South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-05-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.

During the month OF April there ar.
rived ut New York 1910 Immigrant,
of whom S,035 we're males and Ass
\ were females -. John Sheridan. father
Of Lieutenant General Philip Sheridan,
died at Somerset. Ohio. on T'hnrsday OF
last week :. :. The arrival OF immigrants
at New York last week numbered 5. 46s.
4 1t is predicted that in twenty years
the export of prunes from Oregon. will
be greater in value than the exports in
wheat = Judge L. Nj. Pittss he'd sud-
denly at Norfolk, Va. on Friday last,
while pleading case in the courthouse.
Three Canada females aged Is, II
and Is have been arrested for trying to
kiss young man :. The Ccntreyille
! Queens Anne's county, Record says
that Mr.. Woodland p Finley, residing
near Church Hill, has SOW which
brought forth twenty-five pigs at one
| litter. A breast of coal fell in the
old Midlothian mine, Allegany county,
on Tuesday of last week killing Patrick
| Cassidy and seriously wounding Michael
afcTauge "A determined Kentucky
! lassie chloroformcd tho old man and
then eioped with her choice - Mr..
| Beecher received one hundred and FIVE
members into, Plymouth Church. Brook
lyn, on Sunday of last week -. The
| Kentucky Democratic convention has
nominated Hon. James McCrecry for
Governor. :. Joseph Emory Davis, a
| nephew of Hon. jefferson Davis, died at
! the University of Virginia, where he was
a student, on the 26;h nit. OF typhoid
!. fever In France, widows wear mourn
! ing for only eighteen months Two
sons of Aaron Day, Of Lynn. Mass, ate
freely of wild carrots, which they found
in tho woods. One died and the other
cannot recover. Rich silver and cop
! per mines are reported TO have been
| found within three miles Of Providence,
! Rhode Island The new postmaster
at Vicksburg Miss, filed some Of the
! positions in his Office with colored men,
and his white assistants and clerks
thereupon promptly resigned, :. A son
of John Hummer, living near Snickers-
! vile, Loudoun county, Va, WAS killed
few days since by the discharge of 3
loaded musket, which he was endeavor-
! ing to take down from the cross beams
| of the nleat-house, where it had been
! placed -. A reporter OF the Cleveland
/ RerQld stood on the Courthouse steps
the other day aud counted eighty.four
men who want to be Governor OF Ohio
and it being . cloudy day it is supposed
| that he missed about two hundred .
| A Lancaster, Ohio, man has invented a
machine that turns out fifteen horse
! shoes a minute a colored coroner's
jury in Columbia, South Carolina, ver-
dictcd: 1--WE find dat dis yere man d.
ed from having forty-scyen ribs broken
and his head smashed. They won.
7 dered ut the p or contributions in Mis-
sonri church, and it was found that the
! collector had shoc.maker's wax in the
crown of his lat. II was his last collec-
/ ton - The horseshoe has always been
| the symbol of good luck until that New
York blacksmith threw a red hot one at
man and killed him 81. Tho late North
Carolina Legislature passed funding
! bill and ordered It's publication for three
month. in~ths London Times, which has
| just rendered its bill, charging $4,000
for the publication Jay Cookies SPLEEN
did country seat, ''Ogontz," near Phila-
| delphia, ia to be sold at public auction
on the Z5th instant. 1t cost him n mil
! lion dollars :. Sixteen business houses
and dwellings ia Springfield, Missouri.
were burned or the 9Th inst. Gen. 3.
| c. Hollands block was among the pro-
! perty destroyed, involving loss 1885,
! 600. Other losses unascertajncd -. An
| Eastern circas clown demands . salary
Of six hundred dollars per week, which
is six times the pay of the greatest as
! tronomer in the land ...W Women prema-
! turely white IS 10 hair should dress in
( black. 4 New Yorl, woman tried it and
/ married q rich Californian =. King Kal-
/ Gksua has sent TO this country for 4 mil
! itary band, to be attached to his court"
go. Good gracious-just think of it,
Four hundred and scventy.1ve doctors
/ in convention at Louisville - Gold
! 1855 in New York on Tuesday last -.
Capt. Sutter, in whose mill-race the first
/ gold was found in California, is now liv-
! ing in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania.
-. Brick made in China are sold in
/ San Francisco for less than they can be
made for this side the Pacific, notwith.
standing the adyalorsm duty Of twenty
: per cent. on them At one point on
| the Chopiank river Va, last week. $780,
| 600 herring we're taken in one day -.
! \ late marriage in London was betwe
/ Mr.. Pickle and Miss Onion. One more
Osion picked e. Carrie s. Burnham. n
Philadelphia girl, applied to the board
| Of legal examiners for admission 10 the
bar, but they refused, aDd che now
| brings suit against them for 5000 900
80. Stanton last week refused to pay
/ her subscription TO the Valley Railroad,
and indefinitely postponed the matter
80. Ben Hill is elected TO Congress
from tie Ninth Georgia District, inplace
/ Of Mcmillan, deceased. The yellow
fever is making n stir at Key " .
/ An examination into the murder Of JAS
/ Ration. Of Princess Anne county, Va,
/ 10 is alleged. duplicates the three sons
/ Of the murdered man.. Signor Wan
| dana, the sword swallower. cut himself