South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-04-23
NEWS OF THE DAY.

ADtrtccu tnOuS8uO dead letters was
the daily average ut the L. States Post
Office department last year. ;. James
X Dodge, in his Investigation or sheep
husisandry ia the South. reports more
than $4,000 killed by dogs last year.
THE census appropriation has been
reduced by the Senate from $3.50. 600 to
Sl25 900. 49, The number OF pensions
granted during the past eighteen years
foo.s up seven hundred thousand
Ex.Gov Fayette McMullln, of Virginia.
has called g.eenback State conven-
ton, TO meet in Salem on Monday, May
TO-. Send us $4,000 women at once, ;
is the cry from Arizona. The men out
there have evidently grown tired OF
splitting wood and making fires ..-..
In Orington, Massachusetts,, a shoema-
ker has worked at his trade more than
80 years. and although SO he is still
sticking TO the last $3.50. The drought
in Havana still continues. and many
cattle are dying. The cane on Paso
Real Plantation has been burned. and
the loss will be two hundred hogshcads
of sugar. Work was commenced
on the Capital building a, Charleston,
on the 9TH inst. ..Spring chickens,
about the size OF canary birds. may be
had now in the Baltimore markets for
so cents each -. The prospective
bride of Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., Miss
Flood. is TO receive S2,500,000 as a
wedding gift. The production Of oil
in Pennsylvania is about $4,000 barrels
day. and the consumption about A.
600. Boots and shoes for dolls are
turned out by one London house at the
rate OF | GOO pair week. Mormon
ism is profitable as we'll as polygamous
The church has paid off debt OF $780,.
900, due on transportation OF converts
from Europe, and still have enough to
set them up in excepting. -. A
little boy named Cocker, residing at
Roosevelt, Georgia, Monday struck
his brother in the head with stone,
supposing it TO be a clod Of dirt, and
killed him. Paper is twenty per cent
cheaper in Canada than in the United
States. ---- The price Of farms is rap
idly advancing in nearly every part OF
Kentucky ...-.Six and quarter cents
each is what the Inhabitants of the
Moundsville Penitentiary live on per
day ..... From March l Chicago pack
ers have slaughtered and salted 497 coo
hogs, against 2S7, coo for the correspon-
ding period of a year ago. -. General
Grant has arrived at his home in Gale
ma, whore he will take n rest. -. Moody
and Sankey have started, by way OF
New Orleans, on trip through Texas,
New Mexico S the mining regions.
The trial Of the negro Thomas Smooth
ers for the outrage committed by him
Oh Miss Lena LeiDs, in Washington. d.
g.. in February last, closed on Tuesday
last with q verdict ofguiity. A motion
has boen male for a new :rial, but it is
said to be regarded as certain that
Smothers will go to the penitcntisry
for the full term OF 80 years. The jury
by which he was convicted was made NJ
of eight negroes and four white men,
.--...On Friday last mare belonging
TO a. Lord, of Somerset county, Md,
fnalo1 fhrnn oNlsa nn1 oil
doing well at last accounts .Ac-
cording to statistics, ffty.two newspa>
pers and magazines III this country are
edited by culored men On Thurs
day morning last the saw mill Of Camp
bell &c Phillips, located on Plum Run
about four miles from Warrington, this
State, was totally destroyed by fire.
All the machinery and large lot OF fine
lumber was destroyed. Loss estimated
at about 1900. No insurance ....
Mason county sends two gentlemen OF
color to the Republican Convention
which meets in Wheeling next month.
Col. John McWhorter, tho Oldest
citizen of Lewis county, West Virginia,
died last week, aged 81 years, He was
an officer in the war of 1912, and after
wards served in the capacity OF Repre-.
sentative in the Virginia Legislature,
president Of The County Court and
prosecuting attorney. Col McWhorter
became a member Of the Masonic Order
just prior TO the war Of 1872.
the goth inst. the boiler in the saw mill
belonging to U. a. Clayton, exploded,
instantly killing III. Cunningham Of
Littleton. The mill is badly wrecked.
ION gettinl back TO Ireland, Mr..
Parnell boastod chat he was the only
foreigner who had ever been permitted