South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-11-04
NEWS OF THE DAY.


says that unless some great criminal |
lawyer assumes charge of his case ae !
will conduct il himself :. The pension |
deficit this year. 1t is asserted, will a
mount TO 500 900 i. President ARTHUR
has requested Mr.. WISDOM TO continue
at the head of the Treasury Department
until relieved by his successor :. There
we're lI5 deaths in Baltimore last week
.--.In the Illinois State prison are six
teen men all related TO one another.
Eighty-ive vessels. principally English,
were lost of the British coast durinc s
recent storm. - The Cincinnati En-.
qpirer distinguishes the two fac,ioas as
Guiteau Republicans and Garfield Re-
pnbllcans. - The net profits ofthe Bal.
,imore aud Ohio railroad from its Oriole
business were about $4,000 :. The
Garfield memorial services in the City
of Mexico were the most impressive ey.
or held IN that country -. The average
French family is three, the aversge
English five, and TIE aversge Irish sew
en- Serious damage is reported TO
crops throughout the Northwest from
:he recent heavy rains. Much Of the
corn in shocks bas eprou,ed and pota-
tees are rotting in the mud Live
American bullfrogs have been sent 10
| France 20 improved the breed over tho
way Some of She Egyptian mum
mics are incssed in bandages more than
! 1000 yards long -. II is said the Mex
leans are so anxious for hoIid.vs that
they celebrate the anniversaries of their
defeats by tie Americans. =. 30 ton
last year consumed Gil COS barrels Of
lager becr-two barrels TO every nan,
woman and child -. 1--WE nty -four bran.
dy distillcries have gone into operation
in Los Angeles county, California
a Chicago fortune teller has made SIS
600 IN three years by predicting itch
husbands for servant girls and young
wives for old men. "A school boy In
Franklin county, Pennsylvania, bad his
left eye put out 10y ferulo which his
! teacher threw toward him The GUAM
IitY Of blood existing in the human
body at any given moment is from thir-
ty to forty pints. PaupcriSm in New
York has increased 600 per cent since
1850, although the population has only
| doubled in that time. :. DR.. j. O.. Hoi-
land, tie eminent author and poet, died
Ut his home in Mass, on the 9Th ult.
Il. *. ScoTT, formerly carpet Dagger
governor OF South Carolina, is on trial
at Nlpoleon, Ohio, for the murder OF
young Drury last Christmas. Belle
Hardin Was clipping at Virginia, Hi"
rois. Her father overlook the coup!e
and the swain was about to give up his
sweelheart without struggle when sac
coollg drew pistol and told her parent
sho would shoot him if he intcrrored.
The clopement proceeded. The Laps
are rapidly decreasing in numbers. The
population of Lapiand is now given as
only 1900. -. Miss Knlin, Of San
Francisco, recently married man nam.
ed Wood. The marriage notice was
headed Kinlin-wood a shooting
match was one or the interesting fea-
lures Of = recent Kansas CITY wediing
.--.The second coming of Christ IS pre-.
dictad to occur within the present year.
1.-The report that Dr.. TANNER IS dead
IS cohtradicted by tie Doctor himself.
lie ought 10 know. The Lake Okce,
chobce region, in Southern FioriGaf
produces native variety Of The India
rubber tree - Baron JAMES RorHs
CHILD died at Paris on tho 18th uIt..
l. is estimated that tie world consumes
IS 600 0CO tons of wheat annually:
three times as much as it did 100 year,
! ago....A Chicago maa robbed lis
grandmother Of her savings TO pay o
gambling debt. lie was too much OF r.
! gentleman TO fail to pay such an oail-
CATION -. Mus'apha Bay, tie ruler uc
Tunis, spent in his stay in Paris tic
lrno of $4,000 He carried home
200 gold watches and 10000 pocket
knives. IA lady ofpehin, illinois bas
given birth TO bog on every Fourth OF
July during the Jas, four years Here's
patriotism for you. Frank DJdson
and Ellen Bailey, runaway couple.
being pursued through Erie, Pcnnsylva-
MIA, by the brides father, married thorn
selves in The street by calling witnesses
TO hear their mutual agreement 90 take
each other, and the magistrate decided
the marriage was legal "a Chatt-
nooga man has invented door-l5cl.
which al the least pressure, fires cap,
/ lights % taper and still holds thc door