South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1877-03-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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on Monday last. >. Col. John S. Mosby
has sold his residence In Warrenton, Va,
to General Eppa Hnnton for $4,000. -.
The Ohio Glass Company is now en-
gagged in manufacturing blue glass lamp
chimneys Virginia proposes to ex-
empt manufacturers from taxation for a
limited period. DIR. Bellinger. Hamp-
tons physician at the Charleston Jail,
has ousted Chamberlain's appointee and
taken possession. :. Pneumonia is pre-
vailing in some portions OF Shenandoah
county,. The famous female lawyer
Of Chicago. Miss Alta NJ Hulctt, died
Mt San Diego. California. on Monday Last.
mir. J. Donald Cameron is said to be
worth between two and three million
dollars. Senator witl,ers, of Virginia,
is the happy father OF eleven daui htcrs.
--..Five life insurance companies in
New York were placed in the hands
OF receivers last week lion. LLOYD
Lowndes. of Cumberland, is spoken OF
for the collectorship Of the Port Of BAL.
timore -. Two young men i'm WAYNE
county. Georgia. want to marry. Each
offers 500 acres Of land for wife
Russia has ordered 10000 American
plows for distribution among the Russian
farmers. There is u family mt West
Liberty, in Ohio. county. this State, in
which there are twenty-one daughters.
-. During the year 1876 the United
States yielded 42O,O0O,Oo0 pounds OF
rosin.--.It cost Secretary Fish, with
his fashionable wife, $4,000 a year to
live in Washington city :. Rev. A. b.
Woodiin, pastor OF the Baptist Church.
Columbia, South Carolina, has been
elected Chaplain of the University Of
Virginia. IL. II. Riddleberger. l.. L.
Stickley aud j. itite Byrd are candidates
Tor Commonwealth Attorney i'm She.
nandoah county. -. The report that the
schools in Winchester are suspended
because Of prevalent scarlet fever is
untrue, the disease not having appeared
there. "A Mr.. Rousch has discovered,
on Little Ailegany, Maryland, near
Judge Buchanan's farm, valuable min.
eral paint, containing about sixty per
cent. OF iron. Counterfeit quarters
bearing the date OF 1877 are in circula.
ton. Look out for them. Within the
past four weeks no less than seventeen
deal infants have been picked up by
the police in the streets and alleys of
New York. Mrs. John Heffner, of
Reading, Pennsylvania, has just become
the mother Of her forty.fifth child, and
not pane of blue glass i'm the house
either 80. The principal business asso.
Citations Of New Orleans have publicly
repudiated Packard :. Mr.. William p.
Rose, Esq, OF Winchester. Va, POSSESSES
Il hen that crows exactly like a rooster.
There is but one white man in the
Packard branch of the Louisiana Senate.
The Paper Mill ut Sheplicrdstown
has been sold to Charles Carver, OF
Philadelphia, for 81 1000. =. Miss Bar
bara Brown, LOG years old, diet. on the
l4th instant, near Daneille, Virginia.
49, -Four feet of snow fell at Chicago on
Mon lay of last week "A West Mil.
ford, Harrison county, this State, man
Is reported to have eaten 80 eggs at one
meal -. The Postmaster General has
thirteen children. What q bunch OF
Keys "A Western editor i'm acknowl.
edS'ng the gift of n peck OF onions from
subscriber, says; 1T is such kind.
nesses rs these that always brings the
tears to- our eyes. A remarkable
fondness for canned oysters having been
noticed among The inmates Of the Al
bany, jail, one Of the keepers made an
examination and found that the cans
supposed to contain oysters contained
wllskey Diphthera is sail to be
caused, in great degree, by the gas
thrown off from coal stoves in rooms
without ventilation The London Lon
-ef says that ladies' high-beeed boots
produce hysteria in the wcarers :. A
April Fools day comes on Sunday. the
Cautious minister before sitting down
will examine his cushion TO see tbut
there are no bent pins in il "A daring
robbery is reported Mt Lancaster Pa
A discharged employee Of cotton mill
Knocked down the paymaster. seized
$4,000 and made off. Fortunately be
was captured Bill Crow and sallie
tIuddleslon, Of Farctte. have eloped TO
parts unknown. Salic is said TO have
another husband floating about on lfe's
troubled seas The boys are preparing
for Easter William Patterson AGED
eighteen years, Of Augusta county, was