South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-06-16
NEWS OF TH3lDAY.


Scarlet fever and measles prevail In
the city Of wheeling 70 great extent.
-. Kentucky was eighty four years old
as State on the hrst. The West vir.
ginia University has reoeived two twelve
pound target guns from the War Depart.
mcnt. Railroad fares ore tumbling at
rate that is gratifying to those who
desire to travel. Peas are selling in
the Wheeling market ut ffteen cents per
peck -. The lawyers of the United
States cost six times as much as The min
listers; and the dogs twelve times as
much as the ministers. Blaine, it is
asserted. is half Catholic and half Pres.
byterian. The Spanish government
authorities in Cuba are paying dollar
a pound in gold for cattle delivered :. :.
General Banks announces that he will
act with the Democratic party hercaf.
ter. Tie grasshepper Is n burden a.
gain in Minnesota. Ricardo Mcnocal,
collector OF taxes OF Havana, Cuba, has
absconded with $500, 600 in gold.
Wheeling has made 81 500 appropria-
ton for 4th Of July celebration. =. IL.
liuois has 200 cheese factories. to which
1000, 5000 mich cows make daily con
tributions. Somebody who wishes TO
break up the medical profession. propo.
ses to append to every death notice the
maine OF the doctor. "A Philadelphia
tavern keeper has been arrested for sell.
ing liquor to one Hellon. 1t would
seem that MELONS OF Philadelphia are
not all water Melons. -. On Friday
night last about $50 armed men went to
the Santa Rosa (Cal.) Jail, overpowercd
the keeper and took Thos. w. Hcnly.
the murderer Of Jas. Rowland, promi.
nent citizen, and hung him to tree.
Sue Cass, OF Montreal, sued her lover
for breach Of promise and Cassed him
to the tune of 81 200. Mr.. John j.
Hollis, Of Berkeley county. shearcd two
sheep neither of them a year old, and
clipped from one Of them Ia pounds
and from the other 12l pounds ofwash.
ed wool. =. .kisber, the winner of the
Derby last month. and the grand prize
OF Paris last Sunday, thus winning for
his owner two stakes amounting to $4S,-
$50, was bred in Hungary, Of English
stock. -. General Sheridan has gone to
the Red Cloud Indian agency to make
personal observation of the movement
connected with the present campaign a.
gainst the Indians. Out or 1873 deaths
in Baltimore last week, 100 were OF chill.
dren under one year of age, and 81 Of
these died Of cholera infantum; 20 Of
them on one day, Saturday, when the
heat was excessive. A youth named
Davidson ID. Pearce, son Of Joshua
Pearcc. near Elkton, Maryland, recent
~ went TO Philadelphia without knowl-
edge of his family, and had an operation
performed on crippled leg. and died
under the operation, an overdose OF
ether having been administered to him.
Tho "army worm has appeared in
Garrett county, Maryland. -. Ulysses
5. Grant, Jr., is going to marry Boston
lady. Mr.. Cyrus Mccormick. Of Chi
cage, OF reaping machine fame. is pro-
posed as candidate for Vice Presidcn-
cy by the Western Democrats. . The
Of losing their Bethany College. West
Virginia. There is n mortgage of SIS
900 on il, which nobody seems ready 10
meet. The wheat harvest commenced
on Saturday last i'll the vicinity Of Rich
mond The abandonment OF the Wes-
tern States, and placing the whole hopes
OF the Democratic Party on carrying
New York, Connecticut and New Jersey.
is worse than game Of ''chuck-luck."
IA man in Doddridgc county, this
State. has Is sons and rs many daugh--
tiers. - Jefferson Davis was a passen-
ger on the steamer Memphis, which
arrived at Liverpool on Tuesday last
from New Orleans -. Barbour county
is blessed with nine Democratic candi-
dates for the Sheriffality and twenty,
for the Commissionership. The Buck
harmon Delta tells of red oak tree on
n hill near Sand Run over forty feet in
circumference In the town OF Bethel,
Sullivan county, New York, strange
disease Of very malignant type has
/ made its appearance among tho children.
Several have died recently after few
hours illness. The physicians arc COM
pletely baffled in their efforts to deter
mine the nature OF the disease On
Saturday last Mr.. Trueman Smith, n
young and brilliant lawyer of Wcstmio-
| ster, Maryland, was drowned while
bathing IL is stated that Gov. Tilden
is TO marry Miss Barlow, Of New York.
I've learn from the Rockville, Md,
AdCocdfe, from q reliable source the fol-
lowing strange story: a few days ago a
favorite cat of n lady living in Berry
district, died suddenly. and was placed
in box and buried i'm the potato patch.
a day or two after the interment the
lady ordered the remains Of the cat to
be exhumed and removed further from
the house. Upon digging up the box
nothing was found to remain Of the cat
but the skeleton. which was literally
covered with potato bugs The Charles
ton, IS. c. Courier publishes accounts
of pitiful distress in Colleton district.
in that State. In three townships over
seven hundred persons arc without
bread, and these townships IL says, are
not in an exceptionally bad condition.
- An English reporter lately rccov-
cred $4,000 damages from man who
called him public nuisance . ON the
lst inst, Mr.. Geo. Siple died suddenly