South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1877-10-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.

has pecu liarily aided about fifty young
men to educate themselves for profes.
sions.- The oyster and ish interests
OF Chicago are estimated to be worth
sz,ooO,oOO annually. During the year
just closed the United States sold 1885,
0OO,OOO yards Of cotton goods abroad,
ten times moro than was exported the
year before. -. The money presented 10
the Pope by pilgrims during the jubilee
amounted to S3.3O0,O0O. or this sum
81 .S4O, 600 was in gold the remainder in
paper. Rome has SIS Catholic, four.
teen Protestant, and four Jewish
churches. -. The United States an nual.
ly ship 100000 boxes of clothes pins to
England. The President is not sur
prised at the result in Ohio. and does
not regard it as any rebuke to him. A
Saratoga county woman and her seven
children have died Of diphtheria within
month. With 500 bill a Missouri
man induced his wife to desert him /.
Grasshoppers have done very little at
harvesting in the United States this
season. The total value Of the silk
manufactured last year i'm the United
States was S25, 500, lO3 The Elkton
Md, papers record miraculous shower
OF salt near North East, in Cecil coun-
W, last week. -. The Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company has declared a
dividend of three per cent. for the last
six months, making with the five per
cent. declared for the previous six
months, eight per cent. for the year
1t is said that the committee inyestiga-
ting the Patent Office fire will report
that it was certainly the work of incen-
diaries. Every department building of
the government holds documents that
are FAR more dangerous than lucifer
matches and coal oil. The farmers i'm
Carter county, KY, are Offering board,
gun and ammunition to hunters who will
come and kill the squirrels that are de-
mollshing their corn-Gelds The
great Minnesota farmer, Mr.. Dalrymple
cultiyates 5000 acres of wheat. and his
profits this year are $4,000. "A bee
tree near Waldro, Fla. contained EIGHT
ieet IN length of solid comb the hollow
ranging from six to nine inches in diam.
eter..--Dr. Bliss says that Senator
Morton can never recover from his par
a'ysis, although he may be carried to his
seat IN the Senate There are two
hundred and sixty eight convicts in the
pcnitentiary of this State The world
now produces more beetroot than cane
sugar, and the United States would
profit by initiating the example thus
set. Could we raise what we consume
at home, it would save us over S5o. 900.
OO0a year "a woman who was granted
divorce from her husband on Friday.
Sept. 70, by the Supreme Court of
Rhode Island, married Newport wild
over on the following Thursday, be.
came mother on Sunday, 9TH inst, a nd
died on Tuesday night, 9th inst
There is an abundance Of wheat and
barley remaining in Bulgaria. A con-
temporary says every hamlet is crowd.
ed with immense stacks OF grain, while
a very large crop Of Indian corn is
awaiting the husbandman Bonner
of the New York Ledyey, has bouobt
another Kentucky horse, for which Inc
paid $4,000. Within the last six wears
eight New York savings banks have fail.
cd, involving nine million dollars worth
OF deposits and about forty thousand
depositors. Pennsylvania. New York.
New jersey. Massachusetts, Minnesota.
Maryland. Virginia, Mississippi, Wiscon.
sin, and Nebraska vote on November G
Mrs. Macy Valentine, ia years
old, dieda at Bottle Run, Allegany county
Maryland on Sunday last. In France the
copyright Of an author lasts during his
life, and is secured to his family for fen
years after his death Miss hIarv
Louisa Fields. whom Governor Rice. of
Massachusetts, was to have married last
week, died at Bethlehem, N. H., on the
LIST inst, of brain fever. She was n M
tive of Philadelphia, about thirty years
OF age, and ofrare accomplishments and
most attractive qualities :. Michael
CARRIER, an old German blacksmith Of
Augusta county, Va, invented cut nails
about the year 1905 lie Due the
new Commissioner OF Agriculture, is
turning out the old clerks to make room
for his own friends More civil service
reform Kansas is almost exactly in
the centre OF the United States II
was estimated that in 1921 the number
of ducls in England averaged above FIVE