South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-01-07
NEWS OF THE DAY.

/ permits nine jurors IN panel OF
twelve 10 return = verdict -. Twelve
feet of snow is on the ground IN parts of
/ Utah. Governor Hartranft has re-
celyed present OF a mass of melted
and unmelted BULLETS. found near Union
town, in Pennsylvania, and supposed TO
be portion of the ammunition destroy
ed by General Braddock when retreat
ing after his defeat 1t is asserted
that the Sle,00o,0O0 bridge over the
| Mississippi river ut st. Louis will not
! pay interest on cost during this genera
( ton -. The owner the London Times
made half a million dollars last year.
=. The number of deaths in Baltimore
during the year 1875 was 7,251; births
S,23l-showing an increase of births o.
yer deaths of $50. 1t is not believed
that all the births were reported a
/ nail factory at Cortland, New York, has
received an order for 100000 tons of
horseshoe nails. There will be fifty
three Sundays in this year. +. A drug
gist at Rcclsrort, Indiana, in one day
sold $l25 worth of quinine A Penn.
! sylvanian has n stove which has with.
stoSd the profanity of one hundred and
FIVE years \ terrific tornado passed
twelve miles cast of Hickman kentucky.
Sunday evening the 26th ult., sweeping
down whole forests in its pathway
Twelve dwellings and barns were blown
down and the inmates barely escaped
with their lives. At MayfelC two per-
sons were crushed to death under their
houses. at another point man named
! Checks, and lady named Miss Searcy
were killed, and her sister badly Grip
pied The recent shipment Of fresh
beef to Europe per steamship Illinois
from Philadelphia, was entirely success
fui. Another shipment of 100 beevcs
Was made on Friday last. Congress
has 292 Representatives and "A Sena-
tors. ...Of the new Members OF Con-
gress, sixty.niue were college bred.
Stokes, who killed Fisk, is said to be
confined to his bel in prison with asth-
ma and chills and fever, and that his
hair is white and his constitution ruined.
His term will expire next September.
but IN effort is being made to have him
pardoned -. Richmond, Indiana, has q
negro, half Of whose head is white -.
The government of Japan has appropri-
ated 100000 for the purpose of securing
a proper representation at the Centeu-
NAL - Eighty persons were killed and
fifty wounded by the falling OF school
house floor at IIillillon, Switzerland, n
few days ago The disease called tic
Texas cattle fever has broken ont O.
mong the cattle in Baltimore county,
The disease has the appearance and
! symptoms Of cpizootic. a number OF
farmers have lost cattle by it Hon.
Alexander ii. Stephens, Of Georgia, is
reported to be in worse health than u.s.
ual, and great fears are entertained that
he may not he able to ever again take
his seat in Congress. -. A double sui
eide occurred on Tuesday night Of last
week, at Los Angeles, Cal. T. @. Eos
ter and Celia Tooly, married the previ-
Gus evening, were found dead in each
others arms on the public street, from
| strychnine. Another man had claimed
the woman as his wife. causing the act.
| The woman has 8 sister in New York.
IA good deal of the JOY in present
/ is in opening the bundle won't
you be glad, Joe, TO be in Philadelphia
on the Fourth Of July. next year," Il
don't know about that, Tom, but I'm
! glad ! lcdsnt there on the Fourth Of Jul
ly hundred years ago" ... Trying 20
do business without advertising is like
winking ut pretty girl in the dark
you may know what you are doing. but
nobody else does. - The Episcopal
/ Church at Williamsburg, Va, has very
heavy communion service, which was n
present from George III. 1t will be ex-
hibitod at The centennial. : a London
correspondent gives currency TO the sad
rumor that Hon. Reverdy Johnson, who
is now sojourning in the English metro
polls, is hopelcssly blind. It is certain
IS TO be hoped that the report is untrue.
though there scenes TO he no reason to
doubt it. -. Rev. Henry Boehm. the old
est preacher Of the Methodist church i'm
this country and probably The oldest
/ clergyman in the world, died Tuesday
at Staten Island, aged 101 years -.
Richmond, Va, with population ofGO,-
/ GOO has 24.63l church members Elk
Governor John 4. Dix i'm lecture on
the night of tho 3rd inst. before the
| New York Association for the Advance
ment of Science, on Some Of the Polit-
! zeal and Social Evils Of our Times" IA
/ yored n six year one term for President
! OF the United States, and deprecated the
! system removing competent and faith
/ tul officers on party grounds. lie sale
/ the condition Of our currency was dis
grace 20 the nation. lie opposed all C.
lcctiye State Judiciary, which he said
ought 70 he appointed by the Governor.
lone night last weol. the dogs broke
/ into q tiocl, Of sheep belonging 10 Judge
/ Christian, Of Matthews county, Va, and
killed ono hundred and fifty ....A ne
! gro attempted 10 outrage n young lady
/ living in Rockingham county. w, few
7 days ago. but his courage failed him. and
be released his victim aud ran. lie was
+ caught by some young men who made
the effort TO hang him, but some more
iudicious gentlemen cut him down be-
fore he was hurt. and n magistrate gave
him The alternative Of jury trial or inn
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