South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-02-20
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the value Of twenty cents. .PENNsYLYA-
MA is valued a. seven thousand millions.
-. .ALEcK STEPHENS dued with the
President recently. THE women's tenn
perance movement has broken out In In
diana. THE Grangers want to know if
they can lease the Chesapeake aud Ohio
Railroad. OYSTERS weighing three lbs.
and ten inches long have been found at
FONT Pinalis, near Tampa, Florida. 80
/ The rent of pew in a fashionable New
York church is $4,000 -. IT is fac,
highly creditable TO tho sex, that the gov
eminent has never lost anything by its
female employees. They do not steal. -.
A BILL introduced in the Maryland Legis.
a,ure prohibits the attachment of wages
where the SUN due the employee is under
500. BooTH, the we'll known actor, had
broken nose. A lady once remarked to
him, 81 like your acting, Mr.. BoorH; but,
to be frank with you, can't get over your
nose" No wonder, madam, replied he
"the bridge is gone" THE dry goods
house of c. b. RoUss, 3l7 Broadway New
Gork-together with several other estab-
lishments-was destroyed by fire en- Mon
day morning last-total loss estimated at
at 100000. Mr.. RS loss reported at $780,
OO0-insuIed for $40, 600. =. Missouri
Legislation costs seven dollars a minute >.
WHEN is a ard.player like chimney
! sweep? When be follows SCOT. SO far
this season Cincinnati has slaughtered
6,46S hogs, and Chicago ,4S3 900. -.
Two little boys were going to bed on Fri
day night last, at home 10 jones street,
Now York, when one of thom, JESSE
CLARK, aged fourteen, playfully pointed
pistol at the other, his cousin, JESSE
WIcKs, remarking, "This is the way we
would treat rob bers." The pistol expo.
ded, an WICKs fell dead with a bullet in
his brain -. RICHMOND is staggering IN,
der debt of about So, 100000. The as.
sessed value Of real property is about 500.
600, 900. IT is stated that silver has been
discovered in Tazewell county, Virginia
A MUSHROOM was recently found near San
Bernardino, California, which measured
four feet in circumference and fourteen in.
cbes high, weighing twenty pounds "A
GENTLEMAN who has penetrated one cas-
tern end of Wetzel county, West Virginia,
describes a section of about thirty square
miles where newspaper, secular or reli.
gious, never inds its way. The mud and
log shanties contain from eight to ten chill.
dren each, and there was oDe family of
fifteen persons. Indian meal he says, is
tho chief article of food WHEN a cler-
gyman of the Church of England was about
to give dinner to some of his clerical
brethren his butler asked whether the ex
pected guests wero High Church or Low
Church. His master said: "Why do you
ask that question ?" The butler answered
"Becausc if they be High Church we want
more wine but if they be Low Church We
want moro whites. In Arkansas when
man walks into a house and shoots the
proprietor and others he is styled ian in
sruder' DOUGLASS Co, 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 is now twenty three
years of age, and living with her third hus
band Mr.. S. KoINER, living near Way
nesboro, Va, recently ordered an old oak
to be cut down, remarking that the cutters
would find rock in tho body of the tree,
which he had put there ffty-four years ago
when he was a little boy returning from
school one day. When the tree was cut.
in the heart Of it was found imbedded the
identical rock which Mr.. KorNER had put
in the fork of the little sapiug more than
a half century ago.. a REMARKABLE
rose bush adorns the cottage of s. 4. rem
DALI Of Santa Rosa, California. IL was
/ planted in 1858, and is Of the Lamaroue
variety, the most beautiful Of the white
roses. Imagine an immense bouquet of
of white roses, twenty We feet high, TWEEN
! ty-two feet across, beautifully rounded,
with poisoning surface Of four hundred
/ square feet, with four thousand full blown
roses and twenty thousand buds a
/ CALIFORNIA editor tantalizes his half fro
zen brethren Of the North by writing up
"tho bright warm sun, which is now shin
ming through our Office window, which viz.
lies dormant nature and makes germina-