South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-10-28
NEWS or CIIEs DAY.


sand dollars year in instructing her
five thousand children. gold
that arrived from England at New
York on yesterday week amounted to
one hundred and sixty.four thousand
dollars. Anthony is mined In Utah
I'm large Quantities. ashington cor
respondents estimate the expenses of
President Garteld's illness at one
hundred thousand dollars of which
the doctors bills are expected 10 be
fifty.three thousand dollars. DR.. Bliss
Is accredited with claim of twenty
five thousand dollars. car
loads OF dromedaries were recently
shipped from Texas to Arizona, to be
used In transporting United States
mails.-The father of Mrs. Chris.
tiancy testified in Washington the
other day that previous to accepting
the ex-senator his daughter had refus-
ed % offers OF matrimony.-A popu.
lar colored camp meeting song in.
cludes this couplet:
I'D rather pray ny life away
Than lay IN hell u h,lfa day."
Iowa has tourhundred creameries.
whose machinery is valued at one
million OF dollars.-A Michigan wo-
man has gone to Europe for the pur.
pose OF bringing back three hundred
young women as servant girls.
were five thousand, three hundred
bales OF cotton received at the port of
Baltimore on Monday last. the largest
days receipt in years.-Col. David ii.
Strother, ('Porte Crayon, } who is con
sul-general at the City of Mexico, is
home on q visit.-The residence of
John Howard. was entirely DESTROYED
by fire at Ashland, Va, on Monday
morning last. Nearly all the furn-
ture WAS saved. The cause of the
fire is unknown. A heavy rain pre-
vented further destruction of property.
When the distillery at Harrods>
burg, KY, was burned, lately, the beer
! flowed into tho river near by and
killed thousands of tish.-The steam-
er Great Eastern has been sold at auc.
ton for thirty thousand pounds. The
vessel originally cost three million
eight hundred thousand dollars.-Rev
Mason Noble, ID. D., pastor OF the
Sixth Presbyterian Church of Wash.
ington city, died on Monday morning
last after brief illness of malaria! lie.
ver.-California is the favorite State
OF Italian immigrants, being a wine
country with a mild climate recalling
that OF Italy The Vanderbilt roads
have decided upon a freight rate from
Chicago to New York OF ID cent. on
gram and twenty cents on provisions.
The Grand Trunk still maintainsthe
five dollar rate to New York aud
Boston, and there is no indication OF
a change. "A new ironclad Of the lar
gest size is to be built in Germany
tor the Chinese Government.-Paris
has more poor than any city in the
world.-A seal city OF beans is repor-
ted at Boston, owing to the immense
demand for canning purposes-A
boy IN Illinois, while hanging to the
rear end of Wagon had his leg
caught in the wheel and cut off at tie
knee joint.-A magistrate at Corn.
ishville. Ky, acquitted deliberate
murderer on the ground that tine
deed was done to properly &vcnge =
brothers death.-It was exactly 329
days from the time of Garfeld's elee,
tlon to the day of his death, both
! dates inclusive. One thousand houses
have been rendered uninhabitable in
Alruzzi, Italy, by an earthquake. -
There is lady residing at Clinton,
Iowa, whose youngest child is eighyt>
one years old. The mother is over
one hundred years of age.-While
some boys were playing ball in De-
troit lately, ball thrown struck
three year old child standing near,
in the breast, killing it instantly.-
There is land enough in Texas to
give four acres to every man, woman
and child in the United States.
| Iowa dog has cost Its owner nine hun
dred and fifty dollars in damages for
bites.-The fortune tellers and others
OF that class who grow rich on human
| incredullty in Paris are TO be driven
out.-A Clergyman at Cardiff, w ales,
preached upon our National sorrow
from the text: Il am distressed for
thee, my brother Jonathan. a
Washington correspondent of the Gin
cinnati Enquirer says that Senator
Fair, of Nevada, and Senators Davis
and Camden, of West Virginia, are
the richest men in the United States
Senate Mrs. Mary Bradford, sister
Of Mr.. Jefferson Davis, died at the
residence of her daughter, Mrs. +. L.
! Miios at Notv Homo " o., tLo OD,J
inst, of general debility, aged 81
Rev. J.. L. Lloyd, while returning from
one Of the churches on his circuit in
Roanoke co.. Va, last week, was way
laid, knocked off his horse and rob.
bed Of forty dollars.-John Il. Burn.
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