South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-10-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.


60,000,000 francs. Mr.. Doylc. an
American. built the first paper mill in
Japan, In 1874. -. China is reported TO
be actively preparing for war with
Japan There are $4,000 steam en-
glnes in the city OF Pittsburgh and Ale
sheny county There are shout &C, =
600 white and $4,000 colored voters in
North Carolina. II, is estimated that
there are nearly one million railway men
in England who are obliged 10 work on
Sunday -. A war OF life or death" be-
tween Russia and England, sooner or
later is predicted by leading ST. Pc
tersourg paper. Work on the North
ern Pacific. west OF Bismarck. is now
progressing at the rate of mile q day.
-. lie Montana Territorial Fair hiss
capital stock Of $4,000. The
Ci"rkesvillo Sentinel has been presented
with sweet potato weighing s pounds
IA show OF fat cattle will be given
in Chicago from the 10th to the 18th Of
November. a Chinese boy belonging
TO one Of the mission schools at Pekin.
AT recent examination repeated the en-
tire New Testament without MISSING a
sIngic word or making a single mistake.
go Rather set than follow examples
Refinement is within reach OF the poor
est. Think nothing in conduc, unim.
portant or Indifferent. e. : Rouell made
- every minute OF bis walk &C. VI.
1raham, living near Frostburg, Md,
raised this year 5000 bushels OF pots
toes, and his apple crop aggreg ated .. 900
husheis. -. While a man was Getting =
mos! in Pottsboro, Tex, restaurant, a
hat lying about the room struck him in
the eye with such force az to destroy the
sight 4 wealthy London lady re.
Gently gave a ball in that city Ut cost
! OF $40, 600. The floral decorations
were magnificent, snd included blocks
Of ice into which tie flowers were frozen.
The New York T,iJ,me declares
'hst there is no truth whatever in the
report OF the, discovery Of evidence O.
gainst the robbers of the grave of the
lhte A. T. Stewart -.... 1862 animals
have died ofrjnisrpest in Southern Rus
sia since the beginning of the year =.
Why is n young lady just out Of board
ing school like q builder? Because she
is ready to receive proposals T. j.
Griffith, OF Utica. y. Y, owns the first
greenback issued by the Government,
and has refused 5000 for it, silver
mine has been found on the farm OF
John Richardson, in Hancock county,
this State, which pans out Sl6t to the ton.
IA pennyroyal factory at Walnut
Hill, ILL.,. has utilized 1C7 tons of the
herb this year. :. The work on The cap.
itol at Washington IN the matter Of ven
tilation will he completed by the time
Congress meets. :. Mr. Henry Hook, of
Allegheny county, Va, owns a COW that
has given birth, within the past eleven
months, to four weli-developed, hearty
calves. all Of which are alive ut this time
and thriving g.. The Cincinnati Com
merciol publishes several funeral an
nouncaments which conclude with the
words "burihl private" This is 4 step
/ in funeral reform The Ohio river is
! now lover than it has been fer many
years. -.... Bon. William Mcclellan, a
prominent lawyer OF Chambersburg. Pa.
died Of paraiys on Mon lay last 49,.
| Eighteen boa constructors have just been
received at the Philadelphia Zoological
I Garden, and according to the Keepers
calculation, they will require for their
support 27,000 rats per annum e. Gen
Ewing's own county gave him hand
some gsin . Mr.. David 5. Glsizc sho,
n bald eagle on bis farm near Wiaches-
ter, on Saturday last. II measured sew
en- feet across IFS extended wings.
Gov. Howard, Of Dakota Territory. tells
an interviewer that Deadwood is rising
from lis ashes Ike young Chicago
Carpenters are Tocketing s. a day and
common la5orer 81 Interpretations
arc being msde TO smclt zinc ore near
W. theyillo, We. The ore is said TO he
very rich, yielding 10 per cent Of pure
metal. The fire, cotton mill 10 Arian-
sas got up steam 1T Liltle Rocl, last
week "A nerino eve belonging TO G
". ilouck, OF Benton county, Oregon.
las LANDED three times in IS months.
Evans, Ind, can't get bricks fast enough
to supply her haiIjcrs ....Iiau. Sehuy-
lar Colraz has cleared $4,000 .r four
years as a lc;turor....A Northern cap
itaIist will soon employ four hundred
hands in the PORTS ,N Co. gold mine.
49,. The LAST time Grant was in CMifor.
MIA he was ,he proprietor o. rope ferry.
The Nev Queen Of Spain is 20 DO mar