South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-04-29
NEWS or TIzrl DAY.


cattle were sent to Europe from the
United States.-Three thousand spe-
cies OF grass are known 10 botanists.
1t Is said that iron millstones arc
coming into use aud make excellent
iiour-Eight OF the u. S. Senator'S
are newspaper men.--In China there
IS q fish that crosses the tneadoUs ut
Its pleasure from one creek 10 anoth-
CT, often Il mile apart--Nine Mil
lion i've hundred thousand is the
horse population OF the United States.
IL new Swedish industry is the
manufacture OF fine sewing thread
from wool.-It is calculated that SIX
Is tons OF steel are annually c0nsum-
Ell IN the manufacture OF steel pans
The Wisconsin treating law mas
been jnlicially decided 10 be inoper-
ativc and vcid.-A short.horn calf in
Iowa Al the age OF two days weighed
one hundred and sixty pounds, and at
thirty days two hundred and sixty
pounls.--It is reported that none OF
the high priced Short-IIorn COWS sold
at New York Mills in 1872 when
one cow brought forty thousand six
hundred dollars,) have now living
descendant. Cause; too much inland
I'm breeding.-Germany has put two
thousand five hundred miles of her
telegraph system under ground.-In
some parts Of the country 1t is FASH
ionable to pay wedding fees in dried
apples. This isa currency that swells.
Hon. Samuel j. Tilden has contri-
buted to the Dakota flood sufferers
the sum OF two hundred and fifty dol.
lars.-Uarriet Hoslncr has abaudon-
ed art and is spending all her time
hunting up perpetual motion. Fool
iah woman, when she has it at her
tongues eni.-EX- United States SEN
ator Joe Lane. Of Oregon, died on
Wednesday of last week-It is said
that the Office Of Sheriff in Frederick
county, Md, pays from $4,000 to
$4,000 per year.-The peanut crop
last year amounted to two million
twenty-five thousand bushels, valued
ut two million one hundred anal fifty
thousand dollars, an increase OF one
hundred thousand dollars over the
previous years crop. The milk OF
Our thirteen million COWS, at twelve
cents a gallon, is worth $685. 10000
ycar.-Mrs. Livernore is lecturing
on GLOW Shall we Reach the Boys 20
Let her ask the gllls.-ln Yazoo CO.,
Mss, the public-school statistics for
last year were: Total schools in the
county, 13l; expenses, twenty three
thousand dollars; for colorel chill
dren, 81 schools, supported at a cost
of sixteen thousand dollars for white
children, fifty schools, at q cost OF
seven thousand dollars. The same
number OF schools will ne open THIS
year.-An Iowa man mas named his
daughters Time and Tide, 50 they viii
have TO wait for no man.-Sunbeam
cloth is ~ English novelty for shirts.
1t has a mixture OF all coi0rs OF the
rainbow in stripcs.-It takes twen:y-
one Chinese cash 10 make 4 cent, and
yet these little coins are coGuterici;ed.
The "MaiE3" walking slici; is the
latest. 1t Is made OF the ''p!ne tree"
and will hold hall a piut Of New Eng
land rum--A western court has de-.
cided that q promise OF mlrriage
made on Sunday is not binding.
There is danger now that Sunday will
be wholly devoted 70 counting BY in
constant young mon.--A;f,,;rs be-
tween Greece aud Turkey still point
to prospects OF war.-Alaxico has
debt OF siyty-fve million dollars,
which she Will be aGlc to pay when
her rich mines are developed. As
rule the flower of the family does
nothing toward providing the daily
bread.-The Touring mill of John
n. Koiner, near Waynesboro, Virgin
ia, was destroyed by fire a few days
ago; loes twelve thousand or fifteen
Thousand dollars.-A Californian
spent forty-eight thousand dollars in
vain attempts to perfect steam ma
chinery for shearing sheep, and when
his money and ambition were gone,
he cut his throat with q pair OF sheep
shcars.-Otway Mccormick died at
his residence near White Post on the
! 7thinstlnt, in the seth year OF his age.
Rev. II. Thomas, Of Ozark, A.
kansas, committed suicide q few days
ago, on account Of rapidly growing
blindness Margaret Pryor, colored,
has been convicted At Hurrisonburg.
Virginia, of attempting to poison the
/ family Of Z. y. Williamson, anl sem
tcncoi to four years Imprisonment in
the pcnitentiary.-Thc American
Snuiay-Sohool Union have started
l3i schools i'm the Indian Territory.
The German GOvcrnueu, bias PRO
hibjtcd the use Of tobacco Us boys I'M
der sixteen years Of age. a good
idea, aud the adoption Of sr"h pro-
mbili0u would be a benefit TO Young
America in this countrv.-Ddlias
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