South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-07-16
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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given half a million dollars to the Gen.
tennial Fund The Baptist Churchin
this State report &c, 900 members. .-.A
counterfeiter of nickle coin, only seven
teen years of age, has been arrested in
Franklin, Illinois A diuner for q par
ty OF six Liverpool financiers. recently,
cost S2,25O... An Iowa woman gave
her husband morphine to cure him OF
chewing tobacco. 1t cured him, but
she is doing her own ploughing. The
city OF Memphis. Tenn, with q popula-
ton of 10000, has debt of about So
0OO. 200. - The farmers Of Clarke coun.
ty. Va. are through their harvest, and
an average crop of good wheat is repor-
ted. Santa Barbara, California. boasts
OF having the largest rose on record. 1t
is lemon-colored, has delicious per-
iume, and is sixteen and three-fourth
inches in circumference You can't
get pure chocolate in Paris unde. Sl.20
a pound -. An indianapolis rag picker,
recently deceased, left 100000 to her
surprised heirs. -. The peach crop of
Delaware is estimated at IL, 900, 900 BUSH
els this year, the largest yield ever re-
corded. Secretary Fish is worth 81,
100000. OF course, he's gold fish. 49,.
The Indiana school fund amounts to
SSO0.OOO,O00, which is the largest school
fund OF any State in the Union A
colored woman, said TO be one hundred
and fifteen years of age, is now living on
the farm of Daniel Jenifer, Esq, in Bal
timore county, Maryland :. From New
York to New Orleans sin sixty-four
hours is the latest railroad achievement.
| Ia man had his house set on fire by
tin milk pan. The pan was turned
bottom upward TO dry, on the western
side of the house, and reflected the rays
ofthe sun against the weather boarding.
setting it on fire. This is a new incen-
diary -. Mrs. y. b. Lutes, of Tifiin. the
first lady lawyer admitted to the bar of
Ohio, has retired. Cause, baby -.
MIR. Beecher's costs in the scandal suit
are estimated ut $4,000. The Cum
berland NelcS mentions that four horses
were killed in that city on the 3rd and
9th insts., by overwork and heat -.
The value of the cattle stolen from Tex
rs by the Mexican raiders since January
LIST, is estimated at over two million dol
lars. During the past year, Loudoun
county, Va, has lost AGO sheep from de-
prcdations OF dogs, valued in the aggrc-
gate at S2,5S3.3S. Another proof of
the extravaganza of Americans in Paris
is given in the statement of n French
journalist, that there is lady there who
is acquiring the French language in talk
ing lessons at the rate of SIS, $50 per an
mum -. Fifty-iive bushels of clothes
pins are turned out in day Mt an Olean,
New York, manufactory-600 to the
bushel making total OF $4,000 pins in
six hours. -. General Henry A. Ben
ming, of Columbus. Ga, prominent
Confederate general in Longstrcet's
corps during the late war, and q mem.
Der of Congress since the war, died on
Saturday last -. In removing some bo-
dies from the Burlington w.t. cemetery,
the other day, that of Mrs. Barrett, which
had been buried some twelve years, was
found to be petriied. weighing five hun
dred pounds The Danbury Ne1cs says
that the man whose hair turned white in
single night is put in the shade by
Danbury married man, whose hair dis
appeared in a single night. -. "A Virgin
in paper announces the marriage of Miss
Jane Lemon to Mr.. Ebenezer Sweet
whcreupon somebody perpetrates the
following:
GLOW happy the extremes do meet
In Jane and Ebeuezer
She's no longer sour but sweet,
And he's a Lemon squecZer !"
1.-Two persons, one man and the
other woman, killed themselves by
taking Paris Green, last week. The
man lived in New Jersey, and the wo-
man in New York 1t is stated that
only two cases from suastroke have &C.
red in Richmond for five years -.
Smyrna. Delaware, is enjoying n matri-
monial sensation, blooming widow of
over three-score and ten having just been
led from the altar for the seventh time
Her names have been successfully Miss
Williams, Mrs. Traux, Mrs. Farrow. Mrs
Riggs. Mrs. Wallace, Mrs. Berry, Mrs.
Pratt, and now Mrs. Abbott. Her last
preceding husband had at the time Of
his marriage one hundred and fifty-six
children, grandchildren,
and great-grandchildrcn The potato
bug has reached the desert, hundred
miles north of Ottawa, Canada. They
arrived in showers. striking against win
dow panes like hail, and are devouring
all the potato vines in the vicinity.
According to the Mark Lane Express
the crop prospects in England are ra-
Their threatening, owing to the weather,
which prevents haying and harvesting.
The prices OF wheat have advanced one
TO two shillings >. Senator ii. G.. Davis
is said TO he the richest man in this State.
An old lady in New York particu-
larly desired that certain cushion on
which she sat in church should be bu-
ricd with her, and as it was difficult in
getting IL into her coffin, it was luckily
proposed TO cut it when several thousand
dollars in green backs came to Light
The old lady was clearly resolved that
if she did bring nothing into the world,
she would ut all events, rs Tar rs posi-
bic, take something out Of it. Near
Providence. Boone County, Missouri.
last Wppl, duriucs a thunder storm