South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1884-02-15


$500 tame rabbits for sale. 80. There
were 10 deaths in Baltimore last
weck........It is said that there are
! more pep; lie in Florida now than
ever ut this time of the year before.
49, Enalaud has beeu visited by da.
maging floods Rev. Thomas Har.
rison, the boy preacher claim, to
be converting sonis in ST. Louis I
the rate of tbirty-iive u day.........
Pinch5ack. the alloy Of VIII b
cheap watch cases are sometimes
made, WAS named after Mr.. Christie
pher Pincllback, a London toy seller.
who died about ten years ago.........
Hiram Radcliffe, Kingston New
York, miser and rcciusc, lied leaving
q Dall million hoard for the lawyers
10 fight over------The signal officers
on Mount Washington have only a
fortnightly mail. They go down af-
ter 1t upon boards tha. run ON rail-
road track at the rate Of q mile
u minute, aud they climb back
on sHowshoes- The wooden box
es that bring orange from Florida
are manufactured in Maine Rail-
road hen say that the middle Of the
middle car, right hand side is safest
on Train Abraham, Isaac and
Jas Oh kile arc trip lets, seventy two
years old, living in Bccks county,
! Pennsylvania ---Je iferson Day ia,
they say, is very weak -almost to de-
crepitude. The sight OF his one re.
naming eye is failing ........A yes.
sc! recently brought 10 New Bed.
ford. Mass an eagle which allight-
Ell on the masthead. I,5co miles
from land....... "A shoemaker in
Stamford, Conn, has occupied Tie
same bench in the same shop for go
many years that he has three times
worn away tie part OF he foog
where his feet had rested, and puts
OH 4 new half sole Of leather over
tbs hole every year. ........ There is
on exhibition in Baltimore jun.b 30
lemon weighing six pounds AID
measuring 81 inches in length, seven
inches in diameter, two feet in its
largest and % inches in it's smallest
circumference. 1t is said 10 be the
largest lemon ever before seen. 1t
was raised i'll Florida. In Chi
cago on Monday night last, +. w.
feller, q bool<keepar, shot lIra. 10.
sic a. Aiken, wife OF n local ticke.
agent, and then shot himself, failing
dead upon the woma IS li!eless bady.
1.-The January record Of s. cam
ship disasters is appalling -----AIrs.
James Stevenson, of Scranton, Pa,
died Thursday it. dentisi's chair at
ter she had three doses OF chloro.
form and ether administered during
the pulling Of fifteen teeth, aud as
soon as the dentist had pnlied the
last tooth Mrs. Stevenson threw
bach: her head AID ceased 20 breathe.
Rcstoratiyes were n administered, bat
the woman WAS dead, though the at
tendants thought she had only flint
ed------Joseph Hotel, popular CT
;izcn of Shenandoah county, who was
thrown from sleigh on the 18th OF
January, died few days ago from
his iujnries------One of the most
successful farmers Of Walton county,
Georgia, is Arasmls G. Wright, fifty
years or age, who has been blind
from Infancy. He can, it is said,
make as good wagon or buggy, or
as neat cofiiu, or do "a good work
in the cooperage line, as any other
man III that neigbborhood ------Mrs.
Nancy j. Wood, the oldest native
citizen of Lyncbburg, Va, died Sum
day last, aged l0l----John G.. Kasey,
Treasurer of Bedford county, Va. is
reported to be in Canada, where he
went TO escape the officers of the law.
lie is said to be dcfaulter TO the n.
mount of sixty thousand dollars.
The books, deeds, valuable papers
and a ten dollar gold piece belong
ing to John Hughes, az Key5er,
whose store was burglarized a month
or so ago, have been founG by boy
about one mile east of that pls ce, up
in the mountain They were IN fret
class condition. the parties having
spread gum blanket over them.
Quiuine is lower than it has been for
| twenty-five years Susie Ba;es Of