South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-08-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.

will cost the British government about
SIS .O00. 900. Frank r. Jones. of Pc.
ter sburg. Va. a nephew OF Gen. Roger A.
Pryor. died At Old Point Va, on FRIDAY
last. The rails on the Shenandoah
Valley railroad have been laid to within
mile Of l'erryviile, Va. -. An emigra.
ton association has been formed at Shelf.
field for the purpose Of aiding working
men to Obtain livelihood in the West
ern States OF America. - Upward OF
81 800, 900 OF the State debt OF Virginia
have 80 far been refunded. wv. w.
Corcoran. Washington City banker,
has contributed $4,000 for the benefit OF
the poor of Memphis. Four acres OF
land in Lancaster county. Pa, yielded
ISL bushels OF wheat. -. In Texas there
are whole counties belonging 10 a few
great cattle raisers. X tie Freeman,
aged ten years, diel last Sunday sud-
denly from suffocation, at Fincastle,
Botetourt county. A portion Of an ap-
pie which she was eating lodged in her
wind pipe. .Harrisonburg has one of
the most substantial and flourishinp
Lodges Of Masons in Virginia. The
Lutheran Church in this country has
I25, 600 communicates A New York.
er Is suing his wife for divorce because
she goes TO sleep before he does. 800.
The Church Missionary Society Of En-
gland secured S237, $3.50 from the chill.
dreu alone during the last missionary
year. "A lady at the grand ball given
Mt Rawley Springs on Saturday night
last was 'dyked' III thousand dollar
dress .. The dear girl who read thrill.
m -, \
when she graduated last summer, ia GET.
ting along nobly. She is now the moth
or Of triplets. According 20 the
figures of the revenue commissioner the
population OF Lynchburg Va, is now
between 2l,000 and $1,000. Paul
Boynton's approaching marriage will
transfer him from cold water to hot wa.
ter. - DIR. III. IL. Beecher. OF Norwich,
\. Y, was in Ilarrisonburg last week
arranging for n soldiers excursion from
the North to the old battle fields in Sep .
temhcr next. -. Miss Martha a. Head
the bride at a nedding in Wayne county.
! Ga, was only ten years Old. Her pa-
rents were presant At The ceremony and
gave 1t their full approval -. There il.
man selling papers NJ Atlantic City
who las; year spent s31 900 nj the place.
-. Three bands OF NeSCalero and Iii.
| pan Indians in n recent raid in Mexico
carried of 2j0 horses. killed ID persons
and escaped into Texas -. . Que Of the
streets in Paris is to he rechris;ened in
memory o! President Lincoln. ...A
million dollars worth of chickens are
shipped out of East Tennessee annually.
- .Sixty.three county fairs will be
held in Ohio this fall Capt. Daniel
Dodson, prominent citizen Of Peters.
burg, Va, who. with his entire family,
was poisoned by eating ice-croam a few
days since, died there on the 3lst ult..
aged 60 years. He leaves n large fam.
''y, a.! Cfwhom are still quite i'll A fam.
| lily, OF seven persons arrived at Newport
last week with only 81 trunks
There has been about /, 100 miles Of new
railroad built this year up to date in the
United States, being much larger than
! IN any year since 1873 .. The mines i'm
! SpotLsyIvania, Va, have just shipped
twenty sood-sized bags OF gold dust to
the Philadelphia mint. The Rev
DE-. Talmage is paid 500 letter by n
New FORK story paper for which he
writes -. Rev. John Graham, -. d., of
Brighton, England. was drowned at Cape
May, on Friday last while bathing
The American Bible Society has dis
tributed 36,226 copies OF the scriptures
in Texas during the las. twelve months.
1.-The exports Of cheese from this
country are fast mounting mp in the mill
ions. Last week for the first time thew
exceeded the exports OF bacon, having
! been shipped a. the rate OF million
| pounds day .--..A large number of
! the colOred refugees who returned to St
! Louis from Kansas have found work In
! Illinois. ..--The number of deaths in
/ baltimore for the first six months OF i8.
! ~ was 1904 against 1856 in 1873
/ OF Tic decedents | 1873 were under 5
! years OF age. TIcre il story OF n
! Boston lady who hatheS al SwamDsc IT.:
IN biue silk costume # is stated
NJ Bismarck, ID. r., that o brother of
| Sitting Bull was killed in The fight of
July IL. and that Sitting Bull himself
was present and was tho first 90 ran
/ The total amount OF Internal revenue
J collections in Atlegany county. Nd, du-
! ring the fiscal yc0r lately ended was
! S24 ,J4l.-. Detroit claims q population
/ OF 10000. ..... Girard College. Phil.
! aieIpuIa, mas 3pO students. More
than eighteen thousand persons, it ia
estimated. live by rag.picking in Paris
! and iCs suburbs The steamship Lon.
IS. iroIu Antwerp FOR Naples. was wreck.
ed during a fog. a few DAYS ago, oil the
/ French coast. Twenty lives we're
fost......On Monday last yonth in
Baltimore was held in $500 for a hearing
on the charge of attempting 20 pass a
counterfeit half dollar The Custer
battle ground, or the Little Birhorn. "a
to he made national cemetery. The
| supply OF Quicksilver exceeds the de-
mand, and the prices bayc fallen TO
/ thirty-thTee cents pound in San Fran
cisco, which Is twenty per cent. less than
| 1t was ever known before ......A fire
/ a. tho pork.packing establishment Of
/ jenkins 81 Sons in Baltimore. on sun