South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1878-05-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Htuoteen Oaysln advance Of last year
go The spring cattle drive in Texas
according to the San Antonio Express
will number 223,400. .Holyoke,
Mass, makes nearly one half or the flne
writingpa OF the country :. Prof
VIM. Patrick. OF st. Lawrence Uniyer.
sity. has discovered near Wakecny, on
the Kansas Pacific road. 500 miles west
OF Lsavenworth. great quantities Of phos-
phats Of lime. Professor Ii. Leo,
the historian,is dead. $50 John N. Dix
on. Of Adams county. Iowa, is having
one hundred lanterns of peculiar con-
struction made to hang in his orchard
during the time Of bloom. to catch the
moths and insects. France has
appropriated $s.SO0.o0O for the Paris
Exposition .....Lace vests are COM
ing into fashion for ladies The
new German ironclad gunboats have
very venomous names-Wasp. Viper,
Bee. Scorpion. Gnat There are
now seventy.two post mistresses in the
United States. one OF whom, Miss Nina
Hodges. in the Dea Moincs postofIloe,
is said to have handled and paid out
four million dollars. and not cent has
fallen short -. Mr.. Emanuel Jenkins
living near Cumberland Nd, lost three
children within q week /, recently from
scarlet fever. A tight rope perfor-
mer, while walking backward over the
rope at Catasaqua Pa, missed his foot.
ing and fell fifty feet to the GROUND, re.
ceiving injuries from which he will die.
...-.-Mr. b. Coen, of Owen county,
Ind, recently deceased, in the seventy
third year of his age, had been married
forty five years. had raised family of
nine children, and had paid in all that
time one ollar and half for medical
attendance -. Mr.. Mackay, the big
bonanza millionaire of the Pacific coast
has furnished Tiffany & Co., of New
York, with silver ore from his mine. out
Of which they are TO manufacture a din
ner service for his wife's residence in
Paris. The service is to consist Of $50
pieces. and will cost 100000 The
friction match as medium of human
destruction is likely 10 rival kerosene.
Many cases are reported through the
press Of persons having their clothing
set on fire and being burned to death
from matches carried in their pockets
and about their persons. And we have
not the least doubt but large amount
'ofproperty is destroyed every year by
the careless use of matches 1t is
said that boy down in Virginia has
feet SO large tAat when he wants pair
Of boots he Just kicks CALF out Of its
hide and slips the skin right on
Two farmers named Burlington and
Clarke, OF Mason County this State,
got themselves into sweet legal mess
They had quarrel over the proprietor
ship OF about an acre Of land worth
in the neighborhood OF $25, and very
foolishiy took the matter into the courts.
The result is that the costs amount 10
$1,000. and. in all probability. the
lawyers will own both the farms belong.
ing to the contestants by the time the
case is decided Red.headed girls are
called raging blondesin San Francisco.
....-..ln Tennessee lives Mrs. Ann
Hopkins, aged III years. Her husband
was 100. She has three sons, whose
ages are 90, 95-the youngest, baby,
is 90 George Mantcr, an aged
widower Of Pennington, Me-, is sued by
his sister-in-law for breach of promise.
She says that long before his wife's
death he promised to marry her as soon
as he became free Now that the
telephone makes it possible for sounds
TO be canned the same "a beef milk,
Holsters. fruit, etc, missionary sermons
can be bottled ani sent to the South.
sea Islands ready for the table, inste ad
Of the missionary himself. .....A Cor
respondent Of the Weston Democrat.
brings forward Col. Jake Jackson, OF
Parkersburg, as n candidate for Con-
gress in lieu Of Col. Ben. Wilson. .....
Caleb Cushing is seventy nine years OF
age, but looks twenty years younger
and works sixteen hours a day ....
Hampden Sidney College has seventy.
eight students. .....A barrel OF eggs
was opened in Portsmouth, Va, Satur-
day and the packing was found to be Of
old Confederate and Virginia and North
Carolina Treasury notes, from five cents
TO ten dollars, Times says there were
a bushel OF them ..At Galveston,
Texas, on the night OF the 2Sth ult., the
postoflce was visited 10y party ormask-
ed robbers the pOstmostpr porupnIInd 20