South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-05-07
NEWS OF THE DAY.

A
leading products Of that State for the
coming season rs follows: Wool, 5o,-
100000 pounds; wine, $1,000, 900 gal.
Ions; wheat, $4,000. 600 bushels The
internal revenue receipts for the month
of April were $7.022,33l.05 A compar.
ison OF the receipts for the first four
months ofthis year with the correspond
ing period of 1874 shows an increase of
receipts this year amounting to $3.50
9Ol.S8.. The condition OF Hon. J. C..
breckenridge, Of KY, is very precarious,
with little hope of his restoration to.
health. =. The Florida plantation owned
by Beechers wife is advertised to be
sold for taxes. Cuban currency is
worth six cents on the dollar =. Polly
Jones. colored, another one Of George
ashington's family servants, died re-
Gently on Maryland farm. aged III
years. The papers say that young
shad are being caught in the lower ka-
I nawha, with the hook and line In
Clinton. Indiana, the women still keep
up the crusade, and pray out Of town
every adventurer hardy enough to at
tempt to open a saloon. Ex-State
Treasurer Parker OF South Carolina is
arrested for stealing. only. S2s. 600 state
funds. Toads become torpid in win
ter, and hide themselves, taking no food
for five or six months. :. An English
statistician computes the number Of cats
In the British Isles at 100000. These
| destroy each about twenty rats per an
mum. total loss on rat side, S0,O00,0 900.
IA narrow-gauge railroad is TO be
constructed from Grafton up the Valley
| river to Phillipi, distant seventeen miles.
-. One manufacturing firm OF Spring
field, Ohio, shipped few days since, in
one train drawn by two engines. forty
four carloads of reapers and mowers,
valued at $4,000, destined for the
West, the largest shipment of machine
ry ever made -.A Russian six feet
and FIVE inches high, has just died at the
| age Oils, and another born in the same
year is still hale and hearty q over
| nor Johnson ofKentucky has in his pos
session the watch worn by Patrick Hen.
ry, and presented to him by Charles
| Carroll. of Carrolton, July %, 1873. -.
Over 100000 worth of dogs. principal
IL pointers and settlers. were brought to
this country from England during the
past two years. The .flrOr about Law
cracks, red Irish settlers. Gordons snd
kindred breeds is now as great as was
ever that in Japan about spotted rabbits.
No dog that costs less than $ 900 is now
considered worth owning. These valua-
bic animals have their pedigrces prescrv-
ed with ~ much care rs the nobility of Eli
gland AIR. j. w. Gilkeson, of Angus
to Co, Va. had 13 out of l6 lambs killed
by dogs on the 25th nit =. The Gov. of
Virginia has appointed III. w. Thomas, of
Fairfax; Robert Ould, OF Richmond
@. S. Meem, of Shenandoah Fitzhugh
Lee, of Stafford, and h. L. Rixey, of
Fauquier, visitors to Mount Vernon -.
Mr.. Horace Spruancc, near Smyrna,
Del. has this spring pulled up young
peach orchard Of 80 acres, trees between
one and two years old, lover 5000 and
the goth ultino . flock Of forty-threc
sheep, owned by Mr., James II. Ball Of
Hartford county, Md. were attacked by
dogs and thirty OF the number kill
ed and wounded, and others rendered
unfit for stock purposes. A tramp,
weighing 206 pounds, who lodged 81 the
Warehan (Miss.) poor-house the other
night, says that he weighed but % ponds
when he started out last winter, anil re-
commends his business to all inval!ds.
- Mr.. John Huffman, of Washington
township, Pa, died on the 24th ult.,
whilst sitting at the breakfast table. lie
was about eighty years of age and serv-
oil as q soldier in the war of iSI2..
The latest reports indicate that tho to-
bacco crop OF Kentucky has not been
seriously injured by tho recent frosts.
An Atohison, Kansas girl ate four
pounds Of wedding cake in order that
she might dream OF her future husband.
And nov she says that money wouldn't
hire her to marry the man she say in
that dream Grants wages per day,
including Sunday, is inst Sl37.07 49,.
The champion string Of kittens is repor-
ted from the famous stock-gFowing re-
gion Of Kentucky. 1t consists of six,
united by ligament like the Siamese
twins. Bourbon county has the honor.
... Less than twenty years ago Kansas
City had population of 250 souls. 1t
has now 10000, and boasts Of fourteen
railways e. And now comes the cheer
ing news that the chimneys of some of
the fay0rite hotels in the White Noun
tain region are beginning to appear a
bove the snow The postal money
order rates art to be increased, tina in
crease to take effect on the lst Of July.
Capt. a. Z. ST. John committed su.
icide in New York, few days ago. He
vas worth S2,000,O0O. The deed was
caused it is supposed ~ temporary dc.
rangement. brought on by old age and
recent severe illness q. a cargo OF salt
was brought to Ser York last week That
waN impregnated with arsenic. The poi.
son was slowed above the salt aud the
dampncss from the rough weather OK.
perienced by the ship caused the salt to
absorb the poison 90 a certain extent
Although the salt was all sold outside
OF the city, its condition was discovered
in time to prevent the terrible oJnse.
auences TINT wnnll hnyo followed itanse