South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-04-24
N e VS. OF THE DAY.

NS"S', 20 10 DC married 10 MI SARTOR'
is, of England on the 20th of May.
SHAD are 50 plentiful al Mellowville, Fla.
that they can be had a. one dollar per bar
rel. -.THE legal tenders outstanding arc
1882, 10000 Do. 'RoBERr T. Form, OF
Wayne county, a member OF the Illinois
Legislature, has recently welcomed into his
family oirc!o lively boy-his twenty.ifth
child -. hENnY WARD BEEcHER calls
greenbacks Government lies" ApyER.
EASEMENTS printed 10 Chinese characters are
beginning to appear in the Cal, papers :.
OLD maids in Virsinia are politely called
'beloted sisters" AN Iadianian nam.
ed PANCAKE, has drawn two prizes in
the Louisville lottery. Tickle fortune must
be fond of panolkes. EoUR inches of
snow fell at Blughampton, New York, on
Saturday uight last. -. LARGE quantities.
OF grape slips are now shipping from Mis-
souri, to Ffanco....A SAN ANTONIO (Tex.
ASP paper mentions the fact that a Mexican
woman was in town the previous day, and
sold her chill for $40 "A CENSUS Of n,
army of Spain, shows that forty per cent.
OF the nen cannot read or write, bu. they
can brag as well MS any soldiers 10 the world.
49,. THE number of hares and rnb5its nr,.
duced annually in Great Britain is said to
be 3O,OOO,O00, supplying 10000 tons Of
food. CALIFORNIA exempts editors from
jury duty, thinking they have trals enou n
IN their business. :. CHICAGO has a female
sexton, and they charge her with reserving
all the BEST graves for young men :.
WHILE this country enjoyed q winner of
unusual mildness, Europe was pinched with
specially severe frosts, more particularly in
sunny ltaly" -. AN uncle. left eleven
silver spoons to his nephew in his will, ad.
ding, "EIo knows the reason why | have
not left him the whole dozen" The nephew
had stolen one. ...A LADY promised her
maid $50 for marriage portion. "Why,
MARY, what little husbaod you have got"
"Dear me-" replied MARY, "what could
you expect for So Pr. IT is reported
from the West that the notorious BENDER
family of murder,rs and outlaws have been
captured in the Wlhsa,ch mouutlins of
Utah Tue Chicago Stundard says 'rhe
Legislature OF Illinois is fast reducing the
relations of husband and wife to the CON
diilon OF business -partnership".
HE receipts of the Western railroads du.
ring the past month have fallen eff more
Than 20 per cent. below the corresponding
month of last year. A New Hlmpshire
! ady died recently after having read the
Bible through thirty. -four times. In
Ihomas7ille, Georgia, few days ago, four
negroes were hung, three of them Tor the
murder Of planter named HALL, and the
other one for poisoning his wife with strych
nino. .MILwAUKEE thought she had
case wherein young girl died Of a broken
heart, but it turned out that her corset.
strings were too tight, aud one stroke of
)ack-knife revived her. THE Augusta
CGa.) Constitutinnalist says: Otis low
definitely settled that .bc condition of Mr..
STEPHENs's health will force him TO return
home at oIce, and there IS something sad.
dening in the announcement, as Mr.. STE
pHENs will probably mover again visit the
capital Of the nation, where, even in his
declining years, be impressed public opin
lon with his innate greatness. "A Pr
GUS mother in Geneva, Illinois, bred her
daughter to read tho Bible through for
500. The en'erprising maiden flashed
toe job 10 six days...A Mississippi ma
per proposes this motto f5f the country =
Corn and Economy
Hog and uomiuy."
..-.MIssoURG is considered tho Banner
State among the Grargsr., having no less
than 2,l5O Oranges established within is
Iimils....Is tho Kentucky peniteutiary
there IRE G75 conyi''s, hl!f of whom are
colorcd. The colored population Of the
STATE is equIl to one f,ur,h Of the white.
....THE secret of tho Massachusetts, dis
gust for ljqa'r sellers is out The COM
pound sold there is worse than Jersey
lightning. /, is favored with onions, to-
bacc', rasios, apd, most harmless of all
water No wonder ib,t legislators who
nave been imposed upon by this sort Of stuff
want it prohibited MONTGOMERY coun-
~ A'abama wbont j. knee high A
nOY, cIegen lelra Old. mas r.canNp ,ecoir.