South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1878-09-06
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

eign counties 100000. GOO for sugar
and inolasses- ----- One Georgian has
collected and sold sixty thousand bull
lets from baitlefelds in that State
The bite of an owl has been known to
create hyirophooia. :. The electric
light is being slowly developed, SO that
it promises 10 become capable OF uni
versal use. $500 Every day since her
birth each ofthe parents OF. a Flemi ngs-
burg, KY, girl have deposited ten cents
for her benefit. She is now twenty.
-. Harper Bros, f'New York have con-
tributed $1,000 for the relief of the yell
low fever sufferers Amy one who
violates the quarantine ordnance in
Vlcksburg Is imprisoned. ....By the
explosion Of tho rusty boiler OF steam
thrasher. near Livingston. Mimi. on the
29th ult., six men were killed. The
thrasher was thrown two hundred feet
by the force OF the escaping steam.
80 . 'S'''SSS N'S'S II uAtuc III tuc WOTlQ
is that of the King of Siam, who has
three thousand wive in one building.
.-.--.A Cohoes IN. " man had the
silver III his pocket turned black by
lightning ..--- The town of Maskolez,
Hungary. was destroyed by n storm
Friday night, OF last week and four
hundred persons were killed :. Ten
car loads OF lime, Tor disinfecting, are
en- route from Cairo to II. Orleans.
African princes require their brides TO
have their teeth fled like saw.
There are 100000 Sufferers in France.
1.-The Sultan OF Turkey is obliged
TO have 365 suits Of clothes a year he
never wears the same garments twice.
..--..Ihe only medical college for me-
groes is in Nashville. 1t is amply en-.
lowed. $500 Akron. Ohio, has seven
teen thousand popul alton and not dol
lar of debt .---.-A child in Salisbury,
Maryland, was killed last week by cat
ing concentrated lye. When Di
Mnrska arrived IN Saratoga her travel
ing companions were Il parrot, two mag
pies and hooking bird, in large cages,
q cat and dog This is the hot.
test summer that England has expert
enoed for eleven years Three hun
dred head of West Virginia cattle were
recently shipped from Norfolk, Va, to.
Europe. The en,rails or cattle are
now manufactured into cord, rope, round
and Il =. betting, and other material where
extraordinary strength is required.
$500. Three young ladies were drowned
while bathing in the river Ottawa, at
Pembroke, Canada, on Monday last.
Leete, one OF the witnesses be the
Potter investigating committee, after
giving his evidence went crazy. 1t is
unsafe for radical 10 undertake to tell
the truth 49,. The new king of italy
is named llumbort Renter Charles En-.
manuel Jean Marie Ferdinand Eugene.
lie would have been known simplv ne
"hrm Ii in this country 49,. 4 French
actress recently nearly lost her life by
sleeping in an apartment flied with the
flowers that had been thrown on the
stage during the evening. She was uncon-
sclous when found. -.... Newspaper
are used in many public schools o r the
West, instead OF books, for reading les
sons-....-In England tiny thread OF
gold supporting q solitaire diamond is
the favorte engagement ring 800.
james Muller has been convicted of
horse stealing in Rockingham county,
Va, and sentenced to the PC nitcntiary
Tor 3 years $500. Philadelphia has sent
to the yellow fever district over 81 900.
Charles Dashiel, a deaf mute
living in Hagerstown Nd, committed
suicide last Friday night, by cutting his
throat with razor. lie leaves wife.
also deaf mute, and one child. 800.
In Baltimore Saturday $l,G05,50 was
subscribed in aid Of the yellow fever
sufferers, Masking $9,539.22 in all to
date 49,. Lizzie DIagee, II years old,
daughter Of Mis-. VIM. Magee was burn
ed to death in Wheeling. w Va, on
Sunday morning, by the explosion OF a
can Of coal oil with which size attempt
ed to light fire DR.. Rob-. Wright
Of Contrcville Md, is the oldest living
graduate OF West point. General Bon.
neville, who recently died, and who was
before his death, the oldest living grad
uate Of West Point, was in the class
just preceding DIR. Wright. Only two
gentlemen arc now living who we're
students AZ the Academy at the time OF
the doctors graduation. These are
General Henry Brcwerton, who built
Fort Federal Hill in Baltimore. and