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

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A LARGE FIaE AT SYRACUSE, y. Y
SYRACUSE, July l4.-Tbe Wciiing OPP
era House building. in the centre Of Sy.
racuse. took Gre early this morning and
was wholly destroyed within two hours
1t has been the most disastrous fire in
Syracuse within 80 years. The cstima.
ted loss is upwards of 100000. Full
! ly fifty tenants occupied the block
The block was four stories high, cover
ing half an acre, and was valued at
S2OO.O0 IL was insured for So. 900.
John a. Weiting. opera house building.
loss $4,000; insurance, $4,000 en-
building, $4,000 on rents. The New
York State Banking Company saved its
money and papers. Half dozen per.
sons were more or less seriously injured
by falling walls and debris. II is fear
ed that one or two persons persisted in
the burned building. This is tho third
time within twenty-five years that build-
ings on this site have burned. The es-
iimated losses aggregate 1898. 900. upon
which there is an insurance Of 1910 900.
RECALL or CHINESE STUDENTS.
Chinese government has discontinued
its American educa, ional commission
and recalled the students who were in
the schools and colleges of this country.
These were mostly in the New England
States, where Tue young men learned
not only our language aud sciences, but
imbibed political ideas which made them
radicals when they returned home, and
their government, realizing this, broke
up the whole arrangement. 1t is be
lcved that Young Wing, who induced
| the Chinese government TO consent to
The foreign education of SO many young
men, did so 10 introduce liberal and
! progressive ideas Into his own country
! by this means. The plan c,s. over
SlO0, 900 year.
A PRIEST ON "PoPE ING ER,oI.L" -
Some alleged sneers of NJ. Robert Ia
gersoli against prayers for the Presi-
den. have elected IL letter from Roy +.
y. Weninger, ID. d.. to the MilSaakee
Sentinel, in which tho Rev Father uses
some rather strong laHgu1gc towards
! Pope lngrrsoll" Us he clll3 him, and
says In crsolrs indecent attack upon
/ rali uin -,
| Intelligence. pioty AMI moral sense or
all respectable people. II shows, more
over, that he is sadly deficient in good
Judgment; but this is not surprising.
because long since he has practically
| proved himsel. 10 belong &c followers 0f
Darwin aud to have no more knowledge
OF his Creator than Brazilian monkey
! OVER THE CENTRAL RoAD.-The
Gu mherland Tines states that Senator
H. q Davis, accompanied by Secretary
Window, Senators Bayard anil Camden,
Hon. 8. Is. Eikine, Lewis Baker 81 the
Wheeling Register, and Major Alex
shaw, Baltimore, left Der Park on
Tuesday morning last on horseback to
inspect the route of the projected road
through West Virginia. They will 60
ns far as Pendleton county.
The RAILROAD RATE RUMPCs NV
YpKK, July l8-Tho war among the
competing railroads leading westward
still continues. To-day 'scalpers' are
selling tickets TO Chicago for 50 Per
sons purchasing tickets TO points fur
Their west than Chicago ID not Cad it an
easy matter t. get any reduction or the
old prices. There appears to be no war in
| prices within this State, the greatest re.
due ton being on tickets to Chicago
Many persons are taking advantage OF
this war and are spending their vaca-
lions, in Western cities. Scll2ers have
no idca as to when the prescu, war will
cease, meanwhile they arc aivrr;isiug
that they are selling tickets cheaper than
any other person in New York Some
persons claim they have purchased tick 4.
els to Chicago today for 81 as.
KALAMAZOO. Mich Feb. 2, 1880.
know Hop Bittcrs will bear recon-
mendaiiou honestly. All who use them
confer upon them the highest eucomi-
ums, and give them credit for making
cure all The proprictors claim for them.
have KEEP: them since they we're first
offered TO the pubis. They took high
rank from tho FIRST, and maintained il,
md are more called for than all others
mbinel. SO long rs they keep up