South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-12-02

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Friday morning last, Was eight degrees
below zero. The Missouri river is
bridged At Bismsrk, Dakota Territory,
hy ice foot thick ;. In sections OF
the State OF North Carolina where there
has been no frost third crop of vege-
tables is being raised. Two Sonth
American rivers each have mouths
more than one hundred miles wide.
Seventy Eve million pounds Of tea are
annually imported into this country.
1.-The rapid development of South
ern manufactures promise 10 give Us q
South "solid" in a financial and indus
trial sense. The creates. length OF
Cuba is 60 miles, end its width varies
from 20 to 135 miles. In the las, ten
years the number Of churches in Chica-
go has increased from l56 to 2lS..
The winner Of six hundred dollars IA
election bets in Denver. has given the
money TO charity hospital. -. Cayenne
pepper grows almost Wild in Polk coun.
ty, Florida. .-.DAvID WIpMYER, OF
Morgan county. this State. a few days
ago, killed wild turkey which weighed
81 pounds. Plates made OF paper are
now used IN Berlin restaurants for serv.
ing bread and butter, rolls. cakes. buns,
and similar articles. 1t is estimated
that at least two hundred horses have
died in Queen Anne county. Nd, from
the pinkeye disease. The concern
that always. makes money--the mint.
LII Dakota should be admitted as q
State, two more Republicans will be adj
ded To the Senate, thus rendering it
possible for that party to fud a MAORI
ty without hitching to Malone and Da-
vid Davis. :. Rev. JOHN HALL, the EN-.
inent Preybsterian divine OF New York,
in jumping from street car fell and
broke bis nose on Sunday night week.
80. MALONE calls himselfa Jefferson.
ian Democrat with modern improve
menis." There will be four clergy
man in the next Massachusetts, Legis.
lature, and they are to be called upon
to perform the devotional exercises, thus
saving the cost Of chaplain. Several
horses in Randolph county. Missouri,
have died from eating chinch-bug corn
The orange crop of Florida is esti
mated at 85,000,000 of which all but
100000 will go out Of the State.
Twenty-nine thousand women are hold
ers OF United States bonds to the q.
mount of $50, 100000, which gives an
average Of moro than $4,000 TO each
woman 90. The fast trains between
Chicago and New York now make an
average run OF about S5 miles per hour.
IA farmer near Madison, W.scon-
sin. claims to have gathered this year
1850 pounds of squash, the growth from
one seed. -. Seven coons aud thirteen
opossums were recently taken out Of
one hollow tree in Jessamine county
Kentucky. 80. 1t will take 1000, 900. 900
feet of lumber in ties alone tn finish
building the railroad now projected in
Texas. The Irish National Land
League sent Ireland last quarter $I27,-
$50. California sent 1919 additional.
.-.GUITEAU says that he made Aarn-
uR President, and now he wants Arthur
to stand by him. -. The butter, cheese,
egg and milk business of this country
is estimated TO be worth $40 900, 900
80. Capt. S. II. SMITH, of fredericksburg.
Maryland, raised from a quarter OF an
acre this year fifty bushels of Irish po-
tatoes and ore hundred bushels OF tur-
nips. 80 a New York firm lately bought
one hundred tons of potatoes in Ireland
at fifteen cents buslIel The widow
Of President LINCOLN has an income OF
eight thousand dollars, which is more
than sufficient for her wants. Since her
return from Europe she has saved five
thousand dollars. Z. One OF the richest
heiresses in Germany, Countess SoLM il
baby only year old English own.
ers of race horses have purchased a
merican-bred yearlings in view Of The
recent successes Of Messrs. LoTillard
and Keene's horses on The English turf
....A registered package, containing
four hundred thousand dollars worth oil
diamonds, was stolen recently from &
London, England. post-ofIice .On'
house in every forty in England and
Wales is occupied for the sale OF beer
or liquor. Five hundred Danish farm
ers have located in Falls CO., Texas
Navigation upon the Chesapeake ant
Ohio Canal will be continued until The
/ 9Th inst. IL tue weather proves favor
able Mrs. Garfield has sent to Queer
VICTORIA through the State Depart
ment, a photograph of Gen. Garfield
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