South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-07-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Japan TO teach astronomy Of salary
of $4,000 per annum.-It is stated
that Mr.. Hayes has saved $4,000 o
year out of Mr.. Tilden's salary.-The
health authorities of New Orleans Ger
tify that there is not case Of yellow
fever in that city.-An eruption of
Mt. Vcsuvius began on Thursday
iast.-A cyclone is not circumstance
TO the Hancock wave that is sweep
ing over the Countrywide census
takers in Georgia report a negroes
aged one hundred and twenty sum-
mers.--A young man named NJ. g.
Hamilton, employed in mill at Lo-
naconing, Maryland, has been left
five thousand dollars by friend in
Iowa, who died recently.-The popu-
lation of Lcadville is 20,000.-A
writer in ap Irish newspaper, after
mentioning the wreck of a vessel near
Skerics, rejoices that all the crew
were saved, except four hogsheads of
molasses.-A terrible plague of To-
Gusts IS destroying the crops in the
States OF Tabasco, Chiapas and Oaxa-
ca, MeXico.-Ovcr about Smithfield.
Ohio, the wool growers are sanguine
that they will realize 45 to so cents
for their wool.-Mrs. General Sher-
man is seriously i'll ut Berkeley
Springs, Morgan county
French revenue of six hundred mil
lions dollars is asserted 10 be the lar
gest ever received from q population
OF thirty-six millions.-Jose Maria
Salazar saw n young girl in an Ari-
iona mining camp, fell madly in love
with her, and within three hours ask
cd her to marry him. She declined,
and lac Killed her on the spot. Retri-
button was as speedy as his courtship
| had been for he was at once hanged
by the mincrs.-Republican logic
proves that General Hancock is a
rebel, while Longstreet and Mosbv
are no rebels.-Two or three cases of
yellow fever at New Orleans have
produced great activity among quar-
antinc officials in and around Mem.
| phis.-A Dublin dispatch saws the
weather throughout Ireland continues
to be very fine, and the crops are
maturing with unusual rapidity.-
Two tramps got employment in an
indianapolis hotel. The first day they
reported to the landiady that two gold
watches lay exposed on a bureau in
one OF the rooms, and requested the
jcwciry should be removed for fear it
would be stolen and the blame attach
to them. The landlady was so de-
lighted at this proof of their honesty
that she bought them each suit of
clothes. The tramps were so delight.
ed they tic next day removed all the
gold watches themselves, along with
everything else they could lay hands
upon & cleared for parts unknown
A negro barber at st. Louis studied
law at night for several years and was
finally admitted to the bar. lie now
works i'll the shop on Saturdays and
Sundays, and practices with consider
able success in the courts on other
days.-Girls in China are believed to
have no souis, and TO kill them is not
murder. In this country some girls
arc believed to have no hearts, but if
q Tilted young man was to kill one of
them the law would make rs much
fuss about it as if she had heart as
big as water bucket.-Much of the
oil sold as olive oil is made from cotton
seed.-Don't borrow this paper any
| longer, but subscribe and pay for it
Hancock & English clubs are forming
in almost every town and village in
the country.--Taylor Strauder, the
Wheeling negro who has been under
sentence of death for the past seven
or eight years, will get a new trial,
the United States Supreme Court so
dcciding.-The Maryland Hotel at
Hagerstown, is said, to be crowded
with summer boarders from Florida.
The population of Pennsylvania is
100000, an increase Of twenty Der
cent. in ten Watermelons are
selling in Baltimore at eight dollars
land ten dollars per hundred, and can
taioupcs at two dollars and three dol
lars per hundred. The supply is large.
Milton Story, q years of age, died
1T Thomps0n's Station, on the Nash
yllio and Decatur railroad. twenty-five
miles south OF Nashville, Tennessee, on
Sunday night last, OF hydrophobia,
resulting from the bite Of dog last
neutrality-suspicious. ofColumLus,
Ohio, by the late census IS 51,6l4.-
On Tuesday morning last Harry, a
six year old son of Andrew Goodwin,
of South Cumberland, fell into the
canal basin and was drowned.-Thos.
Il. Crittenden, the democratic candi-
date for Governor Of Missouri, is the
nephew of the late John j. Crittcnden,
President Fillmore's Attorncy-Geuor-
al, and n half-brother to General Eli
III. Murray, now Governor of Utah
The Empcrial government las cxpoll-
cd the Mormon missionaries from Ger
.many.--A shark nine feet long was
captured in the Potomac, twenty
miles below Washington, a few days
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