South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-01-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.

-..-"Dean letters yield 81 900 per an
mum 10 the pest-oiiice Department as
waste paper. !. = The Messrs. Smart, of
New York. have given TO Princeton
Theological Seminary, within the last
thirteen years. nearly 100000 "a
bancay, Peru, town of ten thousand
inhabitants, and having large sugar re-
iineries, has been destroyed by an earth
quake =. Valparaiso. Chill. has been in.
undated. Sl,500.00o worth of property
destroyed, and two lives lost. A
Greene county. PENNSYLVANIA. man who
has named his three boys America, Uni.
ted States and Christopher Columbus.
Observation-Disclosures" is the latest
name for the Quaker City -. Jacob
Benjamin. aged 50. rich pawn broker.
of Baltimore. died recently from erysi.
pelas. which was produced by the use
of hair dye. The deceased used the
hair dye on his whiskcrs. and it Initiated
his throat. fie then shaved his wills
kcrs of, when erysipelas set in On Sun
day morning of last week between 3 and
o'clock, a fire occurred mt the Eastern La.
matte Asylum mt Williamsburg, Va, by
which the large two-story brick building
in which vas located the bakery, kitchen.
storehousc, chapel and amusement hall.
was destroyed. Through the active ex.
ertions Of the citizens OF Williamsburg
the main buildings were saved. There
were no lives lost. Total loss $4,000.
...Louisiana's last orange crop a.
mounted to l6.250,000, and realized a
net profit of $4,000 Mrs. Timothy
A. Allyn. of Hartford, who has been
blind for seven years, has had an oper-
alton which partially restores her sight.
One Of the FIRST things that astonjshed
her was to see how old her friends had
grown; the Mex was the queer head
dress fashions of the women A Cal
iiornia inventor patented \ contrivance
for driving sewing machines which does
away with the treadle. A number OF
springs are moved by clockwork and
governed with lever so nicely that the
needle may be made TO run ut any de-
sired rate of speed. The machine will
run for about an hour and q quarter with
one winding up -. Patrick Haneu, of
Cleveland. Ohio, who was convicted for
starving his idiot son to death, has been
sentenced to the penitentiary for ten
years. "A few days ago, Mrs. Jane
Kelly. residing near Ellicott City, shot
and killed hawk which measured three
feet three inches from tip TO tip. An
ingenious Philadelphia has constructed
model of the national Washington
monument, using six thousand three
hundred aud eighty.tive pieces Of native
wood OF siXty-seven varieties in lis con-
struction. lie was seven years in max
ing it. II will he exhibited at the CEN
tennial Little children arc sold and
exported from Italy now under new
dodge. Instead OF taking them away
singly, the spectators buy up whole
family at once, including father. mother.
uncles, and aunts, and start the lot for
foreign parts. The law can't gainsay
the will Of father or mother, aud so the
little ones are smuggled out to tussle
with the world - Governor Kirkwood,
Republican, was elected on the 18TH,
United States Senator from Iowa >
G go, slssns ,. 9seayi Tie ssoaeg
's'T:''Te There are near| as5{oS. -.
and convict .. ,iry E'ltSS t.----.---tI v IT.
gin!a, an increas OF onc hundred and
Fifty during the year past Jefferson
Davis has just lost r suit for $4,000 in
q court at Vicksburg, Miss. TIE expires
ident put in claim for that amour:
against bis brothers estate, but the
court decided against him. The Her.
CID II Heath contends that no persons
can be q drUnkard who every day eats
half pound OF macaroni, favored with
butter The right TO sell popcorn n.
the Centennial Exposition has been
sold for $4,000 -. Many hundreds OF
freedmen gathered in Meridian, Mis-
sissippi, few days ago, under tie be-
lief, rs had been reported TO them. that
President Grant had sent RAILROAD
train ofthirty cars to bear them away
to some promised laad. -. In Louisiana
j. y. Eustis has been elected L. s.
Senator --. Il tie gamc-Getting mar.
ried. Elopemcnt in California is called
the paCiiit slope - Starch was inventc J
by woman, and she alone can take it
out Of man. Cincinnati reports the
number Of hogs killed this season ~
40 The number killed mp TO same
date last season was 423,282... IN
Chatham county, Tenn, there are $50
men AMI 1899 dogs The Tredegar Cos.
ironworks no Richmond suspended on the
18th. From four 90 six hundred opera
tiyes arc ousted Probabilities are not
known Webb, the huntington bank
r0bbcr, is learning to make wagons at
the pcniientiary There have been
heavy falls Of snow in Spain and
the South of France. Three hundred
soldiers have beon frozen % death i'm
Russia a Cincinnati couple, three
days married. are hot foot after di.
vorce w.. IL is said that not single
member OF the Minnesota Legislature
was born in the State 90. Two children
Of President Taylor orc still living
Mrs Bette J.. Dandridgc. formerly
Mrs Bliss living at Winchester, Va.
and Gen. Richard Tay or who has alse
recently removed from Louisiana TO
Winchos,cr IA street car moved by
condensed cir pr assuro has been suc-
cessfully tried In Paris ....A German
testified in Nov Yorl, court that ho had