South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1878-07-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.

this season is estimated ~ 5000 900
pounds. The works Of art at the Par
Is Exhibition are valued IT 81, $50, COO. !.
Boston fruit dealers are shipping APP.
Piles from Kansas for the first tune
They are talking Of Tillen for second
term. in the east .-..-. kansas farmers
estimate corn At IL cents bnshel, at
which price it is cheaper fuel than
coal or wood -.....A four-year-old
child Of Joseph Walton, Of Mt. Savage,
Nd, drank a quantity OF lye OH Sunday
last, from which it died in few hours.
The King of Denmark has la ely
sentan order to Kentucky for quanti-
~ OF blue grass seed (. Mr.. George
S. Appleton. third of the great publish
ing brothers Appleton, died on Sunday
week. aged 81 years. -. Compression
is being used in France in the treat
ment OF cancer ......A waterspout
struck Rapid Valley, ID. T., Tuesday
evening Of last week, AMI destroyed
much property. deluging farms and gar.
dens. carrying away bridges. &c. The
river at Rapid city rose Is feet in an
hour. Two men were drowned.
The stock Of the Balti more & Ohio has
advanced TO So. The value of the
whortleberry crop of Wicomico county,
Nd, this year is estimated at $4,000.
......Over forty thousand tulips were
in blossom at one time in the Boston
public garden tho other day Yer /.
mont is little State. bit she owns q
large number Of cattle, her 2l5, 700
cows alone, being valued NJ S6,255,2o0.
The silver three cent pieces are
contemptuously called 'shad scale IS I.
Over one thousand buckets of blackber-
ries were received in the city OF Wheel
ing by tho boats on Fri lay last
Blackberries sell in Morgantown at only
five cents per gallon. Six hundred
Mormons arrived, at New York on Wed.
nosday Of last week by the steamship
Nevada. 49,. Parsnips contain twice rs
much real fool rs turnips. :. The Mis-
soari river few days ago, was higher
| than since 1874, being sc ST. Joseph,
Missouri, seventeen feet four inches a.
4! bovc low water mark -. Mr.. A. b.
Wood, for many years agent OF the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad at IIarpcr's
Ferry AID Sandy Hook, died last week.
Some malicious Journal says. that
a woman can keep secret going.
The Great Council Of Tie United
States Of the Improved Order Of Red
Men, comprising representatives from
oil the States III the Union, will be held
in Baltimore on the 9th of September
next. 49, AT present there are 27O con.
victs in the penitentiary Of this State.
$500. Under orders from the United
States District Court Tor West Virginia
the Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs
will be sold at public auction on the
| 9th OF August The twelfth annu-
al convention of the Sunday School
Society of the Baltimore Conference Of
! the NJ l.. Church, South, met in Staun-
ton,Va Lexington was selected as the
next place of meeting 49,. Probably
the oldest married couple in the country
are Mr.. and Mrs. Robinson Of Noun
tain City, Texas, who have lived togeth.
or eighty-two-ye1rs. They are aged l03
and 102 years oil respectively
A Delicate mechanical feat was recent.
! ly accomplished by matchmaker of
| Providence Rhode Island, who drilled n
hole throueh out the entire length OF q
common pin, from head to point, Just
large enough TO admit the passage of q
fine hair -. The railroads OF the Uni
ted States have in use 100000 car
Wheels. Those on fast passenger trains
are renewed every ten months but
freight cars use the same wheels some
times ten years. The average life of n
wheel is $4,000 miles, and a, that rate
it lakes 100000 n year. at cost, less
the old wheels, Of $4,000, 900. IAN
express train on the Baltimore and o.
hio railroad. on Monday last, struck a
horse noar Paw Paw tunnel, K Hing the
animal, anil throwing the smoking and
! ladies' cars from the track No one
was injured ..... .Twonty Eve tramps.
driven ont Of Iowa, were put in Jail at
Beloit, Wis, broke out, & are now assem-
bled inside the Illinois line with about
a hundred and fifty more, swearing ven.
geance ami threatening TO burn Beloit.
.-....In Belgian village. last month.
ayoung butcher died after short ILL.,.
ness. During his entire illness his pet
bulldog remained at the foot OF the bed.
refusing all food and when his master
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