South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-03-20
NE VS. OF THE DAY

ofdropsy Of the heart. ENGLAND spends
SG4,OOOO0O year for tobacco. The
demand for postal cards has settled down
to nine millions per mouih 49,. POTATOES
are worth more than wheat in Kansas and
Iowa. -. IT was a North Carolina landlord
who posted the notice in his dinng-roem
that members Of the Legislature would be
first seated, and afierwaid the gentlemen.
TIM richest planter in Mississippi is
said to be 4 eolored man named MoNrGoM.
FRY, formerly a Slave O! JEFFERSON DAVIS.
--ONE Of BRIGHAM YOUNG daughters
Is dead, but be has forty left Two men
IN Wilmington, Ohio, cut up 100 hogs in
thirty minutes. :. ."THE Man with Two
Wives is said to be "drama q great do
mes'io interest" That may be, but it
must certainly be without any domestic
principle. THE lowe SeIate coucurs in
the House resolution for constitutional
amendment giving women tie right of suf-
troge, The vote being - to The Gov
ernor OF Iowa has vetoed 4 hill increasing
bis salary. -. PErcrsELY 10000 enlisted
meu evauishcd from The army in the fiscal
year 1913, @! which number 1913 disap.
Peared by Starlight. a WILD Turkey was
killed in Hardy county, a few days ego
which weighed thirty pounds. IN Utah
a criminal condemned to death may choose
whether be will be shot or hanged "A
YOUNG man named WILLIAM SuEErz, q
Fair Haven, Oaio, died few days ago,
from rupture, caused by Jumping. Mrs
/ VAN ColT has been holding revival seryi.
ccs in 81. Johns NJ. L Church, Baltimore.
On the closing day thousands we're unable
to obtain odmittance Tears were freely
shed by many, and several ladies' fain,ed.
Xix Philadelphia sixteen females grad
uated on tie l3,b INST, at tie commence
ment Of tbc Women's Medical College, as
doctors ofmcdioine. .gHE Supreme Court
OF Mississippi has affirmed the legitimacy
OF children bora q marriages. between white
aud colorcd persons. -. Mrs. WARD Of
ANDY JOHNSON 5 town had not capitulaled
at last report to The praying band While
lhe ladies' pray, Mrs. WARD swcars. A
correspondent says that the weakness of
the seigc lies 10 the fact that it is raieed
every evening. The raging women depart,
to their hungry husbands and crying ba-
pies, and the old soaLers Of Greenville
sneak into Mrs. Wards citadel DorG-
LAS county, Oregon, boasts Of lady who
has been married nine times, has eight
husbands living, and is living with none of
them. More than this, she has daughter
who IL row tweny-threo years Of eye and
living with her third husband Mr..
JONATHAN 4. JONES, Of ST. Louis, has
presented a claim to Congress for $780,
600 for use Of his patent improved defep-
sive amor, which was used successively on
a number Of the United States ironclads on
the Mississippi river during the late war.
.-.-OYLY 3,l45. G64 bushels Of oysters
have been exported from Virginia the past
I year. AN old woman 10 Illinois hes for
@ordcd ten cents to Washington to pay
her share cf TIE Da!:cnal debt before shr
dies. CAPTAIN S. II. EARLY, Of lynch
burg, brother Of General EARLY, died in
Kanawha county, West Virginia, few
days 'se.-. .DURIyG eleven mouths end
ing December ], 1873, four hundred DIT
sons wcrc killed while coupling care on the