South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-11-18

N f VS. OF THE DAY.

election day during fracas o.. the polls
white some rougds were trying 10 steal
the ballot box..-.A Massachusetts
man who voted on Tuesday last. says
that the first candidate for whom he
over voted was James Madison. and the
year was 1903 "a New York firm
lately bought one hundred toas OF po-
tatoes in lrelanl at fifteen cents a bush.
The corn crop along the Kanawha
Is shuckinS out much better than was
generally anticipated. BY the great
Michigan fire eight churches. twenty
eight schools, one hundred and thirty
stores and one thousand one hundred
and forty-seven dwellings houses were
destroyed. 80. Hon. Samuel high died
at Essex. Connecticut, on the 10th Inst.
aged 90 lie Was in Congress from
1888 until 1889. Ed. Partridge. COL
ored, IN Americas. Georgia. on Wednes-
day OF last week, whipped his step
daughter. Belle Holmes. TO death. The
flesh was beaten from the body. The
citizens threaten TO lynch him. lie was
committed to Jail, but escaped The
private fortune OF Queen Victoria a.
mounts to S0O0O.0oo and her annual
income is So 25O 600. The droupht
In The East has lasted from the ION Of
August TO the last of October. II is
one OF the most memorable ever known
In this country %. General Grant has
insured his lie for one hundred thou
sand dollars :. Five Thousand of the
inhabitants Of Paris earn a living by
catch ing rats aud selling their skins to
Tue giove-makers. .Cocoanut growing
Is becoming an important industry in
Florida. -. Miss Lillian Duer. of POGO
moke City. who gained considerable
notorieiy about two years ago by fatal
~ shooting Miss Ella Hearn. of the
same town, was married last week
Inc chestnut crop of Culpeper. Virgin.
in. will be larger this year than ever he.
tore. The arrivals OK enigrants a,
Castle Garden. New York, during the
past week number eight thousand. nine
hundred and seventy-one :. Two ras-
sengcr coaches OF Ia Colorado Central
tram were on Friday the lIth inst
blown from the track two miles east of
Georgetown, COLORADO, by severe wind
storm. There were thirteen passcn-
gers on board, all Of whom were more
or less injured, but none dangerously.
1.-The Virginia Conference, VI. l..
church, South, met at Charlottesville
on wednesday last. Bishop McTyeire
presiding. Delegates to the General
Conference will be chosen One hun
dred And thirty vessels have been wreck
cd, forty million dollars worth of prom
er'y destroyed. ALL 331 lives los. or
missing ON tho coasts of EngIa Ger
many ana France since tho beginning of
the year. A moss appalling record.
The year 1881 Is keeping up is repuia-
ton. General Grants daughter. Mrs
oarto'iS, with her husband aud children
have arrived from Europe Doing
nothing Is tue most s!aylsh toll
There has been another storm NJ Mazat.
Ian, Mexico. Seven We sells .nchured
IN The haTbor were driven out 10 sen
two schooners were bcached. and two
rats iaien with petroleum were de-
stroyed No lives were lost The
hickory-nu; crop is said TO- be atun liant
and an observer says that from man;
trees they are g. Tor eating ut once
without putting away for seasoning
The father of Mrs. Garfield saws
;hit sooner or later the assassination oil
the President Will he found TO have
been the result Of cons5iracy A
splendid anl extraord 1arlly abundant
suga' crop - predicted everywhere in
Cuba The first complete sewing ma
chine was patented in 1916 10y Elias
Howe -. Seven coon5 aud thirteen OBJ
ossums were taken out OF ono hollow
tree - . ven cDulty, Klnlucky 1T
costs the people of Tennessee ono mil-
lion dollars annually TO snceza and u,c
snuff This - y lshville merchants
estimate q the annual consumption Of
the article 1.-The NJrfo.k Cotton Ex-
change has reports from tbirty-lye
counties in Virginia and North Carroll.
IA, from which the average yield is es-
tinatcl at 525 pounds 10 The acre, and
the whole yield 33t per cent less than
I last year. The Louisiana Cotton Ex-
change reports the average yield IA that
State at 59l pounds per acre. Mis-issip.
pi COS pounds AMI Arkansas $50 pounds
....lt IS said that Ex-senator Freling
buysen will lose S2j 600 10y the rascali-