South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-05-09
NEWS OF THE. DAY.

I Shf'S' WI Hlue Thousand tOCn y
two-n Jnths' OIL child lied at Easton
last week from the effects OF rat bite.
.- lie London correspondent of a
Scotch paper states that there i "A prob
ability that Queen Victoria will abdicate
on account Of i'll health One hun
dred head OF sheep were shipped from
Baltimore on SATURDAY. last for Deme-
rara- An exchange remarks: IAN al.
!isatog killed in Florida had four watch
- IN his stomach. We brand that ami.
mal as IN" Ben Butter OF ms sueces."
IA wind storm on the Utah AMI
Northern railroad, on the 2nd Inst.
blew oil the track freight train OF 10
cars, some loaded with silver bullion
Our American plate glass manufacture
ers are driving their French rivals ont
OF the market Three little children
near Augusta. Ga, ate honey which
had been made from yellow jlssamine.
One died in fifteen minutes. and the
others were made blind temporarily. and
only saved by free use of sweet oil
and milk johnson Spencer and New.
I'm Porter, barn-hurners AMI would. bc
assaSslns, were taken from jail at Stark
( vile, Miss, on Saturday night last and
hanSed..- The old custom OF burying
sIlcide9 at midnight, and without reli.
/ gious ceremonies, is still followed i'm
/ England -. Samuel Pavey and his son.
/ lay Tor, extensive live stock dealers near
, Lecshurg. Ohio. were shot auA Killed
last Saturday aight hy John Link. who
/ claims that he acted in scir-delence.-
/ he cause of the trouble was ill.trea,-
men, by Samuel Pavey OF his second
wife, who is Links mother Ohio and
/ Indiana crop reports are very favorable.
.--.S. ID. RICHARDS, the murderer of
/ nine persons. was hung at Minden. Ne.
braskG. few days ago, in the presence
/ OF 400 people Out IN Colorado
/ stranger IS called a tender foot Nlr.
/ r. y. Hubbard, ono Of the oil lest cit.
/ Zens OF Winchester. Va, is dead
/ The United States sends 400 mission
arIe~ 20 foreign lands, Germany more
/ than 800, and Greai Britain 1000
/ Tic American navy has 2.020 officers.
+ "JUJ mon, and pays IS. $40. 900 annu.
aiy TO the former, and $4,000. 900 TO the
i"tter..- Mrs. :. j. e. HALE, cdtress
Of Godry's L,oiie,' BpgE. died OH the 30,h
ut. During the past ten years. it is
Sald. Georgia farmers have invps' Ell So
\ % . u
devised by Manchester N. II ) school.
mistress Is TO put pepper on the tongue
1t 10 estimated that fully one fourth
OF the sheep in western Texas have died
during the last cold spell -. Jones ia
av@r.cioUs. He wants to linl a girl who
- mad OF money The Mayor OF Wv.
andotte, Kansas, has issued proclaim.
ton fOrbdding the landing OF any more
negro immigrants ~ that place. Iowa.
Republican Kansas shut her doors
against the cOlorcd brother. This will
have to he looked upon as another
southern outrage -. In Galveston. Tex.
aN, as the congregation wore leaving the
Methods; church on Sabbath last. Col.
Jared +. Kirby shot and killed John
Steele, who, in q quarrel fourteen wears
a9o, killed kirhy's father Tom
Thumb bo'sts of having kissed more
thHn million laIies In he manu-.
lactnre of maple suEar Ohio stands the
third State IN the Union. Tins year the
Yield is unusually large. pan.
Per III Gill, Mass. got $500 from the
poorma Ster "to Obtain the necessities OF
lie, as he declared. ami used the money
in taking TO himselfa wife. tho
city Of New York. Mrs. Ga'ien died on
Saturday last, her physician, DR.. ".
Schmidt certified TO the cause Of her
death as "gastrits" from POISONING with
rotten sausage meat Coffee tavcrns
are getting common in En2land-an
out-rowth of the temperance movement
there The water-works ADJOINING
the shops Of the Baltimore and O5io
railroad ut Wheeling, were DESTROYED by
fire on Sunday night last. AMI the on.
/ glre of the works nearly ruine( by FIRE
and water; loss 81 500 TO $4,000
! Since 1876 two Methodist bishops have
/ died James ana Ames. There are now
/ ten living bishops of which Scott and
+ Simpson are the seniors Mr.. Tobias
. Parsons, Of Berkeley county. this State.
was found dead i'm the woods. near i,is
residence, last Saturday week. lie il
suppo d to- have died from heart dis
} ease A woody elephant is on its way
/ to this country from India. consigned
/ 10 Barnum Patterson. Y j.. is rapid.
. " filing mp with silk weavers from En-.
T gland $3.50. Large quantities Of walnut,
/ lumber arc beiLg shipped to Baltimore
from RcCkhridge CO.. Va. and is com
. manding fine prices &C.,. North Carolina
.
can Union. that have always refused the
veto power TO their governors AN
Iowa justice has decided that q load of
sand on wheels is real estate, and can
be attached "A personal property ......
u lac still lives. Charlie Ross was nine
years old last Sunday. 10 will be five
years ON The lst of July next since he
was stolen from his parents The con.
dition Of tho wheat crop along the lines
Of tho Atchison and Santa Re. the KAN
sas Pacific and the Wabash railroads il
pronounced very encouraging. On the
line Of the Missouri Kansas and Pacific
drouth has somewhat injured The crop.
but recent rains make the prospect rood
for an average crop There are two
female blacksmiths in Kentucky They
arc NOV bit afraid Of the sparks. and
can shoe horse as easy az most wo.