South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-10-02
N Z w s OF THE DAY


accepted the invitation to attend the Phila-
dolphin Centennial 10 1876 APPLES are
SO plentiful in some parts of Connecticut
that cider is offered for 5 c,uts ga lon.
MIDDLE TENNESSEE had rain on the % b
Of Angus. for the first time since the 18th
of May -. WHEELING has one corpsras
factory IA MAN has just died in War
saw, Indians, who has had six wives, to the
last OF which he was married twice. He
was divorcd from all but one of them.
THREE-HEADED snakes have b,ou seen in
Bourbon county, Kentucky, and it is fear.
ed the quality of old Bourbon whiskey is
deterioratiog. : e. IT is said Of q noted Long
Branch frt that she danced 7 hours a day
for 43 successive days. THE amount of
opium consumed 10 this country ct present
Is ten times creator than il was 80 years a.
co.. MRs. LOvEJoY, 6S years old, liv-
log near Baldwin City, K,nsas, has just
become the mother of fac boy. The
Warm Springs property was sold at public
auction on the 18Th ult. to Col. EUBANK
for $50, 600. "A YOUNG lady a. Terre
Hause, lud., makes nine feet at a standing
jump She ia to jump for wager ut tho
next State Fair -. $50, 900 worth of Pub
Library Ky. tickets were sold in the city of
New ork last week for the coming drawing
- You can Low cross the Atlantic ia the
steerage for SIS Al the North Atlantic
steamship companies followed the example
OF the GUARD limo on Tuesday last in redu-
cing tho rate Of Storage passage to SIS.
4 LITTLE girl died a, Chambersburgb, Pa.
last week Of lock jaw brought about by pain
from a number of spIin,ers which che run
luto her by falling on a plank walk THE
Farnont Lader states that Miss HAHN.
OF Newport, about six miles Of Fairmont.
Is years old, committed suicide by drowu-
ing herself in the river. A figh,y state
OF MIND seems to- have driven her to the
rash act. ..THE Norway t,ck factory, of
Wheeling, manufacture one thousand vari.
ties Of tacks aud small nails. "A WOMAN
named MARTHA DoBBINs, is now under
arrest IN Wetzel county, charged with tho
murder Of hcr son, aged about i wears
DURING the last five years 700, OC0 Cor
mans sailed from the port of II ,mburg and
bremen to this country Mr. JONI BRANT
OF Cumberland moulded IS 600 brick BY
hard 10 days. BIsHoP LEE of tho Diocese
OF Iowa, died in Davenport On Saturday
last. Malignant erysipel,s, broush, on
oy an injury to one Of his hands, received
IN falling down stairs some two weeks peo.
caused biz death. lie was in the 6O,h wear
OF bis age. THE Typhoid Fever ia pre-
valIiog in an epidemic form 10 the Marsh,
Rockingham county, Va. GRAFT got
nomination for the third term from the
South Carolina R.dicals.-A self.respec.-
Tug man would not prize such 90 honor very
highly. -. ALASKA Indians use for i.lumi-
mating purposes a curious feb which IS 80
fat that when dried it burOs With brilliant
Light j. must be of the lam prey species.
There is a wholesale pie establishment in
New ork which has az invested cari,al Of
Sl50,GO0,and consumes per day 500 pump
klns, 800 quarts of milk, end 5000
eggs; consumption Of four per week, $50
barrels, and Of lIrd 5000 pounds. Ggo.
w, CLAYPoLE, the post Office employee ar
rested few weeks ego for robbing the
mails, was brought into the U0ited States
Court in B,liimors on Monday last for trial
and plead guilty, and was sentenced TO Eve
years imprisonment. =. TEN counties in
South Carolina are now garrisoued by Fed.
eral soldiers. Prominent cilizsus Of
Stanton bavO subscribed $40 900 towards
the erection Of Cotton Factory there
The Rev. DR.. BULLOCK has accepted call
TO the pastorato Of tho Union Pfesbytoriau
church 10 Alexandra, at salary ofs1,-
300 per annum.. The Yirgiul Mining
Company, Of Mineral county, West Vir.
ginia, hes suspended operations, and 100
miners arc out Of employment by il.
AUBURN prison, New York contains I ,I9s
conyicis....Mr. WAKELY Of Culpepper
county IS one hundred and one years old.
AN excellent counterfeit Of the IS notes
on The Traders National Bank Of Chicago
IS in circulation in TIC West. .GEvER.
AL BRsBIN, who was sent out By the Oma,
la Aid Society to gain Information con-
corning the condition Of the people 10 the