South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-04-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.

N N8tlOuat SpOrtSmeu convention
Is to be held in Cleveland, Ohio, in June.
The Ohio Senate has refused to
make education compulsory. - The
health OF the wife OF Ex-President John
son, which has been quite delicate, is
now much better than for some time.
-. Edgar Quinet, the distinguished an-
thor and member of the French Assem-
bly, from Paris, is dead Dick Har-
rington, us. District Attorney in Wash
ington, who bowed open his own safe
and then charged it upon a respectable
citizen of Washington, has taken time
by the forelock and slid out :. i. The cit
liens OF Augusta, Ca, h. ", contributed
$4,000 to the sufferers from the tornado,
which has desolated several counties of
the State from Chatahoochee to Savan-
nah rivers. :. The corner stone of the
New Grange Hall in Stanton. has been
laid, and the work viii be rapidly push
ed TO completion. 1t will cost SIS, 900,
and when finished will be very hand
some structure A son Of John N.
Grant Of Fauquicr has recovered n ver-
dict Of $2,250 from the Baltimore and
Potomac Railroad for Injuries received.
-. An elephant is 1926, 1897 times larg-
er than n flea, but the flea has caused
l,226,3SI times more profanity in the
world than the elephant 4. : "A COW be.
longing to Mr.. Thompson, of Richmond,
Va, gave birth to three calves. Last
year she had two ut one time and she
is one oftwins herself /. j.. The residence
or William X. Byrd, near Chrisfeld, Md.
was burned on the night of the 29th ult..
with its contents. Two children, aged
eight and four years, persisted. :. . Mr..
Harry B. Weiland, jeweler, Of Martins
burg. has been granted patent for an
improvement in sewing machines.
Mr.. George Price. IS years of age, was
married, on the 23rd ult., to Miss Flor
ence Faulkner, lady of 10, the daughter
of Mr.. j. B. Faulkner, of Danville, Va.
49, They sold Mt the public auction in
Paris the other day revolver that has
had many owners, and with it five of its
owners had committed suicide. :. An
entire family in Harrison, Ohio, has been
made insane by stroke of lightning
which hit their house. Twenty six
twenty dollar gold pieces were sawed
| from pine log, in which they were en-
bedded, Mt n Georgia saw.mill, few
days ago. "A twelve.year-old girl is
on trial in Brownsville, Tenn, for the
motivelcss killing of three children She
fed them rat poison just to see them
die" rs she explains -. Gen. Butler is
now engaged in prosecuting before the
Treasury Department claim for $780,
600, arising out Of n seizure made by
himself when in command at New Or
leans -. Tilton is called the new Sam
SON" The immigrants reaching Sac
ramento since April /, 1874, number
$3.50. 80. At Castle G arden, New York,
on Wednesday, 1886 immigrants were
landed. Among recent curious inven-
tons is the application Of the camera
obscura to railroad car, imparting to
the travelling and wondering beholder
moving diminutivc picture of the coun-
try through which be is passing -. An
English minister was compelled to an
nounce to his congregation that in adj
dition to IN All.Seeing eye above lie had
been compelled to hire six detectives to
prevent pocketspicking during service
49, The man who tried to enforce con-
jugal obedience with the cowhide, sub
sequently remarked, as he put fresh
piece of couEtplaster on his nose, that
he had a wife who couldn't be beat any
where. Mr.. Carruth, the Vineland,
New Jersey, editor, who was shot some
time ago, was improving on Saturday
last. There are eighty-two priests,
eighty-five churches, one hundred and
sixty chapels, and Catholic popu.
lation estimated at two hundred thou
sand in the three dioceses of Texas =.
photographs have been obtained in Par.
is four feet three inches long by three
feet four inches in height. d. Trees have
been found in Australia which exceed
the giants ofCalhornia in height, though
not in circumference. One fallen tree
in Victoria measured APO feet i'm length,
and another 480, while the highest vet
discovered in California reaches only
$50 feet, the average being from 500 to
400. -. The first sale of oysters by auc-
ton that was ever made in Alexandria,
Va, took place on Wednesday of last
Week being n part of cargo. They
were knocked off ut sixteen cents bush
eli. Give hundred persons recently
attended fox hunt in Columbia Co.,
Pennsylvania. . q. A man in West Brook
field, Mass, has been arrested for having
his dogs eaic clipped An ingenious
Virginia distill.r converted cave and
a hollow tree growing over it to his pur-
pose ofdefrauding the revenue, the tree
serving as n concealed cl' mney - 1t
cost the American people $29,25O.4o to
bury Charles Sumner ....A new rule,
similar to one in force in the Supreme
Court Of the United States. has teen n
dopted in the New York Court Of 4tp-
peals. When the judges enter the couf.
room they are announced by the crier,
whereupon the officers, lawyers and
spectators rise and remain standing un.
til the judges are seated. ID. The post
mistress Of Xenia, Ohio, draws salary
Of $4,000 a year. without any undue
strain upon her muscle. Rev. II. G.
Brown, Pastor ofthe Presbyterian Church
Of Shepherdstown has accepted n call
from the Presbyterian Church ut He'd
gesville. in Berkeley county. In Min
nesota recently. it is said. 500 locust