South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-03-06
NEWS OF HE DAY.


effect of ivy poisoning. - THE Asiatic
cholera ia raging fearfully in BuepOs Ayros,
Three hundred deaths reported. THE
guns't ken from the Virginia Military In.
stitute at Lexington by General HUNTER
during the war will be restored to the Iu-
stitu'c, al order to that effect having been
issued by the Secretary of War THE
whole production OF the precious metals
throughout the world during 1873 is es,i-
mated to have becu worth s219, 900 600.
--.-THE bridal attire Of President JACK
SONS wife was worn by her nieco at an old
folks concert in Nashville the other night.
IAN Elslishmau says there is more
misery 10 Chicago aud New York to-day
thanin London, IN proportion to population.
Beggary Is profession in Europe; here it
is necessity. the Virginia peniteuti-
airy is not only self.sustaining, but has a
balance ia its favor of sll 900. .. Iowa
raised more wheat in 1878, than any other
State in the Union. She did the same
thing ic 1872 la the item of corn she is
only second to Illinois = . FRANCE consum.
ed during 1873 27,OOO tons of tobacco
Nearly one fourth of this quantity of weed
was conyerted into snuff. "A SINGULAR
disease has appeared in Williamson county,
Illinois. Ii begins with small white
Ulster CD the end Of the tongue of the pa
tent; this eularges, and then the tongue
turns black and severe pains are experience
ed -. III is said Mr.. JAMES NELSON, of
Richmond Virgiuia, has for the last seven
or eight years drawn salary of s3 900 per
-nnum from he State for prosecuting the
claim against the old firm of SELDEN,
\ NITHERs Co. "A CLINTON county,
Iowa, saloon keeper has been ordered by
The courts to pay So, $50 to the wife of one
Of his customers. lie has decided to quit
The business without the aid of the wo-
/ men sPrayers -. GENERAL TYLER, son of
cX-Presidcnt TYLER, has been licensed as
| preacher by Methodist conference in Fla
! -.--, SENATOR CHANDLER sues The Detroit
free Frees r sl00, 00o damages for tho a..
legation that be was clrried fr, m tie Senate
Chamber drunk. The highest spire iu
the United States is that of Trinity church,
New York, which is 2S4 feet NINE car
loads Of lard passed east over the Chesa-
! peake and Ohio Railroad last week. =. THE
population Of Richmond, Virginia, has in
creased if'een per cent. in three years, aud
at present numbers 60, 900 SALOON keep.
! crs Of Ohio are not ladies' men Not now.
80. NINNEsoTA railroads have been given
1900, 900 acres of land :. OVER three
hundred Virginia babies have been named
{ after ROBERT +. LEE, and still'tho work
; goes on. 80. TX PRESIDENT WILLARD
! FilMoaE is very Ill from au attack of par.
/ alysis. The rent of q fashionable pew
in New York is 81 500 {. TIE New Jer.
scy Assembly on yesterday week, passed
the bill appropriatiDg 100000 to the cen
I tonuiel-40 to 90. :. THE wife of EZRA
/ CooPLR, one Of the wcalthiest citizens of
Erie county, Pennsylvania, was arrested
on the Goth ult., on suspicion Of having
murdered her servant girl, of whom it is
said she was jealous. TWENTY persons
were instantly killed by terrible boiler
/ explosion, 10 the town of Black urn Eng.
land, on tho Dad inst. Thirty others were
I injured, many Of them badly THE fail.
ure Of thG rains Of December has shortened
the Bstb-does sugar erpp by 5000 hogs
hcads. ...A DELAWARE physician some
time ngo grated piece of bis own skin
I (white)on the body Of negro II grew, but
at the end Of three months was as black as
/ tho surrounding cuticle. AN Ohio dgo
has granted an injunction against the wo-
mems mob, apii-liquor prayer meetings,
and says they are ga nuisance" THE
. peat beds near Morrison, H., comprise @.
600 acres. The peat ranges from five 10
City loctin depth. Arrangements arc now
being made % turn out two aud half tons
Of pressed peat an hour, worth $3.50 per
zoo. q GOO % ij Is said 10 be worth more
bon ton # coal Extensive peat beds
tay9 also been discovered 10 Southern Min.
neso,2, ed large Quantities will be taken
ou' lhs coming season The Maine
House e Representatives has refused to a.
toIisL .ic death penalty by a vote Of 70 to
o. THE Finance Committee Of the Yir.
einia legislature has rgretd 90 report
bin providing for a license tax Of $1,000
or each faro bank. II is said that SIM
Mu.a. On Eaalnn NnlLDclnr nl Cnal.ms- l.