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


mers are like fowls; neither will get full
crops without industry Since paper
napkins were introduced by manulac-
turing firm in Wisconsin. year AGO.
one Boston firm alone has sold 25O. 900
OF them. .Cotswold sheep from Cana.
da are being imported into The northern
part OF Pennsylvania. Seventeen
thousand Americans spent the summer
months in Europe. Many farmer.
by too sparingly seeding his new mead
ows, has had TO cede his whole farm.
1.-The English army on the Afghan
frontier is cramped in its movements by
Cholera. 1.-The population OF New
Orleans is 10000. ..... Medina, Ohio,
has the fastest runner on record. Time,
twenty miles in two hours and twenty
minutes. .Elkhart, Ind, has four
paper mills, and will have another soon.
49, Handsome sappbires and methysts
are found in Jackson county, n. c..
The fashion plates that come from Paris
are colored mostly in the prisons by fe-
male convicis.- England's hop crop is
tho lightest in many years, and large
importations from America are inevita-
bic .Thrce-fourths Of the lard used in
Germany comes from America. "A
barn belonging 10 Henry Meyer, Of
Garrett county, Md. was burned Friday
night Of last week, with all it's contents
IL Is said that of fifty Chinese residents
of Memphis none were attacked w it'll
yellow fever last year or this The
potato crop in the northern counties Of
Pennsylvania is q failure. There are
in this country about 1000 different
species Of fungi or toadstools, out Of
which but one, known as the mushroom
is edible. There are forty lawyers
and only three printers in the New York
penitentiary at Auburn. James Cor
don BENEFITS income last year was
$3.50 .0O0. 80 Between eighty and ninety
young Indians arrived st Carlisle, Pa.
on Monday last, TO be sent to schoo, ~.
the old barracks A witness i'm q
case before Judge Quarles, of Nashville,
Tenn, declared lie did not believe in
God, heaven or hell, whcreupon the
Judge ruled his testimony out OF court
- When n corner loaCer dies in Ten
nessee, the newspaper says: Another
OLD landmark gone ....- The L. S.
Grand Jury at is session at Parkerburg
| "A fp 4;
all OF which, except one, were for the
unlawful selling of whisky and tobacco
I'm q yard wide and all wool,
is Kentucky way Of Describing Q high
state Of hilarity. Eighteen hundred
thousand silver dollars were coined az
the Philadelphia min, last month. 800.
The Louisville Bridge and Iron Compa
ny have taken orders for Sl5O,O0O worth
of work in tue past sixty days Man
| helm, Lancaster CO.. Pa, is one of the
most prosperous sugar manufacturing
localities in the State Swiss peasants
have purchased 10, 600 acres Of land in
Nebraska. "A negro at Murfrecsboro,
Tenn. aged 1903, has just married his
seventh wife, WHO is 80. Old style
| scoop bonne@s are coming into fashion
a large glass mandatory in Hanover.
Germany, makes glass which i, a close
imitation Of marble, and tables and floor
tiles, which arc pronounced preferable,
! to marble, on account Of their extreme
hardness "A Mississippi market re-
port reads: Local securities high pric-
ed, whislSey active, and shotguns .tea
dy' Some pay attention who never
pay anything else -. Paris newspapers
are discussing Victoria Woodhrlrs
chances for the Presidency Of tho Uni
ted States .-....'Do good width what
thou hast, or it will 10 thee no COOL
--..Gen. Sherman calls Missouri the
heart OF the nation, and his appclation
met hearty encore. IF n man can't
get his namo into the papers any other
way, he can get mention in tho delin-
quent tax-list. Can making false
hair be described rs switchcrart.
John Lucas, Of Somerset county. Penn.
sylyania, died the other day while en-
gagged in leading family prayer. lie was
40 years old ......It is announced that
Ulysses Grant, j., is about TO marry
daughter Of the bonanza king. Flood.
1.-Two new school houses will he built
in Frankfort, Mineral co this fall.
In disinrccting Memphis the National
Board Of hcaIthhas used 10, 1Oj pounds
of coppcras 5000 barrels Of lime. 40
barrels Of sulphur. 1915 pounds Of sui
pha'o Of zinc 10 barrels Of carbolic acid.
and 1920 gallons Of zinc from. Ono
hundred and eight thousand immigrants
landed at the port of New York during
The venr cnlinr Anrn.t IT, .Lnt MINI