South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-04-16
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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vercly injured that he died that night.
..-.At the grand Hebrew ball in New
York the other night. one lady sparkled
in $4,000 worth of diamonds The
female sex can now practice law in 1lli-
nois, Wisconsin. Missouri and Maine.
1.-The annual returns from Florida
orange grove amounts To from SIS TO
| So per tree - "A. T. Stewart, of New
York, is said TO contemplate building a
hotel at Washington after the plan of
the Grand Union ut Saratoga The
largest mixed college in the country is
Oberlin, Ohio. OF its 1880 students
633 are women. james Whitacre, one
of the oldest iron masters in Philadel-
phia, died in that city on the 9Th inst,
in the oath year of his age. Brigham
Young has sufficiently recovered to sit
up and be married occasionally. =. 1t is
proposed in England to introduce street
cars moved by means of clock work -.
The chicken cholera is prevailing about
Edinburg in Shenandoah Co. Queen
Isabella. eN-Queen of Spain. has sent
the Pope magnificent silver dinner
service valued at $4,000 There are
200 persons in New York, who are in
the habit ordrinking blood flowing warm
ly from beeves that are slaughtered dali
w. The tomb-stones, furnished by the
Government for the National Cemetery,
at Sharpsburg, will be put up during the
summer. -. There was shipped over the
Baltimore Sc Ohio Railroad during the
week ending March 27th, 1875, 30So9
tons of coal. The Parkersburg Iaqui-
rer has seen Bible in that city prin-
ted in 1895. It was the property of Mr..
George Sefi'ries, decd, and was pur-
chased for a gentleman in Parkersburg,
at an administrator sale, for the sum
of fifty dollars -. \ man in France was
recently condemned for a libel which he
wrote with a sharp stick on n green
pumpkin growing in the fields. The
Sandersville Ga, Herald says there is
a well in that place which seems to have
no bottom. and to be supplied by an I'M
eXhaustible stream of water. Repeated
attempts have been made TO draw all the
water out, but after hours Of hard labor
by n number of hands, using ten-gallon
kegs rs buckets. the amount OF water in
the well appeared TO be quite rs great as
when the drawing commenced At
the Atlantic Works, Pittsburgh Penn
sylvania, they are making the largest
shears ever constructed in this country.
They will weigh forty tons, ana viii shear
cold iron five inches thick. The Pc.
publicans on Wednesday of last week
elected their city tickets in Leavenworth
| and Topeka, Kansas. -, Two banks have
just been started in San Francisco. one
with capital. of $l0,000,000 aud the
~ hnr NIL al Of
Some time last August lightning struck
a green hickory on William Harrison's
farm, near Thompson Station, Tennes-
see, and the tree has been burning con-
stantly ever since; it took fire at the
top, and not more than half the tree has
| burned yet. The colored people have
a tradition that fire from lightning never
goes out, and can be put out only by the
pouring on OF large quantities of sweet
milk in the dark OF tae moon :. Phia-
delphia is q great city for twins. Two
! hundred and nineteen OF them came in
, to the world last year. - Five hundred
and seventy five pounds were made one
| flesh, recently, in Washington, Iowa.
He weighed 500, and she 27j. a So
oon-keepcr, reading that geranium5 will
keep off snakes, is decorating his bar
with them. The Emperor OF Brazil
proposes to abdicate in favor of his
daughter, and make tour of Europe
and the United States, adopting the lat
ter rs his future home. The money
paid out for leaf tobacco by the banks
of Danville, Va, on account of sales at
the warehouses during the first three
months Of this year amounted TO $780,
000..- The slIillful diver, swimmer and
inventor OF the lfe-saving dress, Paul
Boynton, has been voted gold medal
/ by the Humane Association of Boulogne.
I France. =. On June 18th the blessed
will go up to glory. or the Millerites are
COMPOUNDED liars twenty-five per cent.
more of corn will be planted in Georgia
/ this year than last, owing to the high
/ price of corn and bacon supplied hereto
/ fore from the West President Grant
will be fifty three years of age on the
/ 9th instant =. Mr. James Lick, of san
/ Francisco, has subscribed $4,000 to the
| Philadelphia centennial, and has given
/ intimation that he will double the a.
mount. The grasshoppers in the Wes-
/ tern States are around the railway sta
tions these warm spring mornings to
sec who comes to purchase seed wheat
Virginia pig metal is preferred by
eastern manufacturers TO the Scotch
metal and is coming into general use
"a fight took place in the Culpepcr
/ County Court room On the 18th inst.
between General Fields and Bushrod
Triplctt. The latter was fined $50 -.
The statistics Of the United Brethren
| Church are rs follows: 1886 ministers.
1899 churches. and 13I.sj9 members.
al new disease has developed itself
among horses near Albany. The hor-
SCI brcast and forelcgs are covered with
humps. which must be painful. as the
animal exhibits signs Of sickness and
/ severe suffering The inquest at Brook
lyn. y. Y. in the case Of Professor f..
w. Walker. who died from the effects Of
an p-.roesiyo dose Of ccuiut, or ovfrorf