South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-03-26
NEWS OF The DAY.


The ringlealiers in the riot OF co,ored
strikers tn St. Charles Parish. La.
have been arrested = 49, Pork packing
ranks rs the Third A.srican i.dsstry.
- England paid sl4soo. 600 for for
eign eggs in 1878. 80 Corn is knee.
high in the fields iE Apopkn, Florida
-. Don Cameron thinks he can elect
Grant without the aid ofthe German
vote. 49, In the Ciarksburg market
washed wool is quoted at 40 cents and
unwashed at 25@30. There are
10000 cotton spindles in operation in
Mississippi. 49,. Mississippi imposes 3
fine Of three dollars on all unmarried
men upwards Of twenty-nv years old.
80. Richmond has fifty.f churches to
q popalntion OF 30,333. -. Ten thou.
sand piano makers are without employ
ment in New York city. The whisky
crop Of Kentucky for tire year ending
June, 1880. 10 estimated ut 10,l39, 726
gallons. The tax on this will be $40,
600, 900 .Adelina Patti gets seven
dollars a minute in opera 80. Women
convicts in the Kentucky pcnitentiary
are dressed in paptaloons :. Contracts
have been made for the erection Of nine
new tobacco factorie. in DanviiIe, Va,
! this year Mrs. Lydia Sexton, seven
ty years o: age, is preaching in Little
I Rock, Ark. The San Francisco puo-
lie library has put in electric lights in
place Of gas. The monthly bill is re-
tluce1 from S256 to 800 and the lights
burn to midnight, white the gas used 20
be shut Off Mt o 80. :. T.. S. Sticl<ney.
president Of the Union stock yards at
Chicago, dcl on Saturday las. .-..-.
The Russian ambassador TO Loudon.
Prince Labanof. has his horse shod
with silver--not for vulgar display. bat
because hc thinks IL the best metal for
the purpose 80 Mr.. james Harris, of
Orange Lake, Fla, has Melted $4,000
from his crop of oranges this season-
1850. Begians cure rabbit SIX ms so that
they appear to be seal skins. Ten thou
sand rabbits were recently killed on one
English farm in Essex and the skins
we're sent to Belgium 1T is stated
that MIR. Edison sold bis patent on
the electro photograph to the Western
Union Telegraph Company, Saturday.
for the sum Of 500, 900 -..... The New
Orleans Democrat, estimates at more
than 500, 800 the loss OF mules and
other stock in the Ouachita Valley sec
ton Of Louisiana from disease FRO
duced by the bite Of myriads OF gnats
that Invaded that part OF the State late
ly..-.The Parkersburg Wdikiny. Bean.
reports the stock of OIL on hana ID be
1000, 900 barrels. =. 1t is said that in
the Welsh language an infidcl book
does not exist. -: James @. Blaine
was once teacher OF the blind, in Phil
adelphia. Now, the Wheeling Regi,ter
says, he is II leader of the blind" q.
large. immense immigration
from Ireland to this country is aLtici
rated the present year 49,. The latest
invention is the process OF engraving
glass by means OF electricity. :. Jacob
Waddill, of the County Court OF Caro-
line CO., on Wednesday week declared
coiored criminals as not entitled 10 mix
ed juries. Judge Wnddill is one Of the
new readjusters' Judges. ..... Virginia
negroes are cmigrating to Iowa TO take
the place of striking white men in the
mines During the past year Owe
ten thousand volu:.es of ealogies on
deceased Senators and members were.
ordered TO he printed =. There viii be
five State conventions during April. five
IN May and four in June. Erasmus
Coffman, q prominent citizen Of Harris
onburg, Va, died OF paralysis q few
days ago. Two parties of Indians
had regular battle at Atoka, Indian
Territory, Monday. Several were killed
and woun1cl on each siie =. Friday
night week ago, WIN. Yeaklcv. n few
miles from Winchester. Va, had Is
sheep killed and wounded By dogs =.
The Supreme Court Judges Of BaIt-
more bowling TO the decision OF the
Supreme Court or the United States.
have placed the names OF colored men
in the box from which jurors arc drawn.
This is the first time, hat has ever been
done IN Maryland -. 1t will cost 800
600 to print the Congressional Record
of debates for the next three months.
-. Notwithstanding the famine. Pet
er's pence are still exacted from Ireland.
II all the money which has been sent
from Ireland TO Rome, says New York