South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-08-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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Gems. Fitzhugh Lee, Longstreet. Hoo1-
or. and Col. John p. Nicholson Brig
ham Young is said to he the greutsst re-
,cieealist in the world. :. During the past
six months the Gre insurance companies
IN the United States have sustained los
ses amounting in the aggregate TO $685.
00o. 900. 1t cost $500. to keep
the Indians last year. WIN. ii. Alder.
dice, general assignee OF the Bankrupt
Court at Richmond, Va, Is alleged to be
some $4,000 short i'm his ACCOUNTS, sup
posed TO have been Produced by specu-
lations i'm real estate. Alderiice, who
is absent from Richmond, is q Northern
man, but was held in high esteem, and
1t one time held the position OF city au-
ditor. :. There Is something like Justice
in South Carolina, after all. Parker, the
embezzling State Treasurer, has been
sentenced to fifteen years in the Peni-
Tertiary. Parker was staunch Repub-
lican. .. Harness kept soft and pliable
with good neatsfoot oil will last almost
lifetime. It 10 not stronger, because
slightly elastic, and will seldom wear off
the hair. Paul ShGppe, who is now
serving term in the Illinois penitentia-
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The Chicago Tribune tells OF = swarm Of
grasshoppers which moved at the rate OF
6fteen miles ON hour, occupied sixty
hours in passing over town in Nilsson
ri, and was estimated to be from thirty
to seventy-fve miles wide and halfa mile
deep. ii. From twenty to thirty thousand
dollars worth of silver is annually swept
up from the floor OF the mint Mt Phila.
delphia. Dir. s. T. Van Buren. son
OF ex-President Van Buren,, has been tn
ken TO the Hudson River Hospital for
the Insane. His mind has been serious.
ly affected at intervals for some time.
| %. California counts mp thirty million
grape vines. No less than eight hun
dred clerks are out of employment
through English failures 1t is esti-
mated that over 100000 Texas cattle
have been driven into Nebraska this
year. OF this number 40,0 600 have been
sold. Governor Kellogg has address
ed a letter to the sheritrs of North Loui-
siana, where number of murderers are
reported to have recently been commit
ted, directing them to call in the aid OF
the better class of citizens to bring to
justice the perpetrators. Mayor n. II.
Trout of Staunton has been quite i'll
from an attack of Bright's disease Of the
kidneys. but is reported better. il. Bote-
tourt county is excited over pretty
school ma'am who recently took charge
Of its school, and in few weeks rar off
with the handsome son of her landlady
| -. A Castor Oil Bean Stalk raised in
| Shepherdstown measures eight feet three
! inches In circumference n man boast
ing of his pedigree to another said that
! his father was elevated above the com.
mon herd of men. lie was hanged =. d.
Jefferson Davis has been solicited to
take charge of three different Southern
| Colleges -. a western circus has q wax.
work group of the principals in the
| Beecher trial. Commodore Vanderbilt
says he wants to see railroad cars run
ming 150 miles per hour including ne.
cessary stoppages The Republicans
claim majority in the North Carroll
na Constitutional Convention. - Pota
to-bugs are said to sell for fifty cents
q quart in Philadelphia. They arc used
for plasters IA fifteen year old mai
den in Berks county, Pa, is but 81 inch
| es high The worst case Of seltishness
that ever has been presented to the pub
lie, eminated from n youth who com.
| planned because his mother put bigger
mustard plaster on his younger brother
| than she did on him. -Seyenty-fiye
| thousand tons Of fertilizers were manu-
featured in Baltimore last year. Most
of this was sent South to be used on the
cotton crop. The richest woman in A.
mcrica is the wife of Prof. Gammel, for
merly of Brown University, r. 1. She
has an income of ut least million q
year her fathers estate, which she has
just inherited, being estimated at fully
$4,000, 900. - "A Mrs. Whitman, ofHart
county, Ky, so years ago swallowed q
common sewing needle. and the other
day it came out near her elbow. She
suffered at intervals with it all the time
... Burglars are at work in various
| parts of Missouri. An editor has the
consolation of knowing that burglars
never bother the profession. Poverty is
in no danger. Kentucky boasts that
she will have corn enough to make al
the whiskey she wants, besides some &c
waste in making bread. "A Saratons
belle wears diamonds on her shoes =. :.
From the Indian Territory comes the
boast that the wheat crop now being
harvested is the largest ever gathered
there. The dying request OF Andrew
Johnson was that his winding sheet
should be the flag Of his country :. "A
Richmond VA music dealer announces
that he will receive Confederate money
in payment for goods, and sold piece
Of sheet music to lady customer, the
other day, for $2,612 in that currency
There are nearly eight hundred Wis
itors at the Greenbrier White Sulphur
Springs. Wheat is selling at from sc
cents to : per bushel Mt Dalton, Geor
gia, and the farmers haul il home rather
than sell nj those prices. The crop is
heavy LIN Canada, last week, three
children while picking berries in the
bushes, were attacked and killed by q
bear. Only the feet and arms Of one
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