South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1885-05-01
soutl. 9raneh Satflliseaeer.
ODDS AND ENDS.


The largest gold nugget ever found
weighed las pounds. Chemises are
going out of fashion. the corset cover
and short petticoat taking their place.
NO coin OF Less value than i've
cent piece circulates in New Orleans.
There are poems unwritten and
songs unsung' Yes says an editor.
1T is this that reconcilcs ~ to life.'-
Ii you wish to keep q sharp K, ife
never put it into hot grease.-Aunual
honey crop OF the country is loo, ooo.-
900 pounds Wealth has its cares as
we'll as poverty. Well try the wealth
care for q change.-An egg canning
business is opened in St. Louis
William Cortin and John Garnes, of
Boone county, KY, fought with re-
volvers about Cog few daya ago.
Both were killed.-About $lo,ooo.-
worth OF corsets were sold in the
United States last year.-More than
10000 persons in New York city de-
pend upon gambling for living =
Persimm ons were first spoken of in
print by Captain John Smith. who
cIassed them among Virginia plums.
The Census of 1880 gave Texas
population of 1,597 ,61s. Governor
Ireland, of that State, now places it
at 2,75O.O0O. If correct, this would
indicate an increase of about Is per
cent in tour years-an increase une.
aualled By any of the old States
Ex-Gov. F. W. NJ. Holiday, of Win
chester, Va, sailed from New York
for Europe few days ago. Next to
love, sympathy is the divinest passion
OF the haman heart.-A Pennsylva-
MIA farmer last year sold Sc 200 worth
of potatoes from only twelve acres.
An attempt was made Gu ye terday
week to blow up with powder the
house in Baltimore in which lived ten
glass-werkers who refused to Join the
strike.
Information from Southeastern Kan
sas report the heaviest rainfall ever
known in that part Of the State The
storm began on the 21st, and over IL
inches of water are said to have fall
len. All the level country is sub
merged. aud railway traffic has been
in many cases suspended by The de-
st:uction of track and bridges. Thou
sands Ct cattle and stock have been
drowned, ard great damage has been
done to crope. The Marmaton river
inundated a settlement known as
North Fort Scott, and at Kingman
ten lives are reported to have been
lost. The storm extended to Western
Missouri and Northern Texas. where
several lives are reported lost and n
number Of houses were swept away.
An account from Evansville, Ind.
says skiff containing Mary Draper,
her daughter, aged eleven. and her
niece, Caroline Dempsey, twelve years
old, capsized in the Ohio river q few
days ago, and all were drowned.
J. Ii. Bell, who murdered +. G..
SMALL, fellow-lawyer, at Harold.
Dakota, last December, was lyuched
by mob on Wednesday night of
last week.
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LET THEM LEARN A When
it is remembered that over three
tourths of the criminals in our prisons
are deficient in some useful trade. the
greater is tho demand for the appren-
tlceship system. Some time ago we
spoke OF the gradual decay Of the sys-
tenn of teaching boys a useful trade.
Parents don't know what to do with
boys who don't want to go to school.
The result is that if they can't get a
clerkship in store or chop, they do
get corner to loaf on, and thus idle
ness is indirectly encouraged A boy
who would better be at trade if he
gets no wages over aud above his
clothing and board than to be brought
up IN idleuess because he can't be put
behind counter with a quill behind
bIs ear.-Ex.
In Virginia peanuts are now ground
into what proves a very fair -four for
making pie crust and other LIGHT
pastries.
A man who had formerly been q
drug clerk ACCIDENTALLY broLa n 80;