South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-01-16
Re VS. OF THE DAY.

fia periten,isry on the Ist of December,
1873, was $50 remaining 10 prison 1st of
January, 1874, 739. BosToS pays her
professional choirs an aggregate Of s142,-
600 year. THE Baltimore and Ohio
railroad has reduced The freight on corn
( from Summit Point, Con the Winchester
raiirosd,9 to Baltimore to ten cents per
bushel. Formerly the rates were about
seventeen cents per bnshel. :. The life of
AGAssIz, written by his wife, will soon be
ready for publication. . {. MONTANA has a
4 population of about 10000. The proiuc-
ton of silver aud gold amounted to s6,000,-
/ 600 last year. - THERE are twenty nioe
Catholic churches and chapcl4 in Baltimore.
-. AT the end Of 1873 there were Il ,56i
miles of railroad in the country, 4, 100 miles
having been constructed during The year.
80. THAT water will fad its level was re-
Gently shown at Marion, Ohio, where on
Christmas day, Mr.. John c. Water was
married to Miss Caroline Level. A
CLERGYMAN at lIOzleton, Pennsylvania, re-
Gently appended note TO q wedding notice
IN a local paper, announcing that it was the
999;h couple he had married TEXAS
horse thieves get up protrscted religious
meetings, aud while one breaches the other
stampedes the horses OF tho worshippers.
School teachers at Fall River, Mass,
arc not permitted to whip pupils uu,il the
day nfter that on which the offence mer-
ting punishment was committed THE
President of the Swiss Republic receives
three thousand dollars year salary. 1t
would pay to import few Of that sort.
The Trustees of the Washington National
Monument Fund have appointed Com
mittee to take charge of the interests of
the Association before Congress. An ap-
preparation of $500, 0G0 is asked to aid in
the completion of the monument. A
MINNESOTA editor has been astonished by
n bean eleven inches l9ug 49,. ! FEW days
ago Mrs MADDEN, of DirgiIdi9 County,
VirGinin, died Of The age of l0l years six
months and is days SEVENTY EIGHT
theatres have been burned ia the United
States in scvcnty-f,o years ."MArcH-
LESS Eail, y is the way n presumptuous
young man addressed lady of very un.
certain eye. =. The deaf mutes Of S:aun-
ton, Virginia, were given masked ball
last week. They chi 'yod it in silence. . .
The Charleston JOUrndt iutimatrs that
there are thirty -one candidates for Congress
in that district CUBAN advioes received
at Nav York gives the dc,ui's of au engage
ment at Patolo Scco lately, whore tue Span
iards were defeated by the patriots, and
eight hundred of them killed, twenty taken
prisoners, md arms and ammunition cap.
turcd There is a valley in Montana
5000 feet above sea level, and north of the
for;y-sixih parallel of latitude, where snow
never fals. Indians, trappers an6 Old set,
tiers shy snow was never yet seen on tn,
ground in valley Eden While snow
falls to The depth of seven inches on the
surrounding mountains and valleys, rcvcr
an inch falls on this favored spot. .Ir i
said that there arc more thnn hundred
women studying law in tho United States
THE late GEORGE NJ. NAGANs, o
MorgaDtown, had an insurance OF So, 00C
on his life. the Mexicans want the U
oiied States Governmental pay 100000,
600, for damages committed on thei
aldo Of the Rio Grande ty American
citizens. Mis-. ANNIE c. Fox, wifi
of Dr. C. \. Fox, Of BelisviIe, MsrylaD,
formerly Of FairfAx urt-IIouse-o th
, 3rd, inst., took strych:i1 by mistake for
dose OF morphine Her husband was im
modiatoly called, tut she died before sh
could bo at oil relieved A NEwBuRY
PORT mother and her ten children weigh to
} gothcr q ton. The baby tips the scales a
$50 ..JoHN II RrGAN, who was th
Pos'mastor.General Of ihc Southern Con
fcdoracy, is candidate f5r tho Unite,
/ States Senate from Texas. . Mas. WM
STAMrs, sister Of Gerson Davis, died q
Woodvillc, Mississippi, recently. Mr.
Davis i' now the only survivor Of The fam
ily....JUDGE Ollie, Of Newark, Ohio,
clerk in the Internal Revenue Bureau
dropped dead in Washington on Saturja,
night last Of apoplezy DURING tb
Kbiva expedition the Bussian soldicrs wor
. fed oLi-ay % b-.cui.s oompoacd onolbir.