South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1878-07-05
NEWS OF THE DAY.


key and is carrying Off thousands o!
cattle. France pays l2O, 900 francs
yearly Tor veterinary corps TO examine
all cattle brought into the country
A Stewart (Ga.) cow has died from eat
ing rye with fnll-grown beard -. The
debt Of Pittsburgh, Pa, is over sl4,-
00o. o00, most OF it bearing z per cent.
Reports from the wheat crop in all the
Western States, represent 1t as the
largest ever raised. -. "A dozen dem ;
ocratic county conventions in Ohio have
already declared in favor of Senator
Thurman for the next presidency +.
According to the figures Of one of the
temperance orators in New York. LIQUOR
costs the country annually ten times as
much as education. ..... Mr.. David Bar.
ret an old citizen OF Winchester was
stricken with paralysis on Monday of
last week. --...The Treasury Depart
ment gets silver bullion at fitytwo
pence an ounce. This makes the in
trtnsic value Of the silver dollar when
coined eighty eight cents-gold stan.
dard The Catocton iron furnace,
in Frederick county, Nd, has receiy.
Ell very large order for iron from the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.
for their rolling mills in Cumberland
Md. There is convict in the Mis-.
souri, penitentiary who, after SERVING
one term Tor stealing pony, returned
and again stole the same pony, and is
now serving another term The
government will furnish the West Vir.
glnia soldiers tents for tho Summers
encampment. ....... AN enthusiastic
West Virginia editor recently wrote:
The battle is now opened" but, alas (!
the thoughtless compositor spolt "bat-
tie with an o." and now his readers
say they have suspected it all along
WHO says money is scarce, one bank
alone in New York offers two million
! dollars at six per cent. The county
infrmary ut Columbus, Ohio, was burn.
cd few days ago. 1t contained $50
paupers, all OF whom escaped 49,.
Albion p. Spinnev, q prominent law.
yer Of Pottsville Pa, has been ar
rested and confined in Jail by process
OF attachment, issued against him by ID
former client, who charged that Spinney
collected judgment for 5000 for him
two years ago, and has failed to pay
over the money Little May Stiles,
aged D years, whose father cut her
throat while she was asleep in Phila-
oIelphia, few days ago, was blu, led on
Saturday last, from the morEuc, around
Which 4 barge crowd gathered. Her
mother, who was shot by the father, is
getting better, and her father, who cut
his own throat, Is improving ...By
the malicious removal Of rail on the
New York Central railroad, ten miles
west Of Albany, on Saturday night,
last, nineteen cars OF an oil train were
wrecked and the oil burned. Platt s.
Truax. brakeman, was thrown under
the train and met with frightftA deasE
The engineer and fireman were eighty
injured. Several citizens Of Fair.
mont have purchased fsTfpond, stun.
ted near Pennington, covering an area
OF over two acres, which they intend
stocking with the fines, species OF fish.
......Mr. Robert Wright, living near
Lousia Court House, Va, was struck
by lightning in storm the 9th ult.,
and almost instantly killed. His clothes
were literally torn from his body ......
The late Prof. Henry made twenty two
Inventions and discoveries, mono OF
which he patented, preferring to leave
the fruits OF his science 10 all who
would profit by it.--...A Yonkers, ".
T., little girl swallowed her Toy balloon
tube downwards. 1t slipped into her
winsipipe, partly filing whenever she
breathed e AZ no relief could be afforded
she was choled to death =. The Cover.
nor Of California receives the highes t
salary among Governors, $4,000.
a bushel OF ashes contains FIVE pounds
Of potash ......A child, age two years.
Of Mr. Search, OF Norristown, Pa, died
on Thursday night OF last week, from
tho effects or the bite-of a black spider.
The first symptoms we're noticed on
Monday, and modification set in on
Wednesday, resulting fatally
The Baltimore police have been provid.
cd with muskets for use against mobs.
a daughter OF Brigham Young has late
ly married a man who during her IA.
theirs life tin'o,had TIC care ofhis horses.
She is young, pretty, and has $4,000.
......llon. G. J. Faulkner delivered an
| address before the West VIRGINIA lila