South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-07-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.


lar, o1.sS. .-.Eli Turner. OF Hartford
CO., Md. has calf te, DAYS OLD which
weighs l52 pounds. Mr.. j. J. Het rel,
OF Paw Paw, Was thrown from n horse ON
the 9Th instant, and severely bruised.
The stocking OF the Susduehanna river
WIN pass has proved decided success.
hne inhaoi'ants along the river state
that they are plentiful Mr.. James
Eoruoh bennetts ship started from San
Francisco. on Tuesday afternoon last
on search Tor the North Pole. The
report that boy answering the dsscrip-
non Oh Charley Ross was at East Farm
hSn, quebec, proves a hoax - Six
hundred Mormons arrived at New York.
on the 10Th inst, from Europe A
singular instance OF death from hydro
Phooia Is mentioned in the New Haven
J0arn~ as occurring twenty years after
tue bite OF TIE rabid dog :. There arc
seven gold mines in full blast in Lincoln
county, Ga. More than eighteen
Thousand persons live by rag-pickiny in
faris and its suburbs The Catholics
lag outnumoer any one other denomina.
ton in Kansas. WIN. McAbee. aged
eo, veteran OF 1912, died near Orleafl,
Fanquier county, Va, few days ago
-Goid OF unusual purity has been
discovered IN the village Of Glen Riddle.
10 miles irom Philadelphia. DIR. Hugh
l.. Glenn. who has just received the
nomination for Governor Of California
by the new constitution party OF that
State. Is native OF Augusta county, Va.
IA Norwich W. man has made =
set of wooden teeth, which he wears
IL is now stated that an Ohio man teie-
graphed to President Hayes TO keep the
position OF Prince Imperial open to
him. --.T The largest corn6eld in the
State OF Rhode Island contains twenty
acres $500. The late war between Tur-
key and Ru 'sia cost the latter country
one hundred and city million pounds in
money and two hundred thousand lives.
.--.One dollar Is the price Of shave
IN Leadville, Col. -. Most matrimonial
engagements are parlor m stches Ne.
oraska has almost no fences at all
The boy that gets the early green apples
catches tho -fuge :. Ex-senator
Chatfee, or Colorado, is said TO have re-
allied $4,000 as his June dividend
from the Little Pittsburgh silver mine.
oil Leadville. "A Chicago firm shipped
from Baltimore. on the 9th inst, for
|
sheep averaging forty pounds each -.
"A georgia child was horn with n trans.
parent bia'ider-like covering to it's stom-
ach. through which the workings Of the
different organs are plainly pcrceptiblc.
1t is a novelty in medical science
The rumor that Miss Mildred Lee,
daughter OF Gen. X. T.. Lee, il TO he
married to rich merchant in Drming-
ham, Eng and. is denied by that iady's
friends. There are about seventy
thousand m )re males than females in
san francisco. "A large number Of
sheep have been bought in Washington
county Pa, for export to Europe. ...
AdjutsnL Gen. Steel, Of Texas, reports
that there are between 1000 and 5000
! fugi.ivcs from justice in that State. OF
whom 81 are murderers. The river
Lena, in Siberia. remains frozen for
| nine months Of the year. "A paris let
ser says that exQueen Isabella Of Spain
! locks like large water meio, in a dress
OF bright green and yellow 80. Out
of 536 missionaries IT. China $40 are
women Selling introductions TO beau
ties 10 the method Of money making in
PRODUCED at the English fairs =. Rich
discoveries Of silver ore are reported in
Arkansas, near the Hot Springs.
( FIFTY persons were admitted into full
membership in the Il. Z. Church, Cum
| heT!and, Sunday last. :. West Virginia
furnished 32,068 men to the Union army.
49,. New Orleans is reported to be in
perfectly healthy condition AT Charles
ton. y c., on the 18th inst, Ten whites
and five colored persons died from sun
afrniya TTti.a ~ =, ola
. meteor of great briIlance passed.
through the northen sky from west TO
east on the morning Of the 18th
Paper bricks arc now being made in Wis.
consin ..--- Emiyrants are coming from
Iceland TO Minnesota ...-. During a
period OF nearly two centuries, the first
bOrn OF The House OF Austria has been
. Giri-a curions fact. 4. The once pow.
crful tribe OF Seminole Indians have
dwindlcd away TO about 400 persons,
located in South Florida -. The Trade |
Marx Of certain brand OF whisky WAS
sold for S5l .050 at public sale last week |
in Louisville. Ky. -....The Baltimore
and Ohio railroad is now sending empty |
grain cars west attached To- the fast |
freight trains so as to meet the rush OF |
the grain trade to Baltimore. &. 1t is |
stated that an infant Of Mr.. Benjamin |
Wilson, OF Prince Georges county. Md
swallowed some crumbs OF tobacco last
Friday afternoon, picked up from tho |
door. wAs Immediately taken Ill. and |
died from tue effects Of the poison from
the weed Sunday afternoon, physicians
being unable 70 afford any relief.
Join -. r. Spaaldng, telegraph opera
tor, died at Memphis on Monday last
from surstroke. Deceased went from
Baltimore last summer, AS volunteer,
during the epidemic. Prof. w. NJ. |
Fontaino, OF tho West Virginia Univer-
si'y. has been elected TO the chair Of
natural history and botany in the Uui-
vefsity OF Virginia .....A soap mine
has been discovered in Nevada. II there