South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1878-05-17
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burg, Miss, last Friday. by ex-UnIon
and ex-Confederate soldiers. and the
graves OF the dead OF both sides we're
decorated. The blue and the grew mar
ched in the same procession 49,. La
dy Roseberry's wedding dress cost S9.s
75; her veil, s2.625 49,. Zig hty -four
dollars minute are stamped ut the
San Francisco Mint. The South is
already supplying New York with black.
berries. An attempt was made in
Berlin Saturday last to assassinate the
Emperor William. 49,. .Greenbacks at
San Francisco last week sold for a
premium in gold ..O'brien the silver
mine millionaire Of California, died a
few days ago, leaving an estate worth
fifteen or twenty million dollars, He
was bachelor. .....A good sized par
rot will devour l24 grasshoppers per
minute perhaps it would be we'll to i'm.
port 1O0,000,O00 parrots 49,. The first
bar Of steel ever manufactured in the
South was rolled on the 2nd of May at
the Tennessee steel and Iron Company's
Mill at Chattanooga. Hannibal
Mo-, citizen. being much annoyed. by a
neighbor's dog, bought the animal and
shot it to get rid Of it. A better plan
than to create difficulty by killing it as
the property of some one else. "A
Tennessee man has been sent two years
to the penientlary for stealing a coon
skin, and the Chicago Journal says he
would have Jared better if he came to
that city and killed q man 1t
takes twenty-five stereotypcrs to get
out the New York Herald Rev.
DIR. Lovick Pierce, father of Bishop
Fierce, now in his ninety fifth year. is
one OF the delegates TO the general Con-
ferece Of the NJ. +. Church South, now
In session in Atlanta, Ga, aud takes
an active part in the proceedings.
The shipments of strawberries over the
Delaware railroad, being the product of
the Delaware peinsuhl, has now fairly
commenced the first carload having been
shipped on the 9Th instant, two on the
9TH, two on the 8.h, anl three on Thurs
day last, all consigned to New York The
average capacity of n car is 267 crates
or 5000 quarts Of berries. The season
this year is one of the earliest on re {,
cord, being seventeen days ahead OF last
year, when the season proper commence
ed on May % ..--Out in Oak ota, the
other day. stage load Of passengers
were compelled TO hold their hands a.
oove their heads while gang Of high
waymen robbed them. One Of the VIC
tins, who remarked. This is q high
handed piece of business was allowed
TO keep his watch rs q reward for his
humor- Jason Scribner, a brutal
man, living near Augusta. BE, attempt
ed to murder his family Saturday with q
spade. He killed his little girl of three
years, fatally fractured the skulls o. a
boy Of five and q baby of one year. A
boy of eleven escaped by running. Mrs.
Scribner escaped with the dying babe
in her arms. Scribncr then attempted
to commit suicide by cutting his throat
but was arrested before he succeeded
The babe died at midnight: the little
boy fingered in spasms a day and
was expected to die during the night.
Scribner was terror to the neiuhbor.
hood, and at times threatened to burn
the buildings Of his ncighbors. 1t is sup.
posed he had rendered himself insane bv
his Incorporate life Edwin G..
Booth, who gave the Virginia Centen-
nal building, has just given Fredericks.
burg n nice library Between forty
and fifty families of Barton MARYLAND
are organizing a colony for settlement
in Texas. ...-. Nr. John Ballcnger. of
Accotink, Va, sent sample of wool to
market recently, that was twelve inches
long ..Over 10000 men were pro.
vided with employment By the various
Young Mems Christian Associations du.
ring the past year. During the year
al million pages Of tracts were dis.
tributed by the American Tract Socie.
ty' and the receipts were over 500.
900. The tracts cost less than $50. 900.
......Thore was real oil fashioned
stage coach trip on Monday Of last
week from New York TO Philadelphia.
100 miles distant The distance was
Travelled in less than ten hours
ferinmed hair is the latest novelty
......The New. Workers. aspiration.
fast travel in their city, has at last been
gratitied. and by Che elevated railroad
one can now go from the Battery TO
Central Park in twenty minutes.
lille Bishop elect Of West Yir-
ginia, Rev. G.. w, Peterkin. was married