South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-05-16
NEWS OF THE DAY.

stitution 50 that tire Legislature shall
meet only once in six years -. The
wool season has opened AZ Martinsburg
At % cents, with but little activity. -.
Grant was 81 years old on the 9th ult-
Seventy tons Of chewing gum were
required TO keep American jaws moving
during the past year. There are two
hundred persons sent for life in the
Mississippi peni,entiary Over 1000
settlers a day arrive in Nebraska. &. A
Western paper says: I'm 100000
years the sun will stop shining" Time
will show. Kelley has invented new
name for his motor-namely, elastic
energy. The world uses 100000
tons of coffee every year, and still wants
more. =. There is q man living in Mari
on county. this State, by the name of
Thomas Cat. Since its foundation in
1893 the present Paris mint has coined
LOO. 100000 gold pieces. =. German
cooks cover fish with sugar. Edwin
Smith, of Fairfield. Michigan, is said TO
wear beard seven feet six inches long.
- Mrs. Susan NJ. Drummer, wife of Mr..
Frank Drummer. of Frederick, Nd, died
on Sunday last from lockjaw, caused by
running nail into her foot on the first
day Of May -. Mrs. Rebecca MAY. of
Hagerstown, daughter OF Mr.. John Cru
Der, OF ''Grgber Almanac" fame, died
last week, aged SO years. =. Out Of one
million sheep in the Southern States
half million were killed by dogs the
past year. So says the report of the
Patent Office. Nevada produced, in
1873, 27,725 tons of lead, or 425 tons
more than any State or territory. Utah
follows next behind with 1880 tons g.
The base ball epidemic has broken out
IN this place again. - Eyes are valued
At $4,000 each in Philadelphia, that be.
ing the sum awarded by jury to Chas.
Weitman, the other day, for having an
eye shot out by a toy cannon -. Mr..
Robert Lashley, one of the oldest citi-
zens of Allegany county, died on yester-
day week 80. When you have family
jar you can't always preserve the peace.
49, The yield Of mercury in California
for the present year is estimated at eight
thousand bottles. of the value Of two
millions five hundred thousand dollars.
80. Henry county, Mo-, has pair Of
twin colts-one is 4 horse colt, and the
other long cared mule. "A Cuthbert.
Ga. belle sleeps with her jaw on 4 hick-
DRY nut to promote q dimple q. Gen.
Butler, is said TO be prepared TO head
ihe Grant movement III Massachusetts
-. Rear Admiral T.. G. PARROT, Of the
United States Navy, died in New York
on Saturday last. "A Richmond, Va,
woman of 50 gave birth 20 i child recent.
ly. Her husband is about the same aye.
They have four or 1--WE children, oil OF
whom are grown, and the youngest pos
sibly 40 or 80 years Old -. Henry and
Charles Lee, brothers, have been arrest.
ed at Philadelphia for making counter,
felt silver coins. They had several nun
drcd bogus quarters and several moulds
anu other instruments for coinage in
their possession -. At Grafton. this
State, on Sunday last, George Coleman,
colored, aged nineteen, undertook TO
swim across the river for boat, when
he was seized with cramp and drowned.
--.JolIE RAFFERTY, was on his knees
in front room Of his residence, in
Boston. Mass, saying his prayers, and
the noise OF the children playing in the
street disturbed his deyotions. lie n
rose, got revolver, opened window
and iired five shots into the juvenile
gathering. Maggie Murphy. was hit in
the leg and probably famed for life. =.
Il meteor u footjn diameter and with n
blazing train fell at Worthingtou, Min
nesota, OH the llth inst, exploding Just
before reaching the earth with noise
that shook the buildings -. The report
that the skeleton Of soldier had been
found by some parties in the woods
near keyser, turns out 10 have cen u
hoax. Texas is the third sheep State
in The Union. California ranks highest,
next Ohio and then Texas The Jap
anesc government, say the Toxic Times,
has appropriated 100, 900 yea, or dollars.
Tor the reception and entertainment Of
General Grant. -. Thomas L. liargis is
elected appellate iudgc in Kentucky, to
succeed tie late Judge Elliott. Col.
Drake, the petroleum pioneer, who put
down the first oil well in the United
States twenty years Ago,i5 tohave q mon.
ument at Titusville Pennsylvania lie
died poor, reaping scarcely any advan-
tagc from his discovery While n
little boy in Roxbury, Mass, lay death
ly i'll Of diptheria. pet dog sprarg up
on tho bed and ahectionatoly licked the
boys lips. The child hogan 10 recover
from that time. and was shortly conva-
lescent, but the dog sickcned and died
with oil the symptoms OF tho disease.
......A great freshet from melting
SHOWS prevails in the Penobscot river,
Maine. a large dam on the west branch
has been washed away. and great con.
stcrnatIon exists among the iumbermeu,
as there are 2j.OOO.OOO logs ia that
branch OF the river .....A Congress
mans SONS have immortalized them
selves by shooting apples off each 9th.
er's heads, and from each others fingers.
As remarked the fools are not all dead.
but il these boys had been killed in this
foolish sport, there woull have been
fewer fools lcit......T There is believed
20 be more snow on the Alps in Swift
zerland at present, than has ever before
been known al this time Of the year.
/ 40 treCs have been found iu Victoria.