South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-10-21
ME ws OF THE DAY.

gold In LondOn.-Iowa has thirteen
lady candidates for superintendent of
schoois.-A leading Chicago builder
estimates that two million bricks are
laid every day in that city.-,Justice
Field has written to friends in Wash.
lngton that as the Supreme Court now
has quorum without him he will not
return from Europe until December.
"A Boston firm has made forty thou
sand dollars out Of the sale of Garfield
pictures.-The friends of ex-President
Hayes deny that he and Mrs. Hayes
intended visiting Europe soon.-A
Waterspout which passed recently o.
yer the district of Milan, Algeria,
killed sixty-tive persons.-Nearly as
many reams of paper, in the United
States, are made into collars as are
used to write upon.--Some two hun
dred postmasters will, it is alleged be
Implicated in the star route frauds
Stories come from Colorado 40 tall IA
the mountains there. The latest ia
that sixty.two black sheep, being
frightened by coyote, turned per-
fectly white during the night. 8.
Vaughan, An old and well-known ci-
tizen Of Petersburg. Va, is dead.
AT present more than six hundred
thousand lives are insured in the u
nitsd States misunderstanding to a
French medical journal whooping
cough has been successfully treated by
DIR. Baroty, Of Nice, by turpentine
vapor.-Ths statement of tho Bank
OF France shows decrease of specie
for the week of % million, seven
hundred thousand francs.-Two Iowa
children who have pink eyes can hard
ly see in the daylight, but can pick up
q pin in the darkest night.-An old
negro near Ohio, Alabama, is build
ing an ark for himself and family,
claiming that the Lord has revea led
to him the coming of another deluge,
to wipe out all that section. 1t is said
the business doing on the southern
railroads is simply unprecedented. -
Americans In London are cOntempla.
ting bailding o church in memory of
Garheld.-Railroad completed this
year five thousand and thirty-four
miles, Gs against three thousand, nine
hundi cd and tEirty-eight last year, to
October first-James Z. Brace, of
New York, the philanthopist who re
Gently died, found homes in the w est
for ten thousand poor children. The
estimated value of the sweet potato
crop OF Accomac county, Va; this
year is one million dollars to say moth,
ing OF the Irish potato crop, which will
be large average.-Last week IIar-
ry Oliver, we'll known farmer in
Stark county, H., measured off an a.
ere OF corn.in one OF his fields and ga
thcrsd it, 1t yielded eight thousand,
one hundred pounds, which, at eighty
pounds to the bushel, made one hun
! dred and one bushels and twenty
pounds to the acre.-The depot of the
Washington and Ohio road at Lees
burg, Va, was broken into one night
last week by three men, the agent,
Samuel Corkrell bound and gagged,
and the drawer robbed of small sum
of money.-There are said to be four
hundred thousand Roman Catholic
converts in CHINA w estefn' man,
an ex Congressman. thinks that the
buffalo could be domesticated and
that it would make much better beef
than the flesh of the ox.-There is
quite tide of immigration to Florida
from Kentucky.-Young men who
run often after sherry cobblers will
never get their shoes mended "A
bout two thousand wild goats have
been killed on Santa Catalina island,
off the coast Of California, this season.
They are hunted for their pelts, which
sell for twenty-seven cents q pound.
tits estimated that there are still about 4
thousand on the island.-Several Ital q.
ian farm laborers have recently been
introduced in Talbot county, Md
Austin, Tex, has O female deputy
sheriff and when she tells man she
has an attachment for him he don't
know whether to blush and toy and
look sweet or to light out for the
woods. "A movement will soon be
made to do way with fences upon
farms, because they cost so much
DIR. Benjamin II. Coates, an eminent
physician of Philadelphia, died Sun.
day last, aged eighty-four years.
One Lancing and Miss Ward, who
figured as revivalists at Ocean Grove,
are under arrest for defrauding the
widow of the late Professor Upham,
Of Bowdoin College, Of bank stocks
valued at fourteen thousand dollars.
One firm in Nashville holds thirty
thousand bushels of peanuts.-At n
Democratic rally in Richmond on
Tuesday night Of last week, General
Jubal Early was one OF the spe akers.
In the course of his speech he took
occasion TO denounce General Malone
as a miserable coward and base
liar. The pink eye disease has as