South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-09-26
NEWS OF THE DAY.

y, tue hrst railway in tho worla $3.50.
ih'ee 1stnoiic priests have fallen vic
ums 10 yellow fever in Memphis this
year. -Of the 1876 900 miles OF railroad
completed in the world in 1873 nearly
one.ha were in the United States.
Dakota is larger than New England. and
US people are beginning TO agitate its
aiNision into three Territories. The
mower named bachelors button is SO
oalied because IL is apt to fall OF.
several European sovereigns have Of
ierea prizes for the best essay. on diph-
'neria- .Jessamine county, Ky, has
produced a 90-pound watermelon.
mere are 1873 narrow saugc railroads
Ia TINS country with q total mileage of
3,le1.1S. -..A negro woman eighty Ave
years Old Is going 10 school at Carson
vile, Ga..-.fbe caterpillar is doing
great damage TO the late cotton in South.
ern georgia. jeff Davis is out in q
,eIter declihing to be a candidate for
OIi'eu states Senator from Mississippi.
..-.it 10 said that about 20 young men
ntend to leave Keyser shortly for the
West. ..John Shiliito, the dry goods
prince OF Cincinnati, died last week of
Drain fever, leaving fortune OF $780,
ooo. Some men pay attention who
never pay anything else -. There were
shipped from Montreal Canada. 10 Eng.
land, last week, Liz head Of cattle.
o,il4 OF sheep and SO Of horses MIR.
John Armentrout, of Rockbridge county,
Va, aged rs, was drowned by falling
from an excursion steamer on the Ohio
river, below Huntington, W. Va, a few
days ago. The annual yield OF gold
In Georgia is over 81 100000 =. Have
you PAID for your newspaper .....A
couple at Tuscola, Mich, quatreled and
separated st the church door, after their
marriage. and have not seen each other
Tor six months. Mr.. Asa Payne, OF
Scott county, KY. the son OF G en-. PAYNE.
OF the war Of 1912, is said TO be the old
est living graduate OF West Point. He
Is vi yeara old, and WAS member Of
The brst class. A few days ago. in a
certain town Of Md, q Mr.. Buzzsrd mar.
ried Miss Crow, and tho Rev. Mr.. Rob.
In performed the ceremony...A fatal
hog disease has appeared in Somerset
county, Pa. One farmer last week lost
sixteen. A young man in Ringhamp.
ton. =. T.. recently d ed from the effects
OF swallowing = silver half-dollar. He
Was tossing the coin in the air, and
catching 1t in his mouth TO amuse 8
Child. when it lodged in his throat and
passed into Lis stomach Car-wheel
works at Ferndele. Pa, have y Cuban
order for 600 whsels. The young fell
low who dcvotes his time to compliment.
ing The girls is classed by the census
taker as engaged in she praising .....
Giass sleepers for railroads is the new
est thing in that line in England The
glass is tougheued by process discov-
cred by Frederick Siemens of Dresden,
the cost per ton being about the same
rs thGt Of cast iron, but there are three
times as many sleepers in . ton, owing
TO its specific gravity being only one.
third OF that Of i-on.-. .Thers are now
in Texas over 100000 sheep LAST
year over 100000 pounds Of wool
were shipped out Of the State. :. The
venerable Daniel Drew, died suddenly
on the night OF the 18th inst, 1t his resi-.
dence in the city of New York, aged 81
years. The official certificate OF his
death states the cause TO have been &c.
rebral apoplexy, and the time from the
attack to the fatal issue thirty minutes
-...Jacob l.. Moser, Of Frederick coun-
", MI, raised pumpkin this season
which weighs 1919 pounds and measures
feet l | inches in circumference 800.
Twelve million cans OF peaches were
put up in Baltimore this season, con-
Stunning 100000 bushels of fruit The
condagTation at Gonaives Hsyti, caus,
ed by the attack upon that place. Au-
gust II, by the troops OF the provisional
government, s said to have destroy-
ed 1874 houses -. An ALBANY genius
"al!s pew suspender which has been
patented the Conscience Suspender.'-
Il owes its name 20 its extreme elastic
ity.. Hon. j. Warren Wood ward, JUS
tice Of the Supreme Cour. OF Pennsyl.
yanis, died st his country seat at Harm.
den, y. Y on Tuesday last. DO YOU
keep any Hamburg edging?' asks tim.
id miss. Not five can sell it, was she
pert reply Of the clerk. lie kept some
that day. =. Mrs. Jane J. Christmas, on.
ly daughter OF the celebrated Mrs. Myra
Clark Gaines, Of New Orleans, died on
the 18Th inst, NJ WarreutOn, n. c., 10 is
said CT yellow fever. She came from
New Orleans about two weeks ago and
brought the disease with her. She
leaves three children. Mrs Gaines was
with her IA Long Island man is sue.
ing his wife for divorce, because she
goes TO sleep before he does The
Baltimore American exhibits in its of.
fee tomato weighing two and half
pounds IA Methodist pastor at Ocon.
to. Wis. has informed bis congregation.
officially, that he will not preach again
until they pay him enough Of his past due
salary 10 buy q suit of clothes fit to
wear in the pulpit. From all part 9
Of the South applications have been re-
ceiYed for children Of the late Gen. Hood
for adoption. .....There are only FIVE
candidates for Governor in New York
so fer: Cornell, Republican; Robinson.
regular Democrat Kelly, Tsmmaay
Bolter Lewis, Greenbackor, and Mears,
Prohibitionist. The earth is a biz
n.