South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-05-07
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

1 Aae freneh papers say tLsre. are :
3qaasser OF { nilioc OF emigr= Its wai,ln !.
a.sssssstatiop tqes - aited statcy,
Hon Josrpif segsr, osyIginla,
dis'a suaSsuly, or hoar,ief the s,es,oe,
Gsesrsc cary On t,sc sspeaSe asy, nsas
4 FONT Lockout. BsiJcs MghtA-.-.w War
proportions on large scale arc max
log IN China. .-.The Consressic.n
are working up wi.h a-~icw. TO adjourn
ment betoreS.hc1 Observation-Disclosures
I -mecsy-....issss- ycsrs-,opacgo crop OF
~. D.Cob5, l.of Kentucky bioushs lnm
S22s per acre. :. The successful grow
ing OF the coifeo plant in Florida seems
! to be now established beyond question.
/ 80 Pittsburgh is shipping locomotives
to Jaran......On Saturday two men
| were found hanging 10 tree near the
line OF Dsntoh county. Texas. II is
supposed they were horse-ihicves 4.
Miscellany Banning. an en,t,lcye of tic
Milford Basket Factory. Della ware, ma,ic
l.o09 berry baskets in six hours, one
! day, recen.iy. .....For the. first time
since. 1888 sugar cane has tasseied in
Louisiana, which indicates IN enormous
yield Walter Lampkin, of Stew
artyille, Westmorcland county, Pa, was
killed by kick from a vicious COW a
sio7t time ago He had gone 10 the
barn to feel tho stock and rs lie did
not return a search was instituted, when
nc was found lying in the stall speech
4 less. He died in q few minutes.
Alabama girls are the shyest about elo-
ping. One Of them waited till she was
! 20, before she felt equal TO it Mrs.
Susan living, ofStaunLon. Va. dropped
dead OF heart disease last Monday.
whist Attending to her domestic ,'u,ies.
.-..-.TnE earnings OF the Pittsburgh
division OF the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad last month aggregated $500.
b -. The President has nominated
Orange Ferris, of New York, for Second
Auditor of the Treasury, pice French,
deceased ..--.. John c.. Calhoun's seven
children, five sons and two daughters,
are all living ..Russia has appoint.
Ell II commission TO report on cotton
manufacture and its development in
that country ---.-Two South Carolini
1 ans. vino have been; at law four years
for the possession OF a bull, are still at
il. The costs exceed $1,000, exclusive
of counsel fees, and tie bull is dead
It's hide has been stuffed and is to be
produced IN the court. :. The number
OF prisoners in Russia, now awaiting
exile TO-, Siberia, is estimated at over
10000 Baltimore family was
lately poisoned By PIris Green on let.
tnce. People cannot be too careful
in the use Of this poison .....Since
January / over 400, 900 bushels of corn
have been shipped direct from Rich.
mond, Virginia, 10 Europe a FIRE g,
Palma Sorcano, near Santiago de Cuba
has destroyed one hundred habitations
AID many families arc in distress 49,.
a Chicago paper says that hot weather
and overcoming caused remarkable
mortality among the hogs arriving there
yesterday. IL appears that 20 car loads
Of dead hogs came to the city in the
morning, and that IN one car of 10l
hogs 81 were dead. 80 crippled, and on.
ly IA in good condition. Instances
were frequent OF 20 or 30 hogs dead in
one ar.-....The value of the live
stock in Georgia is about 2l,017, 634.
.--.. The Supreme Court OF Georgia
has refused new trial to Cox. Aston's
murderer. and he goes TO the peniteEti-
airy for life..- Emigration Agent
Accring!on, Of Lancashire, Eng, has
received application from the United
States for one hundred female weayers
or heads OF families. The first hatch
sails on the 18th inst 1.-THE DWELL
ing house Of Mr.. Thomas Saunders in
Nelson county was struck by lightning
during thunderstorm week before last.
Mr.. Saunders was severely stunned, but
his wife, who was lying on feather bod
which was grszed by tho bolt, did not
feel the shock. The damage done
the house was iuconsiderable. ......
Mrs. Moses Tuslng, widow. who resid-
ed about two miles from TmDerville,
Rockingham county, Virginia, was &C
cidentally drowned in the north branch
Of the Shenandoah river. just below
Plains mill on the 9th nit. Tue old
lady, who ia represented as q bold and
fearless woman, attempted to cross the
river, which was greatly swollen. on
horseback when she was swept off and
lost 1.-The Resignation OF Thomas