South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-06-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.

OF water supply for the centennial.
minnesota papers say the Granger or
ganization IS falling to pieces in that
state - Last year wine crop in France
IS valued at four hundred millions of
dollars. Baltimore will dedicate her
monument to Edgar A. Poe, early in
september The new 20 cent piece is
about the size of the old silver quarter.
-. During the year eight clerks in the
Boston postoiiice have been detected
roooing letters AN eagle was seen
hying over the Washington turnpike,
near Alexandria few days ago, with a
large sized and wriggling snake in it's
taions There are over 900 miners on
strike in Ohio, and it is estimated that
about $4,000 are on strike in the Uni
ted States. =. 1t is estimated that for
one months pay revolutionary soldier
received $4,000, but he had to pay So
900 yard for cloth for his coat. and the
buttons cost him $1,000. Other things
in proportion. : /. The street mud in Vir-
ginia City, Nevada, assays at the rate of
S7.54 silver and 1882 gold to the ton.
- .Eben Smith of Bridgton, Me-, died
recently from the effects of cat bite
received six months ago Leland
Staniordof California Is said to be worth
twenty millions. :. a woman ragpicker
OF indianapolis. who has always lived in
the utmost squalor, and was supposed
to be very poor, died the other day, and
is now found to have been worth nearly
100000. Mrs. j. Philip Roman. of
Cumberland, has gained before the Ma
ryland Court of Appeals her suit rs ex-
ecutriX of the late j. Philip Roman. a.
gainst Mali, of New York. involving near
quarter million of dollars. E. Bonner,
OF the New York Ledger, has given $780,
600 towards the erection of DR.. John
Halls new Church in the City of New
orl1 :. Mr.. Pendletcn Drummond. of
Harrison county, this State, recently
clipped eighty odd pounds of wool from
twelve head of sheep :. For the race
horse Kangaroo the Marquis of Hastings
once paid $4,000 guineas--say $63,000
This horse now goes in front of Lon
don cab at sixpence a mile .. q. Presi-
dent Grant recently purchased $4,000
worth of real estate in Prince Georges
county, Nd. few miles from Washing
ton, TO use as n stock farm :. on of
four acres of land Dennis Lilley, of
teen hundred dollars outside of all ex-
penses, in tobacco -. A celebrated bull.
the Duke of Geneva, which some time
ago was sold for So 900. died last Tues
day at Stoner farm, near Paris, KY.
The Lowell (Mass.) savings banks have
Sl1 100000 on deposit, nearly all of
which belongs to factory hands. -. For
ty tons of asparagus were marketed
from one point on Long Island in one
day last week =. Commodore Wander.
bilt is eighty-one years old. He says he
has always been n temperate man and
does not feel n day older. A curiosi-
ty at fair recently held in Reading. Pa.
was cake measuring feet in diane
ter, and weighing 100 pounds The
Parkersburg and Grafton portion of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has TWEEN
three tunnels : . Pemberton, the muir
derer of Mrs. Bingham, at East Boston,
Mass, March %, has been promptly
tried and convicted, the jury finding him
guilty of murder in the first degree -.
There is n monastery i'm Turkey inhabi-
ted by twenty-three monks. who have
not seen woman since infancy, and one
of them tells an interviewer that he can
form no idea what woman is like -.
Florida possesses more timber-land than
any other State, having some 3O,000,000
acres The Summer headquarters of
the Government ia now at Long Branch.
-. According to their last census, the
females of England and Wales outnum.
Der the males by 100000. The Gar.
ret county. Md, Herald gives an encour-
aging account of the crops of oats, corn
and other spring crops, based upon the
opinion Of PERSONS from various parts
of the county. The value of the
through mail service between Washing
ton and New YORK, just turned over to
Colonel Scott, is about $125,000 per an.
mum, which includes payment for
service both ways. .. j. Il. Johnson n
champion swimmer, and Thomas Coyle.
of Chester Pa, have made arrangements
TO swim match in July for 81 900
side, in the Delaware river, from Ches-
ter to Philadelphia; distance sixteen
miles "A field Of ice thirty miles in
extent still exists on Lake Huron -.
The steamer Schiller was lost on Nav
., 1875, just seventy years after the
death Of her illustriOus namesake -.
Two soles that beat rs one" remarked
the boy TO his mother, as she was deal
ing with him for his sins with both slip.
pers at once. .. .McCulloCh SAYS forty
millions Of Frenchmen could subsist on
that which forty millions Of Americans
throw away ....A decidedly nauseating
item comes from Washington. a re.
cent clearing out'of the sediment in the
main reservoir. from which the citizens
derive their supply Of water. developed
the fact that 10 has been made the hid.
Ing place Of family secrets. By actual
count thirty-onc bodies Of dead infants
had been deposited there for safe keep
ing o.. The only thing that will discour-
acre q California flea is n slcdge ham
mcr blow on top the head, but he is rea.
dy for business the next day I'm.
mense clouds Of grasshoppers are circu-
latiug i'm Northern Nebraska. devOurng
whatever green things they happen to