South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-06-05
N E vs. OF THE DAY.

woman 10 Baltimore :. MINNIE claims
that it can raise the best wheat and the
best stock in the country. &. There are
235 insane persons in the West Virginia
Hospital for the Insane at Weston. A
BOUT 100000 pounds Of snuff are made
annually in this country - GOVERNOR
MOSES, of South C,rolina, has gone back on
his tailor for 81 500. OF course "sirip-
ed suit" is what the Governor needs next.
-. ON the 29.h ult., 10 quarrel over a
game Of base ball in Clarke Co, Ca, PINK
Price struck LUTHER TuRAsHER on the
head with bat, killing him Instantly
PRICE fed. Both were under twenty years
Of age .--.A LITTLE child Is mouths old,
son Of JAMES KIDwELL, of L9udouu CO.,,
W., few days ago was choked to death
with a bean. Three physicians were call.
ed in and they performed an operation,
succeeding 10 extracting the bean, bu. the
little fellow only survived the operation
few minutes a.. FROM last accounts il seems
that the distress from famine in India is
increasing. Nearly three million Of people
are depanden, 1p,n tho government for
food -. Mr.. JOHN PORTER, aged 102
years died in Moniteau county, Missouri,
on the 9Th ult. He was a native of Rock
ingham county, Va, and had been citizen
of Missouri since 1856. MILLIONS and
millions of clterpilars, according to the
Salt Lake Netcs, are Matching on the trees
in Utah and threaten to DESTROY the fruit
crop. TIE Boston Globe intimatcs that
DIo LEWIS will next go for tobacco con-
sumers. Where he will 60 ultimately the
Globe doesn't even hint. THE diagram
of the flooded country in the States Of AR.
kaosas, Mississippi and L ,uisiaua shows an
extent OF Ii 400 square miles, or bit of
land four hundred aud eighty miles long
and thirty wide under water. &. Brooks.
of Arkansas, has decided to rebel again, if
reports are true. a MAN named MUIR
PLY, hailing from Stewart county, Tenn. =,
went to turner's house in Upton county,
IN that State, on Friday last, killed Mrs.
MILTON DONALDSON with an axe and NOR.
tally wounded servant girl, his object be-
ing tho robbery Of Mc. DoNALDsoN's safe
of 81 900 The girl gave the alarm he
fled, was subsequently arrested and shot by
citizens. "a MAINE woman has hair Sc
ven feet and fiyc inches long-too long to
be availlble for use in butter. =. "A LOUIS
WILLIE paper announces that by the receu
burning of an icc-houso there, 10000 tons
OF ice were "reduced to ashes" The
new ten cent note is unpopular. It's re-
semblance to the fifty cent note is leading
TO many mistakes ,.. WILLIAM BANKER,
Tor twenty years a conductor on tho New
York, New Haven q Hartford railroad has
been arrested, charged with stealing $50,
OOO during his term of service Or As
blast furnaces in the Lehigh Valley, Pa. 9,
~ are now idle. a HALTER in New
York has bundle of old unpaid bills hung
up in his store labelled, "the reason why
do not give ere lit" MANY man of
means Is a mean man. CALIFORNIA pro.
duoes lemons weighing 81 ounces apiece
.-.-THoUsANDs of Italians have recently
landed on our shores, and their labor is
said to be as cheap as Chinese labor A
MAINE law says bushel of apples must
UaI Dh IL
Pennsylvania s8,348,O72 70 lost year for
school purposes. The school property is
valued at slS,6S9,624. = Mr.. TnRocK.
MORTON, one OF the California Fish Com
missloners, declares that the experiment of
transPlantiDg Eastern oysters on the Pacific
coast has proved a fnilure. The oysters
become very fat and die 10 about year.
.--.THE Rev. DR.. john LEYBURN of Bal
timorc, accompanied by his wife, sailed for
Europe on Saturday last "A MAUD MuL.
LER laughed heartily at young haymoker
when the yellow jackets got up his nankoen
trousers. But when they got up her'n
twas no joke THE Duukards, a peculiar
peoPIc,are now holding their national festival
OF Girard, Ill. The session recently was en-
livcned by discussion as to whether bro.
Their should he allowed to wear moustache
Some members regarded hairy upper LIP
as device Of tho devil, designed to foster
vanity among the brethren and promote 10.
attention to spiritual things on tho part Of
the sisters. Some thought differently, and