South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-08-19
NEWS OF THE Day.


crop in France place it below the av-
erage.-There were 4,378 deaths in
New York City in July, al increase
OF S91 over July, 1SS0.-Great Bri.
tain has nearly eighty thousand acres
OF land under cultivation for hops.-
The wheat harvest in England is now
In progress. Estimates fix the yield
nearly at the average. The barley
crop is particularly good.-Negro la
Dor IN Southern cotton mi us is said
to be failure.-Mr. Samuel III. Shaw
one OF the Oldest citizens of Baltimore
died on Saturday last, in his 93rd
year.-The Chicago Inter Oceans
figures out that Jay Gould owns sew
EN- thousand miles of railroad, valued
at one hundred and forty million dol
lars.-Asiatic cholera has appeared
in Fennimore, Wisconsin &the place is
nearly depopulated.-A British stea.
mer loaded at Baltimore on Monday
last with three thousand five hund. led
barrels of flour for Brazil.-The me-
groes OF Baltimore talk of running
one of their own race as an independ-
ent candidate for mayor.-The Gov
ernor of Massachusetts receives a sal
airy of four thousand dollars. That
of the Mayor of Boston is five thou
sand dollars.-During a bull-fight at
Marseilles on Sunday last several tiers
ofscats collapsed and II persons were
KILLED and one hundred and fifty in
jured.-Recently forty dollars was
paid for a cert of 1899, and six dollars
for half dollar of 1903 in Lancaster,
PA breach of promise suit was
compromised i'll Indianapolis, by the
defendant providing the girl with a
husband OF equal value with himself
-Packham, Rath & CO., grain mer-
chants i'll Providence, Rhode Island,
have failed for one hundred thousand
dollars.-The Labor Bureau at New
York, even with the great influx of
foreigners, finds it impossible to sup-
ply the demand for labor from all o.
YER the Countrywide slave trade is
rs prosperous in Northern Africa as
ever. From fifty thousand to sixty
thousand negroes are brought every
year to the Egyptian ports, ,and there
reshipped.- severe drought has
prevailed in Switzerland for three
months. In several cantons the cat :
tie are perishing for want of water
Farmers in the vicinity of Louisville
are in despair. No rain OF conse-
qucnce has fallen since the 14th of
July.-The Omaha Republican prints
53 extracts from nearly as many
Nebraska papers 10 show that the
crops were never better.-A Chicago
boy and girl, aged respectively Is
and 10 years, committed suicide be-.
cause their parents would not let
them marry Sitting Bull has named
one of his twins The War Is over.
His daughter, She, Who Glances.at-
You-as She. Walks is II years old
and very nice girl Liver COL issaid
to be supplied with water from the
mountains OF Wales. The scheme is to
create an artificial lake one mile wide
and five miles long for a reservoir,
then TO tunnel a mountain two miles,
and send the water TO Liverpool
The Laughlin nail mills at Martin g
Ferry, opposite Wheeling, were ell.
tirely destroyed by fire few days ago.
Loss, sixty thousand dollars insur-
ance sixty five thousand dollars Two
hundred men are thrown out of en-
ployment.-The Boston Courier says
the indications now are that Gniteau
will die unwept, unhonorcd and un-
swung The grain shippers of Balti-
more have formed an association Cor
mutual protection "A Mexican coun.
~, Pennsylvania, physician, who de-
sired 10 register under the new Law.
had practiced 20 years, but could not
write his own name Michael White,
an old and honored citizen, OF Mo.
nOngalia county. this State, died at
his home on the 9th inst, in the 86th
year of his aga new Jersey girl,
on n picnic excursion, drank 10 glass
es of lemonade which had tartaric ac-
id in il, and died from tie effects of
it.-A daughter Of Benz. Filter.
ling was roasted to death on Sunday
morning last in BrccknOck township.
Reading, Pa; accident occasioned by
using cOal-oil 90 start a slow fire
A number Of the most fashionable Ia
dies in New York are vieing with the
Chinese mandarins and letting their
finger nails grow without ever trim.
ming them, then scraping thom until
they are of chalky whitencss.--
Information has reached Little Rock
Ark, OF desperate duel fought last
week IN the Indian Nation between
r. o. Carpenter, q Choctaw Chief,
and Col. Arbras Price, a prominent
citizen Of the Crook Nation. Price
was killed aud Carpenter fatally
woundcd.-Itis said no catfish will
pass by a shcep-liver bate
Mans vspor,