South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1878-07-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

revolution, and Gen. Negrete is looked
upon as the coming revolutionary chief.
1.-THE United States consumes a.
bout eight tons of paper collars month
..-.-.In the South Carolina public
schools there are $40 more colored chill
dren than whites CALIFORNIA;
wheat crop this year is valued at S70,-
100000. Pensacola is shipping lum-
Der TO Chicago. Indian corn is
called toddy-seed' in the giddy West.
......A Conhagration in Mandalay,
India, recently, destroyed 200 houses.
1900. They are receiving Orphan boys
from New York at Staunton, and APP
prenticing them to the farmers $500
Promissory notes in Kansas are not
drawn so many days after date but
when sell my hogs. .Thermome-
tiers are consulted frequently these
days. .....Six hundred Scandinavian,
English AMI Welsh Mormons are en-
route to Utah .....It is stated that
there are now on hands in the country
1000 900 bushels of old wheat ...
Never think on going to bel, because
it makes wakefulness ....A horse,
owned by Nashville man swallowed
n spider the other day and died instant
ly...... Lisle-thread gloves with color
ed monographs on the back are fashion
nh oil i,,l- 10
for sentimental notes. One hun
drcl and thirty men and fifty women
have been arrested at the Paris Expo
sition for pocket-picking ....-A Bur
lington Iowa. lad Of twelve years coal
fesses TO stealing seven horses SO far
Francis Delorf. the founder of the New
Orleans Bee, died last week, aged 80
years, seventy Of which were spent in
the printing office The estate of
DIR. j. G. Aver, who died last week, is
said to be worth fifteen or twenty mill
ions. In the PcniLentiary ut Au-
burn, \. Y, there are AZ lawyers, p
clergymen, IS doctors and only prin-
tors. The Richmond Dispatch figures
it out that the returns from the MofIctt
register for the year, IN Virginia, will
reach 1926, f0l so. ...At an expert
mcnt with the electric light in Bradford,
England, it was found that photograph.
ic pictures could be executed with per.
feet success. Wool sorting, shade
matching, etc we're carried on rs well
as 10y daylight. Two prominent Al
bany q. y physicians are wearing
shoes male from the skin Of Sam S:een-
burg, the negro murderer, who was re
Gently hanged at Fonda, New York,
....-. George Fcsslcr, the absconding
Ohio county trcsuier recently captured
in Canada IS now in Jail in Canton, @.
hio. lie brought back $4,000 with
him. The balance OF the deficit is $40
600. Water, when converted into
steam, Increases in bulk Is, 900 times.
Tickets were last week sold from
st. Louis to Indianapolis 1858 miles for
80 cents, and TO New York for Sl2, tie
regular rate being $22 50-....- Two
fine blocks Of business houses on Bay
street, Jacksonville, Fla, were burned
Thursday OF last week, Loss $50, 700.
Edison, the inventor, has been
made a doctor Of philosophy by Union
College, Schenectady, New York ......
Uncle Jimmie Barrett, Of TazeHcll G.
H., Va, who enlisted in the Confcder.
ate army, though then over eighty years
of age, died on the 18th of June, aged
ono hundred years and six months. -.
The horns of cattle are made up Of
elongated iibrcs Of hair Thomas
b. Barkman, a photographer and q for
NOR citizen OF Staunton. committed
suicide in Danvilie, Va, q few days ago.
...... Leaves have l70 openings or
mouths in square inch Over six
ty kinds Of mowers and rcapcr5 are
manufactured in the United States 90.
Baltimore has seven hundred schooners
in the oyster trade, but Cincinnati has
several thousand in the beer trade -.
More postal cards arc now used by the
United States than any other nation.
......On Saturday night last 1877 emf
grants arrived q, Baltimore from Ger
many. .....A fire occurred in Defiance.
Ohio on Sunday last, destroying sever.
nj stores. &c. Loss $2jOOO....
New York city has club named the
'Ful!-Bcardod Company, consisting Of
forty members with boards ranging in
length from two feet TO four feet six
inches Bald Mountain IN North
Carolina, which created such a sensation
year ago AMI has been quiet ever since
has resumed its rumniings and great
excitement prevails in the neighborhood.