South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1878-09-13
NEWS OF THE DAY

Liverpooi during the last week has ruled
dull..--..The cost of constructing the
Paris exhibition building was 50. 600. 600.
exceeding the estimate By $4,000. 600
.....- The highest houses in London
have twelve stories. The State OF
Ohio has Sa26. eco. 600 invested in rail-
roads,. lit is said that process has
been discovered Of making sugar from
F., cornstaiks at cost OF 5 cts. per 10.
....-.A rich vein Of copper has been
discovered in South Mountain, near
Monterey. Pa. Italy orders quar-
antine against ships from any part of
the United States. 1904 New York
dressmaker employs three men cutters,
goes to Paris for style. every season.
owns house for which she paid Ss5.-
coo and keeps her carriage and horscs.
She has made her way entirely herself.
..--.- One hundred and twenty thou
sand dollars are annually sent ont OF
Georgia for canned fruit The Ssr-
asoga. n. T.. hotel employs $50 walters
ali negroes. LIT cost the English
government $4,000 year TO repair the
damage done TO ;nsalators and telegraph
wires by sstoue-throwing boys.
burglary is q capital crime in Nortl,
Carolina. Iowa expects that the
next census VIII make her the Gfth State
in the union. 1t Is said that at Saratoga
This summer the most eApensively- dress.
ed women are the wives and daughters o [
coal and ice men. Railroad inter
esis in the United States represent &c.
| uOQ, OVO, 900. -.... After Grant has been
tired Of Europe he is to be shown through
lnuia, China anu Japan. Wonderful
m an..-.. .Ex-Gov. Haight, OF Califor.
mia, died suddenly, in Sar Fran cisco Or
the I'd inst. There ar, 9,2G5 Masonic
Lodges in the Omitted States ...ES-
Empress EUGENE has the govt and leans
heavily on tout cane when size walks.
---...A farmer OF Eagle City, Iowa,
refused 10 leave the harvest field an
hour TO attend his wife's funeral, after
the neighbors had prepared for the
funeral. -.-..All save 16 or the widows
OF the late brigham Young have inarri-
ed again. His favo,ite wife Amelia
Folsom. was married last week
| During tie prevalence or the recent C.
clipse, the Pueblo Indians believing that
the sun god was angry, ordered two
hundred women 70 strip naked and run
around the race.track until the danger
was over. The women obeyed the or
der, aud as the shadow passed of were
hailed as the sayiors OF the world
he head Of q Boston man is broader
/ than 1T Is long. This shows what bean
diet will do for the brain The San
| Francisco B'dle.i3. estimates that there
is S25,00o,00e OF gold coin in circuia-
tioa III California The British
steamer Pierremont, from baltimore for
Dunklrk, is ashore near the latter place.
Her cargo consists OF Sd 54 bushels of
wheat. The races nj Laxing ton.
KY, on Monday last were won BY lie.
velen. one milo and three quarters, in
SOFA Lilly r. tliree-quarters OF a milo,
in Lib; Milan, one mile, in 1.44I.
Wm. Winston. Of Augusta county, Va,
stole $50 at camp meeting and goes 10
the pcnitentiary fov three years
Republicans ere greedy Tor office.
Jas. W. GUSTS. for many years prom.
ineut member Of the Virginia Legisla-
tnre, died in Will amsburg last week.
-.--..A very promising salt we'll has
been discovered in Tazeweil. Va.
DR.. Tbomas,a professional dead beat has
been sentenced TO the whipping post in
| Stauntol, Na.-..- There are, already
applications at tue PostofIlco Depart
ment for the positions OF postmaster at
Memphis and at Grenada, made vacant
by the yellow foyer. 49,. The Harvest
ing Machine, So extensively used out
| West on the great prairie farms, which
cuts, rakes and binds the grain all at
one operation has been further improy.
ed upon. III using tue machine wire
was resortcd TO for binding the grain.
but the miilers. having complained that
soue Of the wire got in among the grain
and toro End destroyed their boiling
cloths. an Improvement has now been
made by which the grain is strongly
bound with paper. and thus the whole
difficulty IS ayoidcI. 30 we 90 from
good TO better. -. Fashion notes pre-.
dict long-tailed coats for gentlemen the
coming season, which 10 & sweet assur.
ance that In the future VIC won't he obi
: eed ,n hunt around oryo, o holder whom
20 want To- l.It lot plate ."BnH
dietails' is What they call in dependents
"a florida ...... German and Austrian
/ lave forbid t1n s-I- ~r 1r.l Gil .IL