South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1878-01-11
NEWS OF THE DAY.

OiieauS <Wtcs says THIS Is lfiden year
u to 8. Virginia readjusters of the
State debt are pronounced red hot over
the new Governors attitude on the
same question. : Cyrus III. Mccormick
has recovered $4,000 against the Penn.
sylvania Railroad Company for bag
gage lost on that road sixteen years ago.
1.-The Chinese are reported TO have
massacred $4,000 men, women and child.
rem in Manos. The Colorado gold and
silver product for 1877 was S7,879.432
1.-The bonds stolen in the Capitol of
Virginia and refunded are discovered
SO far 10 amount to about 100000.
John Doyl employed at the new water
works, near Baltimore, on Friday last.
fell through a shaft distance of 256
feet, and was instantly killed, The
total shipments of coal from Pittsburgh.
last year were $685. SEQ bushels. an
increase Of 100000 bushels over the
shipments of 1875. One lady in
Maine boasts of hair eight feet and ore
inch in length, and that she has refused
an oraer OF $4,000 for it Bass, the
brewer; is the largest contributor to
the revenue of Great Britain. averaging
So,ooo for every working day of the
year. Nebraska raised the past year
25,500,000 bushels of corn and NO.
800 hogs The potteries of East Lii.
verpooi, Ohio, number twenty six and
give employment to about two thousand
men women and children Fifteen
years were. consumed AMI $1,000 ex-
pended in deciding the ownership of a
yoke of oxen, in Oregon Ninety
cents day for nine hours labor is paid
on The Wheeling and ruscarawas Valley
Road .-..-.A convention is to he held
in Washington, ID. c., January 22d to
consider the best way to extend Ameri.
| can commerce The Moorefeld E.can,
incr says that Mrs. William II. Harness.
ling near Wardensvil!c, Hardy county
has q hen which laid. set, and Matched
live timcs in one year. raising her chick
ems each time -. Hon. A. II. Stephens
breakfasts at halt past FIVE in Tie morn.
ing, it is said he never eats butter. and
he especially likes bvo.ied chicken
Rev. Leroy b. CASTOR. we'll known
Presbyterian minister OF Memphis. Tenn.
dropped deaf in the street q: Helena,
Ark, on Monday last, from heart disease
.--.St. APhonsus Catholic church.
Wheeling. was frei on Sun fay after
noon last from defective fne. and la.
mayed 10 the extent OF 81 900 VIM.
+. Smith was iraug urated Governor Of
Wisconsin, at Madison on Mon lay last.
-, The dioceses Of Quincy, ILL.,, and Of
Louisiana unanimously consent 10 the
confirmation Of DR.. G. +. Seymour rs
bishop of Springfield, and j. n. Eccles.
ton as bishop of this State
NJ Bethlehem, Pa, on Wednesday last
John lIaddock aged q, stabbed and in
siantly killed Lizzie Davis, aged 10, At
her home Returning to his own home.
he shot himself through the heart.
Cause, jealousy -. During the three
months ended December 81 there arriy.
ed at New York 1920 immigrants. ;.
264 of whom were females. .pbil.p
Martz, Of Mourocville, Allen county
Indiana, was married on Thursday and
gave a wedding reception on Friday.
a number Of unlimited guests gave
the couple '..belIing," or "calithnmpian
sercnade," wherenpon the friends Of
Martz fired into the Gro wd, woaDdiro
zine persons, tic most seriously hur.
heing Chas. Scar. c. n. Coverdale and
John Heller. Two OF the firing party.
John Moses and n. -. Krause. were ar.
rested 80. Richmond, Va, reports II
degrees below zero. The James River
IS frozen over The Asiatic cholera
has made its appearance at Mecca
The Keyser Tribune says: The Board
Of Education Of Frankfort District have
been suel by Mr.. Lee. a teacher. for
one months wages. The Board. it
seems, offered him an order on the ex.
Sheriff. who still has. Or ought TO have
funds in his hands applicable to payments
OF teachers but other teachers. who rot
similar orders, having railel TO get
their money on them, even after suit,
Lee refused TO accept one, and This &C
ton is brought to test The legal rights in
the premises, and 90 compel the Board
TO issue an order on tie n ew Sheriff.
Justice Shay has not yet decided tho
points involved Cen. Grant at last
accounts had arrived at Cairo, Egypt.
and called on the Khcdiye go. a ccounts
from various points Of New England
on tic 18th inst, indicate an intensely