South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-07-10
N E w s OF THE AY.


grants arrived at New York during the
month Of June "A BOY OF II years Of age
is under sentence of death in New Haven
Co., N. O., for having viciously drowned
a smaller boy :. THE Quaker temperance
ladies have published an official statement
in which they, claim to have closed los sa.
looms indirectly, and 81 directly :. The
Louisiana Sugar Bo,ct says tha. the loss
to planters by overflow on the west side CT
the Atchafalaya was 400 hogsheads of su-
gar, and on the east side 1000 hogsheads.
-. ROMAN Catholics in Wisconsin are
leaving the Oranges, the Bishop of Mil
waukee having issued pastoral against
them .JoHIAL Books died in Henry
county, Tennessee, on the 30th ult., at the
age of LEI years. 1, is said that "his sys-
tenn was so constituted, or had acquired
such control over his appetite, that he was
able to do without water entirely. IT
is said that there is not a tollgate in all
Switzerland-the roads all being free.
CHARLES WEIGH, of Woodstock, has
young chicken that has no eyes. In other
respects it seems perfect. :. A SLAVE who
had escaped from the KING OF AsuANTEE
arrived at Cape Coast Castle in the last part
of May. lie reports that KING COFFEE is
sacrificing as many human beings as ever,
and that he was forced to run away in or.
der to save his life. ;. THE complaint of
general dullness in the great iron and coal
region of the Shenango Valley, Pa, still
continues. - PARTIAL reports from the
cotton crop 10 the South indicate less aver
age acreage, but generallya promising crop.
-. WIN. l.. G KENT, the Sheriff of Nor.
folk county, Virginia, committed suicide,
on Friday of last week, by shooting himself
through the head, at his residence at Lam
bert's Point. "A MINISTER at Chicago
named Howe has resigned on account of
the wickedness of his congregation. For
that reason, 1t occurs to Us, be should have
held on. But alas. for Chicago. THERE
are 235 insane persons in the West Virgin
ia Ii ospital for The Iusane, at Weston
JOHN L. SAUNDERS, a prominent lawyer,
was dangerously shot in the city court room
of Workers, n. Y, Oh wednesday of last
week, by LATCHMAN, a gardner, who was
the defendant in case he was trying
THOMAS BRANCH, of Richmond, Virginia,
recently donated to Randolph Macon Col
lege the handsome sum IF $4,000.
FAIR PLAY, Colorado, asks for an invoice
Of girls. -. CONNECTICUT has 5, 12S factor
les, employing l,6S4 men, 20,S0l women
and 1929 children. IA BARREL mark
ed eggs, shipped from Wabash, Iudi-
ana, to some one in Warsaw, few weeks
since, hatched out into bottles of ale.
Mrs. j. X CARSON, Of Toledo, Ohio, en-.
joys the distinction of the first lady who has
ever occupied the position of supe,intend-
ent OF q railroad. Mrs. CARSON is Super
intendent Of the Toledo, Wabash and West.
ern Railroad, with which she has been con.
nected in various capacities almost from its
infancy THE German banking house of
LAssING, WEIs q Co., Of New York, sus
pended on Saturday last. -. II is said that
those Iowa grasshoEpers wink at Paris
green and smile OF hot water. THERE
was time when JOHN JACOB AsToR ped
died apples 10 New York. Pebble apples,
81. &
Mississippi, lately editor Of the Baltimore
EVening journdi, has been arrested and
committed TO Jail on a charge Of embczzliDg
$50, 900. Short, sharp aud decisive. a
young man in Pennsylvania saw her on
Wednesday, couried her Thursday, married
her Friday, and was in jail for horsosteal-
Jog on Saturday DURING the last ten
years $40, 100000 Of property has been de-
slroyed, and 10000 persons killed or in-
jured by the use of unsafe oils The viii
est sinner may return--evorythin save gu
umbrella DURING the storm on The Of
teruoon Of the 25lh ultimo, the lightning
struck aud killed a man at CircIevile, o.
a woman at Huntingdon, West Virginia
two young men at Kalamazoo, Michigan
the Postmaster, at Marion, Indiana; and
three men near Fort Wayne. FIVE hun
dred Mormons we're among the immigrants
DO arrived at New York from Europe
yesterday &C.. Hon. N K Trout, Mayor
Of StOuutou, has contracted to purchase the
farm Of WIN. ID. Anderson, on Middle riv-