South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-09-10
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ha'is2s exodus y falling back >On
Southwest Missouri Delegate Dow
ney, OF Wyoming, says his poem in
tho Congressional Record was q first
rate political investment, and wall re-
elect him.-Mark Twain has made
$4,000 from his books.-Greece
has an effective army Of %, 900 men.
Eight young men have been fined
five dollars cash in Johnstown, Penn
sylvania, for loafing in front of n
church on Sunday night.-Rev. Drs.
Reade and Moses ID. Hoge, both
prominent Presbyterian divines, have
returned to Richmond, Virginia, after
| an absence of several months, the lat
ter in the Holy Landau eight
year old blind boy near Marion, Ala
bama, can play any tune be ever
heard, on the vioiin.-The inventor
of a new telephone. just tried at Mans,
France, says that it will convey sound
| across the Atlantic.-The golden
wedding of Mr.. II. n. Gallaher, edi-
tor of the Charlestown Free Press.
was celebrated at his residence in that
place on Thursday night of last week.
A large company was present, and
many beautiful presents were made to
the venerable couple.-The French
crops are reported to be- fully up to
the averagc.--A bride Of q week re,
turned to her parents, at Bay City,
| Michigan, because her husband made
her black his boots.-The Italian
harvest is 60 per cent. above the av-
erage Wind lifted ell the tents
OF Barnum's show, at ST. Louis, and
tore them into pieces too small for
patching "A four months old child
of Franklin Kentner was killed by a
large rat the other night, while sleep
ing in a cradle in Its parents house
near Reading Pennsylvania---Hen
ry Clay's Kentucky homestead, Ash
land, has been rented at So per acre.
-FTty-one ears of hot corn made
a meal for Elias Druckerbrote, at
Uniontown, Ohio, on a wagon. The
last ear was eaten cob and al and
washed down with q pint of whiskey
Capt. Eads will return to Califor-
MIA III December for the purpose of
studying the drainage question when
the rivers are at high water.-At
Manchester, England, widow with
five children got $22,500 compensa-
ton from a railroad company for her
husbands death.-Rev. James a.
| Waddoll, of the Lexington Presby
tory has been dismissed 10 the Presby-
terry Of South Alabarna-A coiored
Hancock club was organized at Troy,
New York, with thirty-iye active
members to start on--Tbs family
OF j. n. Brown, CT Atair county CON
sists OF himself, three girls and two
boys. Thoy lately went into the
woods, cat q IS foot Hancock aad
English pole and raised it nea. the
| house without aid from any ono elae.
--Seventy-hve clerks in the Census
Bureau ut Washington have already
been discharged for incompc.ency,
and the wedding ont is still going on.
"a republican campaign club in
st. Louis held d raaetins on the even
ing Of The 23rd, and resolved to go
over in g body to Hancock and Bng-
lish. One hundred and fifty mey1-
bers We're la attendance when the
vote vas taken. The club will join
the Democratic parade the present
week.---A Grant club in Philadel-
| phia, Numbering 700, has. body, soul
and breechos broken into tie Han
| cock line.--IIorace MAYNARD, the
| new PcstTnaster-G General has reached
W Washington, and entered upon the
duties of nus oiiice.--Genaral Jas.
Longstreet has received his commits.
sion "a minister TO Turkey vice Hc-
race Maynard who resigned to take
the position Of Postmaster cnoral
They manage to get along in the
Bank Of England with only ono thou
sand clerks.---The way the king of
the Sandwich islands carves a chicken
is to take hold Of both legs, draw 81
long breath, and pull for all he is
wOrth.--Texas commenced raising
wool in 1915, and has now four mill
ION sheep. II is estimated that Mon
tana will produce this year eighty
million pounds of wool, nearly IS
much as Observation-Disclosures
have devastated tho crops in many
Kentucky counties.--The Cumber-
land Chemical works are IN operation
at last.---ISteamer5 on the Hudson
river on Saturday last encountered a
storm OF dies hurryine norfhward.
They reached southward from shore
to shore Or far IS the eye could reach.
and as high up. The Nova Scotians
are also alarmed az visitation Of I'M
meusc 5warms of fies.-A recontgale
which passed. over Florida has played
havoc with tho orange crop. The
loss is estimated at one million dollars.
"A fearful drought prevails AN over
Vermont, and, il lis said manufacture
ers have been compelled 90 suspend
wor, tor want OF sufficient water TO
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