South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-06-25
NEWS OF TIE Day.


Is Bible class that pays its teacher
si,OoO per annum. 49,. The defeat of
Grant forever settles the third.term bus
mesa Philade,phia's population,
according to the census just completed,
is Si2,423----..The strength of the
Chinese. army is placed at 600. 600 men.
.-.--. Rev. Samuel Robbins Brown. one
ofthc earliest missionaries to China and
Japan, through whose Efforts some Of
the first Chinese boys were sent to A
merica to be educated, died at Monson.
Mass, on Sunday last, aged 20 years.
There arc moro watches worn in
the United States than in any other
country Famine fever of a dam
gerous type has broken out in Ireland.
...'Babe' Montgomery, q notorious
desperate. died in Pittsburgh pa
police station Thursday night of last
week. His father was q member OF the
Thirty-fourth Congress from Pennsyl-
yania. ...Senator Vance, of North
Carolina, was married at Louisville,
kentucky, on yesterday week, to Mrs.
Florence 5. Martin An Illinois
woman who had her corset torn off by
lightning says that the sensation was
something like being tossed over fence
by cow. The census enumera.ors
at Cincinnati foot up population for
that city of 24G,153 Counting the i'm
mediate suburbs q claim will te made
OF 100000 The population Of Pc
tersburg, Virginia, is 81 ,433, gain ov.
er the census OF 1870 OF 2,48S. Mis-
souri, stands third as q corn producing
State and eighth as producer Of wheat
......The Prohibitionists have nomina.
tel Neal Dow, OF Maine. for President,
and ~. ii. Thompson, OF Ohio, for Vice
President. 49,. Three special trains of
1900 emigrants from Holland passed
through Cumberland, on Thursday or last
week, for all points OF tie West. -.
A five cent fan makes as much wind as
$50 one Chilli demands $780,
100000 from Peru as the price ofpeace.
1.-The New Orleans Times says il
is called a natural death in Georgia
when man dies from a gunshot wound.
.-...-The dwelling OF Thomas Now
bray, near Barton, Allegauy county,
Maryland, was consumed by fire on
Wednesday night of last week, with all
the furniture. $500. When some poll
ticians arc weighed they are found want
Ing every Office in which there is a va
cancy $500. Mr. Samuel Miller, one OF
the Oldest cl:izons OF Homecoming, MI.
died last week Hayes got cue vote
for tho Presidency in the Chicago con-
voution -Siamese Twins lave been
born in small fishing village in North
Devon. The wife of q thatcher, named
Gaydon, recently gave birth to two chill
dren incorporated or grown together
from The breasts down TO the abdomen.
They are perfoc. in every other respect,
having head each and two hands. two
legs, and, it is believed, separate ex-
istence .-.--. The price paid for liquor
during the Republican Convention at
Chicago would buy bread for Ireland for
two years .-... Sherman delegate Dag
gett, Of Brooklyn, slept under the same
bed-quilt with & colored delegate at the
Palmer House, Chicago, for two nights.
ITn tho = f4NfiAn
ful, but that lie was bound to capture
that ni8ger's vote il it killed him 80.
President Hayes and family passed
through Cumberland on Friday last, dcs-
tination Ohio. -. Both Grant and Gar
field we're tanners At least the latter
once taught school. :. The Cove Presby-
terrain Church, in Albemaflc county,
Virginia, near Covesville, was complete
" wrecked by the storm Of last Satur-
day week. 1t was built of brick, and
erected III 1909. Many farmers Of
Camden county, New Jersey, have been
forced TO empty their barns Of hay which
had been cut and stored, owing to tue
sickening smell Of large quantities OF
dead army worms found amongst it
Benjamin Benjamin. "A respectable col
ored preacher. was shot dead by Cor
don Moore, in Marion county, Texas, a
few days ago, for being too intimate
with Mrs. Moore ....A tract of fifty
thousand acres on the Northern Pacific
railroad has been bought for n colony
from Belfast, Ireland The army
worm is now rayaging portions OF no
less than six States-New Jersey. New
York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virgin
a and Mary land .....Dr. n. II. Gre
sap, n native OF Allegany county, Md.
died recently in Van Buren, county. 10.
wa......A leading hotel in Dundee,
Scotland, is furnished throughout with
furniture made in Grand Rapids, Mich.
....-.Tbo London newspapers tell OF
a belle who paid $50 to have Tho mi
tials of her lovers name tatoocd on her
arm, aud later, having quarrcIlel with
him. was OFFERING $500 f,r n means ri