South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-08-27
NEWS OF THE DAY.

ment of the affairs of Duncan. Sherman
Il Co., shows n deficiency Of S2.796,645.
lit is estimated that New York city
has population Of 100000 The
pennsylvania Railroad, in emulation of
the bell-punch, now requires its conduc-
tors TO wear locked-up satchel, with an
aperture for tickets :. The Washing
ton Republican,. the Grant organ, gets
$4,000 for publishing the DELINQUENT
tax list of the city. Pretty good pay,
that. The Bible is now printed in 2l0
languages. Miss Belle Boyd, the Con.
federate spy, is lecturing in South Car
DINA. Over $4,000 acres of land in
Iron county, Missouri. are advertised
to be sold for delinquent taxes "A
notable wedding is about TO occur in
Paris, that of Mr.. Henry Jones, of BAL.
timore, TO Mrs. Brooks, OF California. a
lady who is quite famous in the French
capital. She is remarkable for personal
beauty and elegance of costumes. and is
said TO be worth 100000 or So. 600.
900. A blind man in Southern Hi.
nois can play checkers, but can't find
the woodpile if his wife wants an armrul
OF wood. :. Ex-Governor Bigler positive
-
democratic nomination for Governor of
pennsylvania. Two million bushels
ofoysters are annually taken from Ches-
apeakc Bay and tributaries without any
perceptible diminution of the supply.
IA Chinaman married negro wo-
man In Arkansas year ago. and they
now have q baby which has light hair
and Is ~ white "a snow. The Adven-
lists bring us the painful intelligence
that the world is to come TO an end the
10th Of September. The Ohio river is
bridged eight times below Pittsburgh, at
a cost of $4,000, 900. Chicaro can.
not complain of hard times The bust
ness which is her great speciality is in
most hourishing condition. A single
Court averages nine or ten divorce cas-.
es day. Three prominent citizens
of Dwight, Illinois, lost their wives by
eiopemcnt the other day, and the local
paper heads an account OF the affair -
GLORY enough for one day. A San
Francisco factory employs four hundred
persons, principally Chinese, in manu-
featuring shirts No excuse for wet
feet. A rubber factory in Willamsport.
Pennsylvania, alone turns out two thou
sand pair of gum shoes daily. The
sun was so hot in Jacksonville, Florida.
on the 4th inst, that people amused
themselves cooking eggs in the sand.
One person buried two for six minutes
and when taken out they were ~ hard
rs though they had been boiled half an
hour - Miss Celena l.. Summers, Sis
ter of the late Hon. George w. Sum.
mers, died in Charleston few DAYS IL
90. The Massachusetts leather pro.
duct is valued ut $50 600, 900. Within
n few weeks discoveries OF silver depos-
It's OF great value have been made in Ar.
iona. During q recent tornado in
Knox county, Illinois, the wind blew the
feathers Off pluchy chicken which tried
TO stem the storm, until it was stripped
bare. The number of sheep imported
into Kansas was never so great as now.
Hundreds Of sheep-farms are being es-
tablisbcd. A gentleman at Spring
field, Ky, few days ago killed a orr.
ter snake about thirty inches in length
and one inch in diameter, from the month
olwhich issued thirty-eio ht young snakes
measuring each seven inches i'm length
Upon examination Of the mother an e.
lastic sack some eight or ten inches in
length was observed attached to the lio
aments inside the mouth, and constitut-
ing sort OF false stomach in which the
young reptiles had kept themselves. -.
4 man in Iowa claims to he the father
of the smallest child ever born ut that
place. The boy when born weighed ex-
actly two pounds. It's feet are two in.
chcs in length, the other limbs being
proportionate. 1t is lively and healthy.
and bids fair for long life d. . The Sun
says that it is estimated that from 1900
to 1000 foreigners will be naturalized
in the United States Circuit and District
Courts ut baltimore this fall Willis
Nary, bishop Of the British Methodist
Episcopal church, in Canada, died al
Shelburne. n. S., on Sunday last
Charles 5. BeLem, of the oldest lawyers
Of Abingdon, Va, died in that place ON
Thursday morning of last week aged
seyeuty-one years Rev. Mr.. Spur.
geon is only forty-one years old, but it
is twenty-five years since he awoke i'm
London and found himself famous
The London Nouptud thinks that "his.
tory will say that Andrew johnson was
the one great man who appeared upon
the Northern side during the progress
Of the war Of separation" o.. General
Hays. the Republican candidate for Gov.
ernOr of Ohio, has been left the sum of
S7jO,OOD hy nm uncle Darwin has an
income Of $4,000 year because he he.
lieycd his grandfather TO have been q
GORILLA. DIR. Benjamin Taliafcrro. q
young and promising physician Of Am.
hcrst county. was drowned on Friday
evening last in shallow creek near his
residence. lie was making profess
sional visit. and it is supposed in cross
ing the creek he was attacked with n Gt
and fell from his horse. lie was n son
Of Matthew G. Taliafcrro. OF Richmond.
and recently graduated with great dis
tinction The Danyille Rogis'er SAYS
Mrs. Cole. wife Of Alonzo Cole. who
lives near Halls Cross Roads. in Pittsvl.
vania county, was killed by lightning
0u Tuesday fho 9Th inafot.s eIo 49,.