South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-11-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.

old merchants OF New York. died Sun.
day last. In early life he lived in
Richmond,Va., number OF years -.
Senator Chandler left no will. His
property will go TO his wife and his
daughter, the wife OF Hon. Eugene
Hale, OF Maine. The property OF DIR.
Lemoyne, the cremationist. is apprais-
ed at $500, 900. -. Those who have tried
than the Snowflake "A few days
ago Louisville woman. wearing ST.
600 worth Of diamonds, was arrested
for drunkenness. The large academy
hall at the Normal Agricultural School.
near Hampton, Va, was destroyed by
fire Sunday night. Loss $4,000; ful.
ly insured. &. :. 1t is said that General
Grant is worth about $4,000. :. "A
London journalist estimates that the
Irish in Americs have sent home to
their friends in Ireland since l847 not
less than $75, ZOO. 900. :. Lima Lake.
over on the Illinois side, just above
Quincy. famed as hunting and fishing
ground. thirty miles long and seven
wide. is entirely dried up. grass is
growing on its bottom and cattle are
grazing there. A fire at Mound City,
Ill.,, few days ago. destroyed all the
public school buildings, courthouse and
some thirty other buildings. Loss. about
Sl4O. 900; insurance less than $4,000
..-.I the statement of receipts and
expenditures of the city OF London for
the year 1877 there occurs this charge:
'Dejeuner TO General Ulysses Grant,
1877 The item next to it cu-iously
reads: Reception to II. X. H., the
Prince OF Wales, .e3' Truth is
stranger than fiction. A man may
know that he Is liar, and yet he Ii
feel decidedly strange when he is called
! one. -. Five thousand six hundred and
eight emigrauts arrived at Castle Gar
den last week.. The only surviving
son of David Crockett is an extensive
! farmer of Granbury, Texas, and Il
grandson edits a newspaper there -.
Last year Texas produced over $4,000
barrels of molasses. Some one
has discovered that the English spar
rows make dainty table food, and they
are being slaughtered extensively in
| some places in accordance with this be-
lief. Last week Charles kesser.
| aged fourteen, OF Altoona, went for
chestnuts to kittanning Point, and in
attempting TO board a freight train TO
return home, was thrown under the cars,
bad his head mashed to,a jelly and was
instantly killed There are thirty
thousand deaf mutes in the United
States. and fifty places Of worship
where service is conducted in the
sign language. Stetlaur Bros &
Co.. wheat spectators of Chicago, fail
ed for over 81 100000 on the lst inst.
..-.Prof. James Aiken Meigs. OF Phil
adelphia, physician pf marked ability
and an eloquent lecturer, whose knowl-
edge of all subjects appertaining to the
philosophy and practice or medicine
was as comprehens as it was pro-
found died suddenly on Sunday morn
| ing last, after a brief illness OF blood
poisoning. lie Was professor in JEFF.
ferson Medical College ...In the
silk factories Of Italy, l20,42S women
are employed, besides 26,976 in cotton,
and 1907, in tobacco factories. -.
France has penny savings banks for
school boys. In Frederick, Nd, last
Friday afternoon, young man named
Curtis Brengle was taken with a severe
coughing spell, during whijh he rup-
tured blood-yessel and died in n few
minutes. Mr.. Brengle resided in VIM
chester few Yeas since IA woollen
mill at New Brunfels. Texas, yielded a
net profit OF $Sl 900 last year.
There has boon sharp advance in
steel rails in the East. the prices run
ming from S55 to sos per ton, while
pig dropped one or two dollars during
the week More silk and less tea
than last season is coming from China
..-... The wool-2rowers of California
are jubiIant over the high prices a; the
present season, their yield being unu-
sualIy large -. When does farmer
act with great rudcness toward his
corn?-when no pulls its cars The
thermometer at Mount Washington re.
corded q below zero on Nov. 2nd, and
snow fell early in the evening Of the
same day WIN. H. Harrington, one
OF the ncwly-elected commissioners Of
Wicomico county, Md, was shot and
instantly killed on the lth inst. by J.
Wesley Turpin, during a quarrel 49,.
On November 1st heavy snow. storm
was reported from Aberdcensbire, Scot
land, although the harYests in that VII
cinity were not fully gathered Wal