South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-05-28
NEWS OF THE DAY

A FIRE at Osceola, Pennsylvania, on
yesterday week, destroyed two hundred
buildings and rendered twelve hundred
persons homeless. Only 1000. 600
dogs in the United States Hon. A. X.
Boteler. OF Jefferson county, has been
placed on the Executive Committee of
the Centennial Commission Three
children OF a family named Findlay, re-
siding near Sedalia, Missouri, died on
Friday last from starvation. The fami-
ly have been in destitute circumstances
all the winter Six new National
banks have just gone into operation in
New England. "A man is successful
when he makes life give him what he
wants. 1t costs the American Coloni-
cation Society, $3.50 to send negro to
Liberia. He pays his own expenses
back after remaining in Liberia over
Sunday. - The Massachusetts, Legisla-
ture has appropriated $50. 900 in aid of
the Centennial. &. .Ex.Gov. II. c. Pow
ers OF Mississippi was recently foreman
of the Grand Jury OF Noxubee county.
and found an unusual number Of true
bills for larceny. After the Grand Ju-
~, composed largely ofnegroes. adjourn.
ed, the Ex-Governor found that one OF
his brother jurors had relieved him of his
pocketbook containing $50. The Com
pulsory Education law proves to be the
next thing to failure in New York
While the objects is to be commended, it
is evident that the law is incapable OF
etfecting it An old cannon has just
been dug out of the mud off n wharf ut
Boston, near the spot where that gum
powder tea was thrown overheard -.
Fishes have no eyelids, and necessa-
rily sleep with their eyes open. don
Quixote," since it first appeared, is said
to have gone through l,175 editions -.
Naturalists say that single swallow
will devour 5000 flies in a day. It.. E.
gypt will be represented ut the Philadel,
phia centennial Forty-four boats left
the port ut Cumberland on Saturday last
carrying 5,02l 08 tons of coal :. The
colored sexton of a Washington Gene
terry has been sent to Jail for stealing
the shovels and things -. Estimating
the average expenses CT American trav-
elers abroad at $1,000 each, the amount
of money expended by them in Europe
last year was S47,730,O00 in gold -.
The grasshoppers in Kansas which are
doing so much harm are no larger than
mosquitoes :. Discoveries Of coal are
simultaneously being made in various
parts of Massachusetts, Utah, Califor-
nj ,egon and Washington Territory
-. n fund of $4,000 has been raised
by the women of Richmond for the g.
rection of q monument TO General Rob
ar IL | 4 nrth l,N IA,
tered in Florida brought home zoos. 400
flea bites and an alligators tooth rs tro-
plies of his visit. Leavenworth, Kan
sas, is thriving city. 1t is only seven.
teen years old, and has four million and
twenty-five thousand inhabitants,-tu
all we regret TO say except thu twenty
five thousand are grasshoppers. Dnr.
ing last week 1000 persons left New
York by the various steamship lines for
Europe =. Rev Charles S. Macready,
pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Socie-
ty in Middleboro. Missouri, committed
suicide on tie Doth ult.. by cutting his
throat with q razor. Family troubles
causing depression of spirits prompted
the act The people of this extrava-
CANT country expended $2,841 $50 for
foreign buttons last year -. 1t appears
that coming copper is not profitable
The government has not made n half
cent since 1857 Nevada and West
Virginia are the only States in the Union
in which first cousins are not allow
cd to intermarry The measles pre-
vail with unusual severity among the
colored people down south notwithstand-
ing the Civil Rights bill :. The SUI
preme Court of Louisiana has given
judgment. with $4,000 damages, against
Samuel Hastings, n druggist, whose
clerk made mistake in preparing n
prescription, and which caused the death
of Mrs. McCubin \ man with hair
on the roof of his mouth has been discov-
cred at Savannah, Georgia An ex-
perimental plantation of olive trees in
Georgia is said to have Welded an cx.
cellent quality of olive oil 4. . In France
cheap wood is now made to perfectly
initiate mahogany. The surface is treat
ed with nitrous acid. Then mixture
OF an ounce and half Of dragons blood,
n pint of alcohol, and some carbonate of
soda is put on with soft brush Fur
niture thus prepared cannot be distin-
Rulshed from genuine mahogany The
Kentucky Democratic Convention has
nominated Hon. James Il. McCreery for
Governor -. Last year the Chinese con-
sumed of our cotton fabrics Lao, 44O
yards, paying therefor $2O4.3 j4, which
is sum equal to twice the amount we
paid China for fire crackers :. Large
numbers of cattle and horses have died
recently in Jackson county, Missouri,
from eating buckeyes Gov. Allen
predicts Democratic majority Of 10000
in Ohio. IL never pays 20 fret and growl
When fortune seems our foe
The better bred will push ahead
And strike the brsyer blow.
For luck is work,
And those who shirk
Should not lancet their doom,
But yield the play,
Aad clear The way.
That better men have room.