South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-04-23

OF cotton in three years Last month
COW was sold at Dixon. Illinois. FOR
$500, and n calf for 81 400. "A new
Indiana law gives railroad conductors
police powers 1t is estimated that
the cost of the coming Centennial is be-
tween S7,000,00O and $4,000. 900.
There are 100000 colored Baptists in
the South. "a bee tree discovered in
Schuyler county in New York State. n
short time since, yielded 1876 pounds OF
solid comb aud honey -. They say that
old John Robinson swore terribly when
he discovered he was defeated for the
Mayorality Of Cincinnati - 1t is said
that fewer Americans are in Paris this
winter than for many years past. +. The
dishonest clerks" who were concerned
in the fraudulent lettings of mail con.
tracts, it is announced. have drawn their
pay and left Washington. The trot.
ting stallion Quartet was sold at auction
in New York last week to close part
nership. He went for $500 to Louis
l.. Lorillard. /. : Parson Brownlow is
swelling up again since he resumed the
editorial chair. He calls Johnson "rep-
tile-old, toothless and fangless," which
must make Andy mad .Ex-Confcde-
rate Gen. j. b. Hood has beaten his sword
into plowshare and upturns the soil
OF Minnesota with it . {. /. Albert L. HofT.
man, of Winchester. Va, was drowned
in the Shenandoah river, near Stras-
burg, last week.. A pretty little girl
in Trigg county, Ky, has one black eye
and the other blue. :. Recently num-
Der of persons were poisoned at Green.
castle, Penn, by eating apple butter
preserved in crockery glazed with infe.
rior and cheap material. The Atlanta
(Ga.) Herald says the business of the
Pullman sleeping cars has been nearly
broken up in that section by the pas.
sage of the civil rights bill. ;. a few
days ago, Mrs. L. l.. Irwin. highly re-
spectacle young widow lady of Hanni.
bal, Mo-. tied clothes line around her
self and little girl, six years old, fasten-
ed the other end to stake in the ground,
and then taking the child in her arms
deliberately walked into Bear creek,
and both were drowned. Financial en-
barrassment and disappointment in love
are understood to be the cause of the
act. IA sturgeon weighing forty eight
pounds was canght in the Ohio, near
Wheeling, the other day. . The vote in
! Connecticut ct the recent election was
larger than at the Presidential election
in 1872, by 5000 votes. :. Governor
Chamberlain, OF South Carolina, having
left Charleston to take part in the Com
cord and Lexington centennial, the col
ored Lieutenant Governor, Greaves, has
improved the opportunity to pardon
Bunch, the mulatto policeman who when
drunk murdered an Irish policeman
Three hundred thousand immigrants
have moved into Texas since last Octo-
Der. Mrs. Polk, widow of the late
Bishop Polk, died in New Orleans, La,
on Saturday last. :. David Gletner, a
young man in the employ of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company. and
living ut Back Creek, near Martinsburg,
this State, was accustomed to jumping
of of freight trains near his home. On
/ Monday of last week he lcaped off of n
train on to the opposite track on which
An engine was approaching. He WAS
run over and instantly. killed. Ar
thur Dumewood, aged ten years, was In
stantly killed in Prince William county,
Va, last week by the explosion OF an
old shell which he was rolling about the
yard. -. Six hundred people were kill
ed and some three thousand wounded,
during the late cyclone in Georgia and
South Carolina. -. Forty-two colored
people from Hickman county, Tenn,
arrived in st. Louis, destitute, last week,
the victims of some heartless white men
who persuaded them that government
was Offering 160 acres, wagon AMI pair
of horses, with six months rations, ia
every settler going to Kansas. Last
year st. Louis built five thousand hous.
es, ct the enormous outlay OF thirty
million dollars. 1t is said that nine
miles OF houses were in process of con.
struction ut one time. a farmer in
Nelson county. Va, who had q number
Of SHEEP killed by dogs, took one of the
sheep and put strychnine in large guam.
titles upon it, and the next morning
there were thirty-one dead dogs in the
field. The school tax of Pennsylva
MIA is nine millions of dollars per an
mum The Illinois Legislature has
passed an act allowing women to serve
asnotaries public -. The disease known
as pleuro.pneumonia, which broke out in
Pennsylvania n year ago, and which has
carried Off many hundred head of cattle
in that State. is making havoc in New
Jersey, despite the efforts Of the farm
er5. OF the 221,042 teachers in this
country 1898 are women Milton
II. Hatcher, wcll-known citizen oil
Rockbridge county, Va, was instantly
killed on Thursday of last week by his
horse stumbling and falling upon him
Maine claims to have been the first
State TO allow women TO solemnize mar
riages -. Prof Donaldson, with foul
Journalists made q balloon ascension
from the Hippodrome in Philadelphia,
on Saturday last. The party landed
near Ninccntown. FIVE miles from Mount
Holly and fifteen miles from Philadel
phia. Elephants live for two hundred
three hundred. and even four hundred
years Tom Owens, ofIowa, is man