South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-01-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.

woman was buried in Bath, New York,
the other day, who weighed before her
death $50 pounds. .lIer coffin was six
feet long, three feet wide anil two and
one-balf feet deep. A Soath Carolina
clergyman named Towel, wiped him self
out by suicide the other day. ;. A Mo-
bile paper says that we'll informed cot
ton men say that the present cotton
crop, if it can be gathered. will be the
largest since the war -. c. Il. Melon
aid. OF Bath, has been elected 20 repre-.
sent the counties OF Bath, ana Highland
in the Legislature, in place of Judge
Seig. who died few weeks since OF
smallpox Hon. SamuclJ kirkwood,
of Iowa. recently elected United States
Senator, is q native OF Hartford county.
Maryland -. A Black Hills expo lition.
to start in March, il organizing on an
extensive scale Ut Selaiia There are
100000 Indians in the United States.
IA Memphis prisoner, who hated to
see two lawyers disgrace the courtroom
by fighting. walked out. and was unfor-
tunate enough 10 get lost. He has not
been heard of since There is q man
in Wheeling Jail who has six wives liv-
ing - There are said 10 he about $50
foun5ries in the United States engaged
IN the manufacture or stoves aal furra-
ces, using annually 100000 tons OF pfr
iron - block or coal, fifteen feet
thick IS being taken out OF tho Virginia
mine, near Piedmont, ard viii be sent
to the Centennial. =. The best applica.
ton in the world Cor frosted feet OF chill
blains, is to pour spirits orturpentina or
s.nal oil On hs SO a., L..
Almost immediate relief ia given -.
The gold AMI silver yield of the States
and territories west Of Missoari. includ
ing British Columbia, for 1875, was $50.
s59,03I A boy ut Rochelle, Illinois,
/ who IS only fourteen years and six
months old, tips the beam at only 425
poands, but has reasonable hope of at
tanning his full growth yet "A vein OF
coal eleven feet thick is said to have
been discovered in Scioto county. about
eight miles from Portsmouth. Ohio.
One OF the wcaltiiiest men of New York
began life in buying up old flour barrels.
From this he went into coal oil barrels.
The panic struck him with one million
oil barrels on hand. His personal loss
es within the last three months have
been $4,000 on shrinkage :. A Brook.
lyn, Indiana, man has been poisoned br
a smell Of kerosene The Bsllovile.
Nail Company, large and long estab.
lished manufacturing concern of 81.
Louis, located at Belleviile. Illinois, fail.
ed Friday; liabilities, S5,000.000; as.
sets, estimated at $3.50, 600 .Commo.
dore Vanderbilt owns single piece of
paper valued at $i1,000,000. II is GER
<.Tf Ill
own = mill that turned out that kind of
paper -. Four handrc1 ont OF five hun.
drei and five prisoners in the Jefferson.
vile Qnd.,) pcnitentiary are hired on
contract for SUN OF $3.50 per day
Some OF the men working in Iloosac
Tunnel during this season OF short days
never see daylight excepting on Sun
days. They 90 iato che Tunnel before
dayGreak in the N oraing, and do not
come out till altar dark. The week is
one long III 5ht t6 them :. There is
dog on the f-ontier Of Dakota Territory
which sing!y AMI alone carries the mail
over route of sixty miles. through all
weathers, rs straight as die, and none
dare molsst him In France the aver
age salary OF workmen without board or
lodsing) IS sixty eight cents; in Ger
many, Italy and Switzerland thirty.
eight cents; in England eighty.three
ccnts, living being thirty per cent. dear
ef than in France -. The Rev. Fields
Cook of Alexandra, colored, wanted TO
stop at the bingham House, Phladel-
phia, the other day, but the Clerk told
him thcy were full Cook says they
took in other visitors, after his applica-
ton, and he has brought suit for refus.
Ing TO give him lodging Mr.. VIM. II.
Williams or Prince George was married
in Petersburg about one week arc. On
the same evening, after his arrival home
with his bride, lac was taken ST * with
pneumonia, all or Friday del. The
deceased was about twenty-five years Of
NC Two le,lgcs Of rich ruby ore were
struck in the South American mine.
Lander iii. Neya1a. recently, each over
sixteen inches thick. and carrying orc
averaging from $1,000 20 5000 ton.
IA case in bankruptcy has just been
concluded in the Southern district Of
Georgia, concerning which the register
says hc has never heard of another such
case since tho enactment Of the bank.
rupt law. Al claims were paid In full.
AM halauce returned to the bankrupt.
...At Iittle Rock. Arkansas, on sion.
daY week. Leo Spencer, in scuHle with
Harriet McRea, seizel hcg by tho hair
and broke her nsck across the back o. n
chairi IN which she was sitting She died
Sunday night. Spencer wa9 arrested.
.-..A Hartford. Conn" paper mill re.
ceives RAGS from Chins. George ~.
I lict. it is said, has been paid $4,000 fof
q single novel Il here are about T.
I 500 newspapers published in tue United
/ States They have q newspaper in a..
/ roostook county, Maine, called the III
( r5r0. and it is printed in the Office OF a.
/ mother paper called the Sunrise .Ac
+ cJrlng TO recent return, tie National
( Library, in Pari8, now contains 100.
+ 600 printed volumes, 900 manuscripts.
/ 100000 engrsyings and maps. aud
/ 10. 600 medals and coins IA few
+ doy since Mrs Kent. Of Wyths county.