South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1878-08-09
NEWS OF THE DAY.

ally ..Baltimore has forty boot and
shoe factories paying we'll Coz.
Mossr. of Virginia. is for Grant for a
Third term. The precious metals OF
The world for coinage and art amount
TO $4,000. 900 900. J Ohm Doe was
lately sent to the penitentiary by a
Cincinnati court. Conc 10 meet Rich
ard Roe. in all probability -. Il. is com.
putea that the grain used Cor liquors
in year in the United States. reaches
1O.0OO.0oO bushels. ..... Working girls
in Brussels get ten cents day
Turkey loses G5.000 square miles of
territory in Europe. The Sultan still
mas direct control of 10000 square miles
1890. Petroleum was first sold rs lini-
ment called Seneca oil .An Iowa
woman has invented spankaphon c.
She likes ii, bat the boys don't.
Mrs. 5. Myra Hall wants woman to
run for Vice President in 1880. In
Central Africa if baby cuts an upper
front tooth before a lower II is killed.
-.-...A Cleveland lOhio, horse car
passenger has been convicted for rcfus-
ing to pay his fare in crowded car
where he could obtain no seat.
CHARLES READE claims to have forgot
ten even the names OF some Of his early
books. ..-..GEN Crook says: The
Indians are right in this war, as they
usually are. -.-..A negro politician
says that the Republican party of North
Carolina is completely subanegated."
This State is officially returned
as having marketed, in 1876, 316,997
pounds OF bees honey. 49,. Count de
Bodisco, the Russian Consul mt the CITY
OF New York, died at White Sul i.
phur Springs OH the lit inst. 49,. The
Louis Fruit Company's establishment
was totally destroyed by fire on the Path
ult. Loss estimated 1T $250,000
In Pennsylvania. there are about seven
acres of improved land to each sheep;
in Iowa one sheep to every thirty acres.
"A riot has occurred in Yokohama
in consequence Of the doctrines Of two
Bhuddist priests that the sun moves and
the earth stands STILL Three Japanese
students were wounded in tue fray -.
A saw-mill engine boiler explosion ut
Enterprise, this State, On last Saturday
killed Geo. Avery, John Parr and Frank
Dilworth, and seriously wounded Dent
Park and three others. -. There is n
Mr.. Petty. in Fauquier county so years
of ago,who cut down seven acres OF heavy
pine, burned it off, grubbcd it up, and
prepared it for corn. ....-.A Silver City
Qdaho) dispatch reports that the Indians
have devastated the country in all direc.
tons. The men Carter. Smith and
Houston, supposed to have been killed.
have come in safely. .....A destruc-
tive hail-storm visited the vicinity OF
Frostburg, Nd, OH Monday last .....
David Thomas, for many years we'll
known merchant Of Frostburg. Md. died
on the same day. ---.. The Moffett re.
gis:er in Virginia, in June last paid
S4ll.01 into the treasury in July $50
SO. .....A Western lunatic wears the
silver coilinplates Of his three wives as
decorations, and declares he belongs to
the Legion of Honor In Munich
beer is absolutely the only beverage,
water being used only for culinary and
bathing purposes. For two and half
cents one can purchase as much of
tho sparkling, cool and delicious lager
as will last steady drinker half day.
-....Gettysburg. Pa, makes money
from the customers who visit the fa.
nous battlefield in selling relics eco.
A Contemporaries adopted daugh-
ter OF Hon. Il lward Crosby was brutal
ly outraged by tramp on Saturday
last within short distance of home, of
Brattlebore, VT. A handkerchief was
drawn tightly over her mouth, suppress
ing her screams. 4 reward OF 500 is
offered for the arrest OF the villain.
A most ingenious invention for tourists
is a cane that can be unfolded and made
into a camp-stool 1.-The subscrip-
tions TO tho four per cent loan az
Washington on Monday last were ST.
26j, 900. Sleeves in the latest i'm.
ported dresses arc made larger than us
ual Thomas Coyle is teaching the
art Of swimming to classes in tile east
ern part OF the State Of Pennsylvania.
.....-Miss Anderson. the actress has
returned from Europe AMI says there is
no truth whatever in the report of her
marriage to Lieutenant Fremont. She
does not even know him Black.
berries are selling at three ceuts a gai.
Ion, the Mercury says, at Berkeley
Springs. After the polar comes
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