South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-09-17
NEWS or rHE Day.

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been discovered in the mountains OF
chihuahua, Mexico. Coy. Terras
has increased the reward for Victories
scalp from 1000 to $1,000 man
named Marquet, living in st. Louis,
drank whisky until helpless then sank
down III the street; lie WAS carried
by two men to the sidewalk. They
went after wheelbarrow with which
TO tote him home, when they got back
TO where they had left him, he was
dead.-At a London ball which
cost fifty thousand dollars, weeping
ash in the garden was transformed
into fountain, and bowers of real
grape vines were arranged along one
of the corridors IN the house,
Smith & Wicks' tim can factory, at
baltimore, burned on Saturday morn
ing last, loss fifty thousand dollars
Some families in Brooklyn have been
poisoned by lemon meringue, which
the baker had prepared in copper
vessel. Nothing of an acid nature
should ever be cooked in a copper
vessel. The acetate of copper never
agrees with even q strong stomach.
John s. Chapman, a prominent
lawyer, of Alexandria, Virginia, was
found dead in his bed on Saturday
morning last, with pistol in his hand
and bullet in his head.-The steam
ship, City of Vera Cruz, encountered
q hurricane off the Florida coast and
went down. Only three of the %
passengers are accounted for. Eight
of the crew of fifty are alive.-B.
| G. Lewis, prominent banker of Tai
lahassee, Florida, died OF paralysis in
Savannah, Georgia, on Tuesday last.
lie was en- route from the Hot Springs
to his home.-The Humboldt 10
wa Independent has abandoned the
Groenback cause and declares for
| Haacock.--At Pueblo, California,
| Saturday last, Nickel Smith was taken
from his home by a committee Of cit
| liens and hanged for committing a
rape last Wednesday.--Within the
last two weeks 10 young women
have taken the convent vows in Mil.
waukee.--A Democratic State Con-
vention is an event in Texas. The
| delegates travel on horseback over
the AGRA of half dozen average sized
States, camp out, and carry arms to
| fight of the Indians. PIX Senators
| Pool, of North Carolina, and Fowler,
| ofTcnnessee, have renowned their
Republican allegiance and come out
for Hancock. Next.--There has
| been another terrific fire in St. Louis,
! at which the lives Of several firemen
were lost, and about one hundred
thousand dollars worth of stock, fur
niture and buildings OF the Charter
| Oak stove manufacturers were con-
Isumed. New York correspon-
| dent tells an interesting story about
four women who go TO dinners and
receptions TO talk and to help the hos.
tess entertain her guests. The price
! for their services is twenty-five dollars
an hour.-Do You fight NIT Sigel !?
! General Sigel says: 81 have always
| been with the Republicans heretofore,
but | can't so Garfield. / must give
| General Hancock my next vote. :"
| We understand General Sigel will
take the stump in Indiana.---The
watermelon is like = book. It isn't
red until it is opened. Olen-
lger aged l6, on Sunday last near
| Liberty, Fauquier county, Virginia,
attempted to ride blind horse across
Ia bridge near the waterwhecl of a
! mill. The horse SHE'D off the bridge,
Miss Olenger falling under him and
being mashed to death. wooden
bridge over the river Ebro, in Spain,
near Logrons, fell on the End instant
while battalion of troops were cross
ing. One captain, three lieutenants
and sixty-four men were drowned
| The complaint on the part of the Re-
lpublicans i'll Maine is, that the knowl-
edge that one hundred thousand dol
lars was to be spent in that State
raised the price Of purchasable votes
from three dollars to ten dollars
| A party in New York has bet five
thousand dollars that Hancock will
carry lllinois.-Anothcr high Re-
publican authority, Ex-Treasurer
| Spinner, has written a letter to a
friend in Washington in which he
announces that he will support and
vote for General Hancock.
er O'Reiily, OF Usage City, Kansas,
reccuHy dismissed the pulpit for i'm.
Em1ra.lty, undertook 20 whip Tcxas
Frank, desperate. and managed TO
barely escape with his hfe.-Mrs. T..
| y. Polk, tie woman suiragst, wife OF
Mr. W. w. Polk, q candidate for
! Congress, e.p-cs to be Mayor of St.
! Louis.-Jeiicrson Davis recently sold
that lie doesn't "feel Ike glorifylng
| Hancock for driving our boys away
1 from the piaius Of Gettysburg" but
| for all that he predicts Hancock
| election, and thinks it will have q