South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-01-23
NEWS OF THE DAY.

jim hcene maic cash p-ymcut
or 81. 500. 900 in gold for wheat IN CDi-
cago the other day. -..5 ,00c coal min
bvreh coal regions "A visit 10 Qneen
Victoria has To- be announced by five
different persanS. -. A German colony
has gone to Fiorila to engage in sheep
raising Though man may miss
9th .r things. he never misses his mouth
Ill is estimated thai /, 500. 900 hides
will this year be sent to- Europe from
the United States - The Church OF
England requires S5s. 00O0 600 annually.
-. The Callahan rancho, in Webb CO.,
Texas. lately employed 100 men to
shear sheep, AMI they handled 7,O00
head daily -. Countess Ida Won Hahn.
the German poetcss, is dead .-.Toma-
tees are ripe in Georgia. - South CAL
'!ornia farmers are selling large quanti-
ties OF raisins -. In Accomac county.
Va, last week, Mr.. Egbert G.. Baily,
aget ~ years, was married 10 Mss
Maggie Bennett, aged fourteen years.
-. Nail manufacturers have advanced
the price Of nails to S. 90 per <eg. Six
months ago they sol'. a. Sl.90 :. The
! Decatur Tribune offers chrome for
any one who will run on the Greenback
iickes this year Mrs. Margaret Tu-
any, whose case has created widespread
interest, diet in Cincinnati. Monday.
She has lived since December 10 with
no food excepting two beans he
oldest woman in Rhode Island is the
widow OF Gen. Nathaniel Greene, of
revolutionary fame. She is 96 ....
Charles Waechtcr, the German lawyer
and legal writer, is dead :. The water
wGs drawn off the Cumberland level of
the Chesapeake and Oaio canal on Fri
day last. Richard q. alexander. of
Delaware City, Del, who was bitten hy
a doI six weeks ago. die Of hydroDho.
ba Friay night, in great agony, after
an illness of five day Ash We,lnes.
dry comes THIS year on February lib.
that being the frst lav Of Lent One
day recently a weather p.cnomcnon
occurred q: Deadwoo !, ID. T., when the
mercury rose from eigh. degrees below
zero to forty above in half an hour.
Charles Odel', his wife and ;wo chill
dren. while attempting 20 ~ in boat
from Beaver Island TO Little Traverse.
or Lake Michigan. lat week, we've
caught between bodies OF ice ani per
ished six years ago shad were in.
tro.'ucci ia'o California waters. They
may noY be taken there every month
in the year ...Tho recent Uin~ayia1
ducl evolved ,iO. il Pcs,h, Tycntv-
live persons were killed All wounded
IA Young ':siy wcnt from Alabama
to ROME TO m AIRY an Itlllon coant will,
whom she had corresponded, but the
counts wife an! four children raised so
many objections that The marriage diI
not take place -. Diph,hcria is carsinr
from four to six deaths n day in Dead.
wood. ID. T., and vicinity. Adults as
well as children ARE stricken
Gold was first discovered il California.
III 1913 The library OF the supreme
court at Washington is the most com
pIetc law library in The world The
first use of = locomotive in thi, country
was in 1929 Last week, Elizabeth
Hammond, pretty white girl, Is years
Old, was sent TO the peni!entiary for n
term oil three years from Russell coun.
ty, for stealing a horse. This is the
first case Of this knl in Virginia.
NT. Lloyd Louadcs had about twenty
Of lis sheep killed By dogs near Rawl.
ings station one night last week
There has been an advance Of about
ten per cent. in tie price OF glass since
The first Of January ...Oii-Nan-in.E y-
eryboly's-Way is wha. The Cincinnati
Enquirer calls Grant Tile Germans
all over the couatry are against tic
Grant boom -. The temperance cause
is blooming" in Alexandria. Tic
I electric light has been successfully used
under water in Germany q. Senator
IL. g. Davis gave the Fairmont Cornct
Band $40 as q Christmas gift -. West
Virginia sent S. 500 cattle to Baltimore
in 1879 MIR. WhiteIaw Reid, Of New
York, sent thirty-Gye homeless clril
dren West on Tuesday last. The
Eastern Nirginisn says Charles Drum
mond, colorcd, IS years Of age. OF Ac-
comac county, Va, is Z feet high and
has feet 10 inches long. Ills weiyhs is
/ 2lj pounds, and consumes regularly >
pounds Of meat per day Our Fish
Commissioners are distributing Califor-
MA salmon extensively in West Virgin