South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-10-07

WIS OF THE DAY

4 q va NiIc ldkt Il EcSlueDt, WAS Oh Years
of age the day after her sons death.
Tuesday, the goth ult.-President
Arthur was fifty-one years old last
Wednesday.-Thed disease called the
"plnk eyes" has attacked several
hundred horses in Washington CITY,
Seven hundred and eighty-seven i'm
migrants from Europe arrived in Bal
tlmore on Sunday last.-Thc name of
Elberon is to be changed to Garfield
III honor Of the dead Presidential
brother, aged lightweight, of Presi.
dent buchanan, is living. Stanley.
the explorer. has T covered from his
recent lllness.-The Liverpool cotton
''corner" has ceased to- disturb the c,ia-
ham spinners.-An inel,..;.a asylnm
Tor Women ..as neen established in
Chlc"go.-Reports from the tobacco
growing sections of Virginia say that
the weed Is everywhere yellowing in
the hill.--The Republicans are rolling
their "bar'r' into Virginia to defeat
honesty. The Republican leaders hate
honesty rs they do a viper-It is said
that the American delegates to the
Methodist Congress were surprised at
the drinking habits OF their WESLEYAN
hosts IN England.-On Cape Cod
there are about fifteen hundred Por
tuguese tishermen.-Chicago purposes
changing its "South Park" to Garfield
Park,-Four children OF family nam
od Gibbons were burned to death in
Sedalia. Mo. last week by being asleep
up stairs when the house they lived in
burnt down.-A locomotive weighs
eighty thousand pounds, and a pair OF
car wheels five thousand pounds
Mr.. William Dold, prominent and
well known merchant of Lexington.
Rockbridge county, Va. was thrown
from his horse last week mt Stanton.
and almost Instantly killed. It is said
the line OF defense of Sergeant Mason
will be that as he had no knowlenpe
that Guiteau was i'm his accustomed
spot he could not have committed
''an assault with intent to kill'' upon
Guiteau.--Rev. 7. Dewitt Talmaee is
TO succeed Rev. DR.. Deems as editor
OF Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine.
An unpleasant sensation has been
cansed IN Bristol. England, by the
discovery that cargo OF three hun
dred tons OF human bones had been
landed there to tie order OF local
firm OF manure manufacturers. The
bones were shipped at Rodosta and
Constantlnople. and are the remains
principally of the defenders Of Plcvan.
Hair still adheres TO some skulls
Catfish are being caught by the thou
sands in New river, Va.-George a
Wilson, OF Norfolk comfy, Va, raised
this season between forty five thousand
and fifty thousand bushels of corn
The owner of Il large cranberry farm
at Berlin, Wisconsin employs hnn.
dred girls, aud he promised to marry
the one who picks the most berries
this season, provided she wants him
Sixteen furnaces in Scotland have
blown out, in order 10 reduce the pro-
duction of pigiron Tie Washington
monument is now two hundred feet i'm
height. When it Will be completed we
cannot say.--Thc Tredgar Iron Works
OF Richmond, Va, employ one thou
sand six hundred men.--Thc cit.
liens OF Philadelphia propose erecting
. memorial IN Paramount Park 10 the
memory Of President Garfield.-Spe.
culators are buying up the Michigan
lands that were burnt over for 2 mere
song. Tho owners are discouraged
and are doing what they will vc-
ry soon regret-Over one mill
ion, SIX hundred thousand yards of
mourning goods were used in d7aping
the houses OF Chicago in honor of the
dead Presidcut.-At the roccption
given to Mr.. Parnell, the other night
on lis arrival in Dublin, the horses
were taken from before the carriage
Ivy the crowd who drew it to- its desti-
nation. The demonstration was inn
mensc.-lt ia reported that the crops
in Sweden have failed, and that
a famine IS impending. The Omaha
Herald thinks the Grcenback party is
Ike a grass widow-always on the
lookout for somebody to pet 1.-THE
coinage at varions MINIS for Scptem-
Der 18th, was eight hundred and forty
seven thousand, three hundred dollars.
OF which two hundred and forty thou
sand dollars WAS in standard dollars.
Bishop Paine, Of the VI. T.. Church
South, is now in his S2d year, and is
so feeble at times that he ia unable to
work for a week, but when able, he is
constantly at work.-Gen. Hancock
accompanied the funeral cortege of
President Garfield TO Cleveland, ~
part of the guard of honor-The busi-
| ness men Of Baltimore are taking steps
10 make the Oriole permanent local
institution there every year-A terri
bic tornado swept valley short dis
I lance west Of Wantoma, Wisconsin, ON
the 29th uIt.,completcly devastating a