South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-12-11
N E VS. OF THE DAY,

each other on Tuesday of last week. Ac-
coRDING TO recent return there are now
resident 10 Paris 0, 40 painters, sculptors,
composers aud actors, Of whom 2,05S are
women. An armless Milwaukee woman
boxes her husbands cars with her feet. :.
HE New York Tribune having charged
81 % line for each inser ton of an adver-
iisement-the bill amounting to 81, 497-
the advertiser refused TO pay because the
circulation was not as great as represented.
The Tribune brought sui. for recovery
Ooe dollar aud fifty cents line for each
insertion of an advertisement is tolerably
steep. The Mobsmm dams believe that
old maids have no chance of heaven
'THE Terre Haute (Iudiana) Bank, estab-
lished abOu, year and half ago, has fail
ed for considerable sum. Bad loans seem.
ca to have been made by j. from the begin
ming. The stock holders are SAMUEL Ma
GILL, w. MAG:LL aud HARVEY EVANS.
EVANS will be the principal loser The
man who sang, Goa breathe no more that
simple air. went into the smoking car,
where it was more mixed ONE of the
wedding presents Ct young married cou-
pie Of Indiana recently was 10 bushels Of
coal. .-.THE Supreme Court of Ohio has
just decided that sending dun TO man
on postal card is unlawful-as we'll as
saucy. IA SINGULAR aud fatal accident
occurred at Tanners Forks. 10 Gilmer Co :,
ON Wednesday of last week. a store kept
by Mr.. GLAssCoCK had been broken into
night or two previous, end The owner
had hzed contrivance for Furnishing the
thieves, provided they made q secuLd at
tempt. This consisted of a gun being pla-
ced In such position inside a widow, that
In attempting to enter, a spring would be
touched causing tho gun to discharge it's
load. The next morning on going to his
store, Mr. GLAssCoCK prepared to open the
shutters--havipg, it is thought, in a state
OF absent mindeduess, forgotten the exis-
tence of the gun, when the treacberous
trigger sprung, sending three bale through
his head, killing him on the spot. THE
hog cholera is prevailing in some sections
OF Shenandoah county - RELIEF supplies
arc going forward by carloads to the iowa
grasshopper sufferers. They still thresh
wheat in New Mexico in the old Egyptian
s'yIe-with horses, oxen, goats and sheep.
IAN Iowa court holds that promise to
marry must be in writing in order to sup
port an action for breach of it i. NEARLY
a score of discCvercrs Of perpetual motion
applied for space in which to exhibit their
machines, at recent exhibition in London.
QUEEN VICTORIA announces that The
slave trade along the South African coast
ls ended On Monday night last the
courthouse at franklin, Iowa, was DESTROY
ed by fire. Most of the records were burn.
ed. 1t was undoubtedly the work of an
incendiary. THIS makes the third incendia-
~ fire in that place in two weeks. a
MODEL PIPE SrEM.-Thc Hickory On. c.
Press thus speaks Of the "TITI" weed pipe
stem, found in that section This weed is
a pipe stem as soon as it comes out of the
ground. 1t is hollow to start with, and
needs no boring BY steamiug it you can
bend it into double bow knot and straiet.
en- again without injuring it in the least.
If you don't believe it, send and get one
The claims against JAY COOKE 4 Co., (not
all prOved) amount to $40, 257 900 :; the as
sets thus far realized is s764, 900. THE
manufacturers Of artificial ice at San Fran
cisco made last year, it is said, net profit
OF Sl5O,OOO on their patent. Mrs. SAL.
LIE REID has been reelected eugrossing
clerk Of the Arkansas House Of Represen-
tatives, which is a handsome acknowledge.
ment OF Woman's rights. HAVANA CT.
gars will be cheaper than ever, owing to the
large crop of Connecticut tobacco.
LYNCHBURG, Va, sold 10 single week
last month SOS, 600 pounds of tobacco.
In Germany only foreigners are imprison-
ed for debt. "A SHIPMENT from Wheel
ing, on Wednesday Of last week, for St.
Louis, comprised 2S 600 kegs Of nails
FLORIDA papers predict that at least tb GU
sand places to plant orange groves will be
purchased along the St. Johns during the
next three months. NINE million Of acres
public land were disposed Of last wear. of