South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1878-02-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Qoyeo US utc SaIulual D1CSi OSkt
left New York last Saturday for Rome.
TO take part in the election OF q new
Pope. 1t is stated that the Pope's
last words were-'Guard the Church I
have loved SO well and sacrcdiy.
Small pox is raging in an epidemic
form at Bremond, Texas, Nine-tenths
of the inhabitants have left the place,
and business houses arc all closed =.
Mr.. w. 7. Herring. prominent mer-
chant, and old citizen of Martinsbnrg,
died last Tuesday of paralysis The
prettiest girl In London is said TO be
beggar .....Over two thousand per>
sons persisted by fire at the city Of Tein.
! stin, China. recently, by the burning of
an asylum for women and children. -.
a fire IN New York partially destroyed
massive block Of business houses and
two adjoining churches. The Eighth Re.
giment armory was included in the block.
The loss is estimated at from 100000
to 81 100000. ..... The overseers Of the
poor at Geddes, n. Y. erected build
inglworth $500 for tramps to lodge in
free OF cost. On the third night they
beat their benefactor most TO death
and burned the house ..-.- Mr. Charles
l.. Wood, an old and highly respected
citizen OF Frederick county, and mem.
Der of the Society Of Friends, died at
his residence at Woods factory on last
Thursday morning Coaches were
first used in England in 1869 ......
Birds killed on the western prairies and
packed with paper in barrels, without
freezing or any other artificial process
OF preservation, are sent TO England by
every steamer and arrive in excellent
condition. ---.. There are forty cases of
poisoning in the town of Richmond,
Vt. from using the water Of an infected
well. No deaths since Monday 800.
Mrs. A. L. Stewart owncs the largest
single diamond in the land value, $50.
600. - The famine in Northern Chi
ma still prevails. The want Of railroads
to afford rapid transportation is The rea.
son relief Is not afforded In Hart
ford, Conn, women receive % cents per
dozen for making corsets, and the cotton
thread, which must be bought Of the
corset manufacturer, is deducted from
this sum. There are thirteen stitches
to the inch, and FIVE thousand stitches in
one corset. An experience needle
woman can complete half dozen in n
day, and thus earn twelve and q half
cents. -. A residcat Of Los hnac4 os.
Cal, Is now gathering ripe tomatoes
from the the top of n twenty foot ladder.
The vine, which is twenty five feet high,
has heen trained on the sunny side OF
the house, AMI shows blossoms and fruit
in every sage of growth The
Telephone has been experimental sue
cessfully with by the Lon ion Daily
News for the purpose of reporting the
parliamentary debates. 1t is stated
that the speeches reported in the mum .
Der that recounts the experiment ware
perfectly audible, notwithstanding the
noise OF the other voices 800. Most OF
the surviving regimental commanders
are expected TO attend the reunion OF
Mexican veterans at Baltimore on the
22d inst. -. Thirty-hve hundred bales
Of cotton were burned by an incendiary
fire at Savannah, Ga, Sunday night last
Insurance S22O,O00 The bill to al
low colorcd attorneys TO practice in
Maryland courts has passed the House
OF Delegates. .....It is now estimated
that there are 100000 of people starv
in the famine districts Of China
ID. Townsend, former preacher. and
his son. have been sent to the peniten.
tiary from Butler county, Pa. for horse
/ stealing Two large oil houses, al
Mobile, Ala, were destroyed by fire or
| the 18th instant. IAN Austrian
surgeon says that when the Russian
took kars they not only pillaged the
shops. but they entered the hospitals
and took everything Of value they could
find, even from the sick and wounded
...... Edward 5. Stokes, who killed
jim Fiske, contemplates AN carly dc.
parture for st. Louis, and intends TO be
come a citizen Of that place Gen
Robt. Toombs has purchased n one. THIRD
interest in the Kimball House, Atlanta
Ca, paying therefore $4,000 -.
Martin Coyle. John O'Brien, and TIM
man, name unknown, while intoxicated
attempted to row across the river a
Wheeling, this state, Monday, and were
drowned. Gov. Mathews has par,
1oned out Of the peDitentIacy william
Kline, convicted Of grand larceny By