South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-04-03
N E w s OF THE DAY.

PENNSYLVANIA appropTiates 81 5000
for public schools this year = DURING
the last six months $50 illieis distillerics
have bocu suppressed. THERE are l..
300 hands at work on the Valley Railroad
between S'aunton and Salem - Ma. J.
Mccormick, uear B,rryville, Clarke CO.,
Va, had seven sheep killed By dogs one
night last week. .. .THERE are about l12
judges in the State Of Virginia, &c circuit
judges, SO county judges, 0 corporation
judges and 5 Supreme Court judges.
An old coored man who has just died near
Frederica, Delaware, confessed to being the
murderer of the old peddler, for whose
death boy named EDWARD DARNELL was
hanged at DIVER a few years ago. AN
Ohio man has lived fvo years on a quart
of milk day. -. ENCOURAGING More
soap than Perfumery was sold las; year
\ Paris letter says it took the dressma
kers there four years to make thu Duchess
CT EdInburghs irosseau. Young ladies
should make note Of this. G. GORGE
FALK, Of Bll.imore, took laudanum few
days ago. he was kept waking for Is
hours to save his life. To have stopped
three minutes would have been fatal Ir
appears that 81 Of the y Senators in
Washington are accompanied by their
wives, and 10 have their daughters with
them. Oflbe 298 representatives and del,
ega'es, lL9 hayo their wives with ttem
and many Of the others arc accompanied
/ by daughters aud lady friends. THE
| Pittsburgh Leader prints half its advertise
ments upside down fer the accommodation
OF readers who habitually stand on their
heads. IA LOCOMOTIVE in Wisconsin is
reported to have jumped from its own track
and lauded exactly on a parallel track six
feet TO the right Tho passengers we're
shaken, but no person was hurt A
/ YOUNG man named MARTIN Collins, near
Bishopvil!e, Worcester county, Md, while
walking with al open knife 10 his hand on
the 23rd ult, attempted TO jump over a
log, and fell on the point of the knife, in.
/ dieting q wound in tho brenst, from which
be died on the 2jth ult.A JURY in
San Diego, California, tie other day brought
Ia verdict of not guilty, with request to
the deteud4nt to restore the sheep. ONE
hundred aud twenty newspapers mud peri.
/ cdica!s hive been suppressed in France
since Mac MAnoN became President.
AT Portsmouth, New Hampshire, recently,
one Of the children Of RALPH BRAcEY
found an apple in the yard, which he sbar.
ed with tho other juveuilo members Of the
same family. Shortly after eating, al four
became seriously ILL aud before medical as
si'tanco arrived, the eldest, q girl, bad di-
ed in great agony, with symptoms Of ar.
senic poisoning; the Other chldron con.
tnue IN o Prcc'rious condition. I: j..
thought the apple was putposeIy placed
there by some malicious person ST. G.
". TEAcKLE, Of Baltimore, an old citizen
aud prominent lawyer, died on The 2G,h
ult.--. QUITE sensation has been created
IN Oshkosh, Wisconsin, by the finding Of
a will Of the late W. DURAND, a wealthy
citizen Of that pl,co. The document was
found by the wcrkmen while repairing the
house. L divides tho extensive property
Of Mr. DURAND equally between his son,
10 years old, and NINA Howard, of New
. York city, his niece, on condition that the
son marry the niece before bis majority
They both declare they will not marry, and
will contest the will. Mrs HOWARD. the
mother Of NINA, was a former sw e,hcart
Of Mr.. DURAND &c. AsToR owns only 700
houses. THE census Of Galveston. lust
/ completed, shows an increase Of 30, 600 in
I three years.. FRED DOUGLASS has been
elected President OF the Freodman's Saw.
ings Bank, at Washington. 90. a YOUNG
woman Of seventy eloped with young man
from Wheeling The other day. She could
not &c. license to marry, and ran away
to get revenge 90 tie county clerk The
great desert Of Africa has nearly the d.
mcnsi MS ofthe United States. posi-
MISTRESS 10 Mississippi discharged her
husband from oierk.hip tho other day
FOR uon-anendanco TO duty IA CALI
FoRNIA paper says Of Governor sanford,
Of Arizoun, thatLe "can go it ms long with.
out plug bat aud billed shirt as any man
who ever looked a grizzly square in the
/ facc..-.MR P. 4. BARNUM is Advertising
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