South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-07-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.

| Weighs 2l6 pounds. Do you call him
light materials- The corporation debt
of the city OF Alexandria is Sl,079 OLA.
H. The cost of maintaining the In
dams for the year ending June 80. 1874.
was $4,000, 46209 :. Senator Withers,
of Virginia. will take eleven daughters
with him to Washington next winter. -.
Fifty thousand barrels of potatoes were
shipped from Norfolk last week. A
boy. in Doddridge county. who had gone
TO cut poles in the woods near his faith
er's house, whilst in the brush fell upon
the butcher knife which he carried-the
blade passing nearly through his body.
lie died the next day IA bottle of
brandy, made from cherries on the tree
cut down by George Washington, will
be drank at the Philadelphia Centennial.
That's nipper?. - Sixty miles to the
north of Duluth, "the zenith city of the
unsalted seas" an iron mountain has
been discovered which rivals its name.
sake in Missouri. 1t is eight miles long,
one and half miles wide, and 200 feet
above the level of Lake Superior. :.
There are now in this country fifteen
universities in which colored students
are receiving instruction .. No cine has
as yet been obtained of the absconding
cashier, Nj. Nj. Mack, of the Ashland
Pa.,) Banking Company, whose disap-
pearance since July l6 created such ex-
citcment at the place, though detectives
have been after him constantly. Presi-
dent Trottcr now offers a reward of ST.
600 for his arrest. Perhaps that will
fetch him. -. a Kansas gentleman has
worry fhonnht cull,- mt tho trout rata -,
the parlor, so that his daughter and her
young man can swing on it without TAX
ing cold during the cold weather. -.
Augusta, Ca, with population oftwen-
ty thousand, has twenty-five prosperous
manufacturing establishments, the lar.
gest of which gives employment to seven.
hundred han Is. One-fifth ofthe entire
area Of Illinois is a cornfeld. 1t is
claimed that George Scott, of Roane,
born in 100 is the oldest man in the
State of West Va. being now l05 years
of age n crab eleven feet six inches
long has been captured on an island in
ledo Bay, and is on exhibition in Yo-
kohaIna, Japan. One of the entefpris-
ing storekeepers up in Writ county, this
State, advertises for Mayapple root
He wants 1000 pounds :. Mary Haw.
liins, colored woman of Cumberland,
Md, is 1875 years old. -. The Indian
Department bids are marked ~. 5. |.
D."-'U Steal, Diviue'--eh? -. Sew
eral horses were made deaf by lightning
in stable in Lancaster, Pa. n few days
ago. Over 5000 bags of coffee were
sold to Baltimore parties on yesterday
week From all accounts the Pronaut,
. | DnnnlISnn ond hiu Of In
Chicago press who made a balloon as.
cension from that city on Thursday of
last week, have been drowned in Lake
Michigan AN old maid who was over
nice in regard to cleanliness about her
house, once scrubbed her sitting
floor until she fell into the cellar On
! Friday night last, at Garrett City, Ohio.
two engineers on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, named Andrew Keelan and
John Graves, became involved in quar-
rel, in which Graves seized n Ratchet
and dealt Keean terrible blow on the
head, burying the weapon in his skull,
causing death in n few hours. Graves
was lodged in Jail. The potato bug is
among the recent distinguished arrivals
in Western Massachusetts The hay
crop of Connecticut will amount to 5S7,-
900 toris, worth 100000 or $4,000, 600
The Woman's Journal learns from
n reliable source that Mrs. Elizabeth r.
Iilton has taken steps to obtain q di-
vorce from Theodore Tilton." Mr.
James Lewis, died at his residence about
three miles from Lcesburg, Va, n few
days ago. from the effects of sun.stroke
-. Iiail-stones eleven and quarter
| Inphpz N ai faronna rai1 To ho,
recently fallen in Dayie county, North
Carolina "A bull snake measuring
12I feet in length and weighing 1874 lbs.
was killed near Boonville, Mo, the other
; day. "A new machine for pressing coal
dust into fuel has been put into opera.
T ton at Harrisburg, Pa, and ton of SOL
i'll coal made in six minutes. - A young
lady in ST. Clair county, Mo-, was re-
Gently struck by a horned snake the
horn piercing her flesh to the depth of
on inch. 1t was with difficulty that med.
ical science saved her life ...I In the
swimming match at Chester. Pa, last
week, between Coyle and Johnson, for
the championship Of the world, the latter
won. swimming ten and half miles in
three hours and ten minutes. &. The
Winchester Times says Mr. j. 8. Eber-
sole Of that city was poisoned last Sat
uTday night by eating the jamestown
weed which he thought was salad. Ills
life was only saved by the unremitting
eXertions Of the physician .. There has
been discovered in San Francisco an in
sect, new TO science, which is believed
> 10 be species of very valuable coch-
meal John II. Ship, q married man,
aged about twenty-five years, has been
arrested at Lebanon Pa, for attempting
70 outrage Lizzie Annie Dessinger. nine
years Of age, near Avon. in that county.
lie confessed his guilt. The investi-
q CATION into the affairs Of the Ashland
) (Pa.) Bank shows deficit Of $4,000.
1t is thought the total amount the bank
: will lose by Cashier Macks defalcation
will be about $4,000. II is understood