South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-10-08
NEWS OF T4E DAY.

SASSatSS tuiIl -HFc biitllOiS OF uOIllrS-
The wheat crop of California is
now estimated at one million Of tons.
There never was a time, it is said,
in the history OF the art of lace-mak-
ing when the use of lace was so uni
versal as It is to-day.-Salt has been
discovered at the depth of LOO feet
at Little Rrck, Arkansas.-The In
dams at the canneries OF Washington
Territory are paid five cents for ev-
cry salmon, regardless of size. They
are now on q strike against reduction
10 three cents.-It is stated that Gen.
Grant will spend the greater part of
the fall in New York, and viii visit
Albany in October.-Two respectable
young farmers have been arrested at
Findlay, Ohio, for passing counterfeit
dollars and quarter dollars.-John L.
Martinez, aged twenty-seYen years,
died on Monday last, in New York of
hydrophobia, having been bitten by
pet dog twelve years ago. Joseph
Morehouse, of Elizabethport, New
jersey, bitten By q pet dog three
weeks ago, has not taken any food
since and has violent symptoms of
hydrophobia, four men being scarcely
able to hold him during the spasms.
Death is momentarily expected.-
Over two hundred government clerks
went home last week on leave TO
vote ct the State elections in Ohio
and fndiana-John Cook, forty years
of age, q well-known citizen of New
Brunswick, New jersey, ran n nail
into his foot last week, and died of
lockjaw in great agogy.-It is estima-
ted that over 1000 horses were sick
of the prevailing distemper in New
York city last week. The distempor
has appeared among the horses Of the
street car companies, trucllnen and
others. In Albany also it is not as
yet very severe, though large num-
Der of horses are incapacitated for
work.-A girl was frightened to death
by dream, at West Chester, Perm
sylvau;a. She was recovering from
typhoid fever, and was so weak that,
awakening in terror, the violent &C
ton Of her heart proved instantly IA
tal.-John King, the keeper of the
elephants of John Gobinson's show,
was killed by the elephant "Chief,"
at Charlotte, North Carolina, last
week. The animal, on being remov-
ed from q car, was spoken roughly to
By King, when Chief turned upon his
keeper and crushed him against the
car. King sank 10 tie ground with
out a groan. His skull vac badly
crushed.-The epizootic di3temper
has extended rs far north as St. JOHNS,
New Brunswick. 1t prevails along
the Hudson river, has appeared in
Philadelphia and seems to De getting
genera!-Mr. Michael Kildow, OF
Oakland, Maryland, who was killed
at Warrington, few days ago, was
insured in the railroad Insurance az
ISOLATION for 81 ,000.-In France we'd
ding ceremonies now last three days
In this country the divorce proceed
ings generally consume an entire
week.-When he ia twenty-ono the
boy is said to have outgrown the
switch, but that's just the age when q
girl begins to need one.--A -Cincin-
natl wife attempted suicide a few days
after her wedding This should warn
all men who snoro to frankly confess
their failing before the marriage Ger
emory is portormed.-Orange peel is
very dangerous; the least bit Of it
often brings on physical prostration.
On tie 23rd Of September o cal
jumped from Washington Monument
in Washington city from the height
of one hundred and sixty feet to the
ground, and would have lived, had it
not been caught and killed By a dog
in it's efforts to escape. It Is said that
eat will be stuffed and placed in the
Smithsonian, with q large card over
it which will bear this legend; "This
cat jumped on September 25rd 1880,
from Washington Monument aud
livcd."-Deep tuclss on dresses are q
recent revival OF a fashion of SO oiden
time.-The New York papers pub
fishing advertisements Of places whore
lottery tickets are for sale have been
indjctei.--The cpiz5otic has appeared
among horses in Baltimore. "A
strike OF two hundred and thirty-sev-
en- molder5 in Rathbone & Sands
stove works at Albany, New York,
has thrown six hundred hands ont of
work. Tie strike Is on account Of
the refusal Of the company to dis
charge a member cf the union who
refused to pay a society fne.-Some
California brandy makers use rcctiGed
spirits made from potatoes.--Tbere
was ono death from yellow fever in
New Orleans Monday night last
The locality Of the death is nearly q
mile from the commercial centres.
The promises were promptly disinfec-
ted and thc decca "a buried immedi-
atcly.--Mrs. Ellen Gilmore, mother
of (frf.t.,1 TTr-rt+ q f-..-.r, .If.I 80,