South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1878-04-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.

oil China Is increasing "A sea frog
was recently captured, on the coast OF
Florida that weighed go POUNDS ).
A steer that is worth 1924 in Texas
brings S40.S1 in Massachusetts. and
$oo.t5 in-NeHYork 80. Eighty three
murderers, all ma were hanged in the
United States in 1877. IA tornado
passed over Cottonwood. on the Santa
Fe road Saturday night, blowing forty,
i've cars Off the track and destroying a
number OF houses. Some lives are re
ported Lost Mrs. Catharine Keen.
an. sixty-seven years Of age, was bitten
on the wrist d month ago at her home
in Brooklyn, N. Y, by pet cat. Fri
day night she died in great agony, ap.
parcntly of hydrophobia. The death
OF the Pope caused over million pairs
OF black gloves to be sold in Paris
An5le-bar and fat plate are the only
forms Of iron used in ship building
A child two years OLD at Leeds, in Eng.
land, was suffocated to death the other
day by cat lying on it's face when a.
sleep--....A Salt Lake Mormon has
just married woman of sixty and her
daughter Of eighteen. >. The miser
business pays. You never hear of a
| miser making an, assignment. One of
this profession has recently died and
left s2,o00.oOo of property .Sena.
tor Withcrs, of Virginia, who has been
suffering with a disease of the ewes. is
very much improved. A newly invent
ed car for testing the strength Of bridg.
es ia to be used in Connecticut. It con.
tains al immense tank filled with water.
In case the bridge gives signs of weak-
ness the movement of n lever opens the
sides of the tank, and the water instant.
~ pours ont, relieving the bridge of
e'Shty tons weight. .....A factory for
the manufacture Of cotton bagging from
Jute will be in operation i'm Charleston
:. g., in less than sixty days. Jute
seed has been distributed by the Agri-
cultural Society to about 60 planters on
tie coast of South Carolina. Within
Two or three years the south will raise
Jute as well as spin and weave the fl
bre--... The S;ocktoi IN. j. spoke
factory last week received an order
from England FOR $4,000 spokes. to be
used in the manufacture ofartillery car
riages. The total annual consump
tion IN this country of barley malt, it is
said, will not fall far short of 10000
ooo bushels. "A San Francisco phy-
slcian announces to his patients that he
may he summoned or consulted bv
means Of the telephone -. Not many
women are blacllsnIiths, but m ,st of
them can shoe a hen. Milan. Ohio
is the town that claims the honor of be-
ing the birthplace Of Thomas Ellison.
the great inventor. lie Was born there
in 1911 --... John Riley of Frederic, k
county, Va was l0l years oil in Jam
uary last. lie walked TO Winchester n
distance OF six miles, last week. His
father died at the age of IOS
Bug Soup Lake is i'm Michigan
The Italians get their healthy olive
compilations by living most Of the time
In open air. There is in the New
York Institutions q deaf mute L5i who
is without hands, one arm having been
amputated just below the shoulder and
the other just below the elbow. Articu
lation is the method Of instruction usei
IN his case n negro in Mo. was appoint
ed detective TO aid in catching horse
thief, and it turned ont that the negro
himself stole the horse to get the reward.
Several ladies Of Alexandra. Va.
have started kitchen anil training
school for those desiring to learn the
art of baking and cooking -. Barba.
ra Aller, and old beggar woman. who
was seized with = fit at Brooklyn, l.. J..
ferry house on Tuesday evening, and
died while being conveyed to the hos
ptaI, was found TO have on her person
so W in money, q savings bank book
having Sl,99j,8S TO her credit, and
memorandums showing her TO be worth
in the aggregate $4,000. ....A man
named Francis Borne. otherwise known
as boulanger, native Of France. died
in New York on Sunday from rupture
received about six weeks since whilst
wrestling with bear. .Thos. Green
an oil defender Of Baltimore in the
war of l8l2-l4. died Sunday, last in
chat city, in his Goth year 800. Friday
q young woman in Baltimore disloca.
ted her jaw while gaping .... The SIN
notes that gold is being paid out by
wide-awake dealers in Baltimore
Among the lady clerks recently dis
charged frem the Treasury Department
is Mrs Mary Mumrord. of Louisiana,