South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1877-02-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Editing a newspaper Il easy work
wifen man mas a surplus OF. ideas.
words. time, and money. 1t il inst
possible that there are few sick Rad..
caisan Washington at the present time.
- The british commissioner says that
the exhibition. of philaslelpt,a was, With
out'excepsion. TIE creates. ever held in
tho world. He praises especially tic
superior manufactures in metal work,
textiles aad chemicals A bird re.
semaling an eagle was recently eho.
near Knot.svilic. Taylor county. I.
measured seven feet from tip to tip. :.
A nan in WeIlssilsc, Allegheny county,
traded his wife for an Old horse, and
sold the horec Cor thirty cents. lsusi-
ness is business. When the Zoe gorge
broke on tho great kannwha In sum
mers county. TN immense number of
dead hsh were thrown upon the banks.
thirty-sour catfish being found In one
place, some Of them three fee, long -.
Catgnt is not the gut OF cate, but OF
sheep. Kid gloves are not kid, but are
made of lamb skin or sheep skin. Black
lead does not contain particle OF lead,
but Is composed chiefly of carbon. -.
Onc.third or the coffee crop of The world
TO say nothing Of peas and rye, is con.
ahmed in the United States Four
sisters named Stark arc imprisoned at
Sudbury, charged With stealing bacon
and sausage. A room ut tho Piedmont
passenger depot was entered last week
and 500 gold watch and $50 in cash
stolen .. Mrs. Brimble, eighty years
old, was found frozen to death near
Maple Run, Garrett, county, january
Ii. She had been walking in the snow
without shoes, and Il ia supposed she
was not sane. :. Within the last seven
weeks the English language has been
enriched by new word. 1t is Hayes.
ism. It means counting In a President
by stolen electoral votes :. A pedier
was given lodging at ahouse near Thorn.
vile, Ohio, on Friday even ne last, and
during the nj, ht 'chloroformcd the whole
family. ransacked the whole house, and
carried elf $3.50 in morey and $50. 900
IN drafts A present OF $500 has been
received from Janus Gordon Denuett hy
the little orphan daughters OF Mark II.
Kellogg, Herald correspondent. who
was killed with General Custer An.
other of,he Packard legislators, Gaude,,
OF Latourche, Joined the democratic
Legislature OF louisiana on Saturday
last: "a fire in Parker City. near
Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania, on Saturday
last, destroyed s25 900 worth of proper
ty.--.A paper wedding is the latest
novelty in WLeeiing. this State -Four
ola Kind: Giant, Chamberlain, Gland
Ter and Kellogg Among the grain
producers ofthe world. the United States
is destined TO stand first Rev. Or.
Lconitias Rosser is conducting revival
IN Fincastlc, Botetourt Co Twenty.
1--WE hundred men are kept on. Of work
at the Chester, Pennsylvania, ship.yard
by Indictment weather. The BROOKLYN
theatre disaster made tliirty-one willows,
who had small children, and four widows
without children. Two hundred and
9'xty-three families have been visited,
l09 OF which required permanent relief
while ;hc remainder needed temporary
assistance Tie South Carolina courts
are making crooked paths straight. anil
showing mp the villaing OF tie CORRUPT
leaders OF the negroes "A rccls fish
weighing leo pounds has been caught
near Snow Hill. Quite n heayy rock -
II not fishy .. Eight hounds were drown.
ed last week In weak ice or Chester river.
They were chasing fox. Tie new
assessment in Allegany county will ex-
ceed the last one BY about S4,0o0,00O.
-. Fifty million pins are made every
day in England, and yet IN all that coun.
try there - not a man wiio can pin n
stlu collar Oh stir neckband without
spelling heaven in four letters :. In
South Carolina when young couples
cIope, n minister keeps alongside OF
them and marries them as they run
Parlor theatricals are the rage in Balti-
more this winter wild ducks aye un.
usually prevalent on the Upper Potomac
river ....A An eight year old grand.faugh.
ter OF the late X. T.. Willis has written
without the least assistance play in
four acts. She calls it "1he Play Of the
Two Lovers and takes tile leading
character herself IA firm in New
York advertised for book keeper re
Gently, aud had tri61 over four thou.
sand answers -. The colored people
Of GEORGIA own 457 G35 acroa oF lopd