South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-06-04

Street sweeping il . profitable bush
1 meas in Washington city, A Chicago
| firm has the contract 1t 5000 . year.
49, Baron Rothschild has purchased the
great French race horse Bolard for $780,
600 - There are 4O.736 lawyers in this
country The citizens of Savannah,
Georgia, are luxuriating on waterinelons
raised in that vicinity .. A bass was
caught day or two ago. in the Shenan-
doah river, which weighed six pounds.
1.-THE New York Herd,ds income last
year was Sl,700. 600. The latest nov
city in Elmira, NY, funerals is female
pall-bearers. - Mr. Almanzar Allen, of
Spencer County. KY. sheared seven
teen pounds of wool from one yearling
lamb this season. Who can beat this?
1.-The st. Mary's Beacon is investing
in Colorado potato bugs ut the princely
sum Of five cents per quart. 1t started
in the business at half a cent bug, but
found the price unremunerative :. Ten.
thousand dollars have been contributed
towards the erection of statue to Liv-
ingstone in Glasgow. - Two sweet girl
graduates from q Michigan University,
have commenced doctoring the citizens
OF Poughkeepsie, New York. >. One a.
mong the most valuable farms in Wash
! iDgton county, Tennessee, once sold for
shotgun and a pair of leather breeches.
Some time ago that same farm sold for
about 81 400. -Four children, one an
infant, of ID. M. Christian, at Versailles,
Ohio, were burnt to death last Wednes-
day by the explosion of can Of kero-
sene with which one of them was endea-
roring to kindle a fire. The Metho-
dist Church, South, now numbers men,
! bership Of nearly 100000. 1t supports
bishops, 5000 clergymen, Al colleges,
fine class of foreign missions, and nu-
mcrous periodicals I. : A million pounds
of the new spring clip of California wool
have been sold ut San Francisco, Mt from
eighteen to twenty-five cents, an aver
age Of from one TO two cents per pound
better than it brought last year John
| Cochran, Of Boone county, has procured
patent on chinch-bug exterminator
1t is said to work wonders Accord
ing to the Brooklyn argus, it is tradi-
ton in Massachusetts that the Adams
family never paid penny for ice. -.
Another case of child-murder, equal in
horror to those Of the children murdered
by Pomeroy, and more horrible in its
details than that of Mrs. Bingham, which
shocked and startled the community a
few weeks since. was perpetrated in Bos-
ton on Sunday afternoon the 23rd ult.
Mabel Young, a bright little girl of five
years, granddaughter Of Mr.. James
Hobbs, a well-known and highly respect
ed merchant of the firm Of Hobbs, Pope
and Co., disappeared Immediately after
the Sunday school anniversary services
Of the Warren avenue Baptist church,
which she had attended with an aunt A
| bout p. NJ. faint cries were heard from
the church tower, and the child was
| found there dying, her skull crushed in
| and her body bruised and mutilated. -
The sexton of the church was arrested
on suspicion of having committed the
deed An attempt was made on the
mig Int of the 28th ult. to rob the Nation.
al Mohawk Bank at Gfeat Darlington,
| Massachusetts,. Several masked burg
lars entered the house of F. n. Deland,
cashier, and having gagged and hand
cuffe him, compelled him to go with
them to the bank, where they tried to
get him to open the vault. Being un-
successful, they took revenge by robbing
| Deland's house of all valuables, and
then decamped :. They don't have ma
ny carriages in Mcdowell county, this
State. The Assessors for 1874 report
all the wheeled vehicles, wagons, carts
and all, amounting to ten. Tucker Co,
boasts of 81; Webster 21; Logan Al.
ION Thursday night of last week
there was fearful disaster at Holyoke,
| massachusetts,, in the burning of the
French Catholic church at that place,
when sixty-six persons, men, women
and children, persisted in the flames
The fire caught from the altar lights and
was quickly communicated to the cell
ings, and thence spread with such terri
BILE rapidity that, though those in the
body OF the church generally escaped,
the people in the gallery either became
damned in the stairways and were suffo-
Gated, or, jumping to the floor below,
were trampled to death :. Mrs. John
Palmer, wife of Steubenville printer,
has given birth to five children inside Of
sixteen months-which is pretty hard
run on Johns small cap case The
! directors Of the United Bank Of Scot
land have declared q dividend Mt the
rate of Is per cent. per anDum. T. w.
Park of Bennington, Vermont, is said
to be one of the wealthiest men in the
country. His property isvalued at $17,-
100000. "A singular thing is to be
seen in the yard of the editor OF the AL
exandria Sentinel. at this time. it being
one of four dwarf pear trees now just in
bloom, while the other three are heavy
with pears the size OF a pigeons egg.
and larger John Kenner, aged so,
residing ut Cleveland, Ohio, murdered
his mother-in-law, Mrs. Bridget Genan,
aged 80, on Sunday morning last, cutting
her head open with an adj. The muir
derer gave himself up. lie pleads in
sanity, and says there had been no trou-
bic between the deceased and himself.
49, The population OF the city of Lon.
/ don is 3,5l5,804. Of which G76S2 nre
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