South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-08-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.

so passenger railways, 8 canals 4 8 tele-
graph companies -Four acres or land in
Lancaster county, Pa. yielded Isl BUSH
els OF wheat. 1890. Dublin, Ireland, peo-
pie arc eating eggs imported from Chi
csgo. Among the novel applica-
tions Of glass is the invention of Hamil-
ton l.. Buckni!l, OF England, who has
recently patented in this country rail.
way sleeper made Of cast glass Gov
ernor elect Blackburn. OF Kentucky, ia
fat, good-natured and hospitable, and is
nearly seventy years old. 49,. Over IL
hundred emigrants arrived at New York
on the 18th inst. "A genLi &c case OF
Leprosy Is reported from Baltimore. A
married lady died on Monday from it
after four years OF horrible suffering.
..-...I, is said that Senator uau.!ir. OF
Me, desires his own son TO succeed him
in the Senate. and is working in tina,
direction 1.-The official census of
Kansas, just completed, shows that the
population OF the State on the first of
March last was $40, 91S .Wa,es are
still on the decline in English cotton
mills. Col. Bob Ingersoll has given
q Troy collar firm permission 10 Sc his
name on the collars and cuffs OF its man.
ufacture. -. The Vermillion county, ILL.,,
wheat crops equals The value of the land
1t grew on 1900. The population OF Wis
consin includes nearly 100000 persons
OF foreign birth $500. Rev. Thomas Il.
Sargent, we'll known minister of the
Methodist Episcopa! church South, died
in Baltimore, yesterday week. "A
lazy near Pedricktown. n. j., short
time ago ran n splinter under her finger
nail, and has since died OF lock jaw.
There is said TO be a great deficit in the
silk crops Of France, Italy, Spain and
Portugal, in comparison with former
years. Over Sl,000,00) worth OF eggs
were sold By Iowa farmers in 1878.
Hog cholera has broken out near Nor,
gau'own, Ind, and many hogs are dying.
One farmer lost $50 head and others are
suffering greatly. Norfolk, Va, did
an export business last year Of over
$4,000 900. According to the re-
port Of the commissioner OF agriculture
Of North Carolina, dogs cost tie State
sG,OOO,000 annually. "A. the end Of
The war youn man named Crouch
hired out to herd sheep at SD a month
in Frio county, Texas. He now owns
10000 acres OF fenced land, 200 cat =
tie and 1000 sheep j. Boiler, who
grossly assaulted little girl eleven
years OF age, at Fort Fairfield, Maine.
on the 9th instant, was pursued by the
people and shot IA large amount OF
gardening is done upon the housc-tops
in London. -. Bread is the staff OF life
but not when it has strychininc in il
1t has been ascertained that during the
last year l2O corpses have been stolen
from single Philadelphia cemetery. Tile
sexton CT the cemetery is said to have
been in collision with the body snatch
IA Texas chap shot five men
and no attention was paid 20 it, but one
day he stole mule, and liz less than an
hour the infatuated citizcns hangc:, him.
In Baltimore, few days ago, Geo.
Rochester was fined 81 and costs for
exposing chickens for sale with their
feet tied. -. There are four cases OF vel.
low fever Mt Balcony Falls, Rochbridge
county. Va, all Of whom are refu rees
from the South. IAN editor in Mem
phis thinks tina. there is but one cure
for yellow fever, and that is flight, vigor.
ous!y applied. :. John Belts, 81 wears
old, died in the Pennsylvania Hospital
at Philadelphia, on Saturday last, OF
lockjaw, the result OF bee sting in tue
arm. "A lady's maid at Saratoga show
Cd her iaceratcd fingers aud said they
were cut by the cords with which she
had 20 draw in her mistress There
vas g'ut OF peaches in TIE Baltimore
market on Saturday last, the anoun.
received being estimated at more than
10000 boxes and baskets Twenty
policemen were wounded durin2 n riot
in LTrgan, Ireland. The steamer Ro;ei
Welsh, from Baltimore, has had 100 tons
OF her cargo of wheat damaged bv a
leak - .ClarlSsburg ships over 100000
worth Of small produce annually, and
West Union Is not far behind 1t is re.
ported at Des Moines. Ia, that there. will
he strike Of all coal miners in lows,
$4,000 liz number, on mn agreed day in
| October. a fire at West Bend, Wiscon-
sin, Saturday last, destroyed the whole
block Of stores, the main portion Of the
business street. For want of an engine
the citizens were forced TO let tue fire
have its own way. Eleven buildings were
destroyed with their contents. Loss a.
bout $40, 600 Indiana claims 10
have raised 100000 bushels Of wheat
this year Eight hundred men are
at work on The Kanawha river improve
ments. Kansas promises 10 raise 40.
0OO 900 more bushels OF corn this year
than it did last .Newoomerstown
is the name OF place in OHIO E. The
income Of the Bishop of London's fund
the past year was Sj3. 500 ..... Thus
far Sl,500,000 of Virginias State debt
r has been refunded. .....Prince Bis
morCk is not an overpaid man. His
salary as Prime Minister and "a Chan
celor OF the Empire is only 1880
!. The highest salary OF Prussian cabinet
, minister is 80 900. Florida has nbou.
800 Indians within her boundaries
There is not national bank in Missis.
sippi .....O &C day recently a rattle
snake was killed on the farm OF John
Bergan, near Weston, which measured
y . p &. a 4 - A.