South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-06-19
N Z w s OF THE DAY.

Ohio new SVnsiltutloE cost the State
5000, 000.-- a BOTTLE of Senator SUM-
NER's choice wine sold for S4S. Costly
wine that Two dogs that cos, 5000 each
were imported a, Boston last week The
Cincinnati Gazette says that artificial ice is
now sold in New Orleans at half a cen,
pound less than is charged for TIE natural
substance in tia, city THE temperance
ticket has almost swept the State of Cali.
fornia 10 local option elections. :. THE
mirrors at one of the hotels in Saratoga
cost $50, 900. "A chief engineer in the
American navy receives 81 800 per annum,
while the pay 10 the British navy for sim
liar services is S1,l00. "A woMAN's-
RIGHT woman says the only decen, thing
in ADAM was rib, and that went TO
make something better Miss McGILL
shot Miss mcguire In Texas the other
day ONE of NELLIE GRANTS wedding
dresses used up 40 yards of white silk at.
SO yard. - REV JOIN w. NORRIS, of
Bridgeport, Conn, is the first colored
graduate from the Yale Theological School.
III costs tue country about $50 per
day during the heated term to supply the
House of Representatives with iced tea and
lemonade. g. MISSISSIPPI man having
recovered S25, 1000 for the loss of his wife
by railroad accident, thinks of marrying
again and taking his bride long journey
-. BoBDs complains that his wife is an
iofationisi. She blows him up every day
aud makes him circulate until he actually
feels that he is beyond redemption :. THE
dressing gown is the most lasting Of all
garrnents-it is seldom worn out. Con.
GREss has appropriated the sum of $780,
OOO to replace worn out end mutilated ma
ional bank currency $50. MRs MARY
CLEMMER AMEs beautifully observes that
"SUMNER lived aud died moral hero TO
women" The only woman who had an
opportunity to know SUMNER intimately
limited at something different 10 her appl
cation tir divorce. The people of Tex
os have determined that the reign of muir
/ derers, robbers, and all lawless classes shall
cease at once, and vigilance committees
have been formed in various sections. who
have gone to work in earncs, to execute
their work. Eighteen despcradoes have
been executed in Bell county, and Others
will be added to the number. The vigil.
ants are also at work ia Brown, Comman
che and other counties. - THE tailor's bill
OF fare Is hot goose and "cabbagc" Gas
toners furnish the sauce -. ACCORDING
to the new Chicago directory, the popula-
ton Of that city has Increased $1,000 IT,
the last year. THE deaths IN New York
during last week numbered 4S0.... VIII
LIAM Boone, aged Is, for the murder Of
his stePfather, 10 Cltteraugus county, New
York, was sentenced, on the 3rd instant, to
Auburn State prison for life. .Ex-U. S.
SENATOR Ross is sticking typoin his rural
newspaper cfhco in kansas. ."BLTYp
DAM" beggar, wcll-known in Louisville.
Ky, for the last IS years, died lately, and
left an estate valued AZ $1,000. H. own
cd two cottages, which rented for $40 per
month. LII is reported that l8 Carlist
Ulcers have been shot at Toloso, Spain, by
order Of Don CARLOS for mu,iny Hon.
JEFFERSON DAVIS was among the pas.
scngeTs By the steamer Adriatic, which or.
rived at New York on Sunday last from
Liverpool, and left the same evening for
his home 10 Tennessee. "A MAMMOTH
SPIDER The following from the Bedford
Star, may be (and doubtless Isl the "gos
pei truth" but it reads very much like one
Of BARON MUNCuAUsEN's facts: We have
seen on exhibition at Or. w. D. HOOPER $
Office most wonderful specimen Of o spi.
der IL was captured by WALKER Nc
DANIEL, Esq, near Bunker Hill, 10 this
county, and strange as it may seem, when
discovered was dragging Of q. young chick
en-. Mr.. McDANIEL brought it to Liberty
alive, in The nest or den i. Inhabited which
IN itself IL curiosity. This spider doeA
not appear to be Of that species know as
the "Torantula," found West Of the Mis-
sissipPi, but it is probably es large.
Col JONI S. MosBY, it is said, will be an
independent candidate for Congress in The
Alexandra district. III cot Arkausas
s2OO,OOO TO discover that BAXTER was
Governor. NEARLY a thousand bills are
recorded on The books Of both Houses Of
Congress, oil If which have been iplrodue.