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

lTluS, tliQ are hiOWtu. Wuel Oh Quly-
to earn money by THE papers are
figuring OH tie probable expenses of
Mr.. Garlield's doctors bills. The
Boston Herald makes it over seventy
thousand dollars up to tho present
time. California wants ID
secede and form a State BY itself. a
Convention is called TO consider the
question.-A new oil field of fifty
thousand acres has been discovered in
Elk county, pa.-France is expected
TO send one or two of her war vessels
with troops to the Yorktown Cen.en-
NAL Extraordinarily Carson Ap.'
peal solemnly afiirms that a Nevada
| florist has sunilower which is fifteen
inches in diameter or nearly four feet
in circumference. -Califoln is the
favorite State of italian immigrants,
being wine country with q mild eli
mate recalling that of Italy.-A paper
dome, thirty feet in diameter and
weighing about two tons, is being
made for the new observatory at West
Point.-Thirteen female physicians
are practicing in Clayton county,
Iowa.-Three hundred and fifty birds
were killed, recently, by one stroke of
lightning as they sat in tree at
Owensboro, Ky.-The Baltimore Sun
tells Of the death OF Mrs. Libby John
son at the age of 102 years, and that
she had twelve fingers and twelve
toes.-New York bias the largest debt
of any State in the union. Its debt
amounts in round figures to two hun
dred and eight million, three hundred
and thirty-siX thousand, eight hundred
and eighty-two dollars.-Thc Chinese
claim the honor Of having printed
from movable type as early rs 1910.
The inventor was Pitching, q black
smith; his types were made of clay
hardened by tire.-Thcre is lady re-
siding at Clinton, Iowa, whose young
est child is 81 years old. The young
mother is over 100 years of ago
Justice Hunt of the United States Su-
prcmc Court does not improve. tits
said he will never resume his seat on
the bench again. Aunt Betty Miller,
(coIored), living near Chalk Level,
Pittsylvania CO., Va, is ll3 years Old.
The w cts and 'Drys' are the names
they 90 by in North Carolina. Mich
ael Gannue, living neaI Rochester,
n. Y, at the age OF los Years, ;Eourns
the death of his wife, after a married
life of about 80 ycars.-A London
paper says Dean Stanley was once a
sutton for the hand of Jenny Lind
II takes eight hundred full-blown ro~
ses TO make q tablespoonful OF per-
fume while ten cents worth OF cooked
onions will scent Il whole neighbor-
hood Spinning wheels and fishing
bones were worn by the brides and
bridesmaids at two recent English
wcddings.-The Douglas monument
ut Chicago, with the ground, cost S97-
000.-France is about 10 employ the
electric light in forty two principal
lighthouses. President Garfield was
! born November 18Th, 1881, and Is
therefore nearly fifty years of age
Twenty-four white women have mar
ried negroes in Boston i'll one year
Poor General Grant Will soon move
into his S95. 600 residence in the city
of New Yorll.-The News York World
estimates the corn crop alto per cent.
less than in l980.-The Railroad Com
missioners of iowa cost the State four
teen thousand dollars a year. I'll.
Temple and wife, living near Gales
burg, H.. were killed few day )
ago, in bed by lightning. A babe
sleeping between the two was unliurt.
-Senator David Davis las los: SIX.
ty pounds this summer il this sort
ofthing keeps up there won't DC much
left of the Independent party after Il
while.--The census OF India has
been completed and shows popula-
ton of 2j2.500, 000.--The New
York Herald asserts that the PRESS
dent has taken 800 grains OF qulnine
and four hundred grains Of morphine
since lie received his wound. Ii this
is true, it Is not 10 be. wondered at
! that he is near deaths door--A
girl at Lynn. Iowa, went TO a picnic
| with her lover iusteal OF goihg TO u
prayer meeting, as her father had or
dered. The parent tied her to post
on her return, and gave her such a
whipping that She died next day
Tho last comet which made It's appear.
ance IS rapidly fading away and will
soon be seen no more in the evening
sky. are scarce aud high
in Baltimore bringing from $3.50 to
$500 per box. Forrest fires are ra-
ging in Arkansas. where 30 rain has
fallen for ten weeks, and in many
sections trees are shedding their TO-
liace "a If she'd bv frost. Water IS
selling at Frostburg. Nd at Is cents
per barrel Maj Il. b. Sayers, Of
St. Louis, who served on tire staff OF
the Confederate General Polk during
the late war, Is doad.--A collision