South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1871-09-15
EWs OF THE DAY

ing IN THIS country, 81 said Ia have been
held by The Prc-byteriaus in 1900. -.
QUEEN VIcToRIA's health is reported 20
be improving. 49, The best liquid u clean
old brass Is a solution Of oxalic acid In
tue vicinity of uarmar, Ohio, is a peach
orchard embracing 5000 trees. Wis
C6NsIN corn was sixteen feet high at last
accounts, with an upward tendency . TIE
Marietta Register says there is a little girl
on Cow Run, Washington county, Ohio,
who is six years oil, and weighs two hun
dred pounds -. y HORNED rooster is the
l1test production of North Carolina.
THE potato blgh, is doing great damage
in Ireland The Treasury building at
Washington, the largest aud most expeu-
sive granite building in America, cost &c.
100000 DURING the last fiscal year
!, l59 1888 barrels of fermented liquors
were produced, according TO the govern
meut report. A woMAN-sUFFRAGE con.
vention will be held at Indianapolis on the
18th ard 10th Of November. Cor. J.
II, MITCHELL, of Virginia, and an officer
of the ''old army" who was n Confederate
Colonel of cavalry during the war upon the
staff of j. +. H. Stuart, died in Norfolk,
Va, on The 9th inst. IT is stated that
Of the eight thousand clerks in government
employ in Washington, it is estimated that
three thousand have leave of absence for
the present month ..UNFAYoRABLE reports
relative to the cotton crop come from Ala
5ama, while from Tennessee and Arkansas
the assurance comes that the great South
ern staple il doing finely. =. THE foot and
mouth disease is spreading aarmuply a.
moug the cattle Of Warwick hire, England
Con THOMAS II. FLooD, we'll known as
public man, died ut his residence in APP
pomattox county, Va, on the llth inst.
JASPER county, Texas, is said to have
rock that makes milI-stones equal to the
French OUR. FRANK u. BLAIR says
Missouri will vote against Grant by hon
bred thousand majority. CAPTAIN joins
FREY arrested ON the 4h instant, Miss
Catherine Npwlin. assistant poStmatcr at
Patrick Courthouse, Va charged with using
cancelled stamps. She made a confession
.."CUNpUUANCO, it IS now said, WI
: cure snake bi,cs, if it fails in cases Of can
Ger -. DURING D fiscal wear which ended
July l, w iwI rtd foreign good, sew
enty six mill los # ualr. more ,han we
exported of domestic ~ lucts ..TuE rice
crop in Georgia has bon O. uch Injured by
the late storms. CAPT II II BANKS,
"a lint officer Of the late Confederate ar
my, aud most cs'imabIe citizen, died at
his residence in Petersburg, on Monday
last A sun fish, weighing three humid
red pounds, was recently captured at New
/ Bedford, Mass T Mrs Bliss SMITH, of
/ Londonderry, \. III has followed the
trade Of Shoemaker fer forty years She
lasts we'll JAPAN is very rcnrly ciNi z d
/ DfIul;ers are the latest evidence Of pro-
! gross. .MANT persons have been fatally
4 poisoned at Hartford, Con, in eating toad
stools in mi,ta, for mushrooms. Gov
. HARVEY, Of K,nsas, states that there are
millions of acres Of good land to be bad in
Kansas under 'Lc Presumption Of Home
stead Laws. .IHE ladies carry three hun
drcd dollar parasrl7 IN Now York
| PRETTY nearly every green thing in some
parts Of Maine, except the people, have
been devoured by grasshoppcrs. DR..
MARSH LAWRENCE, OF Kansas, on the Sth
inst, while partially insane on account Of
the death Of bis father, killed his wife and
child and then himself with razor. 4
FIRE in Bloomington, Illinois, on Sunday
night last, destroyed the academy Of Ma
sic and a block of ten stores in the business
part Of the city. Loss about $1,000 800.
TEXAS papers report that five human skel-
ctons were found hanging from the limo Of
a tree, in Hunt county, recently. Horse
thieves are treated with severity, down
there. "A COLUMBUS, Ohio, lady kept
an account nod found that muslin dress
for which she paid thirty cents yard, bad
at tho end OF The season, cost her IN wash