South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-11-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.

ing 40 newspapers, and Washington
Territory IL. $50 sewing machines
arc sold in England for SIS. =. Paris
has devoured, during the last half year,
700, 900 kilogrammes OF horsehesh and
AZ, 900 kilogrammes Of mules or donkey
meat. :. The shop girls OF Boston num-
Der nearly one-tentb OF the entire popu-
lation OF the city Charles Van Lew,
aged IL, citizen Of Linden, New York,
weighs only eieren pounds. and is but
sixteen inches high. He declines all
offers to go in the show business. =.
Arizona's population is $4,000, two
thirds Mcxicans. The Washington
monument will stand four hundred and
eighty-five feet in air. FIVE feet higher
than the boastcd pyramid of Cheops. in
Egypt. Miss May Hayes. niece Of
the Governor, was recently appointed to
a clerkship in the Cincinnati postofIicc
-. .Hagerstown has glove factory
that employs 80 men and turns ont so
dozen pairs Of gloves q week. The
Empress of Brazil lately gave Queen
Victoria dress woven from spiders
webs, the fabric being far finer than the
finest silk. Woodford Chief. the ny,
racer. was recently sold for $40, 1000.
John Corney and Charles jefferson, of
Gilpintown, Allegany county, Nd. have
been arrested for attempting highway
robbery Of Leonard lIinklc on the Balti.
more pike, near Cumberland The
Montreal Gazette asserts that we never
sleep without dreaming. That's snoozc
to us. "A party of negroes broke into
residence six miles from Aiken, South
Carolina, at midnight on the night OF
the End inst, and murdered Mr.. IIaus.
man and his nephew, named Postnau,
both Germans. After robbing the pre-.
misses the murderers fired the dwelling
over their dead bodies OF the thirty.
one persons condemned to death in
France in 1875, but one had received
good school education only four could
write. and the remaining twenty six were
illitcrate. G.. Walton James will as.
sumo the editorship of the revived E,,-
qui'er ut Richmond, Va The soryum
crop OF Writ is reported to be the largest
ever raised in that county -. In his
native country, married Chinaman can
buy another's wife, without affecting his
social standing Fifty nine three year
old Greenbrier cattle weighed 93 90
pounds =. The steamer Britannia, from
Queenstown to New York, arrived on
Saturday last making the voyage in Z
days ID hours and IL minutes, being the
quickest time on record - Italy has
declared seventeen Universities now
open for women. :. BENJAMIN +. Elem.
ing, Esq, died at Fairmont, this State,
last week. -. St.'Louis has new ASYLUM
for the reformation Of drunkards. 1t is
said that the first patient in similar
institution in Chicago is now 4 Supreme
Court Judge in Wisconsin d. : Professor
Lee, of The Charlestown Academy, and
cousin of Robert T.. Lee, was accidon-
tally shot i'll one of his feet by com
panion while hunting on Saturday last
1t is stated that Mr.. Geo. ID. IIor.
ncr, of Appomattox county, Virginia,
/ has effected the sale of one of his gold
mines embedded in that county To a
Northern firm for 100000. He owns
! three other mines in the same county,
each of them supposed to be of equal
/ value TO the one disposed of :. Thos.
| Newton, q Taylor county, West Va,
| farmer, has thousand pound yearling
steer -. Last week 100 boats, carrying
| 1860 tons of COAL cleared from Cum
/ borland IA white partridge was last
week killed near Snow Hill, Maryland.
The American Manufacturer states
that plate glass mandatory is about
TO be started in Iluntingdoa county, Pa.
The works wifi be very large. and for
: cigncrs will furnish the capital The
Boston Alce1iser says: The number
of ships, barks and briggs that have ar
| rived from foreign ports since January
1st is nearly two hundred less than dur.
ing the corresponding time last year,
and our imports have fallen off more
/ than thirty per cent -. 1t is claimed
that n Georgia negress, fifteen years
old, is the mother OF five children, hay
ing first had triplets, and eleven months
| aitcrward twins. The indianapolis
NeUs says: Alfrods VS.. Alfreds was n
/ divorce case in which, on Saturday last,
a decree was granted the plaintiff
wife. The party were married in 1865,
and the marriage was celebrated with a
champagne supper, during which it was
suggested the whole party attend ball