South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-02-13
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wcclen mills .JoHN b. GoUGH has lee
:ursG 1000 times in thirty-one years. 49,.
BIRMNGHAM, England, makes about l.
OO0,OOO geo steel peas annually. -. uoT
sand baths have been introduced in-L ondou
Tor rhsumltic patients BALTIMORE CO.
ve.5 az area Of eleven square miles. -.
JEFFERSON DAVIS was born 10 Christian
Co., Kentucky, 10 1908. .. NOAH WALK
III, The great clJ;hing merchant of Bllti-
more, died in lha;c.ty on the Ord inst, aged
IS years ONE of the llrgest land own
ers in California is lady, Mrs. NJ. 4
PEALE. She owns 173, O65 acres -.
MARYLAND proposes to appropriate $780,
600 to establish al inebriate asylum 49,.
THE Mississippi Legislature c9utains more
colorei than write members. -. GARTH.
AGE, Illinois, viii not allow boys under
sixteen years Of age to use tobacco. :. The
Duke of Edinburgh gets with his Russian
wife 1913, 900 in cash aud 500, 900 year
besides. THE Dlnyille Register aunouu-
ces that Eng in the Siamese lingo means
son the right" aud Chang CON the left"
III Is estimated that during the i'm
pending famine in Iudia the Government
Will be called upon to supply half pound
of grain r day, for eight months, to %.
coo, 600 people. go. CHRISTMAS was not
celebrated until % years after the death
Of Christ. This Augusta Constitutional
Isl proposes lottery to pension Coufeder.
/ ate sol4icrs....A WOLF visited the neigh.
borhood Of O.klanj, Glrrett county, Md,
last week, aai killed cish. sheep belonging
to Nir. joins Q. SowER, and wounded three
moro. It Afterwards msimel portion of
Mr.. Henry BECKMAN's flock, and then
escaped .VuEojl wells of Western Penn
sylsania produce daily average Of 40, 900
barrels. JACKSON county sent ffty-ono
prisoners 20 tue peuitentiary last year.
SAM ALLEN, of Texas, pays freight bill-
on his own account amounting to SI2, 900
per wock, FOR shipping cattle north IN
'ho reign OF EDWARD, |. sheep was sol
for twenty-five cents, and an OK for two
dollars ani a half or three dollars, while
wheat WIS only thirteen cents a bu,hol.
WOMEN are no" eligible to any Office of
school c'ntro! or managom mt in Pennsyl
vanja. THE days of Slcm witchcrlfr
have not gone by JOHN HUNT of Burke
county, y. g., thought that be was be-
wi;ohcd, not ia tao usual way, by respcc-
table woman of that place. He drew his
figure on ooart and shot it through the
heart with piece Of silver, but that did 10
| good. Then he threatened to shoot her
aud vas arrested -BGNoNI Howard, of
the City of y. Y, the millionaire watch.
maber convicted of coun,crfciiing revenue
stamps, hls been sentenced to the peniteD-
'iary for l'c years. II. II. WooD, the
/ proprietor OF the SlA'bart Hotel atCharles
ton, has ron'o3 the Hale House and will
hereafter Conduct both hotels ONE thou
sand aud thirty four new buildings were
crested 10 Pittsburgh, Pa, during 1873 49,.
THERE is On establishment 10 Plri. whose
sole business is 20 make over and recurl
feathers. The business done is enormous.
IA PETITION will BE- presented to Con-
gross In short lime praying that body to
make tho l2.h Of February, the bir.hi y
O.! ABRAHAM LINCOLN, national holiday.
.GGy. HARVEY thinks the 10 Hans