South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-07-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
| The attempt to break he will Of A.
| r. Stewart, of New Yorks las Sill -
Hiram Winchester, FL n6ny yea p1
eipal Of the Frederick lie Sc na
died on the 5th inst ID, tho 1es
second year Of his age. The New Do,
DsiniOn asserts that breach loading
cannon has been invented by L. T.. Lii.
ly, OF Grafton. West Va, that shoots
q rsd-hot ball, 'snd ct the rate of twentyE
shots per minhte,' the gun keeping cool
all day The rev: Aiffecl J. Nfurrfsun,,-
| brother Ut Mrs. Stonewall jackson.
died a. Charlotte, North Carolina, hast
week =. The Brooklyn Eagle prints a
list Of leading Germans in that city.
heretofore republicans. who have de-
clared for Tildeu and Hendricks A.
New York shoemaker has the appropri-
ate name Of Heeltap. Mrs. Mary
Staub has presented the NJ. L. Church.
south, Of Martinsbarg, with handsome
silver communion service =. Dartmouth
College graduates fifty year old stu
dent this year. -. Charles Campbell, the
historian OF Virginia, ripe scholar,
died on Tuesday OF last week in the
Western Lunatic Asylum Of Virginia.
-. Belle Plain, Iowa, claims, the small.
est woman in the world-Maggie Mic
not. She is eighteen years old. twenty
six inches high, and weighs thirty one
pounds. Tom Thumb is six inches tall
er... Robert bonner has eighty tho =
rough6reds on his breeding farm. :. It
now appears that the brilliant and clio.
qnent Father Hyac ;nthe's new doctrine
is nothing moro than TINT Catholic
priest may marry. ...If poor Custer had
Laid in" with Belknap and Grant he
might have been alive yet Constant
rains in Middle and Southern Ohio have.
caused considerable damage to crops and
railroads. A water spout near London.
vile. Ohio. destroyed number Of wheat
fields, swept away one hundred head of
sheep. and washed out several hundred
feet Of railroad track, in some places to
the depth of eight feet .Chas. Mould.
son, of Frederick county, Va, fell from
the rear Of way train on the Valley
division of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road, near Harper's Ferry, few DAYS
since and was killed s. Haywood G rant
was hung at Rome, Georgia, OF Friday
last, for arson. lie confessed to having
killed four men, one of whom was Gen.
Hindmon, Of the Confederate army, at
Helena. Arkansas -. Mr.. Peck, of Mich.
olas county, this State. has half Cots.
void buck. which weighed sixty. one
pounds when sixty days old. Over
thirty thousand persons are engaged i'm
the cultivation of Rice in Louisiana. and
the annual business amounts to $40 600
O0O.. Don Manuel de Laverdey Gus.
tanza died recently at Paris, aged thirty.
two. lie left fortune, derived princi-
pally from Mexican mines, Of $50, 600.
600. California has put up'' $780,
600 cans OF Strawberries this year. -.
The chesnnttrecs are heavily la,len with
bloom IA severe shock OF earthquake
was experienced i'm Vienna at 1 80
o'clock on the afternoon OF Monday
last. 1t lasted several seconds. AS far
as ascertaincd no damage was done. ;.
General h. +. Butler contradicts the
report that he has withdrawn from the
Congressional canvass in Massachusetts.
.-..According to Major Hotchkiss' re.
port there arc only four Cinnamon i'm
Virginia. Rev. William Meade Mel.
son, Of the Episcopal Church. died Mt
Charlottesville, Va, last week A
Florida man raised 800 bushels of Gil.
cumbers, and sending them to New
York early, made $4,000. IA large
campaign club has been organized IN
Richmond, Va, called the .TiIdcn Town
Takers. Mrs. b. Stowe realized
$4,000 from "Uncle Toms Cabin"
In Ireland only 60, 758 persons out of s..
4O9, 435 own any land at ALL and of these
only 32,6l4 have more than an acre.
the remainder owning among them all
only 9,0G5 acres, chiefly house property.
The Springfield Republican saws of
Chicago: "A reliable real estate agent.
connected with one of the oldest and
most reliable firms in the city, informed
me that he had made repeated and futile
efforts to dispose of O city lot for Sc, 900.
one.third cash, which the present owner
had five years ago. considered himself
remarkably fortunate in purchasing for
$4,000. The Democrats of Harrison
burg have raised Tilden and Hen.
bricks pole l20 feet high. F. Alexander
Myers, Polish jew, has been arrested
IN Toronto Canada. on suspicion OF
having stolen $4,000 worth of dia.
monds. 1t is supposed that he stole
them in the United States. :. The To.
mato plant is a native of South America,
and takes its name from Portuguese
word The old Sultan Of Turkey had
1000 cooks aud scullions around his
palace, but the new one sent ,450 of
them adrift, preferring cold dinners to
such an expense. The latest thing
IN aprons-onc pocket in the centre.
-. Richard $. Steuart, one of the oldest
and most widely known physicians OF
Baltimore died on tie 18th inst, in
his 10Th year. "A straw. In New York
all bets offered seem TO be in favor of
Iilden against Hayes. With few or no
takers. Martinsburg has Tilden and
Hendricks club After the expiration
OF his term Of Office President Grant will