls, and
lived but a fow minutes. The present
fashionable item is manufactured out Of old
ladies Of l03 or so, who can threa noodles.
-. SENATOR BRowSLow describes his
carpet-bag associates 10 Congross as "boot-
blacks, BARRIERS, pastry cooks, bartenders
aud thisves." WHERE ara two heads bet
ter than ono? OF course, in q barrel.
ELEVEN glass factories are now 10 full blast
at Pittsburgh, Pa. PHILADELPHIA has
the largest shovel factory 10 America.
The Boston girls propose 70 establish q
sock -darniug factory for the benefit of
friendess bachelors THERE il said to DO
couniy treasurer 10 Alabama who can
neither read nor wri:o, and yet has contriv.
ed to pocket 81, 600 of the county funds.
What wouldn't man accom- plish with q u
University education? WHITE hands are nice
but willing oens are nicer .ON Saturday Ia t
one'tourth ofthe business portion of Balm.
bridge, Georgia, was destroyed by Are
AN Illinois stump speaker who was blow
ing around that he carried rebel bullets
as proof Of his patriotism, was found to be
carrying them in his breeches pocket.
In jewelers. window in Paris, there is a
breast pin made from single diamond, and
marked with the price Of 800, 900. 80.
The King of DAhomey hasa necklace oom.
posed of $50 human cara, and that neck
lace is his great pride. THE Steele M.
nounces the arrival 10 Paris Of NINE. WooD-
HULL, "ex-csndidste for tho Presidency OF
the United S,a;os" :. SIX hundred NOR
mons arrived ut Omaha, from the East On
Saturday last, bound for Utah. WHEN
a West Virginia doctor spells it "accufor.
tus" is it any wonder that patient dies
on his hands p. Mas. AUSTIN of Alex
andr;a, Virginia, has lived 10 ouo neigh
bOrhood 80 years, and never borrowed her
neighbors' fat irons or q cup of sugar. =.
a CORN DOCTOR in Europe begins his al.
nouncement with the statement that he has
chad the honor to operate on several crown.
ed feet" "A New YORK doctor figures
it out that an average woman sheds one bor'
rel Of tears in 80 years. TIE grassbop.
pers havo devoured nearly everything il
Kansas excepting the politicians. E. .JonN
HYMAN, coiorod Congressman elect from
North Carolina, was sold seven times while
q slave. He will be sold still moro fire..
quently 10 Congress. .HAYTI ia a negro
dominion altogether, end like Liberia it,
Constitution provides that no white mar
can ever acquire the right Of nationality.
No white trash wanted 10 Hayti .ANo
TIER preacher is in trouble. Rev. IVES.
LEY PRETTYMAN, Of the NOrthern NJ. Il
Church, postmaster at Marietta, Ga, has
been arrested for embezzcment and Other
penal violation 5of tho Po,tofice law. "A
PARTY Of six United States surveyors wen
ont tho other dnv into tha far vest In suF