South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-12-17
NEWS OF The DAY.

A-"'Ht -. i.NetfN Il. Daih"tl us
been reelected rhysici.n and Supetin-
tcndenl Or he Lunatic Asylum at Staun.
ton. There arc 90 prisoners in the
Virginia peniten,isry. against !96 last
Year The Chicago Times has dis.
patch from Nichsbarg. Miss. giving an
account OF 9ght hetwcca seventv-lye
white men and two hundred negroes AZ
place called rolling Fork, in which six
negroes were killed . The mother OF
Rev. Jaiues a. Duncan. president Of
Randolph Macon College, died ia Spar.
tansburg. n. c., on Saturday morning
last IA bill has been introduced into
the Virginia Senate TO repes, the law
transferring to the United States Gov
ginia in the James River and kanawha
Canal. Mr.. John Harmon OF Berke-
ley county. within few days lost two
daughters-aged and years diph.
liberia The California $500 race
set FOR Christmas. is uncertain: the
horses arc rot in training :. There is n
six foot Texan at Washington. working
for position as page in the House OF
Representatives. Philadelphia builds
six thousand new houses every wear.
Stanley has found King in Ar.ica who
has three hundred wivcs. And still he
goes on looking for tic source of Tn.
Nile Strawberries grown in the open
air have appeared in the Georgia mar.
kats -. The crops in Nebraska this year
have been enormous, and the State has
been fully restored TO tho prosperity it
enjoyed before the gcaSshopper scourge.
80. The Scarlet fever is prevailing in
the neighborhood OF Moore's store in
Shenandoah county. Va. Richmond.
Indiana, has negro, half OF whose head
- white. The number Of deaths in
New York the week ending Saturday
last, were $50 The Boonsboro' Wash.
ington county, Md. ODD Fellow SAYS that
2olored woman aged 81 wears was barn.
Cd to death near Sharpsburg last week.
aud that she had had sixteen husbands.
-. One hundred and forty livel ware
lost last week by the explosion in coal
mine in England Friday night oflast
week, \. Rising Sun, Indiana, Young
lawyer named Jelly shot. and it is
Thought mortaily wounded DIR. J. c.
watson, 81 old and respectable citizen
jelly Ind been waiting on DIR. Watson's
daughter, bat wa3 recently notified BY
the doctor u discontinue his attentions.
49, The Hon. " ililam VI. Eyarts. who
IL to he the orator ofthe centennial, is
grandson OF Roger Sherman, the shoe.
maker statesman ofConnecticut The
Hon. a. u. Stephens has been gaining
quite rapidly recently. and unless al I'M
favorable change occurs in his health he
hopes to take his SCAT in Congress carly
in January. Governor Kempor Of Vir.
Giuia. has turned out the old Board Of
Directors for the Western Lunatic Asy-
luna with the exception of j. y. Riley, OF
Winchester. :. A little girl named SUM
msrhizer, in Iowa City swallowed tin
whistle one doy last week. Her parents
nre drcadfuiiy annoyed, because with
every breath she takes The poor child
wakes the baby, and whenever she has
. coughing spoil she Whistles al the dogs
in the neighborhcod into the house -
short time since some myterious boxes
were taken to :he Brooklyn On. " navy
yard. They remained their under close
surveillance until Wednesday last, when
two strange men arrived and took charge
of them. The boxes awakened the curl.
osity OF workmcn in the yard which was
increased when the strangers opened
them and disclosed to their gaze new
crisp greenbaCks TO the amount of 4i0,-
100000. Tie workmen were more rs
tOnished, however, when the men took
the grecnbaclis to e foundry and burned
them in furnace. They were the pro
duction Of q celebrated courtorfriter
tne H.. 4. 49,.
eminent. 4 diamond, said 20 DC the
largest in tho United Statss. is in the
possession Of Colonel j. IL. Wood, Of
Philadelphia. fhe diamond was found
at the Cape Of Good Hope. Southern
Africa, and weighed in the rough l07
carnts. 1t was cut in New York at
cost of 81, 500. and reduced TO forty car
ats. II is whS' is called by connoisscurs
little ''oT coiof." being OF delicate
straw tint, but very brilliant, especially
by gnSlight. 1t is about three quarters
OF an inch in diameter. or the size OF
common hickory mt. and has sixty face
sides. each Of which reflect thc light
IL sc present ccmposes the set OF hea-
W gold ring. II l. were q white dia-
mond lis value would be immense, bat
being "oT color il has been valued by
4 iiFany, Of New York, at only $4,000
Colonel Wood, who has peachant for
damon Is. owns two others, which he
wears. valued at 10000 or so apiece
....It costs about dirty millions ofeLol-
lars n year to pay the various classes Of
pensions. Two children in Martins
burg. burned ~ n kerosene accident
last week have since diet Of their inju
ries.-..Nn old German proyerb tolls Us
that var leave The country with three
armies-an army ofcripp,es. an army Of
mourpcrs. aud an army Of thieves If
person tc.J between meats, the pro
cess OF digestion Of Tie food already IN
the stomach IS arrested. until the last
which has been eaten is Lrcazht into the
condition OF tho former meal, i1s' g. II
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