South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-03-13
N E w s OF THE DAY.

tea, from China for New York, passed
thro' Cumberland last Friday on the Balti-
more and Olio L ilrlad THIS Baltimore
Dent'l Co'l-ee h's jl,t turned cut lady
graduate, Miss JACoBG. Tue population
of the earth is 1,lT5 900, 900 which is
good mloy people tor one small world
EVERY twelfth year is regarded by the
Hindn1s as unlucky for marrying, and thi.
is the tabooed year. l.. AN Indiana caudi-
date denounces the administration ofor
taking the tax off piauers, wat we don't use,
and keepin' it on whiskey, wat we do. :.
THEY have strawberries aud cream in New
Orleans. We have the cream here but not
the berries A MAN 10 OHIO whose name
was SHEEP has had i, changed to MoaToN.
Ills neighbors now call him Mr. MUTTON.
.--.THE number of insane 10 the State Of
illinois is 5000, which is one in every 200
of The population the State numberin, SOL.
40 people. There are $4,000 women
10 the Iowa oranges, each of whom is ir-
trusted with vote. Iowa has twenty
three OF It's seVenty.two county treasurers
advertised as missing THE manufac-
turers OF friction matches are taxed over
two millions of dollars yearly on thoir pre-
ductious. SOMEBODY bru ally SUCCESS
that the men get up praying bands against
female dress extravaganza . PEACH bios
SONS are reported in all parts of Georgia,
and 4: frost does not interfere a good crop
Is 10 prospect. The London Times pla.
ces the number of cattle, annuity availa.
BILE for the butchers of Great Britain. at
1856 900; and sh,ep at IL ,O33 600.
HE wife of Gen. WADE HAMPTON died
at Charlottesville, Virginia, on Monday of
last week. THERE were 100000
expended last year in passage money be.
tween this country and Great Britain
HERE are said to be two or three thousand
outlaws in the mountains of California. who
live by robbery aud violence. They are
quite secure from arrest in their mountain
Businesses. AMERICANS who paw thous
and dollars head for about twenty ihous
aud useless soldiers may envy the fortune
OF SIR GARNET WoLsELEY, who has hired
all the soldiers he wants from two frican
kings at fifty dollars per thousand The
receipts of the Baltimore post Office for the
past year were $780, 90; expenditures
Sl34S31 10; number of employees So;
salary of postmaster $1,000; bond given
in the sum Of S175, 900. Roanoke Col.
lege has received donation of 81 900 from
j. +. RALT, of Cleveland, Tennessee, to.
wards the erection of f'c-proof building
for its va'ulble library -. Ar the Iowa
State Fair, G. G.. ANDREWS exhibited a
grade COW, six years Of age, which gave her
owner Cos pounds of milk 10 ten days or
an average of over sixty pounds per day.
From the milk of the same ten DAYS p
pounds K ounces of butter were made
This is at the rate Of pounds ounces
per day, or Is pounds 10 ounces per week.
She had to be MIXED three times in every
twenty four hours. The remains of DR..
LIVINGSTONE will be transported from AZ
RIGA to EOgland at the public expense.
PERRY county, Pennsylvania, is excited
over the birth of a baby of the male per
suasion, weighing two ounces The Cal
iforDia Legislature has made women elgi-
bic as Commissioners Of Education An
account from Detroit, Michigan, says w. T
UNDERWOOD of Cleveland, became enam-
ored Of Miss ANNA PRTDGEoN, of Detroit
lie offered marriage, bu! was refused. a.
gain Offering himself, and being refused, he
stabbed her through the heart, instantly
killing her. UNDERwooD's former wife
who bad gained a divorce from hin, had
acquainted Miss PRDGEoN with bis char
aeier....A BARKEEPEn, 10 polite parlance.
IS termed Professor of Mythology "A
LITTLE boy some four or five years Of soe
son Of Mr.. SAMUEL McAUruER, residing
near ilillsborougb, 10 L0udoun county. was
killed ono day last week by a kick from
Horse. THE bridge over tho KENTUCKY
river on the Southern Rfilroad will be the
highest On the Continent It is 275 feet
above low water, and has a span Of 1886
feet. The towers, erected By JOHN A.
RoEBLiNG years ogo, cost $4,000 and
rise 3G5 feet above low water ARCHIE
DAUsoN, the dwarf Of Psge county. Va. is
dead llo Only weighed % pounds at the
time Of his death G w w. Movers.
OF Gordonsyile, Va, is makiog white oak
chairs for The Partisan market....A DEAF
mute Of Page county, Va, fell heir TO Sc
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