South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-02-26
N e VS. OF THE DAY.


cral Stevens is clerk in the patent of.
fce-- The drain OF gold from this coun-
try TO Europe has averaged about SIS.
100000 per week since January -.
a terrible disaster occurred at Stock
holm, Sweden. a few days ago. a match
F.. factory, filed with inhammatory mate
rails, took fire, and fifty-one persons
employed on the upper floors were burn
70 death. The Atlanta (Ga) Ne,cs
says that the people OF Augusta are eat
ing Strawberries grown in the open air.
--.General James Longstreet has a.
bandoned Louisiana and the fortunes of
the kellogg party, and has bought a
farm in White county, Ga, wte,e he
proposes to engage largely in sheep rails
ing. M. Is. L. Sheets, conservative.
was on Thursday elected TO the House of
Delegates from Loundon county. Va,
to fill the vacancy caused by the death
OF Mathew Harrison The man who
( prophesied n mild winter has had his
ears frozen three inches from the tips
downward. 80 Mr.. George lmboden,
the father OF General John ID. limbo
den, died in Nelson county, Virginia,
on the End inst, aged s3 years. Mr..
David r. Eddy. formerly prominent
lawyer of Lynchburg, Va, died in that
city on Thursday of last week -.
The Centennial buildings in Philadelphia
will cover twenty acres. and to lessen
the fatigue of thorough visit, an eleva-
ted railway is projected. "A colored
woman lately died in Harrison county.
this State. She was supposed to be ITO
years old. Water pipes in Portland,
Maine. laid depth of six feet are fro
zen There are now 729 convicts in
the Kentucky Peuitentiary. Although
the whites in Kentucky outnumber the
negroes as six or seven to one, there are
80 more negroes in the. Peuitentiary than
whites. -. The cost of the various expe-
ditions for observing the transit of Ven.
us is estimated at S1,5O0,O0O. West
Brookiield, Mass, has six women whose
avoirdupois is 1910 pounds. >. The
Martinsburg Independent has been in
formed that sixty-five houses were built
in that place during the year 1874. :. A
Baltimore girl, worth $4,000, wants TO
marry some young man who has learn
ed trade. The price of admission to
/ the Centennial Exposition has been tx.
ed at fifty cents for single admission.
IA dilietanti Boston lady being help.
ed to chicken said she preferred the
waist The Maine State Senate has
refused to pass the bill substituting i'm.
prisonment for life for the death penal
ty.. The fare from Baltimore to Wheel
ing is now only Sc. IA ledge of alum
has been discovered near Helena in Mon.
tana. There are seventy-one tillers OF
tho coil In tho Nfirenur; \
4 California jury few days ago acquit-
ted man for shooting the seducer of his
wife. The plea Of insanity was ignored,
and the verdict rendered was that the
shooting was justifablc -. The total
! number of locomotive steam engines i'm
the world is said to be 1867, of which
! l1,263, or nearly one. third, are in the
! United States. The railroad passen-
( ger difficulty of last year between the
! Pennsylvania and Baltimore and Ohio
! Railroad, broke out afresh last week,
and is becoming bitter and determin-
ed struggle =. r. Keenc, of Califor-
MIA, has purchased the interest of Nc
Cord & Malone in the trotting stallion
sam Purdy," for $4,000. AS the in
tercst of the latter gentlemen was half
worth $4,000. The Massachusetts
. Dental Society condemns chloroform as
an anesthctic, and will expel any mem
Der so using it -. Double eagles to the
amount Of 100000 were turned out in
single day recently at the San Fran
/ cisco mint. This is said to be the larg-
est days work ever performed by any
/ mint in the United States. The chief
Justice Of the United States and q fore.
man in Cincinnati Brewery draw $lO,-
900 each annually. Such is greatness.
80. Mexico farm, belonging to the es-
| tate of the late Mr. Charles Cavanaugh,
containing about 100 acres, near Cum.
/ berland, Allegany county, was sold on
! Saturday last to Mr.. Martin Conley for
! S5,00l. -. The Luthern Church at Clear
! Spring, Washington county, Md, was
destroyed by fire on the evening Of
/ the 18th instant. The loss is between
/ $4,000 and $4,000 no insurance
/ Joseph III. Carter and William X.
J Nixon were arrested near Sedalla, Mo-.
/ Saturday. and $4,000 counterfeit and
nearly $4,000 In good money was found
/ in their possession. =. Y Dung folks here's
new parlor game Two players are
closely blinded with n bandage made of
/ their pocket handkcrchiefs. Each one is
| provided with n saucer full of cake or
crackers crumbs, which is held in the
I right hand. a sheet is spread upon the
floor, upon which the players sit, and ut
q given signal they begin to feed each o.
Their. Their efforts to find each other