South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-07-16

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for their goods is in New York and
Baltimore The quantity of cotton
consumed IN the world in 1873 was
81 times greater than l77S.-Five
deaths occurred IL Baltimore from
sunstroke on Tuesday last.-Rev.
Samuel Sparlliin. of Baltimore, m
old clergyman of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church. died on Saturday last.
Mexico, with its vast and productive
territory, has only 5S5 miles OF rail
way in operation.-MarlI Twain is
reported IS having registered a vow
not 10 ascend the lecture platform o.
gain. The injury done by insects In
the United States Is estimated al $780,
OOO,000.-In New York during the
twenty-four hours ended at noon, on
Saturday last, l3i deaths from all
causes were reported, including sixty
deaths OF children who died from the
effects OF the heat.-The population
OF the town of Salem, Virginia, is I,
T3. In 1870 it was, 1855, showing
All increase OF 4IS.-The Turkish
Minister mt Washington went home
because he couldn't get enough sala-
~ to pay board-Thomas Boathroyd,
wealthy farmer, near Ridgetown,
Ont, was attacked by boar Satur-
day, which threw him down and bit
him in the side and throat, completely
severing the jugular vein. He died
in fifteen minutes.-There were fifty
deaths from yellow fever and eleven
from smallpox in Havana, Cuba, last
week.-Largcnt, who stabbed Zoiler
In Paw Paw, surrendered himself
and has been admitted to bail. -Four
thousand Canadian emigrants left
Canada for the United States in A
pril, and the cry is, Still they come!
Along the line Of the Philadelphia
and Reading railroad and its branch
es, within six weeks, fourteen iron
furnaces have been closed to make
repairs aud wait for a steady market.
This Is 10 be the Democratic year
Of jubilee The Hancock motto is,
| ON TO tie White House. The Fu-
ropcan Immigration for 1880 is esti-
mated at 4G0,9G0.-The expulsion OF
the Jcsuits from France creates great
eXcitcment.-Accor 10 The census
returns, st. Joseph Mo, las 8 popula-
ton Of 80, Anthony Comstock
IS suffering from blood poison in New
J oril, which may be fatal, ana which
Comstocic thinks was communicated
by o package sent by mail to himself
by somebody lie once prosccuted.-
DIR. Daniel Ward, Sr., one OF Cum
beriand's Oldest citizens, died 81 his
residence IL that city, on Friday last,
aged nearly so wears -FC.tv.thcee
animals brought e3e, 525, thirty-two
COWS averaging about nine hundred
ninety live dollars, and eleven bulls
six hundred and twenty-five dollars.
The Free Press notes that Randall
Nerr:ck, 2 colorci mau, who resides
III Jefferson county, is 1913 years old.
John DAVIS, VINO was worth six
millions dollars, In 1860, is now an
imato Of the Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
poor h0u6c 49, The colorcd votes of
Richmond have organized g Hancoc!.
brigade Mr. James Brown George.
wholesale shoo-doalcr, accidentally
fell Friday morning from 81 window
in the fOn"tl story Of his warehouse,
corner q Lombard and Sharp streets,
Baltimore, - the sidewalk, distance
OF sixty feet, and d.ol III few minu-
tes. "A mail rider sad ms horse were
both killed by lightning in Merri-
weather county, Georgia, Friday last
--Ihcrc were only forty negro mem