South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1878-08-16
NEWS OF THE DAY.


gest number OF any one State in the
Union. Greene county. Fa., farm
ers are offering new oats for fifteen cents
per bushel. Camp meetings are
now being held all over the country.
...-..The United States has 700 car
pet factories. Florida's lumber pro.
duct nets her over $4,000, 900 annual.
ly......Two thousand species Of fish
are known to exist in the Amazon -.
The Supreme Court Of Alabama has
decided that pig is a hog 49,. Last
year Key West. Fla, shipped s27, OOO,-
600 worth OF cigars. There is no
stock on the farm that costs so little
that pays so we'll as sheep. The
French army requires $4,000 horses.
$500. Sounds are distinct It twice the
distance on water that they are on land
.---..A Georgia item tells Of q tramp
who had mo shoes on except the strings
---.- The New Orleans monument to
Gen. Lee will he ono hundred and six
feet high. There are few positions more
enviab'e than that Of the English Judge
salary $4,000 year, with pension
Of $4,000 on his retirement
man named King, OF Massachusetts,
lately coushed up splinter of wood
which penetrated his face fully twenty
nine years ago. Over thirteen hun.
dred British steamships have been idle
Tor year. LII is estimated that if
John Jacob Astor lives to his late faith.
ers age, the estate will be worth $780,.
OOO,OOO. Chalk is composed OF myriads
of very small creatures, which we're once
alive. So small were they that 10000
of them placed in row would not make
up an inch in length. .All Indians
are poor, but the agents who transac.
their business are very rich. :. Print
ing was discovered 4s4 years ago but
nobody has yet discovered how to run
q newspaper to suit everybody
ofthe4 geo voters in Lynn Mass, a.
bout $500 are shoemakers. The
dwelling-house of John Mccormick,
near white Post, Clarke county, Va, was.
with its contents, entirely destroyed by
fire on Friday last Within a year.
Mr.. Rcddington, of New Monmouth, N.
j., has lost ten children by scarlet fever.
--..John Jones.of Clay county, Mo-, has
captured twenty-five swarms Of bees in
the woods the present season
-Four negroes were take n from Jail in
Monroe, Louisiana. on the 30th ult, and
hanged by a mob 80. The lightning
recently struck and knocked Off both
horns OF steer, without othor injury to
him, during a severe storm at Oxford
N. H...... Judge VIM. Thomas, OF
jacksonville, ILL.,. one OF the oldest and
and most experienced lawyers Of that
State. aged 90 years, was mar icd last
week TO charming old laly rs years of
age. They went TO Wisconsin on
bridal tour DR.. Joseph =. Grioe,
OF Baltimore, and his daughter, aged IL
years were drowned by upsetting of
pleasure boat, at Chesapeake City, on
Wednesday Of last week Two So
we're shocks Of earthquake occurred in
dayti on the 10th and 18th ult. 80.
The error OF single word in legisla-
tive act relating to bank licenses will
cost San Francisco $4,000 q year
The four.story flour mill offs. NJ. SpeclIt,
near Middletown, Frederick county, was
burned on Saturday night last, with g.
900 bushels of wheat, so barrels Of -four,
and other valuables. Loss heavy; no
insurance. The next territory is 10
be called Oklahama. 49,. Widespread
distress is the result Of the floods in In.
dia. Great mortality prevails On the
west coast of Africa. Louis Dea-
compt Lobadle, OF Detroit. has thirty
three children While o man i'm
Vergennes, VT, was shaving before q
mirror the other day, he discovered
large spider on his shoulder, and in try
ing TO brush it Off he was misled by the
reflection in the glass and cut an artery
in his hand, from which he bled so pro-
fusely that death was narrowly escaped.
1.-THE Governor Of Iowa has ap.
pointed a woman to act as chaplain Of
the Anamosa penitentiary .....A band
Of insurgents in Spain have begun shout.
ing for republic and robbing railway
trains. The Rev. DIR. Pennick, a
Virginian, who is the Protestant Episco-
pal Bishop in Liberia, not only preach
es and prays, but works with his own
hands at timber cutting for the building
necessities OF his mission Mrs
Gen. T. J. Jackson and daughter are at
the Rockbridge Baths ......Tt is ru-