South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1877-01-12
NEWS OF TIN DAY.

tAs other day sosi Tor 10 cents An acre.
....SwAmps In Loaisianh are - dry
that man may rido on horsebaek or .
wagon may be driven through tracts OF
country impossible within tho memory
OF man. The ere in Toxic. Japan.
November %, destroyed 5000 houses,
valued, With contents. at go, 900, 600.
....Ohio has reduced her State debt q
million and half during the past year.
and now owes six and half millions
1.-THE ship Circassion was wrecked
on Long Island Coast on tho S0th De-
cember, and twenty-nine lives lost =.
Herman Michacls sues his sweetheart
IN st. Louis for breach OF promise, and
for the return Of jewelry that he has
given 70 her. "A very dangerous ooun.
| terfeit silver half dollar is in circulation.
II is composed of block tin and other
ingredients. has the ring OF the genuine
metal. and decisive acids will not affect
it,. Relatives OF Gen. Leslie Coombs
say that tho report which recently ap.
peared in the Courier Jo1rnai, that the
Gen. had lately married, is untrue
How American ideas do spread. Young
Arabs now greet the traveller In Egypt
with the familiar salutation, BLACK your
boots" The Creek Indians make
soap from pecan nut oil Mrs. VIM.
Aston made Christmas donation Of
! $4,000 TO the Childrcns' Aid Society OF
New York. which will be sufficient to
clothe and send West one hundred boys.
.-..Another Ineligible Hayes elector
has been discovered In Pennsylvania.
His name is Pughe, and he is an unna.
turalized foreigner. This makes thirteen
Ineligible Hayes electors :. New York
! city owes about one hundred and TWEEN.
ty millions Of bonded debt :. The u.
,. mint at Philadelphia coined. last year.
49,fO3,3i6 pieces, having money value
oil so, lS6 $50 There are at present
one hundred aud ninety-nine convicts
III the Penitentiary OF this State
A Syracuse lady with compass on.
ate heart, gave cat chloroform before
drowning it, During the past three
months l3,9e5 Immigrants arrived at
New York. IA young man in San
francisco put out one Of his eyes while
taking off a shirt, spiral stud doing the
mischief. Moral: Never wear a shirt.
...The Supreme Court OF Appeals com.
menced its winter session, ut Charles.
ton, OH Wednesday last. Fourteen
thousand dollars worth of Struggled to
bacco has been seized ut New York :.
An OLD man named Profenbcrgcr, co
years old, who has wife and children
IN Washington. eloped with a girl of 20 /;
was arrested in Richmond, and taken
back TO Washington. A woman has
made heroine OF herself in Marion.
Illinois. She is the wife OF bank
cashier, and ono nigh. robbers entered
her residence, tied her to her bed. and
threatened to kill her if she did not tell
them where the keys Of the bank were
kept. she screamed boldly, AMI tho
robbers fed, after cruelty beating her to
make her keep silent -. a Calusa, Cal.
iforn!a farmer made $40, 900 on his wheat
harvest. United States steamer Ca
nahdaigua, at Portsmouth,, Virginia. wis
boarded hy three men on New Years
nlght Tor the purpose Of robbing her of
metal. One was shot and killed. He
proved TO be Michael Joice. q citizen
and property owner and formerly chief
OF police Of Portsmouth,. The other two
thieves escaped The office students
ut Loneoak Female College. at Martins.
burg. presented the Principal of the In
stiiution, Prof. Hyde. with q handsome
silver batter dish, appropriately enpray-
/ ed, on tho eve Of the holiday vacation.
'.-.A colony Of forty-seven persons
LETT Moundsville, this State, last week.
Tor Texas. George Stuart. white car
( pet-baggcr resident Of Manchester. Va.
being refused there license TO marry
howena Mcpherson. colored, went to
Washington and married her One
Petersburg firm shipped to New York.
few days ago. $4,000 pounds of man
uIactured tobacco "A single county
~ Wisconsin has railroad debt OF
$4,000 One OF the victims Of the
Ashtabula bridge disaster was Charley
Kane. son OF tho late Edmund Kane. n
! respectable colored citizen OF Winches-
ter Charley, the Times saws. was q
porter on n sleeping car attached to the
train, and was instantly Killed. Ac-
cotdipg to the list last made out there
were on the train Mt the time Of the ac-
ctdent lgS passengers and ! Q employees.
OF whom 20 were lost and FIVE are miss
Ing. Most ofthe rescued we're wounded.