South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-10-16
NE VS. OF THE DAY.

-. MOUNT Mansfield in Vernon. is cap
ped with snow. la FIrcHBURa, Mass,
druggist, has demonstrated the fact that it
takes $4,000 average house fies to weigh
pound The boiler of a thrashiug na.
chine engine lately exploded at ST Paul,
MINI, killing three persons iustantly, aud
iDiurng three others. Oao of the latter
was blown 400 feet from the spot, aud sub
sequcDtly died -. WEST VIRGINIA has
ITO Granger lodges. France has cffici.
ally accepted the invitation by the United
States government TO participate in the cen
tenni',. THE San Francisco Bulletin es
u'1a;es the California wheat crop at &c.
10000 cen,als, of which there will be a.
bou: Il, O00,0 600 for export. :. .THRAsHER
is ;bo name of Western school teacher,
aud tho boys say it is jus. like him. -.
GLOW many people" says JEREMY TAY.
LoR, "Ire busy in this world gathering to-
gether handful Of thorns 10 cit upon"
....THE drought ia osutral Alabams has
cut off tho Gotten crop about onc-tbird, and
ruined the pea, sweet potato and turnip
crop. THE Marietta, Georgia, postmas-
ter has licked his last stamp. He opened
some letters. MISS LIZZIE ROUSE,
young lady of Greedy county, Colorado, COM
united suicide on Friday OF lat week by
shooting herself with revolver, frat in
the breast and then through the brain. She
lived an hour in great agony. The mar
rage of young man with whom she was
III love led to tho foolish aot ..TnB Oak
land Md, Herald Gays JOSIAH SUMMERS
killed 800 rat,lssnakes from May 1t to
September l, 1874. :. THE Atlanta Ne,cs
chants:
The melancholy days have come
The saddest of the year
It's most too warm for whiskey
little too cool for beer.
LINZ specie payments from New York
TO Europe on Saturday last amounted to
$1,000 silver bars. -. ."WILL you plea.e
insert this obituary notice z" asked an old
gentleman of an editor. Il make bold 10
ask 1t, because | know the deceased had
great many friends around here whcIi be
glad to hear of his death The estate
OF a decedent 10 Bedford county, Pa, is to
be somewhat widely scattered. TIE amount
to be distributed TO The lcgatees is ST. 036.-
lain suns ranging from 50 40 to 1921 20.
There ere so heirs offs generations, residing
st 81 different post Offices, iG 81 COUNT ca
States. a MAN in Cincinnati edver
Using for situation, ssys: "Work ia not
so much an object rs good wages
JUDGE MAcKEY, in South Carolina, wear,
a silken gown, sDd gees to and from court
preceded by the sheriff with drawn sword.
IA BUNCH of black Hamburg grapes.
weighing 20 pounds and ounces, was late.
ly exhibited at Belfast, ireland .IcE a
quarter of an inch thick formed at Omaha,
Nebraska, on Monday morning last.
The Republicans did we'll in Georgia.
There are III counties 10 that State, aud
they carried them all but III. -. Mas.
Hilton threatens tho public With another
statement. There lie q hope that she will
die before it is ready .. THE recent busi-
ness failures in New York create some I'M
oasiUess. The trade suspensions within
the past four weeks amount to nearly So
100000. Dullncss in trade and decline in
prices have contributed to cause these sus.
pensions. Three firms, whose liabilities arc
estimated at 1880, 900, have been losers
through speculation rot connected with the
regular business. E. .TERRE HAUrE las su
artesisn well whose waters arc epecife
for floss. .-.A YOUNG isdy Of Sedswick
county, Kansas, advertiaas that she will
give $500 for young man who will love
her IN q kind and gentle manner .FRosr-
BURG was visited by The "frs, snow of the
season" On Monday morning last. d. In
time the mulberry tree becomes silk gown
and silk gown becomes n woman 81.
25O,O0 more Of fraudulent State bonds
have been discovered 10 South Carolina.
10 tho Baltimore Circuit Court, at Towson-
town, on tho 10Th inst, in tho Gaze Of
SAMUEL MCDONALD, on trial for the MUIR
der Of Berry AMOS, The jury, brought 10
verdict Of "no, guilty" ...ANoSG the
uses to which paper seems adapted is that
OF tho manufacture OF -four. barrels. They
are said TO be tir-ighi, quite light, and ye
able 10 endure much rough usage II is