South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-06-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Paris was made Tor Sara Dcrnhardt II
cost 5000. -Four men, supposed to
be cattle thieves, were hanged by mob
in Brown county, Texas, OIL Tuesday Of
last week. Efforts are being made
to domesticate pheasants in some parts
OF Pennsylvania The recent storms
in the Northwest have aoodsd all the
rivers, causing a disastrous loss of lam.
Der logs, especially in Wisconsin -
N horse power churn at independence,
Iowa, turns out $50 pounds Of butter q
day ......The citizens Of Leadville,
Colorado, formed an organization, 5, 900
strong, -on Monday morning last, for
the protection Of the working miners a
| gainst the strikers. The Boston
Post regards Chinaman as a wishee
washee sort OF a chap. .....A hair-pin
factory in Germantown, Pennsylvania,
turns out 100000 week That's the
kind OF factory il is......An unknown
tramp attacked twelve.year-old school
| girl, named Agnes Dockreli, near South
Fordham, New York, on Monday morn
ing last, dragged her into the woods and
cut Off her hair. close TO the scalp, with
jack knife. The rufiian was frighten>
ed off by approaching footsteps and es-
capped. .....A Mrs. Raymond, white
wife of Rev. Jacob Raymond (colored)
| Of Upper Alton, Illinois, is seeking q
divorce on The grounds of insanity, ct
the time Of her marriage. II ia said
that the lady is 4 daughter of Mr. Sam
uel Gleason of Sedalia, Mo-, was mu-
SIC teacher, ana up to the time OF her
marriage, stood we'll in society ..-.-.A
lightning stroke, recently, went clear
through Clark County, Kentucky,
school house, killing grey hound a
sleep under the loor, but left the twenty.
five children unharncl. At pub.
lie strengthening at Taylorviile, Tex
as, on the l7.h OF May, Mr.. ii. Cham
berlain clipped from his highbred ram,
Bob Lusk,' five years Old, 40i pounds
Of wool. This is said 10 be the heav~
! lest fleece eve. taken from sheep in
the United States Spain is about
TO issue fifteen millions of Cuban mort
cages. In the language of an ex-
change, 'Now comes the festive cucum-
Der, with cramp and collie freighied:
while lettuce, onions, peas and beans
are for The doctors mated Nails
are now down to $40 per keg.
A new COW disease has broken out in
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. The
enim.ls are seized with spasms which
invariably prove fatal within a day
Cow doctors have rot discovered the
! cause OF The disease. General w.
w. Loring, formerly in the service OF
Tie Khcdivc of Egypt, but who returned
| 10 this country several ycsrs ago and
settled in Florida, is being pressed for
the Democratic nomination for Congress
in the second district OF that State -.
Tie Hagers:own Mail reports that the
army worm has made its appearance in
| Washington county, Maryland, on the
| farms Of II. G.. Loose, Elias Emmert,
| George w. Harris, and others. The
| devastation Of tie tender corn is serious,
bat the wheat is probably getting too
county, Maryland. complain much OF
the rayages Of the cut-worm upon The
| corn and tobacco 1.-THE woman who
was caught out in q shower with her
new bonnet on and no umbrella to
shelter It, can never be persuaded that
| The rain was needed .. We learn from
the St. Michael's Talbot county, Mary
land, Comet, boy named Wilsom Leo
nard, oolored, was dEoSped in the Wi
comico Falls mill poad, and about the
time OF the accident q cDloTed man
came up just as some boys hal drawn
the body from the water, covered with
mud and kicking. The fellow said,
Put dat boy back in dc water you had
no right to git him out till jury comes.
Dat is dc Law. and you must hey it.
| ~ VIZ wy "U' p"' D"Ih I"IO thc "ateF
to await legal investigation. After a
time he was again drawn from The wa
ter washed great deal cleaner, but not
a kick manifested itself this time. T.
is buried -....Jsmcs Asheton BayarJ,
the father Of Thomas Francis Bayard.
one Of the present Senators from Della.
ware, died 1T bis home, in Wilmington,
Delaware on Sunday morning last
Deceased was himself formerly Seua-
tor from that State, and was elected
four separate times lie was in The
slst year OF bis age......The army
worms are working much destruction
in Berks county, Pennsylvania. a