South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-02-27
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easier TO turn prairie into timber .than
to turn timber into prairie =. THE game
law Of Missouri forbids the destroying of
birds nests, but has no protection for the
birds THE whole production of the pre-
eious metals throughout the world during
1878 is estimated TO have been wof.h S219,.
O,OOO... In Cleburne county, Alabama,
on the 3rd inst, an immense eagle eDdea-
vored to carry of a girl named ELIzAB ETH
MOORE, aged Ia, aud weighing about eigh.
ty pounds. She was borne along for some
distance at about four fee. from the ground,
when the bird dropped her. :. WHICH is
the Oldest treeY The elder, of course.
Rev. DR.. r. s. Mason, for tbirty-fye
years rector of Chris. Episcopal church, in
Raleigh, North Carolina, and one of the
most distinguished members of the diocese
is dead GENERAL BEALE estimates that
the production Of corn has decreased fuliy
nifty per cent. and that Of wheat PERHAPS
seventy per cent. 10 the lower counties Of
the Northen Neck of Virginia, as contrast
Ell with their production before the war.
..-.THE negro exodus from Alabama and
Georgia continues. Tho Montgomery Ad-
vertiser learns that Is, 900 tickets for negro
emigrants have been taken up on the roads
leading southwark and westward from that
city. THERE are about seventy skilled
Workmen, of various crafts out of emplov.
ment IN Staunton. Garry ILL.," or En.
giish Harry Hill, the keeper of notorious
concert saloon in New York, has consented
to allow the lady liquor raiders to visit his
saloon, as, he says, that will give the
"krucks chance "to go through"-pick
the pockets of the curiosity seekers who will
attend the gatherings. THE graneers
are spreading in every direction in Virginia
--TIIE Missouri Harrisonisn advertises four
hundred and twenty cow bells for sale, apd
explains that it took them from hardware
man IN payment for job work. "A NEW
York dramatic critic said there were acros
of silk and pounds of diamonds nrsscnt n
the house. RUSSIA possesses valuable
coal deposits of enormous extent one of
o'acK gas coal on the river Kama being o..
pecially valuable. :. ."PRAYING costpmesn
are advertised by fashionable modesto in
Paris The granite Confederate mopu.
ment erected by the ladies of Atlanta, Ga.
is receiving its Flashing touches. A
BUFFALO On. " jury indicted la2 milk
dealers for selling impure milk :. AN En-
gllsh poultry dealer has beea discovered
aduiterating turkeys, by stuffinz their
breasts with fat polk. "A PROVIDENCE.
II. L., shoemaker has been sen. to Jail for
~ days for selling poor old blind man
two odd boots, of different sizes, as n pair
IA CARRIER pigeon arrived at Bridge
port, Conn, recently, which was sent up
from the deck OF a steamer, bound for Flor
lda' 1t vas seven hours making the flight
from Cape Hatteras. GARRETT c.. BAN.
ia, of Paramus, New Jersey, was married
on Saturday, and on Sunday hanged him
self in barn. The cause is unknown
A FAMILY By tho name ofSLossER, in Gov.
ington, Kentucky, came near being poison.
ed to death few days ago by eating horse
radish which had been accidentally mixed
with poke root. =. DO not run in debt n
the shoemaker. Ii is unpleasant to be uu.
able to say your sole is your Own. A
coLoRED man living near Huntington. Ten.
nessee, claims to be the father of sixty.fye
children. IA CLERGYMAN being invited
to open Legislature with prayer, uttered
the following ambiguous petition "May
corruption and sin of every form be as far
from every momber of this Legislature a.
IHou art" I'D. FRANK CorrMAN. oil
JenkintowD, Montgomery county, Penn.
sylVaDi', has beifer two years aud eight
months old, that gave after taking her call
away, IN seven days eighty -four quarts OIL
milk, which yielded ten quarts Of cream
and made eleven pounds of butter. He,
feed was hay, corn meal and bran A
GREAT many words pass between one s nos,
aud chin, but we have never known them
to fight. So natural l-Blties WHY
IS whisper forbidden in polite society
because it isn't aloud How many an.
pies did our Grst parents cat in the garden
Of Ellen ? Eve 8 and ADAM "a LIT
TIE child at Thornton, W. Va, put one o
its eyes out with a fork, q few days ago