South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-02-20
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

pensions. II is conceded that the
census 10 be taken this year will shou
that West Virginia is entitled TO four
, representatives in Congress -. A 81.
Louis man has bet $500 against $3.50
that Grant will be nominated on the
hrst ballot. "a salmon weighing q
haii pound was recently caught at the
Great Falls Of The Potomac. - "A new
! OIL we'll near parkcrsburg vas struck
the other day, which is nov running a.
bout 40 barrels Of oil per day :. The
Legislature Of Kentucky recently voted
$4,000 tc the widow OF Judge Elliott,
vho was murdered last Summer at
Frankfort. -. A soldiers reunion will be
held at Ciarksburs to-morrow, 2lst. :.
Cox, the brutal assassin OF Col. Aston,
Of Georgia, has been refused q new tri-
al. and will got the psniteniiary for
iife---...Spnrious half dollars OF old
coinage are ia circulation. Look out
Tor them---- At present there are 100
pupils In the Deal and Dumb asylum
st Frederick Nd, 20 Of whom are boys.
1.-The unemployed workingmen in
San Francisco marched around 70 yari.
Gus large establishments on Saturday
last demanding the discharge OF China
men and the substitution OF white men.
- .Kansaa claims $40, 97S inhabitants.
or an increase o. Ia, 0o7 in a single
year. .-..TAe Boston Post thinks that
hing Alfonso possesses charmed life.
lie has been married twice, shot Mt
twice, and yer nc lives. :. . Each OF Eli
sons electric.iarnps yields light equal
10 1000 candles. 1t is said that pig
lives only twenty years. And yet the
world IS filled with much elder hogs
-. Large Quantities OF American tur-
keys, geese and other fowls have been
seized latelyson arriving at Liverpool.
because decomposition had set in and
rcnderci-tbcn unfit for fool. "A GU
rious freak OF nature can be seen near
Eureka, Cal. II is in The shape OF tree.
seventy-fve fec: high, one portion OF
which is pine and the other fr.
The Mission and Pioneer WOODEN mills
at San francisco have announced the
discharge Of their Chinese employ s and
the substitution of whites. Samuel J
Iiiden is thccboice of the Democrats
OF Ohio for President: Miss Butler.
OF fittsburgh, Pa, had looked for a
man under her bed every night for ma
ny years, and at last she foun,, not one
there, but four. They wore black
masks. and left her bound and gagged
when they went off with the family
plate and Jewellery Edison hopes
70 make eachsof his lamps last four or
five years. ar. Moran. United States
ministcr-to Portugal. is sail to be help.
lessly paralyzsd. = Up to Monday ev.
eninS last the New York Heralais Irish
relieffuhd hadreeeived s203. 047 "a.
The comi'ined length of the new rail :
roads, protested for 1880, will be 5000
miles,. Tie Boiler in John F. Thomp-
sons steam saw mill at Randolph. N.
H.. burst on the. 18TH inst, DESTROYING
the mill nhftlilling four persons.
Z. L. Elsbeef ono Of the wealthiest far.
ners in O!iio.+was gored to death near
Delaware. OHIO, on Monday last.
Even the canuibals have tender re.
gard for obEage. They will not eat a
missionary gho is over fifty years old.
----.T The oLynchburg Hiryiaian states
that Northern capitalists have during
the las; few months contracted for the
investment OF about $1,000, 00c in iron
works and minerals in that section OF
Virginia. The coal fields OF Alabama
are estimated to contain $4,000, 900
bushels OF coal =: "a dangerous COM
terfeit is in cTculation. 1t is silver
dollar, partially, it is sail, composed OF
block lin 1t is not affected by acids,
and has tteTing Of genuine silver.
Two spans of the new Bridge over tho
Shenandoah, at Harper's Ferry, have
been erected 80, GA Tuesday OF last
week, at Warm Springs. Bath county,
Va, Simon Smith. proprietor of the tan.
merry, was shot and killed by John
Campbellr, a shoemaker, from Page
county in a quarrel about some bust.
ness. Campbell was arrested and put
in Jail. "A man can make more mon,
ey attending 20 his own business for one
day. than he. can by attending to his
neighbor's business for whole year
....DuriLg 1879 1911 children one
year Old and under died in New York
city ......The wife Of Adam Murray,
living near New Glasgow, y. t., on the
9Th inst, gave birth to five children,
three girls and two boys. all finely de.