South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1877-12-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.

andria on Sunday night last Corn
husks are worth one-and- a-half cents
per 10. In Pittsburgh :. The clothing
store OF ID. We'll, Martinsburg was bur.
CARRIED last week to the extent of 5000.
.--.P. L. Pendleton, president of the
Valley railroad died very suddenly Sun.
day morning last at his residence in
Baltimore. The real and personal
property in Philadelphia has deprecia-
ted in value S26.OOO,OO during the last
year. Il. b. S. Pinchback has. in an
open letter to Gov. Nichols, resigned
the Senatorship, to which he, however.
still claims he was legally elected. -.
The iirst paper printed by steam power
was the London Times, on the goth Of
November, 1914. Out of the 156
members of the Legislature elected in
Mississippi 1t the recent election. l54
are democrats. -. Seven years ago
Methodism was introduced into Utah.
Now there are six Methodist churches
and fifteen Sunday schools in Utah.
Inc Statistical Bureau of Berlin esti-
mates that the total steam motive power
OF the world equals the force of q, OOO.-
OOO horses. Five and half million
dollars have been awarded Great Brit
ain by the Fishery Committee for the
right of Americans 10 fish in Canada
waters. -. In Jefferson county, Mo-, last
week, jury awarded lady $4,000
damages against saloon keeper for
selling her husband whisky after being
notilia" not. to do So -. Grant county,
Wisconsin, got rid of ffty-three
wolves, tifty-seven wildcats, and two
lynx in twelve months. at an expense OF
1913 paid for the same in bounties. 49,.
A CASTOR county, y. c., woman who
gave birth to triplets two years ago, has
lately improved on that achievement by
producing four children at one birth.
All seven OF the infants are now living
-. The way TO get rich At farming is
to feed what you raise to stock and sell
the stock. lie who sells his corn.
wheat and hay, may be n good liver
but he will never become a millionaire
at farming :. Fifteen thousand dollars
is the figure San Francisco 6amsel
Of slX'yfve wants from gay boy OF
seventy, who, she say ;. promised to
marry her and now declines The
recent flood has scarcely parallel in
the memory Of that venerable parsonage,
the Oldest inhabitanC 80 Church pro-
perty is exempt from taxation in every
State in the Union. =. The sec mem
berS o3 the TWO houses Of congress in
eiude 239 lawyers, nineteen bankers,
seventeen merchants, fifteen editors,
twelve farmers and planters, twenty
physicians, seven manufacturers, five
officers OF railroads, AMI five school
teachers The Russians took Kars in
1928. 1884, 1888, and now again in 1877.
49, Greenland has no cats. Imagine
cats in country where the nights are
SIX months long IA correspondent
Of the FiOridiCnt estimates the orange
product of that State for the year 1877
at 100000 oranges -. Samuel Lind
saT, Of Greene county, y. Y, has be-
come insane from being hit on the fore
head with baseball during game
In round numbers about 10000 tobacco
shops exist in France, Of which %. 800
sell tobacco only,and 800 sell stamps
in addition -. lIarwioh, Ont. has had n
| shower Of fish, some Of them large
enough TO furnish the inhabitants with
q good, square neal. Nebraska has a
lawyer who rejoices in the name Of host
The bones ofChristopher Columbus.
| which were supposed TO be resting in
/ peace Rt Havana in the ever faithful
/ isle Of Cuba, hayo been discovered and
| identified in San Domingo, and our con.
/ sui there has transmitted 10 tho State
/ department an account Of their discoye
| ry... Amos Boynton OF Plymouth. Vt,
raised from one hill of squashcs $50
/ POu"NS' W. "CIHheu .cSpecllNCIy "
and % pounds, and the rest over so
each -. The Lake shore Railroad Com
/ pany have discharged sixteen engineers
eight each rr3m the Buffalo and Erie
divisions avowedly for attending meet
ings in which the subject Of demanding
higher wages aud more liberal arrange
mcnts were discussed . q. d. Russia lcath.
err is made in Connecticut, Bordeaux
wine is manufactured in California,
French lace is woven in New York,
Italian marble is dag in Kentucky,
Marseillcs linen is produced in Massa,
chusctts, English cashmere is made in
New Hampshire, Parian arr work comes