South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-11-07
Sa'aa Sransh SntslliseMer.
RoMNEY, FRIDAY. NOV. Z. 1879.

last, and we're received with unbouuded
enthusiasm.
The National Fair at Washington o.
pened last week under favorable auspi
ces, and the attendance has been LARGE
a grand industrial parade in the city
was the leading attraction the first day.
In Baltimore. on the 4th, Southern
wheat for Fuliz, sold at 81 40 for prime,
and 81 4S for prime Longberry.
Nineteen persons we're killed and As
wounded by railroad accident in
India.
The Legislature of Georgia has PASSED
bill giving every Georgia soldier who
fought in the late war certain sum of
money. II is thought the bill viii cost
the State not less than $50, 600. posi-
bly, 100000
Congress meets in three weeks from
next Monday, and promises 10 be most
interesting session.
Telephones are used in London hos
pitfalls to diminish the risk of infection
by diminishing personal communication
with the fever wards in sending messen.
gers.
During the last year the American
Bible Society printed about one thousand
copies daily OF its ten-cent New Tesla
ment, and yet was unable TO supply all
that were ordered.
The most DISASTROUS fire which has
occurred in Dubuque, Iowa, in several
years, broke out there on Sunday morn.
ing last, in the Offices Of w. Carr 6 Co..
spreading TO their sash door. blind
factory. planning mill, warehouse and
vast piles Of seasoned lumber. thence 10
the old freight depot Of the Illinois Cen
trail Railroad Company and old elevator
OF the Richmond and Jackson road
The principal loss is that Of Carr & Co.,
which is not less than SO, 200. Insured
for $4,000. Over one hundred men
are thrown out Unemployment.
L. j. 5. Koiner, OF Augusta county
Va, & Lewis +. Johnson. of mckinney.
Texas, students at the WASHINGTON and
Lee University, at Lexington, Va, got
into dispute on the 2nd inst. about u
game OF croquet, during which Koincr
struck johnson on the head with 9
mallet, fracturing his skull sni causing
death few hours later.
st. Louis Times: At the recent cleo
ton in Ohio, Gen. Ewing received 3lg..
1872 votes, the largest number ever poll.
ed in that State for a Democratic candi
date for Governor. Governor Allen "a
ceived only 1872 ,273 in 1875, and Gov.
ernor Bishop only 27l,775 in 1877.
when he was elected. Does this indi.
cate the death Of Democracy in the
country?
On Wednesday evening OF last week
q cable dispatch from Liverpool was
received in Pittsburgh, Offering 10000
tons Of Bessemer blooms, to lie deliver
ed in Baltimore at $40 per ton, quality
guaranteed for steel rails.
Mr.. James f. Wilson, Of Iowa, saws
that Grant can have the Iowa delegation
if he wants it; otherwise Blaine will
get it.
Mrs. Florence Emmons and her
brother, Marion Hollis, were thrown
from buggy by runaway horse near
Gerrardstown, Berkeley county, on YES
terday week. The lady received fatal
injuries from which she died several
hours afterwards. Her brother was not
hurt much. Mrs. +. was the only
daughter Of Capt Joseph W. Hollis.
WAsTE.-There must be, Of neces-
sity, percentage OF loss in all the ma.
terial transactions Of everyday life.
whether these be carried ON in the
workshop, the counting.room, the ki,ch-
en- or the laboratory butthis inevitable
waste can be so far reduced by good
management that il amounts to but little
IN the course Of year. Observation
has convinced US that the loss in large
workshops must be considerable. for in
a great majority Of cases We have seen
material lying about under foo,-bolts.
nuts, washers, kicking around in the
mud on, in the yard, new work exposed
TO injury from the elements. tools mis-
placed, essential articles, or tools me-
cossary 20 the perfection ofccrlajn parts
OF the work, 90 great distances from
each other, md am infinite number Of
abuses which. although small OF them
selves, when summed up. make a grand
total loss at the end Of each year. As
the thirty part Of an inch too lu.
tie on one piece Of a steam engine.
sixty .fourlh ON another, and rs much on
still another will result 10 grca, do.
rsngement Of The functions OF the ma.
chine, 80 inf1i,csim,l waste. contnu.
ally occurring, is tho representative Of
hundreds OF dollars for Which there has