South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-07-23
NEWS OF THE DAY.

shipments from New York TO Europe on
Saturday last amounted to $4,000. or
which $4,000 was gold coin, and the
remainder gold and silver bars The
days have shortened 20 minutes since
the longest day, the 10th Of June.
The last of the Hahn quartet OF babies,
in Baltimore, died OF whooping cough on
Friday last, aged just five months. Her
three sisters died of catarrh at the age
OF one month. 1t is said that there are
fifty-five applicants for the clerkship Of
the Board of Public Works, of Virginia,
made vacant by the death of the late
Thomas III. DE Witt The Govern
ment Departments are to have gold in
stead Of steel pens in future. as steel
pens have been found too expensive.
There are now estimated to be 100000
opium eaters in the United States, and
many of them are females. :. The arith-
metic man is out West, and he tells us
that 2S3,6S4 grasshoppersg 90 to the bush
el..- Now it is said that the secret of
the ''keeley Motor" is not the vapor of
water mechanically produced, but the
expansive force of solicited or liquiiied
carbonic acid gas. In other words, it is
simply soda water Three thousand
lawyers are annually turned out upon
the community. The Sioux Indians
have accepted the treaty by which they
give mp their hunting privileges in Ne
braska for $50 900. -. Workmen are now
engaged building fish propagating house
in Druid Hill Park. Baltimore, which will
be finished by the lst Of October. The
establishment will be under the manage
ment Of the State fish commission, who
will propagate salmon, bass, carp, &c,
for stocking Maryland waters. Pa
thence Stice, handsome and rich New
York State girl, has offered her hand
and heart to any youth who can outrun
her. The Washington Star says that
information has been received in Wash
ington that Ex-Solicitor Banield of the
treasury department is hopelessly insane
and in lunatic asylum in California.
The estimated value of the last
French vintage is $500, 1000, 900 =. There
are 1000 converts and monasteries, in
habited by 2l,000 monks and nuns, in
Belgium. The income OF the religious
orders in that kingdom is 100000, 900.
80. General Bidwell says that raisin
making with native grapes is an indus
try worth 100000 annually to Califor-
MIA George Fclters was hoeing corn,
near Lancaster Ohio, on the 9Th inst.
with loaded revolver in his pocket
The hoe handle struck il, and an ugly
ball reyolved through Mr.. Felters' thigh
- "A Chicago woman, supposed by her
dress and appearance TO be wealthy, was
caught stealing an amount of candy
worth about ten cents in q confectione-
ry store. She was arrested and taken
TO a police station, where she refused to
tell her name, and begged to be put in
cell out Of sight. She was incarcerated
all night, and in the morning, still hid
ing her identity, she pleaded so piteous-
~ with the police justice not to be en-
posed to any chance of recognition, that
he had her arranged privately. She
readily paid a fine of ten dollars, and
escaped exposure - On the last Sun
day trip of the New York HeyuIcrs fast
train, engineer Sam. Austin, engine No.
1874, made 1l8 miles in three hours and
20 minutes, from Albany to Syracuse
However, engineer jim W God. with NO.
l4S'' beat this II miles, making the dis
lance from Syracuse to Buffalo, $50
miles, in the same time. The stop at
Syracuse was but five minutes; so that
29S miles from Albany to buffalo, were
made in six hours and 40 minutes :.
New York State contains no less than
1000 cigar makers On Saturday
last, Mrs. Custer of Montgomery county,
Pa, while picking parsley in her garden.
was stung by some insect. Thepain soon
extended up the arm which swelled, and
broke out in some places, discharging
yellowish liquid. Although medical
aid was summoned she could obtain
no relief and on Wednesday she died.
AN exchange says: "Miss Clara
Rose, of philadelphia, had $1,000 expen-
ded on her Latin, French and c. erman
education, and then married a man who
has to buy his butter half pound at time.
800. DR.. John II. Bland, formerly of
Weston, was assassinated in Tennessee
recently "A young mother at Conway,
Mass, leaving her child in shady place
while she picked blackberries. called to
it n while alter and receiving no reply.
returned TO find the little one complete.
ly charmed by q brown snake. and una
bic to speak or move. With a scream
she caught her child in her arms. but it
quivered and cried for an hour, and it
was several days before it passed out of
the influence Of the baneful spell
Hon. ReVerdy Johnston. who il in his
eighty-frst year, astonishcd the J}alti-
more bar Last week by standing and ar
0uing case in court for whole dav,
without apparent fatigue .. According
to the Landmark Platte county. Mo,
which was reported TO he badly grass
hOppered, will raise Mt least n quarter OF
n million bushels Of wheat this year
The jack-rabbit, plentiful in the West.
has n pair Of long and significant ears
which have earned him the first half Of
his name. An old resident. being ques-
toned about the aMmal. answere | /: IA
jack-rabbit, young man? A jack rabbit
is narrow gauge mule. . Near Allan
tn, Georgia, last fall. a negro built n coop.
six feet by seven, into which lie put q