South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-05-06
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+ President Hayes for Governor ofthRt
st&te.-The pineries OF the West arc
IN q iair way 20 pass into The hands
( OF nonopoliSts.-The receipts OF the
! New York post Office are said to be
equal 70 one-nlEth of the entire postal
revenue u the governinent.-Ou
7 imports OF specie from Europe since
thc FIRST Of last August amount 10
I $780, 900, 000.-For the first time in
It's history the Virginia penitentiary
Is now self-susiainiug. NJ. J.
Ferguson, late colonel 18th Virginia
! Confederate regiment, is dead.-An
Illinois butter factory uses up two
hundred thousand pounds Of milk a
| day.-Iom Thumb and his wife are
exhibiting themselves with Barnam' S
circus this season. Tom Thumb is
said to be Mason Of the thirty-third
! degrce.-JaInes L. Field, the author.
! died in Boston of heart disease on Sun
day last.-A milk.white ed.breasted
robin Is frequently seen near Sewick-
ley, Pa. accompanied 10y a companion
that only differs from other robins
IN having perfectly white head
SXly-three persons were drowned, q
few days ago, by the upsotting Of a
ferryaboat ut Lemberg. Austria.
| Seven steamships sailed from New
Aorsl for Europe on Saturday last car
rying an aggregate OF nearly 600 cab
N passengers. Hon. Rowland e.
| IrOwbridge, late Commissioner OF In
diam Affairs, died at his home at Bir-
mluSham, Mich, on the 20th ult.-
The authorities OF one of the Swiss
cantons have just passed u law forbid
ding boys under fifteen to smoke, Ell
| Their IN public or at home.-Thomas
Harragan, Boston barber, was sent
to the state prison for twenty years
for rape. In order to escape labor,
| he deliberately cut off his right hand
! with revolving saw.-Capt. r. G.
| Bamiord, OF Hagerstown, has just re-
ceiyed 50 900, tie amount Of pension
money i'll Arrears due him from the
government for injuries received du-
ring the late war,-Colonel Tom Blu
ford OF Kentucky, who murdered
Judge Elliott and was acquitted on
the ground OF insanity, is at large
One ofthe iusanefrealls Of Mrs. Cath,
crime Byers, OF EIiilsdale, Mich, was
to walk the streets devoid of clothing.
Rev. Mr.. Coates has been convic-
ted in the Circuit Court OF Campbell
county, Va, on the charge of having
committed an outrage on his sister
in-law, who WAS less than - years
old. lie was refused q new trial and
sentenced to ten years imprisonment
IN the penitentlary.-150 head OF
! lO8a, recently, rushed off OF u ferry
boat INTO the river at ST. Louis, about
fly were lost, one swan two and q
halt milc.-A colt with seven perfect
Iy~tormcI feet was born ut Normal
ILL.,, lost month, and Ia vigorous e-
nough to Justify the belief that it viii
have an average life. One fore leg
sports three feet and the other two
Lebras are very stylish, they wear stri-
| ped stockings ~ to their neclIs.-Geo
| Thomas WAS 10 have wed Annie Sew,
crn in Cairo last Septmbcr, but two
| days before tho date fixed he fell and
broke his Lex. Ia January they were
to try It again and she broke an arm.
! They were 90 have had third trial
on the 18th Of March, but on the 9TH
| George had fall and broke his neck.
| And now the girl is heart-broken -
Il is announced that arrangements
have been made Tor the erection in
Botetourt & Allegheny counties, Va,
this year, OF niuo IRON furnaces. The
furnaces generally are TO be erected
| by Eastern capitalists and Pcnnsylva-
MIA iron Hon, who regard the ore in
( the counties named OF very superior
eharactor.-In Memphis, Tenn, on
the End inst, DIR. Ray, leading ply
sican, was killed and Capt. Fowler,
& druggist, fatally injured by the ex
! p.os.on OF q soda fountain at the lat
ter's place Of business. President
/ LiEcoln's widow is confined to her
! bed with sickness at the home Of her
sister, IN Springfield, III. Her rccov-
cry is thought doubtful-An Albany
man haa been sent to jail for stealing
newspaper from a stand.-A passen.
/ ger train OH The Western Pacific Rail
road killed five children of a family
named Ncbas, on Monday last near san
/ Lorenzo, Cal.-It is stated that an
Iowa minister charges BIZ weight for
| performing marriage ceremonies, four
cents q pound for the groom md two
cents q pound for the better half.-A
number of citzen7 OF Augusta county,
| Va. have recently lcfttO locate ia Cal