South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-05-30
N E VS. OF THE AY,


about three days. - FIVE ocean steamers
daft New York fpr Europe on Saturday,
crowded With cabin passengers. :. Coz
-UMBUs 0'DoNNEL, one Of the oldest,
wealthiest, aud most iofluential citizens of
Baltimore, died M Sunday night last.
1t IS sad ,hat al, the cities along the Mis-.
sissippl and Obio, from the Gulf up, are
alarmed by the appearance of cholera 10
New Orleans. NINE hundred Chinese
emigrants arrived in San Francisco last
Sunday. -MR JOHN A. 1NSKEEP Of Gull
peper county, Va, has a colt two years and
Que month old which weighs ,2l5 pounds.
49, HORSES are 81 plentiful in Australia
that they are sold at the prices ranging
from six pence to a shilling, and local pa
.pers think they would fetch more if put up
IN pound cans for the Paris market. The
expenses az the department of Agriculture
Tor the past current year were Sl19, 1889.
Three thousand copies of the report are TO
be published. The copies will cost, there
fore, about 500 apiece-an expensive luxu-
ry- The San Francisco papers say that the
export of the last crop of wheat from Cali
fGrnia will amount to SOC, 900 toLs $780,
600 tons is as much rs has ever before
been exported. THE value Of the silk
raised annually in the United States is
from thirty to forty million dollars.
The ca,erpillars stopped the train, Sun
day night, the til instant, on the Mem
phis and Louisville Railroad, three times
between Humboldt. and Mckenzie, Tenues.
see. "A PET coon at Decatur, lii became
jealous OF the baby opposition cooin' in its
Ia IN ha
MIA Constitutional Convention on the 23rd
instant, a resolution was adopted by a vote
of 60 TO A fixing the psy of members at 81, :
900 each, with mileage. A CoCOANUT
exploded in Richmond the other day and
hurt boy with flying fragment Col.
MCGREw, father of Hon. j. G. MCGREw,
died at his residence, near Brand onville,
Preston, Co., on the l9th inst in his 95th
gear. WILLIAM B. AsToR i, said to be
the owner of three thousand houses in New
York city ..ARGo PARDEE, Of LuzeIue
county, Pa, was q poor man in 1888. lie
is pow worth $50 100000. A KENTUCKY
man shot white fox recenrly-so he says.
--.DURING the third week 10 May there
wps shipped from Milwaukee over 1850,
600 bushels of wheat There is more than
as much more in store there to go forward
and more than as much more yet to come
in. MRS. HARRIET IIoLLINGswoRTu,
Of Frederick county, Va, Is dead -. TIE
salt well near Leaveuworth. Crawford coun-
ty, Indiana, which is ,065 feet deep, and
has for several years yielded paying brine,
has suddenly ceased to he salty, but is
pouring forth coil oil in strange abundance.
AT Buff,lo, New Yprk, ON Flidsy last,
there was shooting affair between Col Il
r. JOHNSON, L. 5 army, commanding at
Fort Porter, and DR.. PERKINS, regarding
an alleged intimacy between the former
aud the latter's wife Shots were exchaug-
ed, Col. JOHNSON receiving two flesh
wounds. The popular sentiment Is against
JOHNSON =. Ir is uni wful in Ohio to use
or occupy churches the doors of which o.
pen iawardly. The object Of this law is TO
afford protection TO congregations in the
event Of panic from fire or other canses
Mrs. EARuART, If Germantown, Mont
gomery county, Ohio, i charged with bav-
ing poisoned during the past twenty years,
her father, two Of her children. her SON.
wife, aud two of his children. She is about
seventy years 1T age. j UDGE CLIFFORD
acts as Chief Justice until successor of
Chief Justice Chase is appointed THE
Louisville ky Copnleycj0i relates that Rev.
STUART ROBINsCN, of that city, purchased
a ticket for Europe, recently, and then,
through the agent applied to the Secreta-
ry of SAFE for passport. The question
came back as DR.. ROBINSON a citizen
Of the United States Z" DR.. ROBINSON re-
Piled that he was not, that he had come to
this country from Ireland forty years ago,
when boy, but bad never formally become
citizen. The passport was refused, aud
the Doctor took ont his papers, applied g.
gain, aud was successful. fourteen
families Of English immigrants passed
through Stanton on the cars few days
since, on their way TO settle 10 Green5rier
county They bad with them agricultural
implements Of the Eoglish patterns.
CAKES AMEs died declaring that be never
meant TO bride a member Of Congress, aud
tba: he had no sense of wrong or regret
for what he bad done concerning the Cred
it-NObilicr. lie was severe upon Congress
men who ccDsurod him and begged him TO
vote FOR the salary grab. lie could not do
this, be said bui out Of weakness for the
bcggar- he Withheld bis vote, on one or
two subsidiary points Ii is likely CAKES
spoke very sincerely. The touching Of the
world justified bin 10 liberal construction
OF hrs right Co PIT money where it would do
the most good .THE amount Of wbis-
key mado in Augusta county, Va, during
the year ending April 30rh WIS ninety
thousand seven hundred and eighty six gal
Ions, and the toxpaij the government on
y amounted 10 s6l,74S10. .THE New
Orleans RepUCitraH announces editorialy