South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-01-09
NEWS OF THE DAY.

"A variety OF japanese pcrsimnops
are grown in Florida that weigh nearly
a pound apiece and are OF delicious
flavor. They are going TO have Gus
tomhouse at Charleston, this State -.
Paper bricks are now being made in
Wisconsin. Texas has more mineral
wells and mineral springs than any 9th.
er State in the Union "A Mussulman
priest in Turkey has been sentenced 10
death for assisting to translate the BIZ
BILE. 1.-The wool clip OF Texas this
year is estimated 8. $4,000, 600 pounds.
IA man in Colorado, who had been
tried and acquitted Eve different times
Tor murder, was hung lately for steal
ing $40 horse >. !. There were 10000
acccssons to the Methodist Chu.cn in
Texas dnring the conference year just
closed. -. An exploration Of the Great
Salt Lake shows that it's greatest depth
is SO feet. The foreign immigration
last year aas exceeded tha. OF any
year since 10 ...A cheerful Lebanon.
ILL.,, man, bedriiden since infancy, has
never missed meal &. f. Eliza Piukston
has been declared innocent Of the charge
of poisoning her husband -. Florida
reports that some time in the near fu-
ture it will literally supply the North
with strawberries in Eida inter.
party Of deer hunters from Roanoke
county. Va, killed a few days ago taen-
,y.eight deer in the mount aims of Po-
cahontas- lat Gallipo!i4, o., on the
night Of The 25th ult., z O, robbers made
raid on the house OF Guy Frey. who
hred on them an they Disappeared
The next morning he found dead
stranger in his front yard +. d. Strawbcr-
~ plants are in bloom in gardens a.
round Richmond, Va Five hundred
and eighty-oue people died in the city
of Wheeling last year. Sx.y-nine died
in August, the month of diph,herias
ravages = In Engl1nd, portable gas is
now sold and delivered everywhere. -
Country residents receive it from the
city III copper cylinders a school j..
master NJ Johnson, Iowa, has been FIN
Ell for whipping n girl pupil because
size corrected his INSTRUMENTATION Of "A
word The Maryland penitentiary re
allied profit Of $4,000 u the State
during the year IA Chicago paper
calls real estate agerts dealers in dirt
1.-The highest rent ever paid for q
store on Broadway. New York, was $780,
600 year. Tue South raised l2,QOo
| 600 roun Is more OF tobacco the pres
ent season than ever before =. People
10 the province Of Seistan, Aighanstan,
are selling TER children for food
Russian military preparations are ao-
tive. :. Pgrson Moody says there is no
foundation for the report Of the CONVEX.
sion of Dan Rice the shown an. The
bill for the abolition Of slavery in Cuba,
passed the Spanish Senate on The Oath
uit. 1t is scarcely possible to exag-
gerate tue misery causel by the food
which swallowed mp tho Hungarian city
Szegedn. Ont OF $500 houses which
the city contained bat 500 remain stand
ing TO day Tie Ohio legislative re-
publican caucus at Columbus on Tues
day night lsst nominated Gen. James
a. Garfield for United States Senator
by acclamation E. In Danyi!le, Va, n
colored man, VIM. Fuller, was given n
quar-; OF whisky by Perry Mccain on
condition thHt ho would drink it az once.
lie did so. and died in o short time.
His Christmas treat was his last ....
The New York Joutal Of Commerce
puts the balance OF trade Tor 1879 in
favor Of this country TO the amount Of
about $50, 600, 900 81. Among tie as
sistant clerks The OHIO Senate, elect.
ed 10y the republicans, are Miss Lily c.
Darst and Walter ). Thomas colored.
49, The Indian caDnibal Swift Runner
was executed at Sask stchoWan. Mantle.
ba. Dec. 20, this being the FIRST legal
execution in the British Northeast Ter.
ritory. lie was convicted on his own
confession OF having killed and eaten
his mother, wife and seven children du-
ring last winter. Robt. IL. Wood.
who recently killed A. w. Mathews
of Pulaski County, b!other-in.law
Of Governor Henry Mathews, Of this
State, by throwing stone at bis own
brother. with whom he was qnarroIing
has been declared by the County Court
of-Wythc Co.,Va., TO be insane and has
been ordered TO the Asylum at stanton
-. Fanny Mcbride, al adopted daugh-
ter Of Thomas Richter. Of Conceivable.
Pn, was burned to death on Sunday