South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-01-30
NEWS OF THE Day.

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The Afghans arc preparing for another
campaign. -. The speed OF the Italian
iroaciad Duillo, the most powerful war
vessel in the world. has been successful
ly tested -. Tho Directors OF the Far
mers Bank OF Phi.ippi. this State, de-
clarea q dividend Of Is per cent for The
year 1879 >. Matthew Tracey, a farm.-,
OF Whitley county, Ind, sold some hogs
u day or two ago for 1920, was murder.
ed and robbed on his way home. and
pitched into the river :. . The slave
trade in Turkey is to be suppressed
Gen. Gaiibaldi was married by
civil ceremony on the 26th ms: 49,.
1t is thought that the crude oil market
is now on down turn for season.
REV. W. w. Hayden, whom the
New Haven Comm jury failed TO con-
vict OF the murder Of Mary Starnard,
was bailed on Monday last in the sum
Of $1,000. his counsel becoming sure
ties. -. There is o lawyer in New
Hampshire poor-house. and they all
say he got there because Inc was an old
fool. That is, he wouldn't defend o
guilty party. :, There is a report that
bangs are going Off tue female forehead.
The tidings that come from the En-.
erald Isle is burdened with sad stories
Of destitution and distress. ..Jay
Gould has given $4,000 TO the suffering
farmers Of Kansas. whose crops failed
last year. IA Woman After Alr' is
the title of q book before US. chat s
it.:--That is the thing they are usually
after, and they get it, too, -. Wheeling
is making an effort to convert the Is
land fair grounds into city park.
MIR. James Grant, wealthy, childicss
citizen Of Iowa, has brought up in his
house, educated and set up in business
fifteen orphan boys. A Dixon, Ncb.,
we'll has yielde hot water for four cars
..-.Gen. Grant has arrived in Havana
and has been received in splendid style
.-..At Springfield, Nd. Sicger VII
liams pulled a chair from un-ier lii
cousin. Jcmima Williams, and she be-
came so angry tina: she procure.i gun
and shot him dead :. The Kentucky
House OF Delegates has passed bill to
revive the whippiny.post law -. Scna-
tor Lamar, of Mississippi. is still suf.
fering from stroke Of paralysis 49,.
Illicit distilling in the State of Tonnes
see has been entirely broken up. .....
Two colorcd shoemakers. William Ruff
fin and james O'Brien got into fight
on the bridge over the canal at George
town on Saturday last snl falling into
che wafer were both droynel Depu
~ Sheriff Berry, Of: San francisco, has
disappeared with q. s2O,09O shortage in
his accounts. lie il considerable Of
due-Berry Geese raising is carried
OH 10 large extent in Texas. One
goose will yield about a pound and n
half Of feathers. ranch already
has 8 eco geese. Nine hundred MAIN
cd cx-Confederato soldiers have applied
10 tic State Of Georgia for artificial
limbs :. Hon. Arthur p. German, the
new u. S. Senator from Maryland, COM
menced life page in that body and
from that became private seer etary TO
stephen a. Douglas MANY OF the
large truckers OF Somerset county, Md,
have finished planting their extra early
peas. and are now top dressing them
with stable manure. There arc quite
n number Of cases OF smallpox in Bal
timore, and Mr.. Newton Hill, native
OF Shepherdstown, died from the disease
on Monday morning last. :. Over four
feet Of snow covered the ground in some
parts Of California Oh January 12.-
Buildings were seriously damaged by
the heavy weight upon them ...N No.
single Ii C was lost by steamboat cx-
plosion on the lower Mississippi last
year. according te the New Orleans
Super visor John Mccarthy, charged
at Pembroke, Ont, with cutting the
tongue out Of horse owned by wild,
ow who refused to marry him. has been
sentenced to seven years Imprisonment
in the peni,enliary. IA farmer from
this State last spring went to Nevada,
and purchased some laCd and he writes
back, IL is said, that he has to haul his
firewood only fifty miles. taking four
days to make the trip This year Ar
kansas ranks next TO Texas as cotton
State, producing 6jO,OOO bales The
Pfussian ghouls exceed the Ohio ones
in unfccling indgnity TO dead bodies
Over tbero a gravedigger has been ar.
rested for roasting human bodies and
selling their fat. Last week the