South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-07-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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EN- hundred and eleven Immigrants
landed at the port of Baltim ore on
Sunday last from Europe-The A.
merican Bible Society, since its or.
ganlzation, 61 years ago. has issued 49,
49,, S11 copies ofthe Bible.-'Bone-
SETTER the famous trotting horse, a
few days ago, dropped dead on the
track at Pittsburgh. lie was valued
at ,O00.-The present years inn
migration is the heaviest in the histo.
~ OF the country.-Germany has %
Universities, and the majority Of them
have from 20 10 100 American stu
dents each year.-About 1000 per.
sons are employed in the United
States III the manufacture of matches.
Charles Baird, of Louisville, KY,
died the other day from a spider bite
inflicted upon him while asleep.-The
Pullman car company at Chicago
has 3,115 men on its pay roll.-Col-
lector L. Ia. Brayton,a revenue officer,
has been killed in South Carolina by
moonshiners while engaged in the
performance Of his duty.-The Bos-
ton Transcript says that Gen. Gordon
carries four bullets about in his BODY.
but they are in his legs and do not
trouble hlm.-Georgia peach trees are
so full OF fruit that it has to be beat
Oft to save the branches.-A woman
has become the regular pastor of the
Baptist church at Wheaton, Ill.-A-
bout ten million dollars worth of wri-
ting paper is manufactured in the U.
). annually.-Georgc r. Withers, a.
ged % years, nephew Of Senator With
crs, OF Virginia, was shot dead BY Ar
thur O'Connor at house of evil re-
pute iii Pine Bluff, Arkansas, on the
evening Of the 23rd inst.-Billy the
Kid, the noted desperado, has been
killed by Sheriff Garrett in New
MeXlco.-The Elevated Railroads Of
New York are in the hands of receiv.
ers.-A farmer offered to give tramp
a dollar day and find him. In two
hours he found him asleep under a
tree.-The murder of young Pugh BY
the Indians of New Mexico. extin-
cuisines the family of the late Hon.
Geo. E. Pugh.-In the past ten years
there have been nearly $50 murders
III Allegheny county, Pa, and only
four hangings Warren Kelly, oil
Milwaukee, has sued Mrs. Logan, OF
Cincinnati, for breach Of promise, lay
ing.damages at twenty five thousand
doIlars.-Queen Victoria's Youngest
son Leopold, who5 WAS lately created
Duke of Albany, is described by an
Indianapolis paper as a skinny little
GUS. witha, turned-up,,nose, and whose
, mouth and front teeth remind one OF
a squirrel.-The fatal objection to the
> Vice Presidency is that there is never
a man selected for it with reference
to his succeeding the President. Two
/ brothers who robbed man of ten
cents in the city OF New York, were
last week sentenced to twelve years
each in the penitentiary. John A
Appleton, Of the well-known publish
, ing house of ID. Appleton &SCo., New
York, died Friday, aged G5.-They
have indignant fish over in Juniata
county, Pa. The SENTINEL relates
that whilst DR.. Lucien Banks and
John Hollobaugh were sitting in a
boat shooting frogs, a 3klb bass Jump
ed ont of the water and struck Hollo-
baugh in the face. 1t fell into the
boat and was captured The potato
crop in Ireland promises to be plen-
tiful.-Captain Franklin j. Forsythe,
one Of the oldest conductors on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad died on
Tuesday OF last wecll.-Isaac w.
Lucy, known as the Colorado cattle
king, through his immense herds
in that State and in New Mexico, was
murdered recently by an employe to
whom he had refused to lend SIP
Wheat harvesting has begun in Sus-
sex, England.--At Pittsburgh on
the 18th inst, Vandcrbilt's mare.
Maud s., made a mile i'm 2.l05, the
fastest trotting on record Over
five hundred thousand copies of the
revised New Testament have been
sold in Philadelphia. The pulpit and
press, with few exceptions, declare it
an Improvement on the present au-
thorizcd version. -Don't cook
chickens in brass kettle unless you
want TO get poisoned. That's what
they did in Decatur, Ga, and thirty
five people came near dying One
hundred and one persons starved to
death in London in 1SSO.-The dog
census in Berkeley county for 1881,
shows n total of 2106.- Ono thous.
and two hundred employees Of the Old
Colony Railroad have been examined
for color blindness, in compliance
with the Massachusetts, law, and over
forty engineers, fremen, conductors
and others have been dismissed be-
cause they have defective sight. OF
this number is Conductor Cowan, who
has taken tickets for 30 years and
never had ON accident happen TO his