South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-06-17
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eshmated.-Tcxas has an area of 27L,-
BOT Square miles while Dakota has
l5O,932 square miies.-Jay Gould
clears on an average six million dol
lars year.-Gontry county, Missouri,
has an onion patch OF 10 acres.-The
census report locates the center oil
/ population in Kentucky.-CorE cakes
made from dough that had stood over
night IN glazed croc6ery dish poi
soned an entire New Albany, Ind,
family recontly-Rcv. Robert Tai,
mage adGires the revised Diblc.-No
man Is greater than his parly.-There
/ are 100000 Shakers in the United
States.-Mr. John d. Defreos Is not
to be removed from the position of
Public Printer.-I is said that lOO.-
OVO Swedes will emigratc to Ameri-
ca this year. The girl in the apron
Is always tired Whittaker's ears
VIII cost the Government about So
| OOO.-Prof. Atwater SAYS that there
IS no more brain food in Iish than in
! butchers mCat.-The man who can't
Oc angry 10 4 fool; the man who will
not allow himself TO be is wise.-A
car OF new wheat, the first of the sea-
son, arrived at St. Louis on The 9th
inst. from Fort Wortu, Texas. 1t
! graded No. 3 red winter, and sold at
auction for 81 so FER bushel. West
Virginia produced over two and half
million OF pounds OF tobacco in 1880.
-MahOne talks about his devotion to
Jeifersoniau principles but he does
not explain what Jciiorsonian nrinci-
pie taught him 10 bctray the people
who elected him seuator.-The Agri
/ cultGr2! Department estimates that (
per cent OF the acreage OF Texas can
prodlcc enough cotton to supply tie
whole world.-Secretary Blaine las
taken out permit 10 erect q mansion
on one OF the finest sites in Washing
ton, ut cost Of $G0,0O0.-The Gre.
eau igdlc5 count their age from their
marriage, and not lIom their BIRTH
President Gariieii's life is insured for
So, 600 for the benefit OF his wife
! Andrew JoNEsOn'5 heirs are now IN
litigation over the distribution of his
| property which is valued III :100,0
-I..c president Of Mexico has signed
contracts for two roads from tic Rio
Grandc TO the capital, both schemes
being backed by American capital
| Heavy trosts, on the 9th inst. DANA
glng the crops, is reported from New
York State. Tho Hichfond Win
wants 70 burn every copy Of the :cyis.
cd Now Testament after it has been
looked at for cuCiosity's sake, and to
stand by the venerable edition Of cur
fathers an. mothers, and b. damned
OF snve3 by It with tham. Tx Judge
! Z. /. /. Moore WIS admitted opriIc-
! ucc in the Supreme Court la Wheel
ing, The day after he resigned lis seat
on the bench. -Thcrc are now 20J
! encampncnts OF Oli Fellows III
fonusylvauja, with 1866 members.
Carloads OF laurel roots from South
west Virginia are daily slipped
through AyncAburg 10 TIE north 1t
IS sad that the prospects for al album.
dant crop OF peaches IN Virginia Is
| better than it has been for severai
ycaTs.-TEe deepest known worked
mine is in Australia. a shaft having
| been sunk 5000 fect.-Ro5crt Bey-
| crlr, Of FauIuier county, Va. sold on
/ Wednesday Of last Wee; 350 TT cat
tie for shipment to foreign markets
! from misunderstanding 10 the
recent census the population OF Lon-
| don Is three million EIGHT hundred &
| fourteen thousand anl five hundred
aui scycnty-ona.-A hundred per,