South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-08-12
NE WIS OF THE DAY.

The centennial ceremonies at York
town will begin October IS.-One
stock raiser OF Texas expects TO send
10000 head of cattle TO market tits
year.-BeecEer's death would give
his heirs about 100000 dollars
OF life Insurance money.-Vanderbi
Is quoted as saying that the railroad
war Will last until the close of navi-
gation.-The experiments at cooling
the Presidents sick room have cost
twelve thousand dollars-Lorillard
has won sixteen races in England
United States troops have been sent
INTO the Indian Territory to aid in en-
peiling white intrnders- the sale
OF short horns at Paris, Ky, n few
days ago, seventy six animals
brought IS, GOO dollars.-The popula-
ton of Canada is said to be Also
933.-The pulse of healthy man of
90 years OF age should not be above
eighty beats minutc.-J. w. Water.
man, OF San Bernardino County. Cal
ifornia,is reported to have refused
two million five hundred thousand
dollars for his wonderful silver mine.
Two gun boats have been built i'm
the United States for the British Gov
ernment.-Thomas O'Meagher Cou-
don charges that the Internal ma
chimes discovered at Liverpool were
manufactured and sent by British po-
lice agents in New York for politica
effect. Wells, the Queen of
the Gipsics, who is now in Pennsyl
vania, is worth sixty thousand dollars.
Wood Pulp Miller is what they call
the newly-elected Senator from New
Gork.-Postmaster General James
has discovered that the missing mail
sacks and pouches, the loss Of which
has been source Of great expense to
the Government, were appropriated
by the Canadian postal officials. =
Ex-Governor John J. Bagley, of
Michigan, for many years one of the
most prominent business men of De-
troit, died at San Francisco, recently,
aged fifty years. The late Judge
Clitrord's law library, which was left
to his three sons, is reported to be the
finest III the country. 1t is insured
for twenty thousand dollars.-Beforc
Mrs. Patton died, at Evansville. Ind.
she induced her husband and her
daughter by aprevious union to prom.
ise to marry, and the arrangement is
to be carried out.-The discovery of
copper and silver bearing ore near
Fort Laramie is creating immense
excitement. Miners are stanpedin@
TO the district. which is six miles wide
and swarming with prospectors.-A
member of the New Hampshire Leg
islature, who did not attend the ses-
sion, has turned his salary into the
State Treasury. Barnum should en-
gage him for so years.-The Fiiian
name for doctor, on being translated,
turns out to be carpenter Of death
Statistics laid before tie Congress
OF Brewers, which recently met at
Versailles, show that there are in Eu-
rope about forty thousand brcwerics,
which produce annually some 1885,
600 gallons of beer. OF this amount
Great Britain produces one-t third, &
Prussia comes next for quantity. -
The amy worm, which created such
a scare in Illinois and Indiana, is said
to be disappearing, and its ravages
greatly exaggerated. Boston is in
dignant over the discovery in one of
her jails of a boy eight years old, who
had been held three weeks in default
of bail that his mother could not OBJ
tain.-PaIatine, n. Y, is the richest
village of IFS size in the world. 1t
has about five hundred inhabitants.
and it is said over thirty OF them are
worth from five to twenty million dol
lars, while six are worth over twenty
lIons.-COnnecticut is to have q
regular farmers school, where moth
ing is TO be taught but what is neces-
sary to through preparation for ag-
rieultural pursuits.-The present year,
it seems, will be n remarkable one i'm
our history. We have had the coolest
winter, the hottest summer, the -
and II year locusts, in some sections;
Currant and cabbage worms, the re-
signation of Conkling, the shooting of
Garfield. four or five comets. and
many other events of note.-It has
been discovered Mt last that the sun
never sets upon American soil Be,
fore it ceases shining on the A!cution
Islands, oil Alaska, it kisses the broad
stripes and bright stars ut Calais, Me-
At one time it was thought that only
the British Empire conlI make this
bOast-Gen Robert Patterson, of
Philadelphia, died last Sundav.-Dr.
Gotf, n brother of Gen. Golf. died
suddenly at his residence in Clarlls-
burg, on the 1st inst. Bishop la
ven is dead lie died at Portland.
OregOn-A mandatory for The
electric light is being built in Balti-
more. "A turtles head that had
been cut Oft several days, lately bit
ducks neck and killed the fowl, i'm