South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-07-03
N E W s OF THE AY.

iepg'n Is 4,VS9 ieef. .IHE ASTORS own
1860 houses in Now York city. WM. B.
Aston, the senior of the family, is worth
S45, 200, 900. Moses, of South CARROLL
ns, is logical, at any rate. Newspaper at
sacks, he says, cannot iojure him, as none
of his constituents can read Or lS2
boys 10 tho Connection. State Reform
School, the annual report Of the superu.
tendent makes the interesting sta,emen,
that one hundred and eighty are liars. r.
1T is believed that distress from famine has
been stayed everywhere 10 India, and The
hopes of the people are revivipg. IT is
estimated that it costs New Workers and
residents Of Brooklyn SIS 900, 900 per year
for summer pleasure. :. CHICAGO desires
it to be believed that its population in.
creased $4,000 las. year, without reference
to the cen etcries or hotel registers. = T
shows the magnitude of the paper collar
business, that at the Lowell bleachery, last
month, 739 miles of cotton cloth fer manu-.
facture of cloth covered collars were finish
ed -. Mr.. HUGH S. LUproN has pur.
chased DANIEL WALKERS farm Of $50 a.
cres, soVon miles from Winchester. on the
Masunsburg turnpike. EIGHTEEN horse
thieves were recently hung near the town
of San Saba, Texas, end altogether Is per.
sons have been Put to death in Bell county
within ten days. They call it encouraging
immigration, as it makes ROOM for more.
--.AccoRDING to the american Nail Of
Rio Janerio the frs. Presby terian church
in Brazil was dedicated iu that city on tie
29th of March No less than thirteen
members of the present British House of
Commons have been put out, neck and heols,
Tor bribery, corruption, intimidation and
such like irregularities Miss NETrIE
Howard HoUsToN, daughter of the old
hero of San Jacinto, is "the gifted poetcss
of Texas" SAN FRANCIsco, Califor-
MIA, claims to have exported 81, O34 ,537,-
245 in goij and silver 10 % years. THE
Jews are raising money to found a nation
al college in this country for their special
use. .ADvIcEs from New England and
the Northwestern States predic, au unus-
ualIy large apple crop. THE Government
will ply out go, 100000 GOLD for July in
terest. THOSE old shioned bandker-
chiefs, big enough for any sort Of nose, are
coming into fashion again. -. ACCORDING
to medical aud surgical roports, Cincn-
natl man has been furnished with az india
rubber lip. His facilities for giving elias
ticity to the truth are uuboun3ed. John
STARKEY killed his brother DANIEL II.
STARKEY, with a rock, on the 22nd ult
They lived on Ter Mile Greek, in Harrison
county, this State. - A VERMONT debating
club is now struggling with the question,
(Which eats the most Observation-Disclosures
or owls ?'-..-A LoT, having an area Of
2,2lO square feet, in the midst of the bu-
siuess portion Of London, was recently sold
at tho rate of So 80 gold per foot, or $500
600 the lot. 20, Bother cremation We
have to earn our living aud We don't want
20 be compelled to urn our dead FLOR
IDA bases new claim to being one of the
beal,hiest States in the union On the fact
that nobody has been hung there for three
years. -. a MEDICAL school for colored
students bas been opened IN New Orleans
THE fourth of July, tomorrow
EiGHTY-Two cities Of Germany now boasts
of cremation societies. :. FRENCH politics
are in a worse state Of confusion than ever.
aud it would DO only misleading person
who have serious interests 10 Franco to
venture any prediction as to what is likely
to happen. 1t is probable, however, that
general election cannot be long delayed
aud that the sense Of the country must be
taken in some shape or other for the for
nation of permanent government. The
septennate is neither fen, flesh, nor fowl
il pleases nobody, and every one looks upon
1t as provisional state Of things which
may terminate at any moment. ....
AT San Diego, California, on Sunday
night LAST, two disguised men gagged and
bound Mr.. Mccormick, collector Of Gus.
toms, aud took from him the combination
Of the custom house safe. Ono Of the
robbers mounted guard over MCCORMICK,
and the other went to the custom-bouse
and took So, 900 from The safe, ond both
escaped. McCoRMcK was alone 10 hi.
house The Hannibal, Mo-, Courie,
states that the miIlers Of that city are offer.