South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-09-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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popu alton OF $4,000, only 5000 remain
IN Memphis- .-.Govsrnor - CUES
mansion a. Cononchet contains 90 rooms.
lien. Grants horses were on exhibit
ton at the Pennsylvania State fair. 20
fhiisdeiphia. this week. . There were
nearly TWO and a.half millions worth of
silks imported into n. Y, last month.
texas expects to have fifteen Congress
men alter the next census. >. IL is said
that one OF the Pennsy lvania iron COM
panies has received q contract for bridge
work In Demersra. British Guiana, a
mounting to $4,000. Ohio has the
greatest number Of Normal schools
fourteen. Soldiers entitled to PEN
sions who fail TO m AXE their applications
previous 10 January LIST, 1880, cannot
secure oacS pension money after that
date. IA rich vein Of silver ore has
been discovered near Meredith. n. e.,
assaying SG2 silver and $50 lead per
ton. "A bad little boy calls himsel {
Compass, because he is boxed so often.
.--.All branches OF trade in England
are reducing wages In Tennessee,
South Carolina and Delaware clergymen
are not permitted 10 become members OF
I -.
claims man and wife | l8 and l0i years
olo. respectively. Australia still
maintains. the death penalty for rapo-
hon. A. Is. Cornell Was nomina ted FOR
Governor by the Republicans OF New
York, last week. Beef sells in Will
mington. N. c.. for one and half to
Two cents per pound - Michael Brew,
OF Grafton, while fixing pump In a
well, few days ago, fell from his pc.
sition to the bottom ami WAS killed -.
Less than one-half OF the children of
school age in Kentucky, attend schools
puhilc or private The Catholics Of
Winchester, Va, have broken ground
for residence for their pastor. -. The
Macon, Ga, gamblers ere required to
pay license tax of 5000 mouth 80.
The smallest scrap of genuine Floren-
tine drapery of medieval design is worth
ten times its weight in gold Will
liam III. Vanderbilt employs a small
army of men-27.706 1t is said
that the oyster crop is big one, and
that prices will be lower than for years
| past. Love is sentiment--marri,ge
Is business. The Webster Wagon
Company at Moundsvillc this State, for
the week ending Saturday, August 3lst.
completed 1t is said, seventy wagons,
or 8 wagon for every flfty-fvc minutes
working time ......A good deal OF sat
isiaction is expressed over the fate OF
Dr. Spencer, dentist, recently shot
dead for kissing a woman while she was
under the influence Of ether. Women
want to know it when they are kissed.
.Ohjec: OF interest-to swell the
| principal IA Car load Of peaches
reached st. Louis from Baltimore few
days ago. and sold readily az 50 bush
ell. Extensive preparations are being
made ut San Francisco for the reception
OF General Grant. =. The cholera
continues very virulent in Yokohama
Japan. Thus far this season theIe have
been $4,000 cases and 1000 deaths.
Twenty-one clergy men returned home
| from foreign travel in three steamers
arriving at New York on Sunday last.
- MIR. Henry Gibbs, of Maryland, saw
fox carry Off turkey from the farm
OF Mr.. Lafay cite Miller, near Sharps-
burg, one day recently. lie shot the
fox, anal finding its den, discovered the
heads Of $50 Leghorn chickens and
| twenty turkeys which DO had carried oil
from tie farms in the neighborhooi -.
Rochester, y. Y, has thirteen brew cries,
which sold. between May /, 1873, and
May !, 1879. G,29i.250 gallons of lager
beer -...PoRK AND BEANS is the name
OF heT Iowa paper. "A butcher of
! Des hoincs, Iowa, has 8 list Of regular
customers who come periodically to
drink blood for the benefit of their health.
80 Hon. a. II. Stephens says he has
received $50 GOO loyalty on lis book,
! The War Between the States Phil
adelphia papers tell of the arrival in
that city OF party of Italian children,
| ali OF whom had been purposely manned
by tho loss Of en- eye, or limb, in or
der TO fl thon for the calling of beg.
/ ging. They were in charge Of three
| padtones ON the 9Th inst, while
! Frederick Hoffman was examining. a
small Remington pistol az kcyser 1t &C.
cideutally went off. the ball passing
through h's left hand, breaking the bone
and causing severe wound The
melancholy days aro at hand -. Hon.
A. Il Boteler is 10 deliver the address
ut the Agricultural Fair. a. Ilagerstown,
on tue lst Of October ..-...Tbe Rev.
James a. Sturgeon. a brother OF the
Rev Chas. II. Spurgeon, and his assoc
ciate in the passionate OF the Metropol-
itGn Tabernacle, Of London, has arrived
in New York Frank j.. Blair's
monument. which ST. Louis 10 to raise.
will cost $4,000. cargo Of one
thousand tons Of English iron for the
Shenandoah Valley Railroad has arriy-
ed at the port Of Baltimore. AJAX On ac-
count Of the large accumulation Of gold
coin in the treasury nj Washington ar
fragments. will soon be made to CT,
| change gold and silver ccin for United
States notes AZ the several sub t1easu.
! ries where convenient go. Tie Deaf aud
/ Dumb Institute ut Delavan, Wis, was
burned on Tuesday last. The fire orig.
mated in the ceiling of tho upper dor
mitory, from On unknown cause. There
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