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

past five months $4,000 persons have
visited the Luray caverns Seven
thousand Morwomen are divided among
5000 Mormon. :. The value of gold
consumed by manufacturers last year
was SiO,OO0.0O0. Famine is feared in
northern Russia. The crops are fail
ure. Rifle barrels are now made of
paper, we are told. What next ?.
The oldest Senator is M. MORRILL,. Of
Vermont. who i, seventy one; the
youngest is Mr.. ALpaIoH, OF Rhode Is
land, who is forty years old =. There
are So papers published in this State
SO weekly, 5 monthly and daily
immigrants arriving in this country dur.
ing the past nine mouths number sos,
GSl. 1t is proposed in Boston TO cell
citrate the centennial of the birth o,
Daniel Webster on the 18th of January
next. ..Ex-Governor ScorT, whose
trial for killing Drury. druggists clerk
was concluded at Napoleon, Ohio, on
Saturday. was acquitted. Il. Chicago
has 2iS churches and probably five
times that number Of saloons :. A
quarry OF variegated marble equal to
any in Italy was recently discovered in
Eluvsnna county, Virginia. 49,. The
Northern Pacific railroad il being rap
idly pushed forward into Idaho. "A
,errapin with the figures "18i6" and the
initials I'D. c." ON its back has been
found near Keyser AS a copper pro-
ducing State North Carolina ia the 3rd
in the United States. only Michigan
and Vermont surpass sing her. 1t is
said there is 6g bush in Mobile, Ala
osma. that bears annually and regular
ly 800 bushels -. Professional trappers
in Maine sell rurs of the value Of much
more than 100000 year. The
manufacture Of oil cake of cotton seed
meal in the Soulh is assuming large
proportions, l20, 900 tons having been
lately shipped for foreign consumption.
IDS unquestionable evidence Of Gui.
teau's insanity, New York correspon.
dent notes the fact that lie once tor-
rowed a silk umbrella and returned it.
.-..JoHN VAN Hoax, postal clerk, has
been arrested at Harrisburg, Pennsyl-
vanis, for robhing the mails Take
care Of your habits snd your health will
take care of itself = John L. Hobbs.
one of Wheelings oldest and wealthiest
glass manufacturers Died few days a
CO. There is great excitement in the
locality of tho zinc mines, in Taz ewell
County, Tennessee, over new 'finds,"
supposed TO be SILVER Mormon mis-
sionaries were rotLen-eggei in Georgia
recently Experiments are to be
made with compressed air motors on
the New York Elevated Railroads
One hundred thousand women and Girls
are employed as bar-maids in Euglsad.
lin New Zealand sparrows have
multiplied to such an extent that poi
soned wheat is now used by the colon
lists TO destroy them 49,. A colored wo-
man in Baltimore has given birth to her
26th child IA locomotive drinks for
ty-five gallons of water every mile il
travels LEWIS BRADY, colored. died
at Scarborough New York, a few da, =
ago, at the ripe age OF l0S years. He
vas born slave in Maryland, in 1873
His father belonged TO George Wash
ington, end was liberated by him on the
death of Martha Washington Peo
ria's ten dIstilleries, two glucose aad
starch factories, use IL 1904 bushels of
corn daily, and $4,000 head Of Texas
cattle are being iattened on the Stops.
1.-The winter pork packing season
commenced in Chicago on the first. Du-
ring the Summer packing season. which
began March l, Chicago packers slaugh-
tered and sailed 1868 900 hogs, a.,
gainst 2,97l 900 for the corresponding
period last year There are 1000
dram shops kept by women in New
York city. Only one Of the number is
a native American ...Gcneral Stone
MAN has raised $1,000 worth Of grapes
on his vineyard at Los ANGLERS, Cali.
fornia, this year.. Pink-eye is bring.
ing the mule into prominence. lie is
not afflicted like his relatives on his
mothers side -. Parties ia Penusy va.
MIA, arc exhibiting cotton grown in The
open air in that state, and claim that
the staple can DO grown at the rate of
half bale 70 the acre, and propose 10
plan; 800 acres The coming year ...
Gathering buffalo bones along the ex-
tension Of tire Texas & Pacific is an ex.
tensiye industry. The bones bring SIP
per ton .....-A man Of % is suing at