South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-02-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Alabama Is building ten new iron
furnaces -. Sixteen million bushels OF
oysters are annually packed q. Balu-
morc... Senator David Davis owns
six thousand acres or improved land in
Illinois. :. {. .Quinine has fallen in price
from $3.50 to 50 per oanc, since the
heavy protective tariff was renewed.-
......There are SOD vacant houses In
Memphis. the result Of the late epidem-
ic. The number OF steamships lost at
sea in 1879 Was fifty. The Dallas
Crexas) county Courthouse was burned
on the Alb inst, with many valuable
papers. Loss 100000. Incendiary.
....Wm. s. Thomas Of Elizal tbto xn.
Tenn, has two. sons, ono IS years old
and weighing 35l pounds. and the 9TH
er 7years old and weighing l73 pounds.
-. Nine children have died Of ,iiphthc-
ria in the family Of Abner Linhart, in
Fulton county, Penn. j. Widows, and
widowers ought to be repaired. 49,.
The Rev. Mr.. Taylor of Richmond, Ia =,
undertook to escort young laiy FROM
church TO her home in order TO protect
her from the attention of q sutton. who
was dis'iked by her parents; but the
sutton waylaid the clergyman whipped
him savagely, and eloped with the young
lady. .....ln North Carolina there are
six papers edited by negroes; in Louisi.
ana, three; in Tennessee and Texas,
two each. It is said, some Of then. are
pretty good papers, too. ..-..A Jersey
City man has returned from Leaiville
with fostune-in experience. -. Rev.
Philip b. Reese, Of the Baltimore Meth
odist Episcopal Conference, died sud.
denly on Sunday last at Darlington,
Hartford county, Nd, in his Goth year.
49,. Corn is three dollars q Eushel at
Deadv ood -. The knights of Labor"
of Piedmont, have gained their point
They demanded that ten hours should
be considered days work and the de-
man! was acceded to-. -. A shock OF
earthquake was felt about three miles
east OF Ottawa, Canada, on Sunday eve-
ing last. .. In two weeks a new steam.
ship line will be established between
Baltimore and New York {. . John Rice,
who participated in Perry's victory on
Lake Erie. and the only survivor OF
that famous fight, died at his home in
Shelby, Ohio. on Tuesday last. .. Eng
iish snipe are beginning TO make their
appearance in dorchester county, NIL.
marshes. 1t is said Secretary Evarts
and Mr.. Hayes have hsd occasion 10
disagree, and that the Secretary will
surrender his portfolio. -. Miss Martha
Hite. of Gerardstown, Berkeley county.
made 304 pounds Of butter from one
cow during the month Of January -.
Scott Cooper, q stock dealer, was chic.
reformed and robbed OF $4,000 in ho-
tel at Brookville, Indiana, on the 10Th
inst. A stock company, with a capt.
tal OF S25, 600, has been formed at Ger.
ardstown, for the purpose OF starting a
tannery. %. The Iowa House of Repre-
sentatives, by vote OF 81 to 81. has
adopted constitutional amendment
making women eli 2ib.e 10 tho lcgisln-
ture. Jacob Frye, an old cattle deal
er, OF Peoria, ILL.,, was shot and killed
on tho 10th inst, by Luther B. Mckin-
ney, his daughters husband. the cause
being divorce pending against McKin.
ney, who is violent man The ques-
ton as to whether the new county judg.
cs recently elected by the Virginia Leg
islature shall take their offices at once
or on January LIST, 1881, has been re-
ferred TO the Supreme Court for decis-
iou.. MIR. Robt. II. Tcrrll. OF Staun-
ton recently killed will animal near
the Blue Ridge Tunnel, which from the
spots upon it is supposed to have been
Il leopard. which had probably escaped
from some menagcric ...-.. Howard
ilackett and James Feeney were driv-
ing from Bra lford, Pa, on Tuesday
last, 20 Colyillc with ono hundred
pounds OF nitro glycerinc, when the
sleigh upset and an explosion followed.
The two men and horses were killed, the
sleigh demolished and two houses and
a barn, one house 1--WE rods away, wreck
ed....An appeal comcs.from Persia for
the starving thousands in that land. A
lady who for more than twenty years
has been missionary in Persia has
written to friends in this country a vivid
account of the terrible suffering of which
she is a daily witness Another
wonderful cave has been discovered
near McGaheysyille, in Rockingham
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