South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1878-05-31
NEWS OF THE DAY.

l,oz6,39o pounds OF cheese or
the six millions OF Roman Catholic, i'm
the United States, 1927 900 are said 10
be Germans DIR. Julius Robert
Mayer, the celebrated physicist and
discoverer of the mechanical equivalent
ofheat. died at Heilbronn France: on
the 10th OF last month .....The Gin.
cinnati musical festival which close., ON
the 18th is claimed to be the most suc-
cessfnl ever held in America, both in
musical execution and attendance =.
A terrific Cyclone struck Northern II.
linois Friday, literally .deva stating sew.
eral farms. In one place house was
carried 200 feet into the air. and three
persons killed. one being torn to pieces
by the force OF the wind. .....A com,
bined ironing. table, chair, and step lad
der is a new invention Oueen
Victoria was sixty years old on Friday
last. She has lived to see all her nine
children come Of age, her youngest. the
Princess Beatrice. having passed her
2lst birthday April IA. Mr. James
Tucker and Mr.. David Livingstone.
two wealthy retired woodcaryers. have
given $4,000 each for the foun dation
of home for their destitute fellow.
craftsmen in eastern Massachusetts
..---.A growth ofhuman hair. the lon.
gest on record, is among the curiosities
TO be seen at the Paris Exposition. 1t
came from the headofa Norman Girl Mer.
lot by name, who lived with her mother
In the EXTREMIST poverty. L, is seven
feet long. of an exquisite golden color
luxuriant and silky. "A large num.
Der Of cedar poles, of immense length
have been shipped to Charleston. South
Carolina, from Tennessee, within the
past few days. They are to be sent to
Europe for use as telegraph poles.
The Texas wool crop this year, il is
thought, will yield 100000 pounds.
.---.- lhe baltimore strawberry mar,
ket was completely glutted one day
-
last week the arrivals having been near.
~ 100000 quarts. Prices ranged from
o TO cents a quart -. This being
The seasonlof conventions, the New Yorl,
World thinks that "a convention Of the
lazy men of the country would be a
great blessing, and it is pity tha: they
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bride was rugged in a trousseau niyen
by former rejected lover. "A man
In Somerville, Mass, nailed up all the
outer doors OF his honse SO rs not to be
disturbed by visitors while whipping
his wife. 1.-The decoration of the
graves of Union and confederate soldi.
ers at the national cemetery, Jefferson
barracks, near st, Louis, Mo, took
place Sunday, under the management of
the clergy. An immense number OF
people participated.. In Cincinnati
curious accident occurred on Thursday
OF last week Mrs. IIeanig, while eros
sing Pearl street. near Egglestone aven-.
uc, was struck senselcss. by missile
that made n flesh wound extending
from her right temple around to her
forehead. 1t was thought at first that
sae had been shot by a stra; ball from
an air-5un, but the theory was after
wards preached that one siie of a small
pebble, heavily pressed on by the out
side rim of n passing street car wheel
was propelled after the fashion Of q wet
watermelon seed between the thumb
and foreinger, with force sufficient
to cause the damage as described . -.
Della Lynch, New York girl. had an
aching tooth extracted by,a dentist on
Saturday evening, and II hemmorrage OF
such violence resulted that she was
brought very low. The bleeding con-
tinued from O'Clock in the evening
until 0 o'clock in the morning. 1t was
pronounced by the doctor very remark
able case. but no charge Of malpractice
has been made against the dentist. who
on the same night pulled seventeen
other teeth ....A number of living
horned frogs, silI<-worms, and other rep.
tiles and chronological specimens were
desti Dyed by cremation on Wednesday
in the New York postoGlce. These
creatures had been sent through the
mails as third-class matter TO various
addresses, one of the horned .fogs IA
beautiful specimen being sent from Ari
iona and destined TO Germ any. All
third-class matter isliable to he opened
and examined, and all perishable con
tents, liquids. fluids, or explosives liza,
bic to create damage or nuisance, are
interChcted This will account to ma
ny persons for the fact that fish.
snakes. young alligators, &C., sent by
them 70 friends have never been receiv.
ed by the parties to whom they were
directed. .....At Arlington, Ills. Sum
day, Sam Carney. young man who had
been refused permission to visit q Miss
Culleubine. went to her room. cp. bor