South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-12-05
NEWS. OF THE DAY.

pan during 1879 -. Poverty and hun
ger continue To prevail in the West OF
Ireland. 1t is stated that well-execut
ed counterfeit half dollar pieces are in
circulation. The fellow who had just
been rejected by his girl. spoke Of it as
the heautifuPs no -. 1t is said tina,
the Germans will not support Grant for
third term under any consideration.
Schurz beads the opposition. l.. TWEEN
ty. four SHOWS are predicted for this
winter 49, Two million and a half dol
lars in gold arrived in New York on
Wednesday OF last week. 1t fs as
serted that at least onc-third more
wheat has been sovn this year than
last. .-.-.A bout Eve thousand women
are employed in British coal mines
Farmers on the French Broad river,
Tenn, are turning their attention 10
the raising Of cattle and fewer hogs.
----- Eight hundred and thirty French
political and criminal offenders are still
in exile. -....A mans character is like
a fence-lt cannot lie strengthened by
whitewash.. Thirty eight thousand
live hundred an! forty-one persons by
the name OF Smith draw pensions FROM
the government. ut is said that
! every available rancho in Concho coun.
w, Texas, has been pCrchss cd.
This years crop Of I.ouisiaGa.sugar will
realize S25, 100000 toTthat Industry in
that State. . The Catholic Family Al
manac for 1880 says that there are
1,OOO.OOO Roman Catholics in the Uni
ted States. In 1910 there were hut L.
100000. A woman named Mary d.
Council. aged ff,y.two. residing in Oil
| City, Pa. had three teeth pulled a few
days Bgo and died on ,he 29th ult.. hav-
ing bled TO death. Yale College has
one thousand one hundred students in
all departments -. Keep yohr mouth
! shut and your eyes open 1t Is iii
dcrstood that the Canadian depart
ment Of the interior will distribute
provisions among Indians who have
been unsuccessful in buffalo hunting.
... I he sale OF wool in Boston, last
week, amounted TO six million five hun.
! dred thousand pounds .....A vegeta-
bic monstrosity in the shape OF tur-
nip weighing eighteen anil half
pounds is reported from North Abing-
tnn anl,, 80, -
Jacob kcaton, colored, in Pendcr coun.
ty, n. c.. was destroyed by Ore Mon
day night Of last week, and his four
children, ranging from an infaut up to
six years Of age persisted in the flames.
Mr.. Chas. Welsh, OF Woodstock,
Va. has the lar sest hog ever raised in
that town. IL is estimated that he will
weigh nine hundred pounds ret
Gin Sling is the name OF Chinese
student ut Harvard who is preparing
himself for the bar 1914 marble
monument, TO cost fifteen thousand dol
lars, and TO be forty feet high, is TO be
| placed upon the grave Of the late John
1lltf, the great cattle king" Of Colcra-
do, in Denver. Heavy shipments OF
steel from Germany 10 the United
States are noted as significant
There vii! be Jour eclipses of the Gun
III 1880, and two Of the moon ...Arri-
can diamonds are not considered valu-
able, but one has just been sold in Pa
ris for sixty thousand dollars The
wife Of Franklin Chase died suddenly
at WestpOrt, Massachusetts, November
20. Preparations for burial were made,
bu; the lilclike appearance OF the re
mains induced friends TO postpone the
funeral. and the body has been kept
until the present time, no change
having appeared since death -. Go m,
mon law is founded on common sense.
Other laws, says the New Orleans Pic.
ayune," are made by Congress
Secretary Sherman says he will give
$500 out Of his own pocket to know WHO
sold his report .....A movement 10
present a purse OF s250,0 600 le~CTea
Grant IS reported by the Cincinnati
Commercial. 1t il added that IL ia TO
I've the gift Of divers gentlemen in the
East, WHO, placing n high estimate on
the public services OF tho General, wish
TO make his old age comfortable, and
relieve him from the ncco ssity or accept.
ing professional poet for support
On Friday nigh. last Mrs. John Kcogle
Of South Cumberland, while delirious
from lever leapeh into a deep well near
her residence, with her infant Child in
her arms. She was discovered cling
ing to The we'll cham. up 60 her neck in
tho water with the infant held out OF
the water. Mother aud child we're res.
cued, and have recovered from Che Ct.