South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-11-26
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Cabinet n, originally appointed 4. Eff
teen thousand eight hundred and seven
ty-five survivors of the war of 1912 are
on the pension list. 49,. a bear, weighing
500 pounds, was killed on Pcndleton
mountain, Rockingham Co, last week,
by Berry Richie -. Somebody has fig-
ured IL ont thatwe aGe to have twenty.
six snow storms this winter :. An Iowa
woman will sell 10000 pounds OF honey
! from her own bee, this year Our ma.
tive silk industry gives employment to
nearly 1000 women and girls . An old
woman has been murdered at = village
near Nancy, in France. for 81 cents.
- Hunters in the Indian Territory re-
port that the deer are dying rapidly Of
disease similar 10 the blaclS-tonguc.
- The Chicago board of education has
! refused, by q vote OF eleven to two, to
restore Bible reading in the schools -.
a Mrs. Casterwilder die6 in Westmorc.
| land county, Pa, last week, at the al.
vanced age of Ill years -. The barn OF
| Samuel Slusser, of Rockingham county,
was burned on Friday, October 29th,
| with all of its contents A. Hunter
! Boyd, son OF the late Rev. Mr.. Boyd, ID.
! d., OF Winchester, has been elected
1 States Attorney for Allegany county,
! Maryland, over McAIichael, Republican.
! by 20l majority The number of fail.
ures in the United States during the
| past nine months, are 4,33i; amount
! involved, St3ll7l, 900. 49, The LegiSla-
| ture OF California has enacted q law
J which allows every citizen who will plant
trees and maintain them for three years
Il deduction from his taxes of one dollar
for each tree 80 planted . The mar
riage laws of Utah Territory are convc-
/ nient if not highly moral. For instance.
when n couple wants TO get married, they
stand up and say, yves pardners" Di.
vorce i accomplished by publicly an
nouncing, This partnership is busted"
The custom fits the people like On old
glove 1t is probable that Maclsey, OF
California, is the richest man living
/ Ills income IL $l0,000,000 wear -.
The Ne" York postoiIice buiiding has
| already cost SS,400,0e0 and Mr.. Potter
the architect calls for. $1,000, 900 more
- 81. Louis has almost double the pop.
uiatioa of the State Of Rhcde Island
Is that so?..- Twenty million one hun.
drcd and thirty.cisht Thousand postal
cards we're issued by the Post Office De.
partment last month. :. The total num-
Der OF hogs slaughtered ut Cincinnati
FROM the lst TO tho 18th Of November. is
39,92l for the same time last year.
2J,l79 -. Mir. w. n. McVeigh, of Alex.
andria. Va, is i'll luck. His late success
in the Court of Appeals of Virginia has
1 been mentioned and last week he gain
cd suit in Chicago. in which $4,000
was involved. There are four thou
/ sand steam vessels in the United States.
California has 100000 children nm
/ dor fifteen years OF age -. The colorel
I population OF Louisiana exceeds the
whites by $4,000. Hon. John Wells,
associate justice of the Massachusetts
/ supreme court, died in Boston, ON Tues
/ day last ..Joseph Ii6lpaen & Compr
I NY, diamond merchants, OF Paris, have
/ failed. There total liabilities are esti-
mated at $G,000,000 =. DR.. Harvey
Black has been appointed superinten-
/ dent of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum Of
| Virginia Small poE prevails st Gin
ciuna'i. sixty-four people having died
/ from it in that city last week :. The
/ Arkansas House have passed bill ap-
! propriating $4,000 for the Centennial
! The vote stoad 20 % T.. India has
| 10000 acres devoted TO tho cultivation
| OF opium Tho Ohio Pcnitentiary now
! has within its walls 1913 convicts be.
/ ing the largest number in the history OF
/ the Institution ID. Mortimer KilgOur
/ Of Louloun county, Va, recently sold n
/ turkey in Washington city that weighed
/ iOrty.Gvc pounds. receiving $2j for It,
....A Cincinnati brewery has contract.
/ cd 60 furnish 10000 barrels Of beer 20
/ Centennial visitors at Philadelphia &c.
While the other tribes are decreasing
I year bl' year. and gradually fading O.
way. the Siouv Indians, on the other
hand, are steadily increasing in mum.
/ bcrs There are four hundred and &c.
\ " miles Of street railway in New York
city. The official vote Of Oregon gives
/ Lane Democrat POI majority .Twcn.
| iy.Gyc students OrPrinceton college have
been dismissed for joining a secret 500
ciety 1.-The old bell which called to-
gcther the Virginia convention OF 1915.
in Richmond, when Patrick Henry utter
cd his stirring sentence, "Give me LID.
erty or give me DEATH" is still in use ia
Martinsyiila, Henry Co., in that state.
..-.Mis5 Elizabeth story. highly re-
spccted young lady, Of Fairfax, Yer
mont, was violently assaulted on Thurs.
day Of last week. while walking 70 the
railroad station, by negro tramp, who
had very nearly accomplished his pur.
pose Of outrage when neighbOr came
up and the negro fed. Citizens are
securing The country in pursuit or the
villain. 80. The Texas democratic State
contention will meet ut Galveston ON
the 18th OF January 90 nominate candi.
dates for the State Offices provided by
the new constitution. which is 20 be vo-
ted on ~ an early day The trial Of
General John Mcdonald. at St. Louis,
for completely in the whiskey frauds.
resulted i'm Isis conviction on oil the
counts orthe Indictment Jesse White,
. the oldest printer i'm Fredericksburg.