South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-12-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.


Pittsburgh market. 1t takes just one
hundred and tif-cen days TO send le;
ter around tie world "a. Seven nail
machines IN Pittsburgh have proiuc-
ing capacity o. l,055.3i5 kegs year.
.-.fhiisdelphia estimates that she con-
sumod 25O tons of turkeys on Thanks
giving Day There are now about
2i4,OoO persons in tue United States
receiving pensions from the govern
ment. - MoRMoNIsM has gained 400
converts in Georgia ard Alabama this
year The dress circle-the belt. -.
Scarlet fever is prevailing TO on alarm
Ing extent in Point Pleasant. this State.
49,. Poverty AID hunger continue to
prevail in The west OF Ireland -. The
average size Of al Irish farm is twenty
acres -. The bark Monrovia sailed
from New York on Monday las, for Ii
IBERIA with IS colored emigrsnts OF both
sexes Elopement in California is
called the Pacific slope" :. Machines
have not proved successful. These pro.
cesscs are best performed in the oldf' sh-
Toned way -. Some women have been
arrested in Kentucky for keeping still.
IL was an Illicit still -. Every day in
this world the births exceed tie deaths
by 2j,020 -. France has epent 5000.
~ -
arming -. A man is known by the com
pany he declines 20 keep -. Mr.. John
III. Harp. of Washington CO., Md, raiscd
this year on 80 acres OF land ,937 bush
els of wheat nearly 40 bushels TO the
! aero -. Prize goeth before pair Of
tight boots, and corns comcth after
them 1t is estimated that the apples
frozen III tbs urchar Is in New York du
ring the recent cold spell amounted TO
about 100000 barrels "A farm VAS
sold il Washington, Pa, the other day
Tor $50 an acre, which was purchased a
year or two a.o AZ So -. Troy. y. Y,
had $4,000 Ere on Monday of last
week Some 800 girls and 100 9th
er employees are thrown out Of employ
ment -. Charleston, S. c., on The 4th.
had The first fall of Snow within ten
years. Tue penalty o: tight boot
Is cOrns Law son Schillucc died re-
Gently a. liagerstown. Sd, from eating
frozen app!es The penalty of thin
shoes is cold -. There lave been
sixteen executions Of females in Eng
land since Vlctoria's accession 10 the
throne. and during the same period,
says an exchange, only one woman was
hung in this country "A petition
has been fled in the post-oilice depart
mcnt, praying that an order be issued
to exclude all Newspapers containing
lottery advertisements -. Benjsmin
Wigtield, who resided near FlntStone,
Md, died at his residence on the 10th
inst, in the 18th year of his age -....
Rov. VIM. Corvio Lipscomb died in
Washins ton City on the 9th inst, in the
SSH gear Of his age. -. WEST VIRGIN
IL has a school population of 206.274, |
and the school apportionmen, for this
year amounts to $j22.O S3 -
George WLitecob, of Monroe county,
this State died last week, aged 81 ears.
lie was native Of Carlisle. Pa. The
Me,hodists have so Sunday schools in
Germany .--.On the 3rd Republican
candidate for Sheriff in La. shot and
killed TWO BROKERS, political opponents
Opportunities for women to obtain as
extended an education "a men are RAP.
idly multiplying in this country as well
IS in Europe. There are now about
fifty girls among The students Of Cornell
University, and over one hundred and
thirty in tie Michigan University. 49,.
An importing druggist makes the start.
ling statement that this country eats
onethird OF tic Turkish opium crop.
80. Ten millions, in eagles and half
eagles will be coined at the Philalclph.
ia mint during the present month
Within tie last three months 1000 col.
ored people have gone TO Kansas from
Texas The man who sits on q bent
pin is apt TO speak to the point.
The peanut crop of Virginia, Tennessee
and North Carolina is estimated st L.
S3j, OO0 bushels %. In Westches.er
County, n Y, not far from Pcckskill.
large deposits ofemery have been found,
which are likely to prove very valuable.
The imported article is quite expensive,
but it is estimated hat this home pro-
duct can be furnished AZ about onc-tcnth
the cost Of Turkish emery.....The in.
,ternal revenue collections from West
Virginia this year is in round numbers
1928 600. Paper is now u,el for car