South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1877-03-23
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Railroad extension from Martins.
burg to Chariestown, it is said. will be
completed for traffic by fall ...J. Dou.
glas damb:eton, prominent young
lawyer OF Baltimore. died on Monday
last Of Consumption. "A woman was
caught with five smuggied violins under
her pullback skirts. in Philadelphia, as
sho was disembarking from steamer.
The Louisiana republican State Cen.
trail committee have expelled Pinchback
by vote Of p to 4. aud elected A. Du-
mont president. Oliver j. Meade, a
former Petcrsburgcr. in writing to his
friends in that city OF his marriage in
California, thus tcrsely describes his
bride: "She has head as red as q
woodpecker's. and owns sheep until you
can't rest"... There are seventy.four
M. T.. Churches within the limits OF the
city OF Baltimore The Key ser Tyi.
buSe says. lit is said that an infant
child of Mr.. Likens. Grant county. has
SIX distinct toes on each foot" MIR.
Asbury Troxell, Of Msrtinsburg, has
received the appointments Of u. ). Dep.
nty District Marshal for that District.
vice Geo. koonce..- b. +. Stout,
student at the University at Morgan.
town, this State. aud one Of the cadets,
was in Wheeling with his corps on July
A, and while marching was overcome by
the heat. Since that time his conduct
has been peculiar, until now he is COM
pletely insane. Abigail Parker. of
Wilmington, has been arrested in New
York for claiming Richard c. Fellows
as her husband, when some other fellow
was her fellow Ellen Brown was mr..
raigned in New York Saturday and
committed to the Tombs for causing
the death OF Mary Ann Rush by throw.
ing her into East river Friday. The in.
quest will take place this week "A
boiler exploded in the saw and grist
mill OF Hunter Brothers, near Wor.hing.
ton, Ind, Friday, killing twelve persons
and wounding seven. The mill vas try
ing new set of corn burrs at the time.
and the neighbors were gathered to
witness the experiment. The killed are
"A. Vandeventer, James Hunter, John
w like, john Speltz, Mr.. Hamilton
and six youths, sons OF George Ray.
VIM. Hunter. (two;) Henry Saver and
Jacob Brubaker. -. Preston county, this
State, is called 'the buckwhcat cake
AMI honey county" The census of 1870
shows her yield to be 27,3l6 bushels OF
buckwheat. and 1882 lbs. of honey.
-. The Medical College Of Pennsyl.
vania ut Philadelphia, on Monday. con.
ferred the degree of Doctor Of Medicine
on fifteen women. The Rev. John
Moody IS in prison in Cincinnati for
appropriating to his own use money that
lie had collected ostensibly to build
church "A Connecticut man has nam
eu bis colt Eight to Seven 1t was
the most winning name he could think of.
-. Mrs. Nellie Sartoris has presented
teX-President Grant with another grand
child-a boy this time A Boston
girl of fifteen, being punished by her
mother, angrily left home, saying she
would not be whipped again, and was
! found living in an attic with Young
man enjoying the prinCely salary OF five
! dollars q week. She refused to leave
him, saying she had asked him TO live
with her, Bob Ingersoll, says of
Hayes: johnson brought discord into
The Republican party in a year, but this
ID fool has done it in day -. The
Rochester Democrat says: The sale OF
Bibles in Chicago is said to be three
times as great as it was a year ago. MIR.
Moody drew attention to the work and
they think it is new book" Mr.
Alden Clary, an oil and well-known
citizen of Frostburs, died on Saturday
last, after lingering illness. Last
week an infant in ChambeTsburg, Penn
/ sylvania, was attacked in the night by
a rat which, before it was chased away
| by !he infants mother, bit the little ones
hand ten times :. Secretary of state
VIM. NJ. Evarts has half dozen un.
married daughters, who will enter Wash.
lngton society. None of them have
beauty, in tins taking after their pater.
nal, tut all are fine. witty conversion.
alists, IN this also taking after their papa.
.--.Hon. Richard w. Thompson, Presl.
dent Hays Secretary Of the Navy, is a
nephew OF the Misses Broadus, OF Char.
IestOwn. William Piper recently cut
down hollow pine tree in Cameron
county, Pennsylvania, which contained
twenty coons - Tx President Grant is