South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-04-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Oh oioou eqnaI 10 tire whole quantity IN
inc oooy passes through the heart once
every minute The Steel Works Com
: pshy NJ Cumberland, MI. has decided
to engage IN the manufacture OF edge
tools The shock OF an earthquake
was distinctly felt at Norfolk, Va. on
the IL Ia inst. -. A destructive tornado
sNep, over the interior Of south Carroll
ma On the l6th inst. At WATERFORD.
III cen persons were killed anil one hun
dred dwellings and all the churches
were blown down. The world uses
4oO'OOO tons of coffee every year. aud
sun wants more. :. .TnNNYsoN received
Sl'7Vo Tor his last poem. or at the rat e
oil twelve dollars line. German tan
ncrs are clamoring for protection he
cause TINS country is outselling them in
their own markets =. There were TWEEN
ty-s'x contested seats in the late Con-
gres5, which cost the Government about
S0o' Ooo "A French paper refers to
PRESIDENT GRANT as tho best iudre of
champagne IN America" There are
twenty-siN sheep raisers in Webb coun-
! w. leXas. owning from 200 TO so, 900
head each President HAYES barber
/ Is on the pay-rolls as a Sl,4O0 clerk
/ Snow at Stamford, Delaware county. y.
/ l =. on Saturday last, fell to the depth
of nearly two feet. Congressman
| BRIGnr is so mcthodical that he goes
! by the name OF Aunt Susan" The
I Newark, n. j., cutlery manufacturers
nave, I, Is said. more orders than they
can Ill - What is supposed to be the
largest tree In the southern States is a
tuIlp-oearing poplar near Augusta, Ga,
which Is about l55 feet high amt nine
Ieet in diameter. its lowest branches
being % feet from the ground "a
minister will always do to tie two
birmingham, Eng, is importing hay
forks, clocks, apple.parers anil clothes
pms from Philadelphia IA MAN
without character is IS unfortunate as
a Congressman without cork screw
me amouut OF arsenic imported into
THIS Country IN one year was 2,327,742
pounds. Each pound contained poison
enough to kill $500 human beings -.
The steamship LEIPZIG landed $50
prussian and Bohemian immigrants at
baltimore on Saturday last. The inn
migrants are bound for the western AMI
northwestern States . . Madison, Indi-
ana, owns the boss glutton. His name
IS JIMMY O'DoNNELL, and he alto twenty.
TOUR goose eggs in twenty mine minutes
and then lie wanted TO eat the goose
-. l he wine merchants of Paris keen
IN their employ n class Of men called
guardian angels" whose business il is
TO escort home tipsy customers "A
quantity of salt put in the Wisconsin
State patching waters at Madison to aid
the growth oil the young brook trout
killed about n million Of them jana
hese ladies paiEt their checks with a
green substance. which. on exposure to
Tic air, soon becomes n delicate pink.
.---Ihe Russians are peculiar. When
collins are covered with cio'h, the color
indicates the character Of the deceased.
II the body is young person, crimson
is used; if a widow, brown; if father.
yellow but black is never used
LINN Mass Sossips tell OF man who
recently got divorce from one woman
and married another, but is now living
with both females, tho first wife acting
as housekeeper. while the second sup
ports the trio by working in shoe shop.
- Eight car loads OF chickens. making
twenty-five hundred to car, making in
all 200 o passed over the Va Il Tenn.
Railroad n few days since for tue New
1orl. market The Baldwin locomo-
tive works, Philadelphia, now give err.
r!oyment TO 900 operatives, who are
wording night and day on large order
Tor luCoUotlyeS from Australia A
New Orleans woman has married a Mr..
Beer, and Is intoX'catc ! over her hap
plness. The funds given by Repuhl-
cans 10 pay the expenses Of emigrating
negroes are not spent in sending them
back II they don't like their new home.
There is living in jacksonville.
NY, an old German who has i'm his pos
session pair Of trousers made in Ger
many in the year 1886 lie has been
married in them four times, and is very
anxious TO use them the 9th time
There arc seven million bushels Of wheat
now I'm the elevators i'm Chicago. and no
orders IIezekiah ShatTrr was hung.
at Chambersburg, Pa. on Yesterday
week, for the murder Of his wife In
the past year the New York Bible Soci.
ETY. circulate S9.Sj4 volumes ...They
are now using oil as fuel in Titusvile.
Na.-..A little girl in Lewistown. Pa,
has committed the whole OF the New
Testament 10 memory . Rev. J. W.
COLE has been shut ont Of the Mstho-
dist Church pulpit nj Charlemoat. Mass.
being currently accused of horsewhip-
ping his wife habituslly or forty-two
coal mines in the coke regions Of Penn.
sylyanla, only twelve are in operation.
IA spring Of water on the farm Of
AUBREY lloFFMAN. IN Chester county,
Pa, has just been measured and found
TO he Eve hundred feet deep The
American Episcopal Church has seventy
congregations in Mexico Rev. HEN.
kY NELL. ID. d.. oI Philadelphia. y
widely.known Presbyterian minister.
died ON Monday evening last A short
horn Kentucky heifsr. two years old.
sold in Jun:ata county, Pa, last week Tor
1925 THE monarch OF the seiz" is
said 10 he a sheriff . Belmont Coun.
~ man, whose wife's first name is Anna.