South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-07-04
NEWS OF THE DAY.


One hundted and two years ago, june !
IA. l777, the American Gag asoriginal-
y adopted by Congress At. DE Witt !
Iaimase telegraphs his "dear people"
from London. saying that be never knew
how much he loved them until now.
The Charleston, ). c.. custom-house cost
the government S4.000,000. and was
twenty years building -. There are for
~ lawyers and only three printers IN
Auburn, n. Y. prison In Maine there
Is new industry for chldren-the pick
ing OF potato bugs ut ten cents thous-
and The production OF butter and
cheese In this, country is..said to he four
times greater in valuc than the total
yield OF our gold and silver mines 80.
In upper Arragon, Spain. masons are
sale u wet their mortar With wine, water
being scarce. In this country they Use
the vine TO moisten their clay with.
Richard c. Holiday, a prominent law
yer Of Moundsville, W. ", died few
days ago. The silk crops Of France
and Italy are failures The two barns,
near Barton, Md. burned on Tuesday OF
last week. belonged to o father and son
named Coimcrs, living a mile apart
They burned about twenty minutes
apart, and the loss i'm hay and grain de-
stroyed will reach Mt least 81 ,500..-.
The cornerstone OF q colored male col.
lege has heen laid at Meridian, Miss.
IA telephone has been placed on the
preachers desk In the Congrccatio
church at Mansfield, o.. and the wires
convey the sermons to the homes OF six
aged and sick persons. AT q colore
peoples wedding in Cincinnati the 9TH
er day the bride was presented by her
parents with a handsome residence and
$4,000 in cash. : Nineteen missiona-
rios died in China last year. he
great fires in Cuba have caused q loss Of
over Sl00.000.00O. 1t is generally
supposed that Chinese rice paper is made
from rice. 1t is really made from the
pith OF tree which grows to the height
oftwenty feet, and which is also used for
the manufacture OF artificial flowers and
certain toys and fancy articles 1t is
said that seventy-eight homicides were
committed in the State OF kentucky
within year just past. Aunt Esther
former servant OF Thomas Jefferson.
died in st. Loais recently. aged III
years. Murders. br ntal oatraacs and
suicides continue 80 he Che order''of the
day all over the intry .Ex.Gov.
Hubbard Of Hartford, Conn. is going to
Europe with his family. lie is DISCUS.
ted with this country since his daush-
tor robbed him OF. his Coachman.
Strange mischances with fatal results
are daily happening. A Boston butch
er ran against a knife that lay on n
block, severed an artery, and bed 10
death. IA Denver woman caught her
loot in arailroa. rros. and could not ge,
loose baicfe train ran over her. "A
We. aont farmer sneezed with a straw in
his mouth. drew it into his lungs, and
died choking a horse kicked q Mich
igan boy into a deep we'll, where lie was
drowned. The shoe few OF the foot
OF kicking mule, in Nashville, and frac
tured the shall OF q baby. -. An Oregon
girl swallowed her engagement ring,
and lived only y week after W ard
While standing on his heal, on the top
OF high fonce post, an Iowa boy lost
his balance, gfell in tub of hot water.
and was fatally scalded :. "A stone.
thrown by playfellow. broke a glass
from which st. Louis boy was drink
ing. driving some of the pieces down
his throat, and lie died in great agony
49,. Looking mp 10 watch the flight OF
an arrow, a Nashville woman did not
see it descending directly over her head.
and the sharp metal point penetrated her
brain through one Of her eyes, killing
her instantly. The Raleigh ~. c.
NeTs and Observer both assert that there
is no more idleness in the South, pro-
than in .he North. ELL
ridge Ruey, farmer Of Tioga county,
n. Y, was murdered and robbed, on the
9th u!t., by Daniel Searles. a negro, TO
whom he had refused loan 80. Last
year in the East Indies 5000 persons
were killed by tigers aud Other wild
beasts and 1900 attacked by snakes.
80 Huntington, this State, has a pop
ulation OF 2,6l2..- Tho Page County
lVs) Bank has suspended. The assis.
tant cashier, b. +. Grayson, Jr., charg.
ed with misarplying the funds, has
abscoDded -. The water in the upper
Potomac river is said TO be lower Mt
present than for many years.durine the
h'NhNh VI ~ uHC NLuccil lClOTla, now
sixty years old, has worn the crown OF
England for forty-two years, q longer
reign than that known to any Other In.
ropean monarch. ..... The Woodstock
Herald says: A child about ore year
old, whose parents reside nea. Pembroke
Springs. Cedar Creek, accidentally hang
cd itself few days ago. The Child hal
been left on a bed while its parents were
out in the garden. On returning they
found the child hanging behind the bed.
II had fallen or attempted to get Off the
bed. when its head caught between the
railing and the wall. IL was dead,
when found. .....It is stated upon good
authority that in 1870, when there was
strike or three months duration amono
the operatives Of Fall River. the los, to
them WAS not less than S250,OOO. And
then they resumed work Mt the reduced
rates Stephen Grecnlief, Of NORWAY