South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-06-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.

lions of toads have made their appear
aifce in Lafayette county. Mo. ;. Can
ker worms are making fearful ravayes
among the apple orchards of Maine.
It is said the Papaw grows to the weight
of three pounds or more in Florida. 1t
is of light yellow color when ripe, and
has flavor similar to muskmelon
Belle Boyd, who was somewhat notori-
Gus during the war. is delivering lectures
in Tennessee The Staunton, Va, Pin
dicator says that w. F. cambridge, Esq.
late assistant engineer Of the Valley
Railroad, has gone into partnership with
Messrs. Shanahan and OConner, in a
contract on the Cincinnati Southern
Railroad :. A San Francisco company
which manufactures extensively paper
barrels, has recently shipped some of
them to China and Japan, filed with
sugar, and they seemed as good when
they reached their destination as when
they started. -. Naturalists say that
single swallow will devour 5000 flies in
day. -. General Sherman gets a cool
100000 for the copyright of his "Me-
moirs". Mary Jane Brown, of Maine,
offers to fight any woman in America
for 500 side. half the gate money to
go to the grasshopper sufferers The
large machine shops of James Brown &
Son, Pittsburgh, Pa. were burned on
Saturday morning last. Loss $65, 1000.
Adjoining buildings. occupied by Wheel
er & Wilson's Sewing Machine Compa-
NY, II. j. Thalhimer Wholesale dealer i'm
gentlemen's furnishing goods, and Nc
COLON & Co., carpet dealers, were dam
aged TO the extent Of $35, 600 1t is
the same story from every section of
Tennessee-the wheat crop likely to be
one of the largest ever harvested corn,
cotton and tobacco doing magnificently,
and the farmers in better spirits than at
any time since the war /. d. The tarantu-
al OF Brazil is nothing more nor less
than an enormous spider - .Alfigators;
fall into lethargic sleep during the win
ter season like the toad Jump up
and-run-away and-then-set-d down again
is the name of an Indian chief who has
just taken the war.path. >. In South A.
merica there is a prolific honeybee which
has not been furnished with sting -.
To cut glass to any shape without dia-
mond, hold it quite level under water,
and, with pair of strong scissors, clip
il away by small bits from the edges.
-. Secretary Spinner has not yet dis.
covered the whercabout- - the missing
S47, 900 from the Tre0 and is in
trouble about it :. There are forty-one
Baptist churches in New Orleans. thirty.
nine of them belonging to colored con-
grcgations, and two to white. =. The
Hagerstown Ttcice d-Week says that A.
:. Abel, of the Baltimore SIN is the
wealthiest newspaper man in the United
States and, probably, the world, his
wealth being estimated ut from seven TO
ten millions OF dollars. -. The Khedive
of Egypt has appointed David French
Boyd, son ofCol. L. j. Boyd, of Wythe-
Vile, Va, superintendent of the Militia
ry College of Egypt, with salary of
$4,000 in gold, and the position has been
accepted. =. There is story of two
families in Stewart county, Georgia,
whose lives were saved by a PRESENT.
ment. The father had a foreboding that
q storm would visit that section and that
his house would be in its path. He dug
hole near the house and had no soon
er finished it than the storm came, and
barely had lie and his family sought re-
fuge when the tornado tore his house to
pieces. All in the hole in the ground
escaped. -. Henry Logan, colored, who
rs n witness in felony case
against four young men in Shelby Co..
KY, last week, was shot and killed near
on Friday evening last. The
assassins escaped 80 Judge Wallace in
Chicago has decided that spiritualistic
where the parties live together
publicly afterward is valid marriage
in law. Brad. Marlborough, a Justice
of the peace, residing near Covington,
Tennessee, was killed on Saturday by
Kinney, his brother-in-law, in
n quarrel growing out OF an old family
feud. Kinney surrendered himself.
w. III. Curnen, John Gartnal and Jas.
Weber were suffocated in the Stockton
mines, near lIazelton, Pa, Sunday,
while engaged in clearing the chambers
of black damp. Three other miners who
were in the mine at the time were over
come by the foul air, but are recovering.
ia Brussels paper gives painful
account Of the ex-Empress Charlotte of
Mexico. Her physical health is good,
but her mental condition is hopeless
She lives in constant communication
with imaginary beings, and dlslikes the
presence OF any living person. She
speaks only when obliged TO do SO, and
gives orders to heI attendants in wri-
tingr She dresses herself without suf-
fering assistance, takes n fixed walk in
the park every morning when fine, fire.
quent'y plays on tho pianoforte, and
sometimes draws and paints with deci
dcl taste She rpcOonizes no visitoru
not even her brother, King Leopold, or
the Queen. The latter always accom-.
panies the physician on his monthly Wis
it, when, in reply to his inquiries as to
her health, the Empress coldly says she
is well and Immediately retires. She
has become stouter, and shows n tenden-
cy TO corpulency, but at present it is
stated that this only increases her beau
ty, which is now truly striking The
late earthquake in Ohio q contempora.