South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-01-30
N L w S OF He DAY

New YORK city has $50 churches, whose
property is worth 10 the aggregate forty
six million dolIss SIX women are striv-
ING TO be pos mistress of Snilhville, Ca. aud
six houses - uusweps d. II is found that
our nerves are hoii1v tubes containing
ina gas. EXPEGIMsNrs with n single
track elevated railway have been made in
Philadelphia and pronounced successful.
lN 1915 tho first telegram was sent. :.
VALPARAISO, Gndi4ns, has pin factory,
which Is making money as well as pins.
.--.THs patent office has 600 applicants
per week. French enamelled jewelry
Is one of the clprices ARKANSAS emf
grant agents are carrying negroes out of
Georgia by the hundreds Two thou
sand six hundred aud eighty-seveu pupils
attend the public day schools in the city of
Wheeling IT is claimed that Utah has
10 900 white Inhabitants, besides about
5000 colorei men, Chinese and Indians.
-. NEARLY all the rolling mills of Pitts.
burgh are in operation, making double time.
.--.THE Wheeling whi,key licenses come
within $50 10 of defray irg the entire cos,
OF her Police Department. A PECULIAR
typo of spotted fever RACES in aud around
CAfro!top, Illinois, ard from it there has
thus far been bu: single recovery. The
physicians are puzzled ."CAME to his
death while being hit on the head with
loDg.handled stewpan in the hands Of his
Wife" was tho verdict in recen. case in
lIIlnoiS.--.THE Boston police force real.z-
cd $1,000 from ball given last week
which goes to the police r,li.f association.
-..lN pocket.pi picking, as 10 everything
else, man never succeeds until h gets his
hand IN. IT is said that there arc Is 600
acres Of land devoted to market gardening
IN The vicinity Of London. a MARRIAGE
on q railway train may properly be termed
a railronJ tie GIBHtD glass FIR roofs
and collar windows is comparatively re-
cent Introduction. The Boston and LOW
ell Railroad station at Boston is rooted with
$4,000 feet of this glass, weighing three
pounds TO the spare foot and the B5stCu
and pfovidence station has on its roof 49,,
asOO leet, weighing four pounds to the square
SEVENTEEN sheep belonging to a
Fner in franklin county, Peunsy lvauia,
essFed, few days ago, from the effects OF
eating l.urel. FRoGs' legs bring 81 so
per dlz,n IN Boston. "A BACHELOR at
a banquet in Newcastle, Ensland, gave tie
following toast: "The Women and Coal
OF plrham county oh, how desola:e our
ii'esides would DO without them" .RAB-
BITS are being caught in California to be
shipped to japan, where choice pairs com
mand 81 800. Rather an exiravagant price
; VIC should say. -. COMMODORE WANDER
BILT, WM. b AsToR, eni A 4. STEWARD
are nlI nearly tho same oge-verging on
eighty. .MEssRs w. G BALLARD, j. j.
OUERsoN and j. q. SWgrMAN of stafford
County, Va, arc reported to have killed
thirty four foxes this season. Every
white man in the Indian territory who mar
RES fqlaw is given hundred acres Of
land, and thereby becomes a suuawter SOW
ereign. Mas MARGARET G. Med. VEN.
ABLE, wife Of Professor CHARLES S. VEN
ABLE, Of tho University of Virginia, died
on tho 18th instant. 80 THE city of Rich
mond has Catholic population Of I 1913
souls, with three parishes and six parochial
schools in which $50 children are taught.
80. OYE who knows how it is herself, saws ::
"Tho man who is awfuly urbano to his
wife before strangers, is generally also her
bane behind their backs" In the Iowa
Leglsaiurc, which has been ct deadlock
owing to lie 10 the voting for Speaker
between the friends Of GEAR and Dixon.
tho proceedings were on Saturday varied
by little sport. The member from Story
county cifsred tho following resolution
That W.. Dixon aui Nr Gear
Be well supplied with lager beer;
And bee who drinks the largest share
Shall occupy The Speakers chair.
Mr. Cowmnu Of Jasper offered the following -
o God, tJ whom all things are known,
Except perhaps, this one alone,
Have pity on as mortaIg here.
Who struggle hard to getiu Gear :"
Thy mercy TOO, $50 would mploro
F.rD.z,as friends, who need j.. more.
Bat if more pleasing 20 Thy sight
Then take them both. ard end the 6ght
Both resolutions were rlloI out Of order,
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