South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1884-02-01

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oooso in one and two dollar bills.
------ Colorado i,as new town call
ed Wagon Wheel. It took its name
from the fact that all the fcllows
there are tired Explosive dyna.
mite looks like Lrown sugar. ...It
is recorded that when q soston man
dies the family 60 into mourning by
eating black beans for a month 49,.
There were IT'S death in Baltimore
last week.........It takes 26O bushels
OF potatoes to make ton of starch
Since 1866 Congress has given away
2oo.ooo,ooo acres Of public land----
Since the opening OF the Suez Canal
tea has 1879 excepted, declined each
year in price. 1t has never been
lower in England than now. Dur
ing the year just ended. 10 miles of
railroad were built in Nest Virginia.
Florida alligator hunters earn, when
successful. from $500 to 5000 a
season ------ Florida farmers are now
planting Irish potatoes. ....... Bar
NUNS white elephant from Siam has
arrived at Liverpool. ........ Chicago
has become, instead ,ot New York,
The leading live stock market OF A.
merica.........A young lady, aged Is
years. residing at Garafraxia, Ont,
married, secured q divorce, and mar.
red again within a week, recently.
------The snow in the mountains out
West IS said to be from i've to seven
feet deep The cold in Chicago
has been severe enough to crack
plate glass in show windows---A
few days since private in the Hamp-
shire Regiment at Gosport, in Eng
land, called upon the Almighty tc
strike him blind. A little Willie af-
terward he felt drowsy, and threw
himself on bed. On trying to O.
pen his eyes he could not do SO, and
he is now under treatment in the
Haslar Military Hospital. not having
recovered his sight. Such, at least,
is the account given in an English
paper......The Parkersbpry Journal
says Bishop Peterkin recently con-
firmed into the Episcopal church 33
convicts at the w. Va. Penitentiary.
------Fred Curtis, of San Francisco,
aged seventeen, has just created a
sensation by marrying his aunt, o
widow of over 40, and the mother of
two children "A citizen OF South
West Virginia caught four hundred
rabbits one day last week -- VIXEN
the Valley Railroad Company bor-
rowed one hundred thousand dol!ars
on a mortgage for their extension
south OF Staunton, Va, the tax for
recording the mortgage in Augusta
County Court was 81 900. Capt.
James Bumgardner, Jr., counsel for
the company, banded Clerk w. A.
Burnett one thousand dollars in con-
pons, and they being refused, gave
him check for the money under the
usual protest. Proceedings were
commenced in the Augusta County
Court to prove the genuineness of
the coupons, but tie cause was af-
forwards removed TO Rockingham
County Court. In'that court We'd
needay OF last week, the coupons
were proved, and the auditor will
now have to take them and return
the money.........Last week, at Gu
ray, Colorado, Mike Cuddigan and
his wife were hanged by mob for
causing, as the fynchers believed, the
death Of Mary Mathews, a child, by
cruel treatment. No woman has G.
yer been hanged by lynchers in the
Southern States. II this act had
been perpetrated in the South what
howl would have been raised in the
orih......Queen Victoria is able to
take short walks, but can only re
main on her feet few moments
The Minnesota State Prison was
burned Saturday morning last ------
"A young man of nineteen, named
Conner, was arrested in Detroit on
Tuesday last, charged with stealing
letters lie confessed having rified
three thousand letters within six
months, in order to &C .umulate sufii.
Gent money TO marry.........In the
miat at San Francisco there are fifty
women employed at a salary OF S2.76
per day. The hours are from o o..
clock Iu the morning nutii 4 i'm H.