South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1878-09-27
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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ginia, is making heary tobacco ship.
ments "a Germany AID France 4
The world uscs 480. 900 tons of coffee
every year. 49,. Edison's yearly income
from his pktents is said 10 be about $780,
600. He has realized In all from them
over $500, 900. TIL present enlisted
force of the U. ). navy is 6.s32 men.
$500. Counterfeit silver dollars are in
circulation $500. Gen. Butler is the lar
gest individual taxpayer in lowell. Mass.
He annually contributes 1885 to the
public treasury. 49,. Governmen will
pay out to pensioners $1,000, 900 Octo-
Der lst. IA meat company has been
organized in Texas to can all the bee r
they raise, and raise, all tbs beef thew
can. Hog CHOLERA is prevailing to
considerable extent in portions Of
Rockingham county, Va. West
moreland is the smallest county in vir.
ginia, but it was the birthplace Of three
Observation-Disclosures, Madison and
Monroe. 1.-The light oflightning will
penetrate through distance Of two hun,
dred miles ..... Out os twelve Catholic
priests in Memphis only one. remains.
..... Italy consumes over II, 900 tons
Of tobacco year. Paris oats half
a million ofgood fat snails every month.
....-.A man in Tcrre IIaute,. thirty.
eight years old, has been q widower six
times, and would like to be bereavcd
again .-....A soap mine has been dis /.
covered in Cal. The rock resembles
chalk, is veined. marble1 and parti-col-
Ored, resembling CASTLE soap. 1t
is proposed to introduce the electric
light in baltimore next winter
Postmas,er-Gepersl Key is the father OF
thirteen little Keys. dubuque has
o professor who teaches ladies how to
iron shirt fronts. I. i. Monkeys are use 4
for food in Japan Mr.. William u oil.
lar, OF Newton county, Ga, is 90 years
old, AMI bis wife SO. These are the
dollars Of the da,llies." doubtless.
The Balston, n. Y, paper-bag factory
turned out three million bags week be-
fore last ....The bite OF an owl has
been known TO create hydrophobia -.
"Kelptomania' is still more softly enti-
tied moral vertigo" .....A An artesian
sell $3.50 feet deep has been bored in
Pest'', Hungary. 1t is the deepest well
IN the world. 1t sends up jet of boil.
ing water forty-two feet high. The
heat in some of the Nevada silver mines
is so great that the consumption of ice
amounts to ninety-six pounds per day
TO each man,. The khedive OF F.
gypt is the boss bankrupt Of the day.
lie has nearly S7o.0o0, 900 Of personal
Indebtedness and his treasury IS s4OO,-
100000 behind hand. An English re-
eeiSer of his ''assets" has been appoint
ed miles Mary Shriyer, of Freder-
ick. Md, has raised by means Of an en-
tertainment 1857 80 for She yellow fever
sufferers. The barn Of the late Thorn
as Moore. at Darby, Pa, was burned on
Saturday night last. Loss 81 900. Mrs.
Moore, aged ninety years died from ex-
citenent occasioned by the fire..
This ia the time when shrewd merchants
begin to plant advertisements. And rs
they plant, so will they reap. 49,. Ben
Butler is now called "the bald.headed
son OF toil'' An Annapolis man has
been arrested on the charge OF attempt
ing to force kiss from married wo-
man lone acre in $4,000 Of Flori-
da lands is said to be good for some
thing 1.-THE Georgia Railroad has
just contracted for 1900 tons of steel
rails of SIC per ton. Two years ago
they coStSS0 THE days and nights
ale Of equal length now Mrs. Ma.
~ Mariner, Baltimore, aged 81, on
Friday night last carried into the yard
lighted kerosene lamp. which exploded
and she was so badly barned that she
died Sunday morning -. 1.-THE Cock
eyed Child of Destiny" is what the Gin.
cinnati Enquirer calls Ben Butler
a man walked into the Philadelphia
yellow fever relief Office, gave 81 900 TO
The treasurer, refused 10 tell his name.
and went away unrecognized. Tn
San Francisco there are said to be abou,
BOP 900 people, but the whole church
going population, born Catholics and
Pfotestauts, is only $4,000. lion
Addison Laain, ex.mcmber OF Congress
and naval officer OF the port OF New
York during Grants administration.
committed suicide at Fitchburr, Mass.
on Tuesday last, hanging himself in tho
garrett OF his house. He was aged 81
and was in bad health for some time
......There arc $4,000. 900 worth OF