South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-03-19
NEWS OF The DAY.

three. President Hsyes, IL is said,
has come out for Grant :. .Sassafcas
oil is being distilled from Tho roo, sue>
cessfully near Greensboro y, &C.,.
The Legislature OF Mississippi has i'm
posed q heavy Tax upon every baehe-
Tor in the State over twenty five years
Of age. -.-.-A lodge OF colorci Mase MS
has been organized in Wheeling .....
There is considerable emigration from
the mountain counties OF Kentucky to
Kansas $3.50. One thousand Tennessee
ans are said to have passed through
Chattanooga within the last four weeks
on their way 10 the West. IA ef.
fort is being made TO redu &C the whis-
Ky tax from ninety TO lirty cents.-..
Leather pettico1ts are worn for walking
by English women. They look like
satin and wear forever IA disease
known as black measles is prevailing to
an alarming extent in the country -
round Petersburg. Va During the past
few days number of sudden deaths
resulted from it The Mormons e.
wade the legal decisions against poly
gamy by secret marriage and taking
the new wife home as help or teacher,
and the old wives submit because they
relisiously believe it TO be their duty.
1.-The Grand Central Hotel, at San
Etnnnicro Gra< bn
9th inst. Loss S250,000. The inventor
of q patent gate advertises for a party
with money to take hold Of it and help
him push it -. Less than five years a.
go. one man couki not make over IA
pins minute now he can make ] 40.
Then one girl could stick on papers a
bout &c, 600 pins day ; now a fair days
work is from 500, 900 TO 1000, 900.
Rev. DR.. Moses d. noge: of Richmond,
has srrived safely in Cairo, Egypt.
A land company in Huttonsvillc, Ran.
dolph county, This State, lately sent u
man to Switzerland for immigrants
......It is said that there has been no
dancing in tie White House since the
days CT Mrs Liz coin, except on ore
night when Mrs. Hayes. in replacing
the carpet, had left tack on the floor
which the President STEPPED on in 60
ing to bed ...-..S:rawberries hawked
about the streets I'D binding snow
storm was the novel spectacle present
ed in Baltimore the other day Since
the 1st instant Chicago packers have
slaughtered 100000 hogs, against 85,.
600 for the corresponding period year
ago. Prince Leopold is coming over
to Kill somel bufialoes. The New York
Conmcrcim wants TO know what the
poor buffalos have done to him that he
should wish TO slaughter them. 800.
Easter Sunday comes this year on the
18th of March Den Cameron has
subscribed two hundred and fifty doll
lars to tho Washingtor-Lee University
at Lexington Virginia. 49,. West Tex.
as doctors now speak OF that section as
the health belt. " illiam Wrightson.
of Talbot county, Nd, Killed seven wild
geese at ore shot recently S an
Antonio is rapidly becoming the great
wool market Of Texas. Rev. Stuart
Robinson, d, d., Of Louisville, Ky,
will deliver the ann ual sermon before
the Young Mems Christian A ssociation
at the University of Virginia, juno 9th.
.-....The first steel pen was made in
1880 The New York republican cen
trail committee indorsc the action Of tho
State convention in instructing nation
al delegates to vote for Grant En-
velopcs were first used in 1889 i. With
in the past two weeks, Mr.. Wm. Mitch
ell, Of Somerset county, MI. has lost
his wife and two daughters from diph-
iberia -. President Hayes declining to
modify and mitigate the sentence, rs
urged by Major Reno's friends, has f.
nally dismissed Reno from tho service.
.-....The Shenandoah Bridge at Uar.
per's Ferry is completed ......A man
ship, Cambria county, Pa, is credited
with having killed thirteen wolves dur
ing tue past winter. Congress has
under consideration q bill repeating
postage on newspapers circulation.
Common justice demands that all news
papers should pass through the mails
FREQ =. The Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road Company have laid the plan for
the form alton Of an insurance company
for the bcncn. OF its employees The
plan Of the company leaves no doubt
Of success IL hearty corporation on
the part Of the employees themselves is
secured. 1t contemplates not only ben.
eft, 20 be maid i'm cqacs NJ doofb but