South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1878-06-07
NEWS OF THE DAY.


as markets ---.- The German iron-clsd
( Grosser Kurfurst was sunk in the Eng
lish Channel on Friday last Inv collision
with the Kaiser Wilhelm. Three hun
dred lives were lost "A petrliied
crocodile, forty-six feet i'm length. has
been exhumed near Como Station. on
the Union Pacific railroad. and ship ned
to Yale College. The discoveries re
ceived $4,000 for their prize The
next General Conference OF the Metho.
dist Episcopal Church. south. will he
held in Nashville, in May, 1882.
John McCann died near Havre de Grace
Sunday last. from lock-jaw, caused by
a trivial accident, having, about two
weeks since, struck one foot against
the heel of the other. causing a slight
bruise --..-.A Georgetown .tIll.) far
mer, who was carrying home eth, hives
oil bees in his wagon last, week, iol,ed
the insects into rage, and they stuno
MS horse to death. and stung him so
badly that his recovery is doubtful
Two hundred rolling chairs ale in use
at the Paris show. Thomas i
Clay,a grandson of Henry Clay,is a SOL
dier in tho regular army in Texas
~At Springfield, Mo. Wednesday night.
Mrs. Thompson, widow, about so years
Old, highly connected ard respected.
killed her daughter Nettie. about l6
years DID, with razor. willie sleeping
in bed, and then cut her own throat
Temporary insanity ,occasioncd bv sick.
ness, is assigned for the act Thirty
temporary clerks were discharged from
the patent office at Washington on the
afternoon of the Doth ultimo
Mr.. John =. Ballard the well known
hotel man, died in Richmond on the
2Sth ult. Properly worth s5.4SO..
S44 is owned by the colored people Of
Georgia. The original home of our
common potato was in South America.
In the Andes. near the Equator
Wisconsin has over 20,000,OOO acres of
good farming lands tina, have never been
piowed- Ia Couple in Midllesex
County. Conn twice divorced, have re-
Gently married for the third time. 1t is
to be topcd they will stick.
Ninety,iive failures were reported in
New York during May, the gross liabili
ties being S5,6SG,306 and the assets
S955, 4o3 -. a man named Caldwell.
near Americas, Geo, on Monday last
killed his wife, three children. and his
wiie's sister with smoothing iron. Two
Older children wc-c at scl.oo. s2d enc -
the field, and one little one ran under
the house and escaped. The murderer
jumped into we'll, bnt failing to mate
rally injure himself erawled out. and
got on top ofthe dwelling house jumped
OF. lie was picked up insensible by two
negroes, who were attracted by his cries
and gesLiculations while on the house.
lie recovered in while and sent negroes
Oft for some rcigLbors. ana then went
to The gin house and climbed TO its !of.
test point and threw himself hcadlono
to the ground, &c expired almost instant
w.. An eighteenycar old girl lives in
Fiorida,who is % feet in height, lacking
one fourth OF an inch. and weighs GAS
! pounds The Martinshurg Ladepen-
"e'@ notes the death ct Hadgesville. on
last week, Of DR.. r. G.. Buckles, former.
! ~ one of the most popular physicians
/ OF Berkeley county The coiored
Methodists in North Carolina contem-
| plate the erection of State College.
-.---.As between Communists and no.
tato bugs, please to give Us the bugs.
..--..lt takes strength to swim n
/ gai INST the stream; any dead Gsh can
hoat with it, .AbUah Smith, We
teran Of the war of 1912, dick at his
home, Boonsboro', Md. on Friday last.
aSSd 20 years. 1.-THE papers are
warning the people TO look cut for coun-
terieit grcenbacks. We are putting in
our time looking out for the genuine
ones.--.St. Matthew gave up n position
rs tax collector TO follow Christ. They
don't st. Matthew much in these DAYS.
..--..The Keyser Tribune says that
benjamin Moore. colored, was tried I'm
the circuit court for Mineral co.. on the
18th ut, for cutting Samuel Head. Of
that place. with razor recently. and
was found guilty oFunlawCul CUTTING
and sentenced to the penitentiary for
one year. There is little $4,000.
/ 600 suit going on just now in California.
and all about q silver mine Cali
iornia has passed bill admitting wo.
men to practice law in an the Courts OF
inc tate.---..There is in this State
one insane person for every 1910 OF
population. Two little sons Of MIR.
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