South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-04-16
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Chicago Times OF Saturday An
enormous crop of sugar is predicted IN
Louisiana this year. In 1879 2i7.Sl5
acres OF public land were sold in Mani
toba. The city or Paris is afflicted
with typhoid fever and small .pox.-
Last weeks death record in that city
reached ,206. The Waltham watch
factory in Lancaster county, Pa, made
last year IA ,434 watches and soll l49,.
647. -.--. Missouri's sixty-fve brewer
les manufactured and sold 507, SOS bar
rels Of beer last year. 49,. There had
been sacrifice OF 700 men, women and
children in Burmah for the benefit of
the Kings health. 1.-THE New York
World alludes to Sherman as an auto
matte candidate for President $1,000
For the first time since 1888 sugar
cane has tasseled in Louisiana, which in.
dica.es an enormous yield. Over TO-.
600 boxes Of cheese were exported from
New York TO foreign countries during
the past week :. The wife of President
Diaz died at the City of Mexico on Fri
day last .-..If Grant becomes Presi-
dent Don Cameron will be Secretary OF
the Treasury :. An extensive district
Of tin ore is reported to have just been
found some fifty odd miles from Sonora,
Mexico. jackson Wilson, q we'll.
known citizen of Allegany county, Md
died on Wednesday Of last week .....
Spain pays her ministers plenipotenti-
airy sec, 900 year and her favorite bull.
fighting $4,000 q year. Extreme
ly stormy weather In Canada Four
feet snow in the strcots Of Halifax on
the 1st, and in the country in some | Ia.
ces it is ten feet deep. THE Read
ing Pa, Times says Bernvile apiarists
have lost swarms or bees through dys-
entery--a queer disease for bees TO have.
Russia is about to send Eve large
war vessels into Chinese waters $500.
A thirteen and onc-half pound cabbage
has been grown this season by MIR. NJ.
Hooper, of Tampa, Florida. -. Nearly
1000 constabulary have left Dublin for
Cork TO maintain order during the com
ing struggle between Mr.. Parnell and
the priests. -. james Young, Of Cum
berland, q well-known boatman and
boa.-builder, died OF paralysis last Sat
urday 49,. The Reading, Pa, kid glove
leather establishment used last week
$50 dozen of eggs in the soften ing OF
leather. Only the yolks OF eggs arc
used IA. A. Speer, OF South Apopka
Florida, has a t;fteen-acre field OF roast
ing ears, and seventeen acres of corn
just tasselng Iron orc Of good quail
ity has been found on the land Of MIR.
w. +. Dinkel near Buffalo Gap in Agus-
Ia county. w. Va. Colonel Tom
Scott the Railroad King, gave $4,000
recently to Randolph Macon College
$500. Missouri has $3.50 square miles
of territory, and ia counties. ....-lt
is said that there is considerable sick
ness in Wheeling at present. ...-. The
salaries paid to Federal office holders
in the whole United States amounts to
$3l ,252, l07. 49,. II an old sheep can on
~ jump fence hey call it "spring
lamb" Henry C. Fredericks, mem
Der Of the Chicago Board Of Trade, Mon
day lat jumped from the fourth story
of the Woodruff House, in that city,
and was instantly killed. He was in-
sane in consequence Of disastrous spec
ulations in wheat. Mr.. +. Il. Baker
of Chester, Pa, is likely to become a
hero. lie recently invented a remedy
for the rayages of potato bugs, which
! is efectual in every way, and is no.
are without newspapers. -..-.It is said
that the spring drive Of cattle from Tex
as will be unusually large this season.
.-..J. Tucker, colored, charged with
murder, was taken from the jail in
Greensburg. La, by fifteen men, on
| Sunday morning last, and shot deal. -
-. During The past Eve years the los
ses by fire in the United States have n
mounted to $685. 55. .....A Utah
wedding paragraph says "the bride was
logged out in white gauzc." ......
JAY GoULD's income is estimated at
$4,000 day. But tha. is nothing to
VIM. II. YonderbilCs. A day or two a.
90 he drew from the United States trea
sure something over 53O0,0OO the quar-
terly interest on the s3l, 900, 600 bo has
invested in the United States bonds
This investment was part OF the pur-
chase money no received fo7 The surplus
Central railroad stock he sold to Jay
| Could and sYndicnle. His entire for