South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-03-12
N e w s OF THE DAY.

CITY Oh w neeitng last MONTH n $i,-
100000 tract deed has just been put
on record in Denver. -. Charles Austin,
an English lawyer, made more than a
million of dollars before lie was so, by
| practicing at the bar At an iron we'd
ding recently in New Jersey all the
guests brought fiat-irons-and the result
was very fct iron wedding : :. Six
sheep owned in Cooperstown. Pa. have
taken premiums at county fairs this year
amounting to $1,000 - Wire gauze, for
dust spectacles, is said TO be an excel
lent substitute for glass. i. Baltimore
imported nearly one hundred thousand
bags of coffee last year. against twenty
five thousand bags the year previous.
-. An Omaha woman lifted barrel Of
flour from the ground into wagon on
Tuesday. gave birth 10 twins on the day
following, and on Saturday OF the same
week split wood enough TO last er
Sunday 1T has been develops "a q
Martin Eppler, German, residin, ON
Staten Island, New York. has suhsisted
for the last three weeks on the meat of
n horse which died from starvation -.
James Martin for having six wives, all
in Lancaster county, Pa, has been sent
| W tAiS icI SIN IItputuS
1t is stated that seven hundred head of
sheep belonging to DR.. Thos. Pollock.
of Apache Creek, Colorado, were killed
recently by compound of salt and
strychnine. sprinkled in corral by some
unknown scoundrel KEROSENE oil is
said to be excellent for removing rust
from cutlery. James Gordon Bennett.
who went to Europe to marry the En-
press Eugene, backed out when he
found she owed $4,000, 600. /. d. The desk
of Adams Express office, Mt Goshen,
Rockbridge county, Va, was broken O.
pen on Saturday night of last week, and
robbed of 81, 800. :. The House of Re-
representatives. of Alabama, by unani-
nous vote, have expelled negro mem
Der named Gaskin, for proposing TO do
certain things in his legislative capacity
for three hundred dollars. The com
mittee examining the charges consisted
OF three democrats and one white and
one colored republican,, and reported Ii.
unanimously that he was guilty Ihthe
Ohio House of Delegates, few days q.
go joint resolution requesting Congress
to reduce the Presidents salary to S2j,-
600 q year was adopted The Thames
river at Norwich, Conn is frozen solid
| TO the bottom. 4 trottng horse fell
dead on the ice there the other day. and
the owner cut grave eight feet deep i'm
the ice without coming to water, and
buried the horse in it =. Ia Contra, Cos
tn county, Cal, the squirrels destroy a
million dollars worth of property every
year. .Phenia Epps of Hamilton, Ohio,
asked her mother to take note for her
to friend of the family living in n near
street. The note when opened was found
TO read, This is little ruse OF mine 20
| get mother out of the house. Before she
! can get back | will be OH the cars with
dear Lorenzo, and before night will be
married. -. More men have fallen in
love than in war The large axe han
die factory at Broadway, Rockingham
County, Va, was completely DESTROYED
by fire Oh Monday of last week -. The
deaths in New York last week number
ed COZ -. Winuenucca, Nevada. sends
800 head Of bullocks 10 San Francisco
every week -. Young ladies in Iowa
select shoes in company with their beaux
They always take No. rs, and exchange
them next day for No. SIS Il is a
mistake to attempt to Judge OF the quail
ity Of butter by the color Of the hair in
it. Holland now has 10000 windmills
in operation, at an estimated annual cost
Of $4,000, 900 49, The catch OF furs in
Minnesota has been unusually large this
winter -. a colored woman in Alexan-
dria who applied at police headquarters
for some wood, when told that she might
have sticks from the pile kept there,
went Off in huff, saying she wanted
none If she couldn't get a CARLOAD 800.
Mr.. Lewis Weaver died suddenly on the
2Sth ult., in Winchester, of paralysis
He was about 90 years of age, and was
quiet and unobtrusive citizen 1t
has been colder in Sweden this winter
than in any other civilized country. In
Furudal the thermometer marked sixty
degrees below zero Spring radishes
and mint made their appearance in the
Richmond market on Saturday morning.
-. In Wilmington, y. c.. on yesterday
week, q negro named Francis Holmes
had W. ii. Gerlten, n saloon-keepcr. ar
rested for refusing 10 sell him drink.
The Commissioner dismissed the case
OF the ground that the ciyil-Tight5 bill
did not apply TO bar rooms .. just a.
bout this time country urchins hide n
way V-ES III biIc HdS ihDNS preparatory
for Casters reception -. There is mo-
ncy In tobacco. The internal revenue
receipts from it last year were S35,242,.
87j - The old-time trottcr, Flora Tenn
pie is still alive she is over thirty
years old e. II only costs tie govern.
ment S26,000,000 per aunum 20 keep up
tie National Banking system -. There
were 2l,600 applicants for patents in
1874, n greater number than that ofany
previous year According 90 the Dan.
vile, VI. Ne1rs. the mud in that city
pulls n mans shoes and stockings of
before letting him II is rumored
that The Baltimore AID Obi, Railway
has bought the $j,OO0O0 worth Of its
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