South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-05-13
NEWS OF rs1Hl oAr.,

iafS---A movement tt;tS Dcen started
III Ohio looking TO the nomination of
Hon. a. G.. Thurman rs the demo-
cratic candidate for Governor OF that
State.-Sangaine Washin gtomans ex-
pect that city to have 100000, pop,
rlation twenty FIVE years hence. -
Hon. j. Randolph Tucker is lecture.
ing on 'the Past, Present and Future
of Virginia. for the benefit of the
Yorktown Centennial fnnd.-A few
Florida farmers who have planted
arrowroot make as much rs 81 900 OF,
an acrc.-Dressed Turkeys killed in
the fall are sometimes sold in Boston
III July. They are kept frozen dur
ing the winter.-The floods have de-
stroyed millions of dollars worth Of
property along the Mississippi bot
toms.-An estimate OF the cost oflet-
ter carrying OF some Of the star routes
during the past year places the cost
OF each letter at from S30to$50. PLANT
lice are said to be elf.breeders, which
accounts for their rapid increase
Samples OF the Georgia grown tea were
tried in New \ DIRK on Saturday last Il
pronounced equal to thc best India
tea.-There was a snow storm at OF
tawa, Canada, on the 30th ult.--S. II.
Woodward and Prof. j. G. Hervoy,
Of Wheeling, died OH Friday last. The
latter was superintendent otthe public
schools OF that city.-Thc Eastern
States average more corn per acre
than the Western. Reason, they pre-
pare the ground better, apply more
manure and cultivate bctter.-A pro
fessor Snyder does not expect the end
OF the world for n few billions Of years.
Am old Indian fighter says the best
music he knows Of 10 soothe the saw
age Is the whistle of n wel-directed
rifle ball.-Reuben Bray, promi-
ncnt citizen OF Gnllipolis, ONO, com-
mitted suicide last week on account
OF trouble about his daughter, who
recently died in q house of ill-fame.
The Democrats of Virginia and
debt payers feel confident OF beating
Malone and his party next fall.-A
Cincinnati lawyer has astonished even
his professional brethren by charging
a $4,000 fee for collecting $4,000.
la the last fifteen years the State
OF louisiana has expended foi levees
and repairs the sum Of SI1 .7G5, 500
The masonic Halt, ST. Louis, WAS
sold last Friday, for $4,000 The
purchaser WAS Joel Wood. The bulls
dug originally cost $G00,G00.-A
farmer diging . post-hole At Bureau
junction, ILL.,, came upon pot OF
counterfeit silver dollars which Was
buried forty years ago by = band OF
thieves who h0urished in that region.
1t Is said that Alexander Ill, is
rendered uneasy by the discovery that
the Nihilists have 4 few more OF the
same sort left, and threaten to use
them.-Winn, q Kentucky murderer,
on the 18th alt, was shot by mcb in
his cell in the iaii 1T Par!s.-An old
colored man while blowing ON the
Matthews farm, near Palestine, Texas,
two days ago, turned UP $4,000 III
gold, supposed to have boon buried
by an Old slave living on the farm
twenty years ago.-O.iver Wendell
Holmes has been u professor at Iiar.
ward for thjrtysfour years.-Gen.
Grant Is now in Mexico, ana tie
Grcasers are doing him great honor,
fcasting and banqueting him.-thcre
are only fourteen gambling houses in
Chicago. I'VE would have moro
says . local paper, but there are not
fools enough TO support them. The
catches of bass made at Point Of Rocks
Md are reported as unprecedented
Salisbury furnace, III Botetoart
county, which was put III blast in
March,, is no" tnruing out 200 tons of
iron per mOnth.-A school teacher i'm
Ohio has been fined $50, for not al
lowing a colored boy to attend his
schooi.-Gcncral Grant, il is feared,
has gone off to Mexico with the
World Fair concealed somewhere a.
bout his person. At least, the much
talked OF project cannot now bc found
anywhere in Now York.. d. Dau-
ncr, painter at Cumberland, fell
head foremost oil The house of the
late Phillip Roman, distance OF 50
feet, - few days ago, & was instantly,
killed. He was about 50 years OF age,
and leaves n wife, three sors and
dauEhter-Two physicians and sur.
gcons of London, England, are suppos-
cd to receive about 500 900 per year
each in fees. They ought to flourish.
Great destruction to potato vines by
the Colorado beetle is reported from
Norfolk co, Va, and vjciuity.-Ex
President Hayes refuses totalkon star
route subject3-An oh miller who
the crops closely says that at
present the prospect for q large wheat
crop iu Shenandoah county BE- GOOD. |
Like reports lroa all The valley com |
ties are 20 the same effect Orkney
Springs, Shenandoah county. Va. has