South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-11-25

lno coat area OF Tennessee is set
down At 500 square miles. TIE
coinage Of the fve-cent uickles is TO be
resumed shortly. - Scarlet fever alone
10 computed to cause one-shird the deaf.
ness in America. The pension list for
The coming year amounts TO one hun.
dred and twenty million dollars. -. Mr..
JnssPH RUDOLPH. brosber OF Mrs. G ar
6eld. 10 in receipt of check for tweu.
ty-nvs thousand dollars. being in par I
|. Payment OF the life insurance held by
The 's.e President. >. The Yorktown
celebration cost the Government $4O,-
900. %. Tie United Ststes and Can ada
have shipped 8.3.975 barrels Il app, lee
to England this fall. There i. an
elk's head and horns "a the mas.uii, OF
the University OF Tennessee weighing
over seven hundred pounds ..JoHs
w. LANAHAN, son of Rev. John Ian
shau. who 10 o CLERK In the Baltimore
post-ofhce, was arrested on w adm asdsy
of last week for opening letters an,: tax:
| ing out money. He was bailed ia the
| sum "f five ihnusand dollars. :. Iowa
has 457 mines in operation, employ ing
6.l16 men, ard has for The current year
mined three million tons OF coal, worth
seven million dollars op the dump.
A fourteen poun swest potato has been
grown this season In Webster county
Kentucky -. Gold quarts has been Ills.
covered in Brown county. Indiana, 80
or Az miles south OF indianapolis.
The rumor that John c. new. OF Indi.
ana, was to be appointed Minister to
Russia has been anthoritaliveIy denied
Judge MELVIN, Of Wheeling has As.
sociated himself with The law tirm Of
Ewing & Riley. and proposes going into
active practice :. About President G ar.
fields grave are to be planted weep
ing beech, . pyramid oak, a buckeye
and silver fir. ...A new manufac: urins
company has been organized in layers.
town, and some eighty men are now
at work on the grounds where the bull
dings are to be erected. The company
will manufacture agricultural machin-
cry. IL is reported on good authority
the relations between Mexico AMI G auto.
mals are very critical Florida sends
beef cattle TO Cuba w II. Norton.
well-known conductor on the Della
ware, Lackawanns and Western Rail-
road, was instantly killed On the track
at Great Bend, oI Saturday last. "A
four year old son OF JonS Fox of Will.
mington, Delaware, Was killed on Sat-
urday last by hull dog. The dog
broke it's chain. caught tue boy by the
throat and horribly mangled him. caus-
ing almost instant death The arrival
of Hebrew refugees from Europe has
begun in New York, and it is estimate, d
that ten thousand of them will land
during the winter. LIT is rumured in
Eng that the Marquis OF Lorne is
likely to he made lord lieutenant of
Ireland, in place of Earl Cowper -.
DR.. john ". LEONARD, who has prac-
ticed in Calhoun county. Michigan, for
forty years, pleaded guilty TO the charge
of having made and circulated bogus
silver coins. A trunk full Of dies and
apparatus was found in his possession.
An exchange thinks that when
women begin 10 vote. they will smoke,
chew. drink and get drunk. Just like
other politicians &C. b. GRAvELEY,
deputy internal revenue collector ia
Henry county, Va. has been Superseded
by Buck Martin. colored >. Guiteau's
defence will probably cost the fortune
of his sister, Mrs. Scoyile, Who has
mortgaged her property in Chicago To
raise needed money d. Columbia. Ky.
has shipped more dried fruit this season
than sue has in any other for 40 years.
.-..JALoB NEUsBAUM, living near Wa
bash. Ind, is proba1ly the Oldest man
in that State. At los years of age I've
moves about without a cane There
are one hundred and forty women law
firms in the United 81 ates -. The small
farmers in Germany cannot hold their
own. Nearly four thousand farms were
offered for sale last year, and one thou
sand found no purchasers -. Lest years
returns show that the number Of persons
killed throughout India by Wild beasts
or snakes has increased from 1928 in
1869, to q, 800 in 1880. The largest
number Of deaths occurred in Bengal,
where 10000 persons died from snake
bites aud $50 we're killed by tigers and
other wild animals -. Tie report OF
the marriage of Miss Lillian Ducr. Of
Pocomoke City. whose rial FOR killing