South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-09-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.


growing on the premises Of Mr.. ID. Coop
er, Charleston, South Carolina. The
seed was obtained from the Agricultural
Bureau at Washington, and was planted
in 1861. 1.-The Detroit Free Press says
that Dumas. the French author, has writ.
ten story in which an American coon
chased a couple of American lovers up
tree. and then tried to gnaw the tree
down. He says this coon was as big as
yearlng calf =. Rev. +. 5. Lacey,
formerly OF Berkeley county, but for sew
eral years past resident of Californis.
died at his residence In that State on
the 23rd OF August. Columbus, Ga,
steps to the front with negro 125 years
Old. In kanawha county the poor
cost $l2,5O0. Recently, cattle train
fell through the bridge near jefferson.
Iowa. twelve cars being smashed and
nearly oil the cattle killed !. In the 225
churches in Brooklyn, New York, $780,
$50 is paid annually for music Gen.
Longstreet has bought one hundred a..
ores Of land in the neighborhood OF
Gainesville, Florida. and will make that
city his future home "A prominent
Ohio Catholic has become an Episcopa.
liam rather than take his children from
the public schools, as he had been order.
ed to do by the priest ;. Samuel Cary
is booked for thirty-nine speeches the
present month in Ohio. Carrollton,
Ga, boasts the largest negro woman in
that State. Her weight is 400 pounds.
Trouble in the coal mines or Penn.
sylvania is breaking ont afresh. Three
men shot to death Is the latest Hon.
William G. Brown, of Kingwcod, was re.
Gently attacked with hemorrhage Of
the lungs; he Is now convalescing -.
Kumor has reached this country that
Stanley the explorer has married an AZ.
rican Kings daughter, and il learning
to wear ring in his nose and shoe
string around his waist. "A live coal
and pound Of powder divided a Vir.
gilman into thirty fragments. He blew
the coal and the powder blew him. "A
woman named Carrie Sims was outraged
Mt Bridgeport, by twelve men on Satur.
day night as she was returning from the
Circus Mt Wheeling. Some of the par.
ties have been arrested. In the to wn
OF Lodi, Medina county, Ohio, there is n
woman which weighs $50 pounds, she
has boy l6 years of age weighing APO
pounds, and another 12 years Of age his
weight is 200 pounds. This town has n
couple that are 81 feet tall and also a
man by the name of Lomer Griffin, who
is l16 years Of age The sweet DO.
tatoe crop on the Eastern Shore of Vir.
ginia is said to be failure on account
OF the continued wet weather. Great
numbers of grasshoppers are reported in
Central Illinois =. The Mercantile Bank
OF Norfolk, Va, suspended on SATURDAY.
last. 1t is claimed that the assets will
cover all liabilities. > The army worms
are so thick in some places in Maine
That they scarcely can be kept out of
the houses, and cover the fields SO COM
pietely that person can't walk without
crushing them by the quart A difIi.
Guilty occurred at q republican meeting
at Clinton, Mississippi, on Saturday last.
ihree white men are reported killed,
three negroes killed, and several whites
and negroes wounded. The negroes are
reported to be arming and threatening
another fight. 80 The fruit crop of West
Tennessee, North Mississippi and Ar.
kansas is abundant, and the farmers of
that section find no sale for their I'D.
piles, pears and peaches. e.. .Shafrenburp,
formerly United States Marshal Of Col.
orado, has vanished. His stealings q.
mount to 100000. Ten thousand
Iexas cattle have been driven into Ne
braska this season. Milton Whitney,
an able and well-known lawyer long n
resident OF Baltimore city, died at Ash.
burnham Mass, the place of his nativi.
w. on Saturday last aged fifty one years
....A Boston murderer. in consequence
of his poor health, wants his execution
delayed. The heat on the Southern
Pacific railroad grade, near the Colora.
do desert, is 80 intense that the Their.
mometer often marks 100 degrees in the
shade, when shade can be found. A
considerable number OF the Iaborers on
the road have died of the heat. There
IS probably no other spot in the United
States that can equal this. "Riding OH
the rail- in this latitude, the Baltimore
o"a says, will not prove very pleasant.
.---A Massachusetts, man is currying
favor with the fair sex by tract i'm
which he seeks to show that there are
two heavens, one for men and one for
women. The latter aro to pass into
their heaven without discrimination. but
1 WV hhNh niC W Dt Slliel aUInlS-
sion. james Harry, ofPylesville, liar.
ford county, Md, has Chester white
SOW that had remarkable litter Of pigs
on the 18th Of August, twcnty.oue in
number, eighteen OF which are still liv.
ing and doing we'll. They are u cross
with Berkshire -. A North Carolina
editor will dress his paper in mourning
for $40 If any one dies. and his liberal
terms have ehdeared him to the hearts
OF whole county. IA little girl in
Van Buren, county, Iowa, died last week
after nm illness OF nearly six months.
During the last two months she ate moth.
ing. and took no medicine, yet neither
the functions Of respiration, circulation,
nor calorifcation were changed in the
least until a few hours before her death.
ia child stolen in New York the 9th.
err day turned ont to be the son Of wild.