South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-02-06
NEWS OF TIE Day.

IL Is sal, thet about four hundred lady !
clerks will be nesJea for, Temporary |
service in the census department at |
The New Orleans STD |
Tue to s.onewali jackson will be unve,i-
ed in that city on the Pad inst. !.
The Laplander cats only taIlow candle
when he wants q light breakfast. -.
A factory for the manufacture OF cut
iery is about being established ia Cum.
berlaLd. Nil -. The New York scratch
crs have issused q manifesto declaring
that they will oppose either Grant or
Blaine il nominated. :. :. Il Last FRIDAY
there were shipped from Richmond for
Brazil, 1900 barrels or -four =. The
most extensive bee farm in The world is
probably near Beeton, Canada. 1t COW
ers four acres, and last yearsthe owner
secured $1,000 pounis OF honey from
his l9,00O,o00 little workers. -. 4
Wilkic Collirs says that toll with the
pen has given him $l50,OO0 y. The
youngest member or the United States
Senate is the colored Sen a,or. . :. Du.
ring the year ending the oath, 135, 1885,
$50 bushels Of grain were received in
Chicago. Gov. Long, OF iniassachu-
sets, has ordered Charles T. Freeman,
the Pocasset child murderer, to lie con-
fined in the lunalic asylum a: Danvers.
....There are but two men now living
who have been elected President Of the
United Slates-U. s. Grant and S. ].
Tilden :. There are l6. 600 locomotives
In the United States. >. NJ obile has Sc
cured line Of steamers TO Europe. >.
The United States produced during
1879 S38.9OO,O00 in gold and siO,Sl2.-
COO In silver.... Tho Ponca Indians
Bright Eyes. Woodworker and Standing
Bear. are in Philadelphia, and on Sab
bath last entertained the West Arci,
Street Presbyte. ian Church with a re-
c';nI OF their wrongs -. There have
been fifty. six cases Of smallpox in Wash.
ington during the last few weeks
Nine of the cases proved fatal. Dan
iel Barrett. Supreme President of the
Catholic Mutual Benefit Association OF
the United States and Canada, i, dead.
--.-- There arc five circus COMPANIES
wlntering in Kansas. Six gentlemen
by The name OF Moore were mlrriel in
Washington county, Pa, in January
and 'still there's Moore 10 follow"
Over seven million watch glasses are
sold annually in the United States
More deaths from starvation arc renort.
ell In ireland. lone man can make
ooO to GOO whitewash- brushes per dav
- An English judge recently decided
that set OF false teeth were not enc
cessarles" for farmers wife. an nom
suited dentist who had supplied then
without any express authority from the
husband. "A whale sixty feet in length
was Killed in the harbor of Charleston.
). Z. IL Melted its captors $1,000.
There are $4,000 COO sheep in New
South Wales w. Price, a Young bov
living In Centre street. Orange, y. j.,
while playing with some comrades, was
kicked in the mouth by one Of thcm.-
A tooth was knocked out AMI down his
throat, from which Le choked to death
in few minutes :. The harvest pros
poets in Australia indicate large sur.
plus of grain for export. -. The Virgin
ia State Republican convention TO elect
dc 'egntes 10 the National convention
will be held at Stanton April 81.
The FIRST consignment 0t Strawberries
this season arrived in Baltimore the
other day :. .Astor owns $500 Dwell
ing houses 10 New York city...In
Michigan etiquette permits a bride to
be married without gloves, because
that's the way she handles tie groom
alter marriage lin China womel are
permitted to hang them selves, and do
it, surrounded by admiring friends -.
A wonderful cave has been discovered
in Ohio in which are found pre- historic
mummies. aud evidences that the exCa.
vations were made by race of giants.
80. Afghanistan is torn with inferno
cine war. Saint Valentines day
will come on Saturday. February 18th.
Boys beware. This is Leap Year
Governor Mathews has appointed DR..
A. m
vacancy in the Board of Directors OF
the West Virginia Pcnitentiary
Great excitement prevails ri Denver.
Col, over discovery OF gol1 near the
mouth Of the canon OF The Platte. twenty
miles west Of Denver. A specimen Of
the ore assays at the rate OF S2l.19g
per ton. Two hundred locations have
been made ......On tho 2Sth ultimo