South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-10-09
N E w s OF TIL E AY.

hiPpodromo left Baltimore few days ego
for Pittsburgh. 1t took 62 cars g trains
to transport the show to Pi,tsbur Oh.
Some money. The railway system of the
U. >. represents a capital Of IS, 800 ,000,-
600 "A NEGRO in Louisiana stole large
quantity of meat lately. He was tried by
jury of negroes, aud because be confess.
ed the theft, be was acquitted on the ground
OF insanity JAPAN has population
of 33, llO,S25, and 100000 more males
than females. Mas. AMELIA WRIGHT,
of Muscatine, Wis, aged ca, has been ia
ken TO the insane asy Jun, her insanity, i.
is claimed by the doctors, having been
caused by the use of "bair restoratiyes."
| CONNECTICUT can't sell all the clocks she
makes at present. -. HARRIsoNBURG Va. =,
is going to have town clock, the cost of
which will be $500 :. Tue Kansas City
Journal says: ''We hope to see most of
the women put or their wooens next week e."
Shame on him. D1n't you say so friend
WooD ?.--.AN Albany girl forces piety
upon her lover by making him say the
Lords prayer every time he kisses her
All right. The woman's crusade has
reached England, aud does not seem to be
greatly admired there either. RECENT
statistics show that 205, 800 pounds of hu-
man hair were sold 10 Paris 10 one year.
- .RANDoLP PHI, Massachusetts, has shoe {.
string mandatory which turns out nnnu-
ally 5000 worth of those useful bu. not
very costly articles. THERE arc now IS
women preachers in the U. S. IA New
YORK woman bit her tongue off in some
unacoountable way last week. First case
on record 49, AN Ohio man has been con-
verted to temperance 9S times, and he says
he'll 60 up to hundred or die ONLY
fox-hunters broke their nccks in England
last year. A VERMONT Judge, drinking
for The first time milk punch, said, lord
what cow" THERE were - citizens
killed and 81 wounded in the Louisiana
tight, and of the Radicals II killed and
Ak wounded. A pretty even battle.
HE most famous highway robber in Ne
vada ia but Is years old .Ir is DOW said
that the thick husk on tho corn indicates
severe winter. STEAMBOATS, on the
/ Colorado river mako 80 miles an hour.
/ COAL Is down to eleven cents bushel at
Louisville AN American lady, who was
Ill for several months at o Swiss hotel with
the smallpox, was surprised, upon her re
covery, to receive bill at the rate of 81 =
800 per month, her illness having driven
all the other boarders away THE Med
ical Register Gays there are $4,000 ropis
tered American physicians in the u. S. 0
phJsic J. The Pennsylvania railroad claim 4.
the largest locomotive in tho country. 1t
has IL driving wheels and weighs 10 tons
"A NUMBER of Texas steers, which ar
rived IN New York on Monday night last,
while passing through the lover part Of the
city became Infatuated OF the poiso and
lights. Eigh, of them broke loose aud
rushed in various directions, and before
they could be shot iujuroj nearly 80 PEG.
pie, none OF them, however, seriously
IN Japan the law requires that, when a
person cuts down tree, he shall plant Que
in It's place. Ia this way the supply of
wood is kop. up, GEORGE WAsuIyGroN
owes his country a tree. "A MARRIED
girl OF 10 gears, seeking divorce on the
ground that she is too young, is one Of the
latest social developm ents of Indianapolis.
The Prince Of Wales is Grand Mas
ter of Free Masons in England Ice form
ed in some parts of New Hampshire on
Sunday night last. -. Or 40 railroads in
lllinoi', only pay di vidends. Il. e. II is said
that tho daughter Of the late President
JUAREs of Mexico is teaching school 10 a
small interior town in that country On
the lsi inst. the Grand Hotel at Saratoga
New York, was totally destroyed by fire
The loss amounts to 100000. Any
young lady who wishes to raise q moustscho
can always do so when she kisses q young
mau who's got one. NEW Orleans mer.
chants are cancelling their orders for goods
from the North since KELLOGG has been
reiustated This is ono of the practical
effects Of usurpation A MAN in Coora.
do sold his wife for $50 and mule, and
being mean enough to seek stolen inter-
views with Der afterwards WIS shot 10 the