South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1878-08-23
NEWS OF THE DAY.


different positions. : -. Amer lea has
spent S5.0o0,000 trying 70 Christianizc
Turkey --.... Fifty million barrels Of
flour are annually ground in the United
States Leading ladies in Chicago
arc projecting Home for Inebriate
Women -...- Hon. VIM. Holster. ex.
secretaryof State Of Pennsylvania, died
at Easton, on Friday The Texas
greenback platform calls for the issue OF
two billions OF dollars in paper money.
-. Wheat is selling in Parkersburg at
20 cents per bushel $500. Two hundred
and fifty American firms ara engaged in
the manufacture OF children's toys for
Europe. Last year this trade amounted
to over $1,000, 000.- Two Chinese
young men are preparing for the Episco-
pal ministry at San Francisco 80. The
Iron Boundaries in Italy are using Anne
rican anthracite coal in preference 10
English coke, the former costing about
81 less per ton than the latter Sit
ting Bull wants to come back, but the
Great Father declines LA she. p
rancho as large as the State of Rhode
Isiand has been established in Tom
Green county, Texas. III is said
that there were last week. fully 500 Gum
mer hoarders in Oakland, Md Mrs.
Robinette, wife Of Moses l.. Robinettc,
OF Allegany CO., Md, was SO seriously in
injured on Thursday Of last week by the
ovorturning OF Il wagon in which she was
riding that she died on Friday. Mr.
Robnette was also badly injured $3.50.
n needle factory in Redditch, Eng
turns out between 6 aud 1000, 900 per
week. ..... The city census returns
just taken, show tue population Of Wheel
ing to be 29,299. There are 2S,-
8O5 working people unemployed in Mas =.
sachusetts. IA tornado passed over
Dayton, Ohio, on Friday last, unroof-
ing number OF honses and blowing
down several barns .-.-.M Mr.. Hayes
scandalizes Washington society by go-
ing TO church in an alpaca coat. 49,.
There are lT4,04l farms in Pennsylvania.
The world uses 100000 tons OF coffee
every year. .-.On the night or the
l4th inst, Hamilton Il. Forsy The, son Of
the late James ii. Forsythe, of Wheel
ing, was beaten by Henry Schmu!bach,
near Wheeling, and died in a few min
utes Both were intoxicated. Mr..
G. +. CONRAD, OF Winchester. Va, has
leased The street railways in Pittston,
Pa, and Is running them for lis own
profit. 49,. The banks Of Cincinnati on
Monday last refused to pay over 95 cts.
for trade dollars. and it is said will pay
but 90 coDts hereafter. .Cottsm.
Morton & Co., West India merchants,
London, have failed, with 81, 800 900 liza.
bilities .. During tho forty eight hours
ending at noon on Monday last the re-
ceipts Of grain ct Toledo, Ohio, were as
follows: Wheat, l,l00 cars corn, $50
cars oats, IS cars. Mrs. HAYES de-
MES that her son Webb is to be mari
ed to young lady of Fremont, Ohio.
--....The first ice manufactured in
Virginia was accomplished last week at
Danvile by the Virginia Ice Company.
$500. Gen. Grant has been rendered n
public reception at Frankfort, Germany.
......It is said that the man who drinks
lightly isnow called "a Durham, because
he is of the 'short-horn breed An
organization OF colored people, number
ing over 500 names, has been formed in
Richmond. Va, having in view immigra.
ton TO the Western country in the fall.
.....- The american 4yricuItur0liH says
hog cholera may DO averted by turning
the animals upon clover for . woek or so.
...... Philadelphia is oxciteI over q
fourteen days Old baby, Child Of Mrs.
Pncus, healthy German woman, which
weighs exactly sixteen ounces, and ia
seemingly in perfect health. The mo-
theirs wedding ring slips over the
child's hand and up TO its elbow
Mrs. Prentiss, the wife OF Rey. DIR.
Prentlss, and author of Stepping Hoav.
en"ard,' died Tuesday morning at Dor
set, VT. The jail of Loudoun county,
Va, is without prisoners, and the Com.
monwealth's docket is without single
criminal case-s good showing for n
LARGE aud DOnuloua countv
snow whito hooking bird has been cap.
turcd in Texas .-..- The NlUol Reqjs.
fer shows that the total number Of Off
GERS in all branches Of the navy and
marine corps, active and retired, is
1907 ......W William Henry Marin, Of
Hcurico county, Va, only three years