South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-12-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.

mated that Virginia visitors to the Cen
tennial paid nearly $500, 600 >. The
Fairbanks employ 1000 men. and man
ufacture $4,000 scales annually ). :. The
Centennial paid tso millions above ex.
penses ....A Nes York aorist has made
100000 by selling button hole bou-
qucts Another wife Of Brigham
Young, emboldened by Ann E!iza's sue.
CESS. has sues: for divorce Eighty
thousand birds comprised the poultry
display at tho Centennial. >. d.. Nc
Chcsncy's son. Ad iisop, lost NJ, eye by
being struck with shiny BALI in
Charleston, last week. Gen. Barry,
from Fortress Monroe. is in command
Of the troopsa at Washing ton .Alvaro
T. Gibbens has beon appointed Post
master ut Kanawha Court House.
(Charleston) in place of George w. At.
kinson :. The highest court in Kansas
is that OF Judge Lynch. as it mover en-
tertains appeals. John T. Gibson. of
the Huntington Commerciai. has been
awarded SS.875 damages against the
Cincinnati Enqaie, upon libel suit
-. Mr. and Mrs. Kapp were divorced
ia Hartford, Connecticut, on the 10th
ult. AT noon on the 2Srd Mr.. Knapp re-
married, and on the Same evening Mrs.
Knapp married Mr.. Kapp's brother. :.
Messrs. G.. II. Reese & Bros, Wholesale
grocers, of baltimore, failed last week.
Their liabilities are represented at $780,.
600; assets Sl20. O00.. "A case Of four
children at birth, and one of Ave, are
reported in the Medical News by the at
tending physicians. The mother in the
former was white woman in Texas,
and the children, all girls, are living
The other woman was South Carolina
negro, and none OF the babies survive.
Western papers are recommending
to liouseholders. as remedy against
tramps, to chain polecat TO the front
gate :. Lyon G. Tyler, son Of the late
President John Tyler. has been appoint
eel professor Of Modern languages at
William and Mary College. Mr.. Tyler
is master of arts Of the University or
Virginia. =. y Chicago woman has been
the wife OF four brothers in succession.
We suggest that she now top off with
the old man her father.in.law Tx.
Gov. 0. ID. Richardson, Of Nebraska,
died in Omaha, Welacs day night, aged
ST.. In portions Of Berkeley county,
rabbits were never before so plenty
They are sold as low as three cents a.
piece ~. A negro nafned Crutcher. at.
tempted rape on the wife Of +. Cogar,
white. in Mercer county, Ky, on the
seth, failed i'm the attempt and fed. He
was captured by mob the same night.
and taken to point near Nicholasyille
& hung to . tree -. Small poX is raging
among the Indians in the Winnipeg
country. The father ofCharlic Ross has
spent 100000 in hunting for his son =.
There is All old atlage that if the ice
bear g man before Christmas it will not
bear mouse afterwards. :. The Brook
Ign IN. " Theatre was destroyed by
fire on the night of the 9TH inst. 1t took
tire during the performance CT the Two
Orphans" and the panic which occur.
red caused many persons 10 be injured.
And some. 2S5 persons were burned TO
death The Atlanta and Richmond
Air Line railroad was sold ut Atlanta.
Ga, on Monday last. at public sale, and
was purchased by the bondholdcrs OF
the road for $4,000 !. The Oak.
land Herald says that Mr.. c. NJ. Miller.
agent for Gen. j. II. Anderson, has
discovered on the lands Of tho latter,
two miles above Bloomington, two veins
OF coal, one OF which is more than six
feet in thickness. Weekly prayer.
meetings are being held in New York
and Philadelphia for tho benefit of
Congress. =. Severe storms and loss Of
life and shipping on Lake Erie occurred
last week =. Murder in Va. In Aupns.
tn Co., Va, on Monday night. tile 9th
ut, John T.. Rippetoe, agod forty years,
was stabbed and killed by n youth
eighteen years Of age. name.1 Samuel
Wren. The parties met near church on
the night in question. when Rippetoe
charged Wren with having taken some
iron doos from hia eoVv.rniIt Vice. Il
nice the charge. aad offered to bring
young man from the church who would
prove his innocence, but instead OF this
he went into the church and borrowed
pocket.knifc and was joined by n com.
panion. Upon meeting with Rippetoe
a quarrel cnsued, the boy giving the
latter the lie. Rippetoe collared Wren
and slapped him, whereupon Wren drew