South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-06-27
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The United States consumes annual
~ 80 100000 worth OF quinine New
dry South Carolina red wheat WA, sold
in Baltimore on yesterday week at 81, so
- Minister Langston. our representa-.
tive TO liayti. Is not deal OF the yellow
lever, but Is getting we'll Seventy
vessels. from five TO seventy tons burtii.
en-. with $50 men. are now engaged in
he Key West sponge trade. Mr. Cy.
rus ii. Mccormick. of wheat -reaoer fame,
has been unanimously elected a CORES
ponding member OF the French Acade-
my OF Science The cattle disease is
spreading in Southern Georgia New
York pays 100000 year for milk
water free. -. The Savannah paper.mills
turn out $4,000 square feet of paper per
hour. An cd ladylliving in Loudoun
county. Va, is the mother of fourteen
children. all living. whose ages range
from forty-tw to seventy wears. Ten
coaches Of the T.. & A. loaded with pas
sengers. left Kansas City for Chicago
last week. the fare being down to so
cents. distance between the two points
900 miles-old fare SIS rs .. "A boy in
Holt county. Missouri. is capable of dis.
corning and distinguishing objects in
the dark as distinctly rs he can in day
light. by the means of one OF his eyes
49,. .kirg. Of Texas. has lie. 900 head OF
stock In one enclosure. Mrs. Honora
Lacy, OF Chester county. Pa. was roast
ed alive on Saturday last By her carriage
catching fire while she was riding. Tie
lire. it is supposed, originated from a
package of matches amongst her parcels
of goods. Elder White, the reformed
circus clown, is preaching in tent in
New Hampshire. Mrs. Laura Fair.
who killed Col. Critic ndep. in California.
has invented baby carriage, and seld
the patent for $4,000. 1t is es,ima-
ted tina. the amount of wool sold in six
counties in Ohio. PENNSYLVANIA and
West Va, will aggregate in value over
a million and half of dollars. The
New Orleans Times says that CITY is
healthier than she has been tor wears Al
tins season There are 80, 976 post.
Offices in the United States :. Weston
won the belt in the London WALKING
match against Brown, making the uuprc.
cedented record OF $40 miles i'm I42
hours....S. g. liigQinbotham, one of
the largest cattle dealers in Southwest
Virginia, died last week -. Vanderbilt
has more men under hm than are con-
tanned In the United Ntates army
bishop Doggctt will preside at the West
Va. Conference OF the NJ. l.. Church
South. xhich will convene at Clark sburp
September Sd. -. New York's elevated
railway carries quarter, Of million
passengers every day. and pays net div
idends OF nearly ten millions year
Ile Colorado potato bug is bad all over
Tennessee. Captain Kennedy, Of the
lnman line. has made five hundred voy.
ages across the Atlantic ocean. A
pine-Root lO5 feet long is one OF the
wonders Of Georgia. Miss Kate Nash
formerly school-teacher OF Homecoming.
Md. died i'll Baltimore last week. from
the effects Of quinine, administered to
her by dentist who was operating np-
on her teeth. IA young lady, born in
a Pullman car in Iowa the other day,
was named Car'line Bertha. "A Gcor.
Siq belle chops out four acres of cotton
and then goes to town shopping . . The
seven-yoar locust have appeared in the
woods near Dallas, Texas ....E. w.
Gale, of Parkersburg. one of the largest
owners OF oil territory in the State, died
a. his home in that city last week
George Lessard, veteran OF the war of
1912, and now living in Montreal, drew
his pension the other day, the money
being needed because. though 90 wears
OF age, nc has just married his fourth
WHO. - Mrs. Potts, who is on q tramD
from Phila leipiia for New Orleans. was
greeted on her arrival at Atlanta. GA.
Saturday, by about 900 people, who
cheered her as she entered the depot -
She says she is walking for n wager of
So 900 that she will get to New Orleans
and back to Philadelphia in live months.
and that she is now 200 miles ahead OF
time. "A stock train was wrecked
near WoodbiEe, Baltimore and Ohio
rai!road, Sunday, By a wheel under a
stock car breaking. Ten cars were
smashed and large number OF sheep
and hogs killed. The county lew of
Harrison county is 23 cents on each
500 valuation The first new wheat
offered in Richmond. Va, this season.
sold on the 18th inst. for 81 .28 per
bushel IA disease called Cerebro
Spinal Meningitis is now prevailing a.
mong horses in some sections Of Adams
county, Pa. The Gettysburg Conpiley
says the symptoms are a trembling Of
the muscles OF the hind legs and sides.
profuse sweating, and stiffness across
the back and in the hind legs. Diseased
animals fall down very suddenly and
become paralyzed in the hind parts, and
will die in thirty-six hours il not reliey.
eel IA Fort Atkinson. Wis. merchan.
Thomas Brown, Get spring gun for a
burglar tue other night. Visiting his
store early in the morning. Mr. Brown
himself struck the deadly weapon and
was killed .-....Mr. w. II. Vanderbilt
is having built a stable to cost 100000
800. Mrs. Olive Marsh. OF Chinatown.
y. H., has just cut one tooth toward a
third set She is 80 years old, and i, is
the only tooth she has IAN East
3 Bridgeport Comm woman, who ia in =
sane over the loss Of her child, dresses
, up cat and carries IL about az if i,
were baby. ..... Charles Markus, who
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