South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-10-15
NEWS or Tbs DAY.

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sour .Ihefe are S23 American collie.
ges and the end is not vet. ;. AT sthe
London dog show this year one Of The
anHnalswas valued-at ,$sV. eco, ssOut
\ OF 10000 adult malesifn Mississippi,
10000 are deiinQueAht ON the poll tax
list .CaiifonAia has -2SV. 900 children
under fifteen years,of age. II all the
moueyiin the 'Uhtted States were Mirly
divided, every man, woman and child
would have $l9.l2 apiece !. /. or the en-
tire population orLohdon, tits estima.
ted that over one-foafth, or one million
OF people, never attend church :. The
new postal cards are being issued at the
rate OF over million per day, the aggre-
gate number forthe first eight DAYS Of
issue being I'll .iS5. OO0. Six thousand
hogs have died OF hog disease at and a.
bout Columbus. Ohio, during the past
month. Mrs. Andrew'Foster or Louisa
county. Iowa, is buxom lady or about
three hundred avoirdhpois, and rejoices
In full set Of whisSers, black and CLOS
sy. three inches long and with a nous
tache, which many of our fne.haired
young men would be proud Of. :. A new
planet OF the twelfth magnitude has been
discoved from the Berlin University
DIR. D. w. Reynolds has had wee baby
born to him in Sherman, Texas, with a
full set OF teeth in its head" What is
remarkable is that the Doctor'is deu.
fist. (which possibly accounts Tor II, !"
says tho Houston Telegraph. How?. ).
| An exchange says '''inch arc the salt Of
the earth and women the sugar That
accounts for 80 many men taking SUI
gar in their'n" John Gorham, presi.
dent OF the Gorharh Silyerware Manu-.
| featuring Company, of Providence, r. T.,
| has failed. with S50e, 600 liabilities.
Italy is having four monster cannons
made, but they will be or no use except
as cur. osities. 1t costs $1,000 each to
fire them, and one salute would bank.
rupt the country -. Catarrhal sore
eyes" prevail in several counties of Ga.
- TENNESSEE new SCHOOL, law provides
that for like service for male and female
teachers, like salaries Shall be paiti -.
- American edge tools are working
their way into English favor Mr..
John T. Humphreys of Lynchhurg, Va,
has been appointed State entomologst
for the State of Georgia, Mt salary Of
$4,000 per annum. =. Thirty pieces of
black silk, valued at $4,000, were taken
by burglars from the store Of j. Edward
BIrt, & Co, Baltimore, on Tuesday night
OF Inst week The Sultan OF Turkey.
short time ago, expended $3.50, 600 in
fireworks. the occasion being his birth.
day -. Miss Charity Fuller, Of Hudson.
IS one OF ten sisters, bat the greatest OF
these is Charity-six feet two in her
stockings In Bell county, Texas,
there is farm Of $500 acres, which is
enclosed by one fence and Cultivated BY
thirtytwo owners, every one Of whom is
unmarried. Water is dearer than bread
in San Francisco, and four times a. dear
as it is in any other city i'm the country.
-Four thousand houses have been
built in st. Louis during the pact year.
-. The Chicago bsr. at tho beginning
Of the present vacation Of courts, could
boast ofoyer 900 lawyers Twenty-six
thousand persons live on charity alone
in Philadelphia. G old, in paying guam.
titles, Is said to have been found in Ma
con county, Missouri. There is great
excitement. Virginia is jubilant over
the fact that the crops of corn and to.
bacco are the most bountiful that have
been produced in the State for mum.
Der ofyears Forty years ago. $4,000
900 cigars were manufactured yearly,
now the consumption demands $4,000.
600. The fund for an equestrian sta
tue to General Robert T.. Lee, in Rich.
mond, now amounts to $4,000 :. Abel
of the Baltimore Sun is the wealthiest
newspaper man in this country. He
made most Of his money in coal lands
and real estate -. Cashmere is now en-
oroidered by machinery :. New beds
of guano, said to contain 25O. 900, 900
tons, have been discovered in Peru 80.
The Rev. DR.. Baci1ns, Pastor ofthc First
Presbyterian church ia Baltimore, an
nounced to his congregation on Sunday
last his intended resignation as Pa1tor.
- 1t is said that the corn crop, esti-
mated at so cents per bushel, will yield
$4,000, 000,0 900 :. a. In Bordcntown, New
Jersey, on Monday evening last, Mrs.
Earling, in coming down stairs at the
house of DIR. Gardiner, was tripod by
the carpet and fell; breaking her neck.
She was widow and leaves one child.
49,. The stamp duty OH patent medi.
cincs manufactured in Great Britain last
year amounted to S571;6l0 -. The to-
tai value of Personal Property in Win
chester, is according to late assess.
ment, $i65,015; value of buildings and
lots, 1924, 1852, exclusive of church aud
city property :. At Strasbdrg. OH Tues.
day night OF last week, bars of the win
dow of the depot were broken through.
and $500 stolen. of which Sl36 was the
Adams Express Company's money, and
tho balance belonged to the baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company =. The ep.
izootic has made its appearance among
the mules on the Chesapeake and Ohio
canal and number Of the animals are
disabled thereby IA gentleman from
Sheffield, England, arrived Mt Cumber-
land on Monday last. having in charge
q large black bear, two raccoons and
four foxes, all Of which had been cap.
tured in Garrett county, Md, and were
ON their wnv 10 Enrlnnd whore thnr