South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-08-15
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Duke de RiYoli. Bonapartist. has
oeen nned 5000 francs for bribery and
corruption. Tea grown in South Car
oina has delicious aromatic flavor.
london has police force OF lO,41i.
costing $3.50 900 to maintain H..
The cotton crop report for July is gen.
orally favorable Saratoga gets its
beef direct from Chicago by refrigerator
cars :. 1t was a Chicago lady that in
vented the paper pail that grocers find
SO convenient, ami now o San Francisco
lady has invented baby carriage, the
patent OF which sold for $4,000. .-.-.
American catke on Sable Island will
not be allowetAo land at Hal fax. y. s..
aiive. If attempted they will be forfeit
ed and may be destroyed .-.... Cholera
Is raging in Southern Japan, and
all the ports have been quarantined.
In bombay, India. cotton factory
man receives SO month, n woman 81
and child $3.50 80. a shark weighing
4Vo pounds was caught in seine in
Elk river. Cecil CO., Nd, last week -.
len thousand chickens were broiled on
Coney Island, New York's great sea-
shore place. on n recent Sunday. anu
$4,000 glasses of beer washed them
down. The four leading hotels there
ied that Gay an aggregate OF 43 600 peo-
pie. Thirteen barns have been burned
within few months in tho western part
OF Chicago. and it has ttanspired that
boys fired them for fun On the return
OF couple to Simsbury. Conn from
their welding tour, party OF girls met
them Mt the train, put them into car.
ria3e, took hold OF the shafts and drew
them to their new homo =. A farmer in
Perry County, Pa, has this season taken
TO coffee-raising on small scale. with
good success so far. The fire which
broke out in the city Of Serajevo. Serva,
on Friday, was exiting Wished Saturday
morning. Twenty thousand persons are
homeless. Enormous horse shoes or
roses are used in New York in place OF
the marriage bell .....In LANA sets up
its claim for fifty million bushel wheat
crop this year A pitilble ol,ltramp was
entertained at Battle Creek, Mich. by
negro woman whom he had once owned
In the South. Times hal changed for
both The charitable contributions Of
the German people on the occasion or
Emperor Williams golden wedding,
amounted 10 considerable over 2 800, 900
marks When q thin! is once begnn
1t IL almost BALI fiuislic ia kiss Tor
instance. There are about five hun
dred applicants under the act of the
Virginia assembly for the relief OF
manned soldiers. 80. The iIarrisonhurg
papers are agjta,ing the question OF wa.
ter works. Ten new railroads are
under construction in Texas, agsrega-
ting Al ilaG Whaolin,, - a.. ,.o
new paper soon A scientist pre-
diets that We are soon to have another
very lot spell q. =. IL was an Irsllman
who said OF an enemy that che would
spit in Your mouth when your back was
turned. AT the Grecnbrier White
Sulphur Springs or Sunday last there
were thirteen hundred people seated at
dinner at one time, and then there were
hundred or so outside. This shows
that the springs arc tlourishing now if
ever they 1ourished. - Alexander
kratz, n well.known merchant tailor OF
Cumberland, died on Monday last, after
short illness Only one Of the sew.
enteen American generals who entered
tie Mexican war survives. "A pearl
worth 500 has b zen found in q muscle-
she'll upon the Miami river, near Waynes.
vile, Ohio ...-.A man was drowned
at Long Island on Sunday, and on Mon.
day two men were drowned at Atlantic
City, anal another one "a. Cape May
Surf-batEing will become unpopular III
4 his rate. II is almost as fatal as vel.
low fever. :. Edwin liall. "A prominent
dry goods merchant OF philadelphia.
died on Monday last Poindc xter.
who killed young Curtis, at Richmond,
Va. has been granted new trial by the
Court Of Appeals. Over 10000 pounds
Of glycerine are used annually in the
Uni' eel States for mixing with beer.
\ German poet says that n yonng girl
is n f'hing-rod; the eyes are the hook.
tile smile the bait, the lover the gudgeon.
and marriage the butter in which he il
fried. IA cool laugh is ant-iyspeptic.
.-.- When vaccinations was liTs, intro.
duced in Boston, in 1921, The House of
Representatives passed bill prohibit
ing il Now, under certain conditions. il
is made obligatory "a young lady i'm
New York died recent ~ from the effects
OF eating pickles that had been artificial.
Is cOlored -. a woman with two heads
has just arrived from Europe. Eight
bonnets n year !-oniy think OF it2
A steamer arrived at Halifax from Bor.
deau, recently, filed NJ with rerrigera.
tors for freezing salmon. Goldfish and
Holsters, which she will collect along
the Newfoundland coast and carry TO
France. The worst Southern yell is
said TO be the yello fever. ..A vio-
lent rain and hail storm passed over
portions Of Wisconsin, on Monday last.
doing serious damage. Gen. Samuel
+. Cary, the champion greenbacker, an
nounccs his purpose TO stump Ohio for
Gen. Ewing. Tho United states il
now shipping horses 90 Brest, to be used
in the French cavalry service thus
opening q new traffic The deepest
running stream known is tue Niagara
river, which just under the lower sus-