South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-10-15
Odds and Ends.
The hog crop for the year Is esti.
mated at 1880, 900 head.

The hog crop for the year is esti.
mated at lS.S00,0 900 head.
Not long since Richmond WAY
music dealer announced that he would
receive Confederate money in payment
for goods, and sold piece OF sheet mu.
sic TO lady customer the other day for
$S2,642 in that currency.
The picnic season and spiders and
bugs will soon join the invisible host.
The most horrible kerosene lamp
explosion on record occurred in Nebras.
ka lately, by which the father, mother,
two boys and an infant-the whole fam.
ily--.wcre horribly burned. most of them
In attempting to save the others. The
Child has died. the mother and one bow
are in desperate condition, and the
other boy will probably be crippled for
life, and tho fathers, hands are burned
50 that he cannot use them. The cx.
plosion was caused by the lamp being
accidentally knocked down.
In answer 20 the question Why
are farmers so liable to rheumatism?-
the Science Of Health says: because they
wear wet clothing, heat and suddenly
chill the body. over-eat after very hard
work, and because they do not keep the
skin in vigorous. clean and healthy
condition. If farmers would avoid sud.
denly cooling the body after great ex.
ertion. if they would be careful not TO 90
with wet clothing and wet feet, and IL
they would not over.eat when in an ex.
hausted condition, and battle daily. us.
ing much friction. they would have less
rheumatism"
The Court Of Common Pleas OF
Chester county Pennsylvania, has dc.
cided that writing on slate is not q
good will under the statute which re.
quires all wills to "be In writing" Va.
rious decisions have been rendered on
the question wheathcr lead.pencil wri.
ting. which is easy Of alteration, is suf.
ficient.
of the persons recently poisoned at
a wedding in Dalton, Ca, by ice cream
navored with peach leaves, two died
Friday and one last Sunday.
""CApITAL" PUNIsuMESr.-In Lynch.
burg, Va, q few days ago, two negro
boys. convicted OF n petty theft, we're
subjected TO a punishment which Mt
least had the merit OF economy. One
OF the delinquents was made to thrash
the other soundly with implements usu-
al on such occasions, and then the whip.
ped party was made to return the com
piiment on his tormentor. Rene mber
ing the smarting he had endured at the
hands Of him who was now his victim.
he did not mince matters much, but laid
1t on we'll. Number one was again call.
ed into requisition. and thus it continu-
ed alternately until both had been Sc.
vcrcly punished.
While tunneling into the side ofMt.
McLellen, Colorado, recently. the ex-
plorers came upon ground solidly frozen
ninety feet from the surface. The ques.
ton is how the frost got in. as there was
no crevice through which it could enter.
Joe Lee, an inonensive and law.
abiding negro Of Avoyelles parish, Lou.
isiana, has fallen victim TO the igno.
rance and superstition of his race. Be-
iieving him to be guilty of "conjuring."
q party of blacks tied him, conveyed
him to piece of woods, and shot him
to death. Several suspected negroes are
on trial for the murder.
This has been a remarkably pros
porous year with Chicago. as far az bull.
ding is concerned. The amount of mo.
ney expended on new buildings from the
lst of last March TO January ], 1876.
will reach fully $10,000.00O, and this
will have been paid out for the construc.
tion of solid buildings of brick and
stone.
PEEALTr ron OnsrRrcTrSe RAN.
Mulligan. tried NJ tho
September session OF the Pike County,
(Pa.,) Court, held last week, for placing
distractions on the Erie Railway. Mt
Stairway Brook, on the 27th Of last A.
pril. was found guilty and sentenced TO
pay fine Of 81 900 and undergo an inn
prisonment OF five years in the penitcu.
tiary.
"A remarkable instance OF death.
bed repentance has just occurred in But.
Ter county, Kentucky. A man who was
very i'll, confident that his last hour was
fast approaching, sent for magistrate,
and made confession that in the year
1870 he bad murdered man named
Charles Mitchell, on Green river. His
history was That during the war he and
Mitchell had robbed man named Day.
export in Warren county, and that in the
division Of the spoils Mitchell had TAX.
en- more than his share. In revenge. the
self.confessed murderer watched his VIC
tim for ten years with the purpose Of
killing him, and ut last. when q fayora.
bic opportunity presented itself, he shot
him through the heart. Mitchell when
shot was standing on barge, and his
body fell into the river. 10 was never
found, and though suspicious Of foul
play were entertained there was no proof
even Of his death. The man who fred
the fatal shot, having eascd his con.
science by confession, Immediately be.
gan to get better, and now promises 20
regain his health entirely. In the mean.
time the officers OF the law are prepar.
ing to arrest and prosecute him when he
has recovered sufficiently 20 be safely
from his he'd