South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-08-20

NEWS OF The DAY.


the 18TH inst, We're $352,160,62, and
from customs si.0,I42,57-The to-
tn: number or postolfices In the Unit
Ell States Is 42,9Se.-There are now
q candidates for the Office OF Asses
or In Lewis county, this State.-Late
information from Quitman, Texas,
says the indians are all around that
place, running off stock and murder
ing people.-George Peabody's Lon
don poor-fund has Increased from g.
500, 900 to $500, 000.-Dan Rice has
already retired from the religious
field, and is lifting up u floating c,rcus
for the Mississippi river and its tribu-
taries.-The coming will be the twen-
ty-fourth Presidential election. 1.-The
population Of Oregon has nearly
doubled il the past ten years.-Egypt
is large country go far rs mere
territory is concerned, but the amount
OF land under cultivation is compare
lively small, being no larger than the
State of New jersey, or about one
thousand i've hundred square miles.
1t is stated that over 900 cattle
have died in Barton county, Mo-,
within the past two weeks. The di-
sease is variously called Spanish fe-
yer, murrain and other malarial few
ers. Some farmers have lost whole
herds. is estimated thatthe cen
sus returns will show 4 population OF
six hundred thousand in West Va.
Col. Crittenden estimates the
Democratic majority in Missouri at
seventy-tive thousand.-The United
States signal Office at Bismark, D. T.,
on the 9Th inst, reported the heat
102 degrees in tho shade and 1875 de-
grees i'll the sun.-Frogs are shipped
north from Bedford, Tennessee.-
On Friday terrific cyclone prevailed
for two minutes at Golial, Texas,
demolishing twenty-five houses. iniur-
ing five persons and causing loss Of
fifteen thousand dollars.-Foreign
exports from Baltimore for the week
onded the 9Th inst, were valued at
two million five hundred and ninety
seven thousand and three hundred
dollars.-The telescope was inven.
ted in 1549.-Funeral of the Re-
publican party, November 2, 1880.
In the Henrico (Virginia) County
Court, on the 18th inst, James w.
Ioenninger refused to serve on o iu-
~ because there was colored man
on it. The judge fined Hoenninger
two hundred and fifty dollars and
ordered him to be imprisoned ten
days for contempt. He afterwards
consented to serve and the punish
ment WAS remittod.-There are over
one thousand factories in Philadelphia
and adjacent districts engaged in the
production of textile fabrics.
steamship Donan arrived at New
York, Monday, from Bromen, with
81 ,357,950 in specie on board
Maud 5. and st. Julien made the
best trotting time on record at Ro-
chester, New York, last week, each
making mile in 2.11t.-Chiefs
Cutnow, Bear Dog and two other
Indians have been arrested III Mani
tOba for shooting treaty cattle
AT Petrolia, Pennsylvania, Saturday
afternoon, Willie Armstrong while
playing with towel suspended from
n roller in some manner hung himself.
The parents were summoned from
another part OF the house by little
girl who came and told them to come
i'll and see a niger. They found the
boy hanging, with his face SO black
TINT he resembled a negro. He WAS
hastily taken down, and after several
hours vigorous work came ont all
right.-The Republicans of Morgan
county have nominated John III. Buzz
card, Esq, for Sheriff, John T. Siler,
Esq, for House of Delegates. J. r.
Smith, Esq, for Prosecuting Attorney
and John IL. Shackelford, for Assess
or.-Miss Tillie Mateer, aged 18, was
walking with gentleman near Mt.
Joy, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania,
on Sunday last, when spark from
his cigar SGT fire to her dress, and she
became alarmed and began running.
a gentleman driving toward her
jumped from bis carriage and wrap
ped o blanket around her, but she
was 90 Dauiy burned tnat she dlcd
shortly after.--A handsome FLAG
stretched across Main street, at Win
chester, Virginia, indicates the head
quarters Of the Hancock and Eng
lish Club.---At Greenville, Ohio,
on Monday last, drunken rough
fired n revolver Mt Miss Sophia Hud-
son, who, in company with her broth.
or, was returning from an ice cream
saloon. The ball struck q steel band
in Miss IIudson's corset, aud was
mashed fiat, doing her no injury
Major General Bryan Grimes, of the
Confederate army, while driving noar
his home in Pitt county N. c., on the
18th inst, was shot dead by an un-
known person.-Jobn Karin, saloon
keeper at Buffalo, New York, on the