South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-05-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.


morally. the city is very nltLy. :. - II
is predicted that we will have snow and
frosts between the 10Th and Ssh inst.
1900. When tea was first introduced
into England it sold for fifty dollars n
pound The London Board OF Trade
is looking into the sufferings OF cattle
on steamships. Care for your bees.
A swarm in May is worth a ton of hay.
-.Spring cleaning is on hand. E,iisol.' 5
latest enterprise is pa.ent medicine
for the cure Of neuralgia. "a mid.
dle-aged German couple who arrived at
Baltimore from Bremen the other day
had with them Is children "A boy
in Kenny county, Texas, killed forty
three bears the past winter. The
King of Siam, who is coming to see US,
is one of 20 children, is p years old,
and has been king IL yeirs Will
liam Z. DaingerGeld, presiding Judge Of
the Superior Court at San Francisco,
dropped dead on the bench from heart
disease on the 5th inst. He was ma
tive OF Virginia anu was Sc years Of
age. "A man living ut johannesburg,
Pa, is tue father Of 81 children, 20 OF
whom are living; nine were burned to
death at one time w. +. Gale, Is made
manager Of the Queen City Hotel, Cum
berland, and has taken charge Of the
same Eight hundred varieties Of
pears and nearly one hundred kinds of
native grapes are said TO. be under cul-
tivation in America. 1.-THE potatoe
beetle has developed in robust size. and
with voracious appetite in this section.
$3.50. Thirteen hundred entrants ar.
rived in port at Baltimore on the 9Th
inst, from Germany and are detained
at quarantine. 1t is said that coon
can be caught by leaving whiskey in
its vicinity, but the average hunter
would rather drink the whisky and take
his chances on the coon Three
steamships sailed from Montreal Satur-
day for Great Britain with ] 1902 head
OF cattle ON board There are nj present
in Europe 10 princes & princcsses, each
having claim more or less remote TO
crown. The law emancipa;iug
the Cuban slaves has been published
and will go into effect as soon as it re.
ceives the approval Of the home gov,
ernment. 1.-THE SheplcrAstown Ce.
ment Mills are turning out 1870 barrels
Of cement per day 1900 Mammoth Ice
bergs, and great zelda Of ice make pre-.
sent ocean travel excessively dangerous
on the Atlantic Mr.. Alfred Cas-
tleman, we'll known and highly re =
spected citizen OF Clarke county, died
at his home. situated about three miles
northeast OF Berryville. several weeks
ago, in the SSH year OF his age. "A
coat which President Andy Johnson
made for O customer in 1855 has just
been presented to the Tennessee His
torical Society While Capt. Ed.
Russell, conductor OF way train on Is
& o. r. r., was coupling cars at Wood
stock on Saturday evening Last, car
run back on him. squeezing him very
badly, breaking three or four of his ribs
and otherwise injuring him. IL is
thought his lungs are affected by it -
The extent OF his injuries have not
been ascer:ained as yet 49,. Fifteen
car loads OF emigrants, $50 in all, most
ly Germans, went west, over the b. *
o. Railroad on Saturday last ---..-
The brother OF the Ute chief Douglass,
with $50 White River Indians, men,
AMI women, are encamped on 5alina
creek, near Sahna, Utah. They asked
q merchant 10 get them forty kegs OF
powder. They are we'll mounted, cloth
ed and equipped. Trouble il feared by
the people ..... Tue Arab who invented
alcohol died 900 years ngo. but his
spirit still lives .-... Rufus ArmIstt adj,
foreman Of Ell. Harris plantation, four
teen miles south of Memphis, Tenn,
was assassinatcd on Sunday night last
by an unknown Colored man, who eacap.
ed The making Of precious stones
in France has increased vastly Of late
years. 1.-The Baptist ministers Of
Philadelphia held a meeting on Monday
last at which resolutions we're adopted
strongly ceusuring the board of pardons
and Gov. Hoyt for pardoning the recent
Iy convicted and sentenced legislative
bribers ......A Springfield, Ohio. little
child has died Of being hit in the eye by
a mud ball....-.The Rockaway Beach
Hotel is nearly q quarter of mile
long. 1! will cost $75O,OOO The
English iron trade is fast getting into
tho same condition rs the trade here.
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