South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-07-08
NEWS OF THE. DAY.

J. IN the Carlisle, Pa. school. SO ofwhon
: are girls.-The Electric lights will bs
q put IN the Luray Caverns by the frs,
of AuSus;.-One who knows saws 4
strait line Is the shortest in morals n.
Well us IN geomctry.-The business
Oh paper making III the United States
is estimated to employ over one hun.
dred million dollars of capital and for.
" thousand persons. -The Ohio Stall
warts say the State will 20 Democratic
at the fall elcction.-A contemporary
ascrlbes the prevailing suicidal mania
to the flood of iLiidlelity that is sweep
ing over the country "A paper. on
which was written 'Mrs. Sophia Lo-
per Is my heireSs,' with n date and
signature, was admitted to probate rs
n viii in New Orleans.-A Wetzel
county man went mp to- Wheeling
the other day & fell i'm among thieves
and bad women and was relieved of
$1,000 i'll money.-Dr. Chaplin, OF
Charlotte, Mich, committed suicide
on Friday last, at the age of one hun.
dred years.-Two Michigan girls
were i'll love with one man, and they
Induced him to 90 to Utah and mar.
ry them both.-There will be fifteen
contested seats in the next House of
Representatives, principally to get a
NICE sum for mileage and per diem,
without doing anything for it.-Johu
Burnside, the rich bachelor, who died
at White Sulphur Springs on Friday
last. owned eleven sugar plantations
in Louisiana and was reputed to be
worth five million dollars.-Mr. VIM.
f. Dowell, Of Fauquier county, Va.
had q improved sheep killed by
lightning on Saturday, the 18th
ult., on his farm. They were living
under pin oak vt the time, and in
death their rcpose seemed not in the
least changed.-The average woman
is composed of 2l3 bones, 100 mus
cles, % old newspapers, and 80 hair
plns.-The emigration from Sweden
this year Is expected TO reach seventy
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Croft, VIM. I'm
derwood and james Butler, members
OF gang of horse thieves and despcr-
ADDE'S III southwest Missouri were ia
ken from the jail at Springfield. Dadc
county, on Friday night last by par
ty OF about fifty disguised men and
hanged TO tree in the Jail yard.-It
costs one thousand, two hundred dol
lars to send five million dollars in bull:
ION from the y. York Assay Office to
the Philadelphia Mint.-The Doth nit.
was the nineteenth anniversary ofthe
beginning Of the Seven Days fight
around Rlchmond.-Gov. Cornell has
vetoed a bill pensioning teachers in
New York and brooklyn who have
served p years or more. He doesn't
believe in setting up n new privileged
class.-A five year old child, left alone
on yesterday week for short time
III a wrctchcd house in Philadelphia.
was attacked by rats and so badly in
jured that it died soon after being
Observation-Disclosures commission
us Collector of the Port of New York
has been signed by the PRESIDENT
a disease known us the shingles is
prevailing at Elkton, Md.-It is said
that Kentucky's wheat crop will be
two million bushels short this season.
"A California man who had five chill
dren killed by the falling of railway
| bridge, brought suit against the Com
pauy for one hundred thousand doll
lars, valuing the children at twenty
thousand each.-Last week n man
killed a porcupinc with a stone on the
farm of Mr.. Mattingly, few miles
east OF Cumberland DIR. Hood, the
.medical examiner nj the pension office,
Washington, recalls that Guitcan
made an application for pension
some two months ago upon the rep
reservation that he WAS q soldier dur.
ing the civil war. DR.. Hood inves-
tigated the claim, and the papers were
filed away with the Endorsement, in
ane.'-Thc majority Of our farmers
Will finish harvesting this weck.-A
collision occurred on the Kentucky,
| Central Railroad, near Covington.
Monday hast, between an excursion
train and ap express tTain, by which
seven persons were killed and twelve
wounded all residents of Covinoton
The killed were ~ follows: John
! Pyc, fireman; Michael Dixon, passen.
ger; VIM. Callopy, passenger; VIM.
Wichauis, passenger; John Potter,
passenger two boys, Stealing a ride
names unknown.-An indictment for
bribery has been found against Scna-
tor Sessions of the Albany Legislature.
The Texas newspapers arc gercr-
ally of the opinion that JAY GounR
means TO have an ocean harbOr Of
his own. II will be at the mouth Of
| the BrazOs river, forty miles west OF
Galveston. All his Texas roO1b viii
have their foreign outles 'lere.-Li-
ccuse TO sell liquor has never been
| granted in Upshur county, this state,
since its organization.-A Pouitieu
OF fresh tea leaves nroistened with
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