South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1878-02-15
NEWS OF THE DAY.


penalty by chloroform is being discuss
ed by the Ohio Legislature. 1891 Last
year the people OF Ohio we're taxed for
school purposes over Sill. 900. 900, and
400 buildings were added to the acom-
mediation of pupils Virginia has
thirty-nine living ex-members OF Con-
gress .....A game cock was recently
sold in England for $500. Sixteen
hundred and eighty-two proves TO be the
exact number Of cars destroyed in the
RAILROAD riot at Pittsburgh. last July.
1880. orty-two bankruptcies in Chi
cago for the month Of January. Total
Liabilities ~, l5l 1882. -. Weedsport, n.
L., is paying up its church debts by
kissing bees One kiss for ten cents.
or three for quarter are the ruling quo
tations. 49,. General Braxton Bragg's
son is City Attorney Of Mobile, Ala.
1.-THE Postmaster General has re-
ceiVed forty thousand bids for carrying
mails west of the Mississippi River. =.
Charles Baker, aged forty years, pro-
pr'etor of a saloon on Light street, Bal.
timore, shot his wife on Saturday last
firing two shots at her, and Immediate
ly afterward shot himself through the
heart. from which he died instantly.
One ball fred at his wife wounded her
in the neck, and the other in the left
breast. 1t is said she will probably re-
cover. jealousy is said 10 be the
cause OF the deed -. .Ex- Governor
Walker. Of Virginia, has returned to
Washington from California, pleased
with the idea, that Gen. Joseph T.. John.
ston is to succeed him in Congress.
lie reports that people Of the Pacific
coast are for the silver bill, but that the
money kings are against it. q. a singular
accident occurred at the Pine iron works.
in Montgomery county, Pa, on Wclnes-
day Of last week lot of hot cinders
which had been taken from one of the
furnaces were being removed in cart.
when the vehicle overturned and its
contents fell upon snow bank. Instant.
iy there was an explosion, accompani-
ed by loud report, AMI Philip Baker
and David Gougcr, who were standing
close by, were severely burned about the
head and badly cut in the face by flying
clnders. Mr. Bakers eyes we're also Sc
riously injured. The shock produced by
the explosion is said to have been SO
great rs to shake houses one hundred
yards away Daniel Drew, in his
early life, was ca.tle.driver at the
munlticent rate OF seventy. five cents n
day, and he drove himself into an estate
valued at about $4,000 900 1t is
estimated that over $4,000 females are
employed in France in the decoration of
porcelain, and over 10000 in England
support themselves by work on earth
en- ware and majolica. The old /.
est postmaster in the United States is
Samuel Wood, who was appointed post.
master at Deep River, Indiana, by Pres.
ident Jackson, forty years ago. $50.
Robert Il. and Alexander Stuart, the
noted sugar refners, in their boyhool
sold molasses can ~, which their widow
mother had made, AZ cent q stick, and
to-day are worth probably S5,OOO,0O0
apiece. -....A lady in Mount Sterling,
KY, now but Is years old, has been
married six years, and has three child
rem. 1.-The first copper cent was coin
ed in New Haven in 1857. silk
worm consumes within thirty days Co.
OOO times lis own weight of mulberry
leaves. -. George Law, fory five years
ago, was a common day labcrer on tie
docks, and now counts his fortune al
something like$1O,0OO 900 -. A gentle.
man writes TO the London Times Of a
child who caught the scarlatina from
playing with an envelope which had in
closed letter written from house in
which there was a case OF scarIatfna.
......A Lady, who left Washington for
Baltimore few days ago, died in the
c AIRS on the way. She was eating lunch
with some friends, and suddenly com
menced gasping, and Immediately ex-
PRED. Cause, heart disease The
Rhode Island House on Friday last de-
feated bill to permit in:ermarriage be.
tween whites and negroes. .... Jacob
NJ. Jacobs, aged one hundred years and
two months, died at O5wego, n. Y,
Monday evening Of last week lie was
in the United States Naval service dur
ing the war Of Sl2...Col. w. d.
Coleman, whe has just served term in
the Virginia penitentiary for embez-
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