South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-09-30
NEWS OF TIE, DAY,

/ practice law IN That Statc.-Ihe wool
crops of California and Oregon are
twenty per cent. better than last year.
Five missionaries sailed from New
| York fol Asia on Saturday last
Shippers are paying from S1.5 so to 50
per bushel in New jersey for pota-
toes to be sent to western Pennsylva-
nia.-San Francisco is making great
progress in glass making and in the
art OF stained glass. -The police of
London number ten thousand, nine
hundred and forty-three. Western
exchange insists upon it that when Sec.
rotary of the Interior Kirkwood lived
in Iowa he smoked corncob pipe
The monthly pay rolls of five iron es-
adjustments i'll Wheeling aggregates
one hundred and seventy-fve thous-
and dollars.-The potatoe crop in the
kanawha Valley, this State, will be n
large one, Notwithstanding the drouth.
-Four children of Mr.. D. G. Beale,
OF Fairfax county. Va, died recently
IN single week of diptheria.-
1t is said Queen Victoria has order.
ed the Court to go into mourning for
President Garfield for a week.-Sen.
ator Vest of Missouri, is in favor of
pensioning eX.confederate soldiers
September 7th was the hottest day
known in Philadelphia within fifty
seven years-The Sovereign Grand
Lodge of Odd fellows of the United
States adjourned on Saturday last in
Cincinnati to meet next year in Bal
timore.-Fifty three millions of forest
trees have been planted in Nebraska.
New York City has contributed O..
yer scventy-iivc thousand dollars to
the fund for the relief OF the sufferers
by the Michigan fire Col. Robert S.
Field, former wellknown citizen of
Petersburg, Va, died last week in
North Carolina. boiler of the
steam thrashing machine ut work on
Geo. Caldwell's farm, in Thurlow,
Ont, exploded Friday evening last,
killing Andrew Lloyd, MIR. Malcolm.
Mr.. Arson and Miss Viola Caldwell,
and seriously injuring Mr.. Caldwell
III. Garvin and Charles Gertin.-
There are one hundred and eighty-six
tribes OF Indians in the United States.
"A Small hoy of Cincinnati, not
knowing the difference between buck
eye and a chestnut, ate one Of the
former and was Immediately taken
deathly sick. There is snail chance
| for his recovery .-Prcsidcnt Arthur
| is still chairman of the New York re-
publican State committee MIR. Al.
bert Constable, of Cecil county, Md,
who has been i'll for two months or
more of lung trouble, was last week
| operated upon by DR.. Pepper, OF
Philadelphia. a large quantity of
water was taken off his lung and spec
dy recovery ia looked fora sheep
dairy for the manufacture of cheese
has been started at Chattanooga.
Sheep cheese is a popular article Of
food in Austria, and this enterprise,
beginning with 1000 sheep, is under
the management of an Austriau.-
Six sportsmen near Berlin, Maryland,
Killed seventy squirrels one day last
week. Two killed thirty-six. Phila-
delphia has a school revolt on hand;
occasioned by the admission of sever
al young darkies to seats among the
white children. The latter promptly
rebcIled, and Philadelphia is stirred
to its depths over the matter. The
sale OF mourning goods in PhilaGel-
phia on Tuesday, the 2Oth inst, was
three million yards, to be used for
draping business buildings and dwell
ings on account of the Presidents
death.-Iowa is erecting Methodist
| churches at the rate of one per fort
night. The State membership is
eighty thousand.-In all the chief CT
ties of Great Britain, and many on
the European continent, there were
services on Monday last in memory
OF the late President Garficld.-For.
est fires are raging in Western New
York, and railroad telegraph and
private property has been greatly
damaged.-Mr. J. w. Kinney, for
several years teacher at the ID. ID. &
Is Institution at Staunton, has resign
ed his position in consequence of i'll
health. The Michigan relief fund of
DO9tOu ny ttgulcS over lOIly tDIec
thousand doIlars.-Claremo stock
yards have been opened on the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad, near the
city-The September heat is nearly
as great as that of July and August
-'Pinkeye,' the new and mysterious
horse disease, is spreading in Chicago.
1t first made its appearance there a.
bout ten days ago, and has spread so
rapidly that nearly every large stable
in the city is suffering from its rava-
gcs.--A fire in Camden street, be-
tween Charles and Light streets. Bal
timore, on Tuesday last, burned out
two warehouses and damaged some
adjoining property: aggregate loss a
| bout forty thousand dollars. -Gen.