South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1878-02-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.

he lautoNS nue-SrS4S region OF henr
tucky IS 10 bsd Way financially. with,
in the last Few weeks failuvos 10 the a.
mount OF over q million OF dollars have
been recorded. snd the cad is not yet.
$500. Henry Ward Beaeher denies thet
he is ansound on the '.llell" question.
$3.50 Winchester had only 33 maria
ges during lS67-sixteen white aud
seventeen colored. :. The Richmond
Dispatch estimates the Mofrett whiskey
punch law will yield 100000 per year.
100000 more than at first estimated.
....-.ln Louisa county, Va. a few days
ago, Robt. Appleby was shot in the neck
by Lindsay Poindexter, in accordance,
it is said, with the terms OF mutual
contract. They agreed upon a trade
for certain cattle TO be delivered and
traded on a certain day. the one failing
TO come up 20 tho contract to be shot
Applcby failed and Poindexter drew
a horse. pistol loaded with slugs. APP
pleby fiei and Poindexter fred. the
charge taking effect in Appleby's neck
& inflicting severe bus.not fatal wounds.
Poindexter was arrested aud commit
ted TO Jail .-...A pretty widow in, Mis-
souri, goused out the eye Of young
man who winked at her In the suit
of Hill SC McKickon, against the Balti-
more aud Ohio Railroad, soon to come
up in the United States District Cuu {,
/ there are 10000 pages Of written tesli.
mony 49,. The tobal number OF Meth.
odists in the United States is over g..
$4,000; in Canada, 16l, l72; in Great
Britain and all her colonies, 907, 404
In all the world they number 4,3838SS.
The increase in lay members for 1877
throughout the world is given at 2ll, 800
...... Mrs. lsliza PuGh of Madison. In.
diana, died on Saturday week She
was the last surviving relative OF Daniel
Boone, OF Kentucky Mr.. ". w.
Corcoran has given $500 to the Virginia
Historical Society. =. Fhe entire flock Of
sheep Of DR.. Harris, whose farm is near
Jelfcrsonton. i'll Cnlpepor county Va,
was killed or wounded by dogs last
week 49,. Abraham CARRIER, OF Shenan.
doah county, Va, Was robbed in Iiarri-
sonburg, 81 few days ago. OF about So
500'in money, coupons and boAds, Of
which $3.50 was ia currency .-,..A
thief Oh Saturday stole Hon. Samuel j.
Tilden's ovcrcoat. with tailor's bill
in one % his pocket. ...The idea Of
printing the llseHtees' names daily Ia
the official record is gro wing popular in
T, Congres -. Good fnrmi?C land, -
Stafford county, Va, WAS sold q few
days ago at less tImrone dollar an acre,
....-.The English lion viii not attack
the Russian bear. .....T The war cost
Russia 1872 100000 roubles'. -. A ter.
rible famine is now desolating the nogth
of China and the Gorea, and the inhab~
itants are dying By thousands. The IA
mine ia principally due TO host OF
5li'Stt'i'Dtso " MN bsb'S tt+' sir,'o IAiC-
plantations for two hundred miles
inland, and plague bias come To aggra-
vatc the existing horrors $50 They
are roasting the Returning Board
thieves down in Louisiana "A Clark3
burg young lady said TO her 'lcller' the
sther night, Ny dear, have been work
ing motto. Don't You wantto see iJ?'
She rushed ont AMI soon retained,
holding up a sheet Of perforated card
board on which he read What is home
without q mother in lawr The young
man took his hat. 50 says the Ts1e-
ram ..-... Seventy nine Per cent. Of
the productive area OF Ireland is in grass
and forage ......W Wrecks on the British
C casts last year, 1881 ....In Keyser,
on Thursday OF last week, q little son &C
Mr. Con. Moran, proprietor OF tho City
hotel ut that placc,w burned TO death,
Il appears from the Koyscr 7riJuae
that the tlttIc fellow, whose name was
Frankie, wan ngc about Chree years.
On Thursday evening lie disappeared
| for some time, and bis whereabouts were
not discovered until lis little sister was
attracted by his screams. and found
him in an upper room, developed in
flames. She called for help. but before
the others came. the fatal element had
l done its vgOrL, Drs GprstciI and West
were called hut they could do nothing,
and tie child died IN 4 few hours after
The accident. II is supposed that the
. fire was communicated 20 bis clothing
/ by n stick with which lie was playing a.
/ the stove. The child was very interest.
ing and n great favorite, and the grief
OF bis parents is said to be almost in
/ consolablo. 1.-THE little boy from