South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1878-08-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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ported 1l1,000, 900 yards Among
the failures at St. Louis last week
was the we'll known Hughes Riding
pillow CompaDy......The grasshoprers
have made destructive raid on the
crops and vegetation OF Dakota territory.
$500. Prof. Julius ID. Dreher has been
elected president OF Roanoke College,
Salem. Va. and Rev. r. C. Holland, Of
Shepherdstown, West Va, vice-president
.--...Mr. Angel, Of the Pullman Cor
Company, has got away with sl25. 900
of the Company's money 49,. Carl
baldi wants war with Austria to re-.
cover Trieste and Trent .....J. w.
Riggs and j. NJ. Luttrell, at Princeton,
Ky, in attempting to escape from court
while being tried on Monday last for
horse stealing. were shot and instantly
killed. Hon. Bailie Peyton, for
many years a prominent politician, died
at Nashville, Tenn, on the 10th instant.
...-..Gov. Wade Hampton is recover.
ing from an attack Of typhoid fever.
..--..Mr. r. T. 81. Staub, Of Martins.
burg,is an Independent candidate for the
House of Delegates In Berkeley county.
......A Minnesota woman has lost
two husbands BY lightning. She ought to
marry conductor 49,. Mr.. Edison is
now engaged upon megaphone. an in.
strument By which he expects deaf peo-
pie TO hear ordinary conversation. He
has it so far perfected that by applying
tubes TO his ear he can hear man con-
versing at the distance Of mile
The Empire Of Japan is made up of 81
GOO islands. Saratoga N. Y, has
70 different kinds Of springs. 1.
Hoedel, the man who tried to shoot EN-
peror William some time ago. was led
to the block, last week, and beheaded.
..... .Gilmer County. Ca, has a pig
with eight lega and two heads and a
Growing chicken with four legs.
John f. Bailey and George Rush. two
men employed at fertilizer factory in
Baltimore, fell into vat OF vitriol on
the goth. and were terribly burned. Bal
ley died next day, and Rush the day
following 49, Henry vaurin. OF Mil.
Yankee. concluded the only way TO a.
void quarreling with his vito was to
knock her brains out and cut his own
throat. His attempt upon her life prov.
cd failure. but the cutting Of his jug.
ular was most successful Job.
New Jersey takes the lead OF the States
In the manufacture Of window glass. It
has 81 factories 49,. Alexander IL.
Stephens was never married The
sale of the late Mr.. Winans' carriages.
horses and hot honse plants. at Balti.
more, brought about $4,000. .BIessrs.
Wendell Phillips and Caleb Cushing
support Gen. Butler for Governor OF
Mass. Birds Of a feather flock together.
1890 Niagara Falls is 10 have the lar.
gest Touring mill In the world. Its dali
ly capacity is to be 1900 barrels. 49,.
The house of Dir. A. b. Richards, near
Round Hill, in Frederick county, Va.
wss destroyed by ere on the night Of
the 2lst inst.-the evening Of the day
on which he had purchased it. The
closing of the Paris Exposition has been
fixed for October $500. Wheeling is to
have Turkish bath rooms. 80. The
Messrs. Ficklen, OF Fredericksburg,
who sent sample OF their -four to the
Paris Exposition recently received an
order from Paris, by cable, for three
hundred barrels. .....A writer recon-
mends ants for currant-worms, hens for
potato bugs, and turkeys for grasshop-
pers. How about panthers for bad men.
..--A newly married couple in Hancock
county, Illinois, have separated. This is
how it came about. A poor weak fy
dropped into the husbands cup OF cof-
fee. and he threw it into his wife plate.
She tossed it back and the husband re-
turned it promptly. The wife went TO
her pas house in huff; and friends
say it is clear case Of out on fly.
In England in 1877, 10000 postage
Stamps were found loose in letter boxes
and bags.bayipg been rubbed off through
insufficient licking and sticking and
100000 letters were consigned 10 the
Returned Letters Office 49,. Frank
Waller, Of Stafford county, Va. has
been sent to the penitentinry from Rock
ingham county for fifteen years for horse
stealing - Henry s. Walker has been
nominated for Congress by the Green
hackers OF the Third District.
There is furnace being erected near
Tolersville, Louisa county. Va. for the
manufacture Of sulphur on An extensive
scale-the only establishment OF the