South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-08-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.


bishop Peterkin has. gone to Halifax.
NOVA Scotia. President Hayes has
definitely arranged 20 leave Washigton
on The 10th OF September for Ohio, to
remain until after tlIe October election.
-. The Grand Hotel at Paris has been
sold at auction for ES5f. 600. B. +.
Hrayson. Jr, the :defaulting cashier OF
.hc Luray (pa.) Bank, has been arrested
IN ONO. ard will be brought back on q
requisition: The average consump-
ton or wheat for each individual Of the
population Of Great Britain is eight
bushels per annum. :. "A nephew ofOle
Bull IS professor in the Wisconsin
State University 1.-The royal family
OF the Sandwich. Islands has adopted
peppermint as the royal.perfume -.
There are $1,000 pos,ollices in this
country, the number having just doubled
since 1852. There is one woman at
Saratoga who dresses altog in lace.
.-..M Mrs. DR.. Mary Walker is opposed
to tight pants because they arc such a
givesaw ay: -: Iowa -A1s do; exceeaiigly
eaterprising man. ,Ho has been mar
RED 10 times. The richest man in
Florida, who owns 10000 cattle. lives
a recluse in a shantY which has neither
hrepla; % nor chimney, He sells his cat.
tie In Cuba, seldom secs men, and hides
his money in cane on bis land. lex.
ample is always more, sflicacious than
precepi: "A contemporary says a
hundred years hence we, shll SEGA daily
balloon to London. -. Some OF the lady
bathers al Cape May are charged with
diving into the water from their hus-
bands shoulders. .: Cholera was four
times as fatal as lead to. the British
troops In the Afghan Champaign :: -.
Compulsory education rs suggested for
Wisconsin. Nearly obe-third Oh the
school population went untaught last
year. Glass millstoaes are used in
Germany. ..A new Hand or cigars is
cafledEthe lottery ticket" because only
one in athousand draxs X. A cyclone
struck the town Of Orange, Texas, on
Friday last, and did Great damage TO
property. The steamboat Flora was
sunk and several million feet OF timber
blown or tloated away. Cars were blown
from the track and demolished If
poverty is disgrace mended stockin9s
are oarncu shame 49,. Locomotives
are now made strictly for use, all brass
and ornamental work being dispens ed
with. The result is a reduction OF ST.
500 TO $4,000 to each locomotive $3.50.
Two mea were lyrched at Trinidad.
Col, on Friday night last for attempted
oUtrages on little girls. They are
lighting up Niagara Falls now AZ night
with tie electric light and the effect is
said TO be beautiful. :. Four practical
farmers have been sent by the Canadian
government to instruct the Black feet
Indians in agriculture in the Northwest
A, movement is on foot in Ohio
Tor holding q national convention OF
Mexican veterans. with the view Of ask
ing Congress to equsliZe tho pensions of
ex-Mexican soldiers with those Of ex-
Union soldiers. Hon. A. G.. Thurman
and wife. after spending a few days
with Senator Davis at Deer Park, left on
Tuesday Of last week, for Ohio ......
Whiskey Is said to be about the only
enemy that man has succeeded in loving
-. There are 100000 manageable
girls in France 49,. An exchange says,
There is no royal road to matrimony.'
Correct; both king and pauper have to
walk right up to the captains Office and
interview the old man The pos
tage stamp knows it's place after it has
been licked. There were $4,000 bath.
ers at Coney Island last Saturday ......
Says the philosophical SnN,0atcr Lum-
! hermann "a lie will often live longer
than the man who starts IT," An
philosophy lies in two words -"sustain'
end ''abst ain" -. Three hundred fc-
! male chair seaters az Poughkeepsie. n.
L. struck for higher wages on Monday
last. They had been getting four cent 9
apiece for Gaming common seats. and
the Messrs. Arnold have reduced the
price to 81 cents. About one hundred
assembled at the office the following
morning. bat refused to go to work.
They assaulted one woman and tool, her
| work from her -. When a Zulu maIries
he sets his wife at work TO earn cattle
enough for him 10 buy another wife
| The WarroT, Va. Sentinel says there are
rumors OF the discovery OF a magnificent
cave a few miles south OF Front Royal.
| ......A Saratoga bride had trous-
seau worth $500. all made at home
and bought in New York The
steamship Britannia, from Liverpool 10
New York, on Monday last, brought
| 100000 in gold bars ...-..In s. S.
Riokley's bank at Columbus. Ohio, on
Tuesday last, q man engaged the atten.
ton OF the proprietor on pretense OF q
negotiation, when .'pAP' climbed in 9
rear window and got away with
$4,000 in CURRENCY, and $4,000
in registered bonds Three hundred Rus
sian farmers recently arrived in New Y.
city. bringing with them not far from
| 100000 as their combined capital q.
Chicago packers, since March /, have
sailed 1862 900 hogs. against $4,000
for the corresponding period last year
and l.045. 900 in 1877 .Seventy
more boys recruited in St. Louis for The
navy left there on Tuesday night last
for Now York 1.-The Gate City
Guard, Of Atlanta. Ca, a crack military
corps, will soon make tour north. Wis.
ting Washington City, Boston, Phila
dolphia and New York, and will be the
guests ofthe military OF those cilies
Col. Bob Iugersoll has proclaimed wa