South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-09-23
NEWS OF THE DAY.

.puoitc issnuS THIS year VIII, IL Is
Thought, fully equal those of last year
(which were unprecedented You
,can see seven States from the top of
Roam Mountain, N. C.-Frozcn meat
rs being shipped from Australia to En-
'gland with success.-Apac hes who are
ION the war path number seven hun.
sdred and fifty.-Advices from Oregon
report the crops in that State better
than for many previous years.
tied States four per per cent bonds are
selling in England ut 1l93-The
north Carolina peanut crop is almost
IAN entire failure -Jamful is the name OF
ia Colorado town.-The price of quiz
mine has declined from SO to 50 an
,ounce in consequence of new discov.
ferries In Columbia.-Only sixteen
cadets passed at the recent West
Point examination.-The re.
,ceipts of the Iowa State Fair
TAT Des Moines last week were thirty
Thousand seven hundred and three
,dollars.-John w. Garrett is to pre-
sent the city of Baltimore with n TWEEN
,ty thousand dollar fountain.-The de-
,llnquent list of the California Mining
Company occupies nine columns of
,the Virginia City Chronicle, and con-
,talns forty thousand names.--IIogs are
Isl 80 per hundred in Chicago. This
us higher. than tLey have been for
,years-It is said Brick Pomeroy has
,made two hundred thousand dollars
imining in Colorada.--prof Cook,
iState Geologist, OF New Jersey, de-
,clares that Cape May and Cumberland
Counties are gradually sinking into
lthc sea.-AIrs. Susan NJ. Bonaparte,
sof Baltimore, died in that city on Fri
Ebay morning last.-Lightning com
spletely stripped a hog OF its skin, re-
scently in Richmond, Mich.-At
lBlonnt Springs, Ala, has been discov-
scred u wonderful cave, which, it is
sclaimed, rivals the Mammoth Cave of
Observation-Disclosures carloads of
Give stock passed over the Virginia
Midland Railroad on Saturday last
sF. III. Johnston, from an orchard of
stwo thousand trees on his farm in
q 8ailey's neck, Talbot county Md,
Spcked one thousand aud one hundred
SboXcs of peaches, which cleared him
stwo thousand, five hundred dollars
SNew York tobacco merchants say
Sthat the price of tobacco will soon be
sadvanced,the drouth having destroyed
sthe crop in some localities. ~ fire
oman on the Is. & o. railroad named
3 Turley, WAS run over and killed near
j Newburg this State, few days ago
a-The Winchester shoe factory is n
sgain in prosperous operation, some %
GLANDS at work. The Nebraska Idea,
3according TO the Omaha Bee, is
scorn, cattle and hogs.-Vennor adj
snits III letter to The Washington
8Star that the weather is puzzl;ng him
somewhat. Wyoming papers COM
splain of the outrageous and wanton
slaughter OF game in the Territory
q t'lnger nails two inches long are the
spridc OF Il Baltimore woman. Many
GOT the recent emigrants from Germa.
sny are young men under 10, who
athus escape the long and burden
dsome military service Were they
:lto remain after reaching their 18th
3year, their emigration would not be
3permitted. Bismnrk is reported lot
5to like their departure at ALL lie is
;salarmed to find his stock of food for
apowder, rapidly diminishing -Gener-
Sous contributions continue to be made
Sfor the sufferers by the Michigan fires.
q ireland has three million acres of
y lrainablc land, and company has
sbeen formed in London to reclaim
Aths land under the Irish Land bill
1Hhe cotton manufacturers Of Eng
y and propose TO counteract the Liver
Spool cotton corner by stopping their
jispindles.-A typhoou has visited
aShanghai, driving two hundred YES
gscls on shore. Ten inches OF rair
Jlell in one hour. Tea to the value of
slsiX hundred Thousand pounds was
4 lost-The Government las decided
ITO arm the people OF that part OF Ari.
3zona which is terrorized by the Indi-
4 ans.-Kentucly is to have mush,
Groom farm in It's Mammoth Cave
3The Trade Journal says: Castor oil
5is advancing again That's q way
Scastor oil has. It's bound to 90
5through-The most beautiful woman
aat Saratoga this season is said to have
jbeen a circus rider-The Ohio cleo
Ation takes place on the 11th of next
amonth.-A Mammoth tree cut down
din Lewis county, KY, recently, and
believed to be three hundred years
gold, produced thirty-three thousand
Hour hundred and sixty-two feet of
y lumber and twenty-five cords of fire.
8wood. It was sixteen feet IN diane
3tcr and one hundred and twenty feet
3high.-The Luray caves were lighted
Cup on Monday night last with seven
4elcctric lights, and the sight,lt is said,
3was a wicrd and beautiful ono
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