South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-03-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.

killed. Few days ago. q large wild cat.
.--- Newell Rogers, one OF Harrisonburx's
Oldest and best citizens died in that
place on the night or the 9th of paraly.
SIS. -. Thcnse ofrough plato glass for
noors IS increasing. -. The residence of
Kew. Ihos. II, Gatewood, a baptist min
lister who resides neer Pei.ar mills. Am.
herst Co, Va, was accidentally burned
on Sunday morning last. A little son OF
Mr.. Gatcwood's persisted III the flames.
IA steamer which arrived ut Halifax
the other day short OF coal had burned
one hundred bags of nuts for fuel
| Chief Justice Ryan OF Wisconsin de.
cides That women cannot become law.
yers In that State, and he says he is
glad OF 1t. because .'the bar is not the
place for the exercise of woman's pc.
cnilar qualities or for the preservation
OF her purity -. The horse meat estab.
iishments in Paris delivered for con.
sumption during the past year 6,8G5
horses. asses or mules, which yielded
1,249,l90 kilogrammcs :. The Moore.
held Examiner says mammoth white
rabbit was recently shot in Grant coun.
ty. by Peter Barger. of Petersburg. 1t
weighed seventeen pounds Estimat.
ing ice to be worth half cent pound,
or ten dollars q ton, the ice crop OF 2,
100000 tons just harvested on the lIud.
son is more valuable by two millions of
dollars than either tho wheat or corn
crop of'the entire State OF New York.
- More passengers are transported
between New York and Chicago than
on any other route in the United States.
<,f
aged 81 years, ia cutting full set Of
teeth. The people are beginning to
find out what Democratic Congress is
good for Six and half millions of
dollars OF national bank notes have been
Withdrawn from circulation during the
last two months - The wife Of Lord
Atyesford has run away with the eldest
son OF the Duke Of Marlborough. and
all England is mortified. ID. +. Keenv,
= Farmer. living six miles west of Soda.
Tia. Mo-. was arrested Saturday night of
last week. He had receive by express
IN February package OF $4,000 from
his brother. John II. Keeny, from near
Huntington, West Va. and it is suppos.
ed TO he portion of the money stolen
from the huntington Bank last Septem.
Der a correspondent writing from
The Black Fork of Cheat. 10 the Harbour
JcVe'sgn.fm. says: ~. w. Flanagan
OF this place. was murdered on the 9th
inst, by j. C. Flanagan. OF Dry Fork.
The murdered man was acting as special
constable, and as such, levied an exc.
cution upon some cattle the property of
the murderer, and was in the act of driv.
ing them Off the place. when he was
struck across the head with a gun and
killed :. At meeting of the York
county PA democratic committee. on
saturday. resolutions indorsing Judge
Black for the Presidency were unani.
mously adopted. -. One county in Hi.
nois sold its peppermint crop last wear
for 100000 Mrs. Belknap is said to
have ) %. 600 in bank :. Sundry trains
on the Union Pacific Railroad are snow.
ed up at Stations. Passengertrains due
ut Bitter Creek on Sunday passed there
on Monday fourteen hours late. having
pushed through the storm and snow
The storm is described as fearful, being
accompanied by great gale. The
snow Is from a foot to four feet deep.
! -. Putnam county ships slaves to
france measuring fifty-six inches in
length There will be three hundred
ana fifty exhibitors at tha centennial
from tho province Of Quebec The
Changers now number ,450. 900 mem.
bcrs Southern fruits and vegetables
arc already beginning to crowd the New
York markets. Green peas from FIori.
ia are selling at ) 80 to Sd per crate.
and cucumbers at from So to Sc per
dozen; Strawberries at 81 to So per
quart. Bermuda potatoes are also be.
ginning TO make their appearance
The Southern negroes are nystified over
the recent visits of cyclones and hurri.
canes and an aged Savannah darkey re-.
marks: If desc yere winds can't he
tuned down little, what's de use Of buv
ing mules and formulating n family"
.-..A man in Vermont killed his father
and mother, cut his wife's throat. and
shielded because the partner of his lows
had altered pair Of overalls and
made them too short Tie small.
pox has appeared in Rockingham coun.
ty. IN the neighborhood Of Melrose. AS
the proper precautions were not taken
when the disease first appeared it il
feared that there may be a number of
cases in the ncighborhood :. The wild.
/ ow OF the late l.. ID. Crenshaw in Rich.
mond, received n check on Thursday
from the New York Mutual Company
Tor S3O,4O4 23-that being the amount
OF GAG policy Of the late M.. Crenshaw.
Valentine has finished his bust of
| Colonel John b. Baldwin. II is n fine
work Of art. and was modelled entirely
from photographs, A man in North.
ampton county, Pa, has contracted TO
SLIP 10000 school states 10 Japan
7 An insane hermit in Sharon, Massachu.
sets has INDUCED mania for stealing
pens until lie has about bushel We
were informed last week that Mr.. John
. Cunningham Of Frederick county. Va.
son Of Jas. J.. Cunningham, Esq. Of
! Ibis county, has daughter attending
! one Of the schools in Woodstock. and
I Alr. G.. intended making her visit ON
! the saturday previous to the friglitrul
accident which occurred on tho Valley
Branch, Il. & o. railroad, last Monday
night week. but was warned by n