South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-03-27
N L W s OF he AY.


for table use 10 the United States amounts
to over 3l5 900 gallons annually QUEEN
VICTORIA is now in the 3Tth year Of her
reign and the 55lh year Of her age. She
has Q children aud 81 grandchildren.
THOUSANDS Of young trout about two iu-
ches in length we're recently thrown up to
the height of ihirty feet from an artesiau
well in San Francisco, l45 feet deep.
AT least one half Of the horses in n. Y,
city are said to be suffering from the new
epizOotic. JUDGE CowART, of Georgia,
says that the public have no right to form
an opinion in a criminal case In 1916
corn was quoted at six cents per bushe at
Quincy, Illinois. Now they pay ffty-fve
cents in the same market, aud still the
farmers are not happy THE New York
Legislature has adopted the Michigan law,
making it a criminal offense to point gun
at person even in sport. Good law. Let
all the Legislatures adopt it. The Ciu-
cinnati papers complliu of panic IN the
Whskey trade of that city, which is next
in importance 10 the Pork trade. Mrs
CHANDLER, of Clinton, lows, has just had
a cancer anputated that measured twenty
inches 10 circumference -. A WISCONSIN
butcher found shawl-pin in a COW he was
cutting up into steaks, but no other remains
Of the milk maid have been discovered. 80.
MISS GEORGIA TRoTrER il urged to become
q candidate for place on the Board OF El-
ucation of Bloomington, Illinois. a good
name for good race AT Dubuque
wedding, among the presents ostentaliously
displayed was one. hundred dollar bill, a
present from the doting father to his darl-
ing daughter. After the guests had de
parted the old man coolly rolled up the bill
and put it in his vest pocket, aud that was
the end Of it. SOME years ago man in
England who was very thin exhibited him
self as living skeleton. He made much
money in this way, and as he grew rich be
became fat, until several years after his
retirement from the show business he was
as fat as he had formerly beer lean. Lnte-
ly, having spent his fortune, he attempted
to again reduce himself to a skeleton, with
the intention Of returning to the show bu.
suess, but he died from exhaustion soon
after reaching the desired condition
ONE Of the Duchess of .Eiinburgh's hand
kerchiefs is worth 81 900, and cost Cor it's
production five years of labor, besides the
eyesight of the unfortunate workman
THE Ohio women have closed tup 1856
saloons thus far. THE land owners of
Texas are taking measures To- crush cut the
cattle owners who own little or no land
Immense pastures are being fenced in, and
:hero will soon be no open prairie for cat
tie. .MARTINsvILLE, Indiana, claims to
have produced the largest bog in the Uni
ted States 1t weighed !, l22 pounds 49,.
Iowa juries hold that in case marriage
engagement is broken tie parties must re-
turn all presents or their worth in money.
go. 4 FIRE in Dallas, Texas on Friday
night last consumed ten stores. loss $780,
/ 600. IA SALOON KEEPER in Des Moines
has pu, over his door the following "But
when thou praycst, enter into thy closet
not Tito somebody else's rum shop" ....
Gao. ALFRED TOWNSEND says his fame
may not have spread like green bay tree,
but it certainly has like green gingham
umbrella. .A TOPEKA lady sums up the
three first years Of her experience in mar
ried If, as follows: "The first year he
called mo tiny dear" the sccoLd year
"Mrs. A." aud The third year cold sorreI
. top" 49,. MRs. ANN SCoNcE, tho wife OF
a well-known farmer living in Scott coun-
/ ty, Kentucky, Inflicted frightful wounds
with razor upon two Of her children, a
ged niue and two years, and then cut her
own throat on Friday last. Mrs SCoNCg
is dead, but the children may recover
She was laboriug under a fit of Mysteries al
the time. Tue Brooklyn ARGUS com.
mends the Illinois woman who, when bel
husband was bitten by mad dog, drew a
pistol and promptly shot the man .Mr
GEORGE w. BITTLE, an old and widely
known citizen Of Finc,s'le, Virginia, died
al his home on the 18th instant, 10 The
G9.h year Of biz age The stock Of grain
on hand at Chicago for the week ending
March l5 was 7,377,179 bushels. These
figures show an increase, during the week