South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-07-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.

/ mer5 propose TO raise deer TO take the
place OF low-priced mutton.-The In.
come TO Kcntuckians from the year-
ly sale of trotters is fully one million
dollars.-It is stated that six million
dollars are paid out annually by Geor-
| gia farmers for fertilizers.-'Hail Col
umbia' is to be sung by chorus OF
600 voices ut Clarksburg on the 4th
OF July.-Last Thursday week q spe-
cial train on the 3. & 0. road, ran
from Staunton to Iiarper's Ferry 126
miles In hours and As minutes.-The
school fund ofKentucky is 81 100000.
st. Louis has river front of nine
teen miles.-Monday, June Goth, was
the 18th anniversary of the admission
of West Virginia into the Union.
Senator Wade Hampton is collecting
full data about the burning OF Coll
unbia, for the purpose of fixing the
responsibility for that act on Sherman.
j. NJ. Hill, the theatrical manager
OF Boston, pays the newspapers $780,
600 year for advertising, and makes
money at it.-An artesian we'll at
Council Bluffs struck flowing water
at a depth of seven hundred and
twenty teet.-A stave factory which
turns out twenty thousand slaves II
day, has been put in operation at Fish
ersville, Augusta county.-Saratoga
has greater number of cottage resi-
dents than ever. Rents are in conse-
quence enormous.-Overo one hundred
million dollars in specie has been i'm
ported into this country from Europe
during ten months ending June 1st.-
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has sold
his Brooklyn residence, in which he
has resided for % years, for nineteen
thousand dollars, subject to mort
gage OF eleven thousand dollars He
now lives with his son, Col Benz. Is.
Beecher.-Iowa Greenbackers have
nominated Il woman, Mrs. Mary E.
Nash, for Superintendent of public
schools. The idea is to catch the
woman's rights people-Thc monster
steam barge City of Rome cleared
from Chicago Saturday for Buffalo,
with q cargo of one hundred & twenty
three thousand bushels of oats, the larg-
est cargo ever taken from that port on
any vessel.-Thc Southern States are
now providing through taxation over
million dollars annually for the sup
port OF negro schools-Grant is i'll
New York. The private subscription.
of two hundred and fifty thousand
q pllarS says republican paper, will
be rendered him shortly. Tic sar-
dine fishing has been unparalleled this
spring III the Mediterranean \ flock
of 1G bloolcd sheep were killed by
lightning on the farm OF Col. ID. A.
Albert, in Norway G ounty, Nilsson
ri, the other day.-Mr Ferdinand
Lewis, Of Grant county, this State, was
killed by a falling tree on tie 10th
ult.-It is estimated that seventy-tivc
thousand women in the City of New
York support thcmselYes-and many
of them their families-by their own
eXertions.-Engiand has we'll on to a
million of professional paupers. AT
the commencement of this year they
averaged one to every % persons.
which is a terrible showing for the
richest country in tie world.-Mr
John Z. Keartoot, the best known citi-
zen of Ben kelley county, w. Va, died
on the 10Th ult of congestion of the
heart. poor fisherman of Talla-
hasse, Fla, while digging worms for
bait the other day, struck brass ket-
| tie that was found to contain one thou
sand four hundred dollars in coin.
1t is said that the administration is re-
moving friends of Grant and Conk-
ling, or members Of what is known as
the stalwart element of the republican
party in the Northwest, wherever they
can be found, more particularly in the
States OF Ohio and IlIinois.-Mrs. l..
5. Tiff, the owner Of the largest cattle
range in the world, has sold one half
her herd of twenty five thousand cattle
to her managers, and will sail for En-
rope on the 28th Her range extends
from Greeley to Julesburg, Col, EN-
bracing a country about one hundred
miles wide. She has made a round
million since the death Of her husband,
the Cattle King three years ago
Large numbers of army worms have
made their appearance in Frederick
county, Md.-Mr. Garrett, for the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, has subs
scribed one million dollars to the ex-
tension of the Valley railroad from
Staunton to Lexington, Virginia, and
the work will now 20 Oh, and feed
or be secured to Baltimore.-Advices
received in Philadelphia state that a
man named lIelly, superintendent OF
an iron furnace at Dunbar, near T.
niontown, Fayctte county, Pa, was
murdered at that place on Sunday
night last, and that it is believed the
crime was committed by workmeu
| who have been on a strike IN tho Con
nclsvilIc coke rcgjon.-At a recent