South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-11-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.

600, 900 worth of peanuts. The Cum
powder Plot. famous in English oisto.
rs. was discovered Nov. STU. 1905. 49,
In England there are million more
paupers than voters. Our accidental
President Is now in New York superin-
tending the election in that State. -.
In Palmyra county, Missouri they are
paying 81 cents per pound for stock
hogs, and s cents for fat ones There
were l67 deaths in Bait, more last week.
-. Mrs. ScoviLLE was adjudged in.
sane by jury at Chicago on Saturday
last Tue Indians at Standing Rock
Agency have raised this year $50 bush.
els Of wheat. 6.500 bushels or pots, oes
be ides good supply OF sqnashes.
pumpkins, melons. beans. and other
farm products. Holyoke, Mass, is
TO employ 100 men and 100000 in
the manufacture OF sealskin SO near
ly like the natural fur that a seal itself
couldn't detect the difference Ed
ward Clark, president of the Singer
Sewing Machine Company, who died
recently, left an estate valued at 500
100000. .Simmons's Gap, Va. has a
patriarch OF so years, living with his
ninth wife, who is father of fifty three
children. AZ recent reunion over 500
descendants wished him long lie :. :. An
Atlanta, Ca, sight the other day was
cart drawn by n team oftame aliiga,o.s
-. The value of agricultural nipple.
ments yearly produced in the Uui,ed
States has increased ten.fold since 1913.
In that year the census showed it to
be S5,S00,O00. Now it i, more than
S6S, 900, 900. Mr.. Hermsn Scmidt.
living ut the Monumental fishing
grounds, Baltimore county, has suffered
SAL ath elton in the loss of four chill
dren in week by diph,heria TIE
Methodist churches ia England gained
nearly 5000 members last ear. =.
Horseshoes of steel, gold nd diamonds
rage in Paris Rolhs chil,l-one OF
him i has twelve hundred blouded hors.
es on bis 4 ,200 acre farm in Normandy.
--.At last accounts Tx. Governor
Hendricks condition was practically
unchanged. ~ few weeks a.o, dur
ing heavy storm, the Rio Gruudc R:r
or suddenly changed Its course Ivy cut
ting through Il bend near Cama-go. aa
thus placed several acres OF inhabited
territory with IL The legal limit of the
United States. Ca D,.cetGber G.h the
much talked of tiansi: Of Venus Will
take pace a remarkable lie Of
Montana grass-.ed steers has been
made in Clicago by ID. a. 6 F!ow,ree
of Helena. who received $57,U. D for 700
mead OF Tour and five year Oils, aver
aging j, 4i9 pounds each Trum an
Kemp, If Frostburg, lost two children
on the san.e day las. week, from diph-
tLe"la Mrs. MAEGAnLr CABELL,
widow of the late DIR. Clifford Cahell,
Of Buckingham county, Va, died q Few
days ago. Mrs. Ca.ci was the author
of 'Lynchb arg an It's Of les, Inhabi-
tants,' publishe twenty years ago, aud
was highly cultivated lady. Gov.
STEPHENS emphalitaly denies The CIR
rent rumor that lie a,pires to the Uni
ted States Seaatorship from Georgia
lie sail he promised that If elected
Governor he would serve the peOrlc 10
the best Of his ability. AID that lac
would be triiling with them and Iii, own
word were lie TO permit his name to l.,
used for any Office. The shipments
bS the Chesa pe axe aud Ohio canal dur
ing the month Of OctDher make a very
good shown, aLd are in cxcess OF Oc-
tober last by II 900 tons. During tie
month 1jl boats left CumberlanI car
rying Si,43l tons OF coal. An 1 The rev.
euue to tue canal amounted To $t2.O
1.-The State of Pueblo, Mexico, has
enacted that all persons engaged in the
cultivation Of cotton shall bc exempt
from the paymen: Of taxes or personal
contributions for ten years. Horse
shoes made Of thrce thickuesses OF
green rawhide compressed in steel
mould are used to some extent in Eng
land. They weigh about a quarter as
much as on icon shoe. & are SAID TO wear
lon ger 49,. Three hundred thousand dol
lars worth OF land in West Texas was
sold in New York OF Thursday 10 an
English company w. II. Wander
bits wealth measured ia gold would.
it is said, weigh 9j toos....A conpa ny
Is being formed toutilizc the extensive
gas wells adjoining the oil fields in
Pennsylvania Tho war in Egypt cost