South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1878-08-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.


bic exhibit az the Paris Exhibition. -.
The population OF India has been redu-
ced 100000 by the famine Bos.
ton has 5000 licensed saloons 49,.
Heavy frosts are reported along the
Humboldt river in Nevada -. There
are four hundred colleges in this coun-
try. with an aggregate OF 800 profess
ors.. 1.-The annual potato crop OF the
United Statesis about 200, Oo0, 900 bush
els. .... There are two cases OF ieprosy
just admitted to Blackwelrs Island Hos
pital, New York. Both patients 9 anne
from Cuba Paris now supports
two thousand photograph galleries. -.
Mr.. Doriat, of Bristol, Tenn, has
wooden watch, made by himself. .-...
A Richmond, Mo-. SOW recently cam
to her masters place from the woods
with three young coons among her pigs,
which she nursed as if her own ....-
II is said that.the late intense heat drove
100000 people out of the city of New
York. $500. Miss Celestine Winans,
daughter OF the late Thomas Winans.
is probably the richest heiress in Ameri.
ca. ....A Hampton, n. H., man asserts
that he has prod ueed species of hens
without feathers Ten million hair
pins are annually made in this country.
$500. The arrest of pickpockets at the
Paris Exposition thus far number $50,
including fifty women - The largest
State east of the Mississippi is Florida.
$3.50 -Four miles Of n spiders thread
weighs grain. King Alfonso
will be gay widower. Queen Mercedes
left Lin s5,00o,C00. You Bet"
is Tie name Of post office in Nevada
county, Cal. IAN English medical
authority says that the man who blows
the big horn in band rarely lives be-
You'd a period of three years ..---.A
tramp stealing tide on a train near
G. Cranberry summit, ono day last week,
had his leg crushed and broken between
the bumpers. -....A consignment OF
artificial ice was received in Cincinnati
from Clevland on yesterday week six
teen inches thick. 1t is made TO order
at 81 per ton. The country used
moro than 100000, 900 postal cards last
year Striped stockings do not
come "a high as last scason--that is, in
price we mean .-....in The United
States there are $50 females practicing
90 doctors, APO as dentists, as lawyers
and CO as preachers. -.--.A French
clock fires of q pistol every hour TO
kill time ON the morning Of the
Fourth ice was formed in Gold IIiR.
Nevada, 20 tho thickness of pane of
window glass. An Illinois Post
master has salary OF one dollar 8 year
and draws it quarterly .--- 1.-The WE'LL
known dwarf. Minnie Warren, died in
hild.birth at Fall River, Mass on the
23d inst. Grant was enthusi asti-
cally received in Norway last week. We
suppose Norway fayors a third term.
.-.-..Tho perfect imprint of tree
may be seen on the breast of Thomas
Briggs, Of Wcllsburg, West Virginia,
WHO was struck by lightning on July
tn. Reportst coming in from North
orn Iowa and Southern Minnesota state
that the cops are badly damaged in
those sections. Wheat in some coun.
ties will not yield over seven bushels to
the acre. --.--New York has an average
Of II people to every house. .Blackber-
ries are only FIVE cents gallon at Nor
gantown ...... American dried fruits TO
the value OF $2,500,000 were sold dur
ing the last year in Europe "A
New Yorl; Judge has recently decided
that, 'ifa man goes home drunk his nife
has a right to take money out of his
pockets OF course she has, if she can
find any There have been, the
JoVrmoL is informed, over four hundred
applications for summer board in Frost
burg Nd, refused this season The third
son Of Queen Victoria is going TO marry
the Princess Louise of Prussia ......
Mr.. G.. w. Pyles, of Moundsville, this
State, aged sixty-six years, is cutting
his third set of teeth There are
now over $50 guests at Capon Springs.
-. Page CO., Va, has had law suit "a
bout q calf, in which the costs amounted
to about seventy dollars That was
really dear calf. A railway through
the garden OF Eden promises to be one
Of the results Of the Anglo-Turl;ish
treaty ......G Gen. Escobedo, the Lerdist
chieftain, who was recently captured in
Mexico by tho Diaz forces, has been
| sentenced to DO SD OF. Escobedo, it
will be remembered, was the hero OF the
capture Of the illrated Emperor Maxi