South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-07-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.

JaiS.-A strawberry measuring a
inches In circumference is one of the
wonders of tie season in Auburn, y i.
4.-Mr. Conklnng is said to admit now
that the sentiment of the people is a.
gainst him.-There are five Republic
can newspapers in Virginia-an OF
them straight out Debt Payers.-The
Ministers at Cairo concur with the
khedive's Wish to decree the abolition
OF slavery in Egypt.-After two years
OF labor the fire in the Stanton shaft.
Wilkesbarre, Pa, has been subdued.
"A 81 10000 union depot is to be
built at Cincinnati.-The pension list
now absorbs two-fifths of the whole
amount expended for the support OF
Government.-There are 271 ,46I nc
groes in Kentucky.-A horrible mas.
sacre occurred in Tipitawa, one or the
limo islands, in which 1000 persons
perlshed.-Five thousand persons, or
one sixteenth OF the total population
OF eighty thousand, have joined church
at indianapolis in the last six months.
Six lines of railroad now enter
Denver, and three more are soon to
be added Congressman Emory
Speer OF Georgia now says that he
will vote with the Democrats III the
next Congress. -Michael Halle ton,
an attache OF Forepaugh's circus, was
shot by drunken constable named
Clark at Dubuque, Iowa, on Saturday
night last, and died the following
morning.-lIamilton Disston, ESQ,
| n,rri,t - o., Il
da.- Rev. Mr.. Sturgeon has $500
members III his pastoral care.-The
comet has about disappeared. AT
least 1t cannot be seen with the naked
cye.-It Is Il rather curious fact that
scores OF men are turning up iii the
newspapers who have been carving
bullets i'll their livers for years.
America is called the paradise of Eu-
ropcan actresses and Italian singers.
1t Is stated that doctors, Agnew
and Hamilton, each received 81 900
for thelr services in assisting at the
consultation over the President.
Jefferson Davis has written q letter
IN which he condemns the attempt on
the Presidents life and trusts that he
will recover.-A sister of the King Of
Sweden Is missionary in Lapland,
and has sold her jewels to aid III her
work.-Matches carried into n nest
by birds at the corner of the roof of n
cottage in Shropshire, England, be.
CAME ignited, and the building was
destroyed.-Miss Sallie Thrashcr has
just died, in Roanoke county, Va,
| nnn1
married teachers in It's schools. They
are hard-Lelrtcd set not to allow
these women to support their hus-
bands.-The red flag is signal of
danger. If you doubt it, wave one in
the face OF mad bull.-At n picnic
party near Norwich, on the Fourth,
90 persons were poisoned by coffee
prepared in copper kettles. No
deaths.-Thcre are $4,000 laborers at
work on the Denver & Rio Grande
Railroad, 10000 Of whom are in Old
McXico.-Bluffton, Indiana, is to
have n National Grecnback camp
meeting, commencing July 18th
Prominent speakers from all parts Of
the country will be prescnt.-The
boiler ola portable thrcshing machine
IN use on the farm of Edward Shee.
han, III Talbot county, Md, exploded
last Wednesday week, killing three
persons and woundng six others, one
tataIIy.-Eight thousand Democrats.
assembled at Little Rock, Arkansas.
the Fourth, passed resolutions ofsym-
pathy and coincidence for President
Garticld.-Arkansas people have
great confidence in the power of lynch
law Nine men have been lynched,
in that State within month.-Jamcs
Mcbride, an inmate of the soldiers
home at Dayton, o., expressed JOY at
the shooting of President Garfield.
lie was marched out Of the institution
at the point Of a bayonet, and left be-
You'd the gates.-Seventeen boys
have died recently in Baltimore from
lockiaw-tho result Of wounds caused
by firing toypistols.-The army
worm made It's appearance in Nc
! Lean, Ford and Dewitt counties. Hi
nols, on the 18th inst. and during the
past three days, is devastating
the crops, especially oats, cutting off
the heads and leaves. The farmers
are greatly alarmed and many are
cutting their oats and wheat before
( ripe.--A large number of indict-
mcnts in the Star Route cases will be
| brought before the grand jury in
Washington in September. J.
/ Hanson Thomas, Of Baltimore, died
Friday morning last, at the Greenbri-
or White Sulphur Springs, whittier he
had gone about week before to re-
cnpcrate his long.fHling health. lie
was 90 years of age, and mp to 1879
was for 10 Years President of the Far
| mcrs' and Merchants, Bank of Bali-
| more.--This year the emigration
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