South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-04-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Colorado potato bug has made its
appearance IN Texas and is doing grea.
damage 10 vegetation in some sections.
-. Thorasyiile. Georgia, is cui.iyatins
bananas. The Hot Springs OF Ar
kansas are ifty -four in number. - There
are AIS, 900 more widows than vidcwers
in England and Wales. :. The Owens
vile, Kentucky, oak trees produce leath-
er with q texture "a soft as a kid glove.
This new product is found in the heart
OF the tree. The coal production of
England for 1874 is estimated at a value
OF $500, 900, 600. -. The foolish virgins
OF modern times are those who try to
hurry up the Arc with kerosene. st.
Louis lost S4Sj,635 worth of property
by fire during the year ending March
3lst, being the smallest annual loss for
ten or twelve years :. India ruber side
walks are coming into vogue - Ohio
courts granted 1850 divorces last year.
- Eighty-nine millions pounds of
cheese were exported from the port of
New ork last year -. In Philadelphia
last winter lady fell and broke her leg
on an icy side walk. She sued the own
or for damages, and few days ago re-
covered $4,000 -. a man seventy-seven
years old has made his appearance in
Philadelphia wearing n hat which he put
on his head thirty-one years ago, vowing
he would wear it until Henry Clay was
elected President The Eighth Ma
tional Temperance Convention is 10 be
held at Chicago, on the first ofJune next.
- There is a man living in Fayette Co,
Pa, named Bumgardncr, who is the faith
er Of six sons, all ministers of the gos-
pei :. Steel pens made of tin are Mas
sachusetts swindlc. The public schools
in Maine cost the State $1.19I,7l2 in
1874. Ripe blaclberries aboundcd in
the market at Pilatki. Fla, on the End
inst - Charles A. Dana, editor of the
New York Sua, arrested on an attach
ment from Washington. for contempt in
refusing to obey subpoena IS witness
before the Grand Jury of Washington,
has been discharged by the u. s Court.
80. The school Superintendent of Yer
million county. Illinois, says that three
fourths of the school directors in that
county are unable TO write, and sign
their names with an " 80 large num-
Der of ladies' who have lost their second
husbands are said to be in favor of q
armed Mexicans are reported all along
the Rio Grande frontier, and there has
been some sbirmishing with armed citi-
zens of Texas in the vicinity of recent
depredations above Brownsville
Three steamers were burned, in the lar
Dor at New Orleans on yesterday week.
and it is feared many lives were lost Nv
drowning and otherwise -. There are
ten fourishing oranges of the Patrons of
Husbandry in Botetourt co., va.
Mason Bare, Esq, of Timbervile. Rock
.ngham county, died on tho l4th inst.
During his life, he filled several respon-
sible positions with general satisfaction.
1.-The residence of James Ulery, ut
Rising Sun. Indiana, was robbed Of So
600 in greenbacks few DAYS ago -.
Mrs. Hill, who resides about four miles
east OF Harrisonburg, is l04 years old.
The old lady, it is said, is quite feeble,
being confined TO her bed all the time.
- Gen. Cotton, now in the service of
Egypt, writes from New Dongola that
for good, well cooked, we'll seasoned
dinner, it is hard to beat the Arabs
They gave him more than twenty cour-
ses, the main piece being sheep roasted
whole This fox story is from the Rob
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.Saniro 1nL, ,E riS'on - li9 l%cI Vh''y
So "d"r'0 , I'm -@cD'"ei, lLo captured
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% NV $3.50 =; o'''.'1l,.e' WIN tI'e3e IoN-
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car voa 80 Ct,''ei.''.'I commissioner
dross 80 t, -, ',.t, ,.suc'. an az
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va as '.''''''' t' tiiil az t.ut-it productions.