South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1878-06-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.

yer larger NOR better than this year.
----..lou can get a nice room in q
Paris hotel now for Slf day.
president Garrett; of Gle BsIsimors &
Ohio road, sailed on Saturday last eror
Europe, to be gone about three months.
Queen Victoria has reignSd forty.
one years. only three years less than
the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
Pennsylvania furnished .372,2S4 men
during the late war .....Mrs. Corwin
the venerable widow Of Thomas Corwin,
died suadcaly. at her home in Ohio.
on Monday morning. During her later
years size has been feeble in body but
bright and cheerful. in spirit. IA
Monument TO the late William Cullen
Bryant is already proposed by his adj
miring New York frient,e'. :. Cara
baldi keeps no attendants 70 speak of
and it is rule in his house that, his
guests make theirlown beds. =. Re-
cent statistics show that while the
death rate among the whites in Wash
ington City is only 1927 thousand,
among tue colorcd people it is 1850 a
thousand. -. The,4th Wall be celebrated
in MartinsDurg, this State, with mil.
itary and civic professions, IRE works.
cannon, music and oratery &. -. More
lemonade, less sickness, ysays = Boston
physician 49,, Seven ont of. eight gi.
RATES. imported last yeE. Tor menageries
in the United States fave died. The
climate does not seem to-. agree with
them. - "A large number OF. counter
felt silver dollars and ton cent pieces
are iiscFcuiatiop. 1.-The Crown Prin-
cess OF Denmark should he spoken of as
Her Highness. She stands 6 #. 2 inches
in her slippers .,...- San Francisco has
seven female millionaires, not one Of
whom has ever given dollar for any
charitable or benevolent purpose ......'
The proposed Centenary, of American
Methodism in 1882 is To be held in
Baltimore. -. THE Senate has. by a
tic vote, refused to consider the claims
OF the ladies for. admission to practice
al the bar OF the supreme Court Of the
United States. .... james A. Crawford,
prominent citizen OF Rockingham
county, died last week -. The con-
struction OF the Paris Exposition build
iugs has cost teAiatl Hon. iaHeA beyond
the original estimate ~ One thousand
operatives MS Wtliimsntic, Connecticut
werc pahl Or in soN on Saturday last.
Hnudyeds Of employees meyer saw gold
coin before, aasr.sluai,y wese unable to
coant it., "A nnsnhcr rta9assesi lalls in
stead: a,rltkSappcar;aipscSa osihO strange
money cssa6tsa 'iaIIt g = Se,asasion; in -ehe
town. ~. The snaji and = age liae from
Eortsas5 birth; e1as. Coz ;Y'nas. Arizona,
was speiicd' saturday iasests lis 1860
m:les in.fengfl,, tho. ,engest stage line
in the a9rla;:. -. taeysels 30 assaer.v. L.
Handy. ST Ssitg MAS .s 81 81 piiiiis-
Ter OF. the |yd55gssfjnh ehhfctt, died re-.
ccbtiy4,r r,gtia: agtsis5 Years, :. /.
AparTiqsse : took Place, in Is tJsokLyh, n.
Y, on Friday oflast wecis,tlie groom. be-
hing al and tl.c. bride 10 ..s,..-. The cot
ton crop of.last yeat; IS wsrth, s25O, o00..
900. .FiSe hundred men We're
thrown out OF employmenton the 18th,
in Boston ny the burning Of an extern
siyc pork slaughtcring establishment.
1.-The 18th has passed and the "car
wheels are still rolling There is
a lawyer in Wheeling named Hug-us,
and Catholic Father in Baltimore
named Hug on'!.: 8. :. Large quantities
OF coarse. straw wrapping paper are
shipped from New York to Cuba and
Europe to be used in the manufacture
ofcigars. 70 is til ere saturated with to-
bacco jucc and passes forrfeaf tobacco.
Virgil Shultz, of Highland coun-
! ~, Va. was robbed Of $25 on the Par
| kcrsburg road, six miles from Stanton
by two negroes. The negroes we're ar
rested in stanton by the police, but
had speut nearly all of Shultz's money.
......Mr. Richard G. hughes. promi
ncnt citizen Of Woodstock, dropped
dead on the street in that place on We'd
( nesday Of last week - "A child oil
Mr.. Joseph Nay, of IIarrisonburs, fell
into a pot of boiling water last week
and was nearly boiled ito death ......
An exchange says the. Mothodists have
I finished their new hymn book. The OLE
collection has been III use for about
thirty years. May, of the present
year, was cooler than the corresponding
month Of any year since 1871 ..,...
The Mexican revolution is considered q
failure go. Henry T. TimbcrIaIIe. aget
about 80 years, Of jefferson county
this State, was found dead I'm his bed OF