South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-03-05
NEWS OF THE DAY.

new tauaan IN Mexico. Miss iSSippi
WAS the banner cotton State last year,
having raised $1,000 bales more than
Texas, which stool next on tina, list.
--.-..rhe Boston ulster has pocket
deep enough, for an umbrella. -. The
value OF live stock exported from Cana
Ga TO Great Britain in 1879 was 81
6Sl 900. against s2.ll7,5 25 in 1873.
- There were SIS births. 1872 maria
ges and $40 deaths in New York city
three years old. and has made from his
writings 10000 dollars. Edward
Dent q nephew of General Grant, was
on Thursday of last week committed in
Baltimore as horse thief. :. Geo. w.
Roberts, prominent citizen Of Burton.
Wetzcii county, this State, was burned
TO death a few days ago, from an explo-
SIGN OF can from which be was pour
ing oil into lighted lamp. -. Jump
ing down u rope" is what they call
hanging in Nevada. -. Senator Dawes,
it is reported, has been named by the
Indians whom be has been cross-exam-
ming, "Great- Chief W no Asks Quest
IONS" breakfast shirts are emu
merated in gentiemen's fashion reports.
--.-.. Amid al the animal havoc in
the garden sauce, there hasn't bug
been found moan enough TO attack an
onion Two men were murdered in
Indian Territory few days ago, grow
ing out of an accusation by the father
OF one a. the mother of the other
stole hogs Engines on the Penn
sylvania Railroad use $4,000 tons Of
sand annually. There are 107, 931 reg
ular Office hoiders, and about four times
as many who live on the crumbs .....
None OF the weather prophets have
guessed right this winter -...- Chicago
has eight Reformed Episcopal churches.
The Treasury Department on the 10Th
purchased 100000 ounces Of silver for
San Francisco, New Orleans and Phila-
delphia mints.. Nearly 800, 900 per-
sons are employed on British and Irish
railroads. 49,. According 10 the Cincin-
natl Commercial, Henry Ward Beecher
has coined new phrase-"heavenly
drunkenness which he applies to q per-
son who has too much religion" Mr..
Beecher himself is not that kind OF a
drunkard Ex-Gov John Letcher has
tal h4. & u -, "a,
Richmond and Alleghany Railroad Com
pany - M. ID. Hilman, OF Cherokee
county, Kansas, has y hog ten feet six
inches in length, eight feet around the
body, four feet eight inches round the
neck, eleven AID tLrce-fourth inches
around the leg ct the smallest places,
fcur feet high. and weighing 1850
pounds -.-J ohnsyil!e. Frederick coun-
", is excited over discoveries OF silver
and lead deposits in it's vicinity. The
ores were found on the farms of Mr..
John David Engle, Mr.. Jesse Shivers
| and Miss Lizzie Cox. -Chcago's cloth
manufacture last year amounted to Sl5,-
TO grand review OF troops at the City
Of Mexico on tho 81 inst The only
watch factory in pennsylvania Is ,locat-
cd ut Lancaster, and is crowded with
orders. - Palmetto paper manufacture.
ing in Florida is pronounced success.
About a year ago, i'll Millerstown, Pa,
Miss Mary f. Logan, who kept res
| taurant, during the sickness of man
named Eugene o. Keefe, who had made
money by lucky Investment in an oil
well, showed him a good deal OF attention
in the way Of nursing. When O'Keefe
got out he vent to Texas, where he di-
cd last week. by his will be made Miss
Logan his sole heir. without conditions.
The estate consists of 49, 900 barrels of
oil, tie oil well, and other property a
mounting 10 about $4,000. :. Twenty
new books, by women, are announced
by American publishers. TO be issued
i'm mediately -. The London Chemist
says that German writer's invariably
smoke while writing ... Alexander II.
Stephens is u puzzle TO the medical
fraternity. lie is stronger now than
at any time thcae fifteen years, and, it
is said, wiil shortly discard his rolling.
chair and clutches The Shenandoah
bridge at Harper's Ferry, it is said, will
be completed this week. =. The Herald
Irish fund has reached S257,000, and
PARNrLCs about $4,000. The Man
sion House, Dublin, fund i $ 100000
and that Of the Duchess, OF Marlbo-
rough, S3J0,000. In all there has been
raised by these four funds over a mil