South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-09-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

X. c. Paul. Of Frostburg, Md. for Sl6,-
500 cash. Fifteen million barrels OF
hour are annually manufactured in tho
United States -. BESJAMIN II. HrLr
expects to publish his fathers spec hes
and letters, together with biograph-
icai sketch, shortly. GEN. BUTLER
says 1t will take more than l20, eco votes
TO beat him for governor OF Massachu-
se'ts this year. The railroads in the
State of Missouri controlled by JAY
GOULD employ $4,000 men. Yves,
Virginia only so. go foreigners GU. of
the 27i ,O2O fereis Lcrs who landed in
NewiYor during the last six nj nths
.-.. There were eighteen deaths from
yellow fever at Havana during the week
ended on Friday last. There were 50
new cases OF yellow fever and deaths
at Pensacola. Florida on SUNDAY last.
49,. The decline in breadstuffs has re-.
suited in several heavy failures in New
York Mrs. Marion Todd has been
nominated by The Greenback party of
California for Attorney General. The
tarifi commission is to meet in Balti-
more on to-day and Tomorrow
twenty car loads of live stock were
shipped from Marion county, this State,
10 the eastern markets last week.
The Nevada Mail says Montevallo
man raised 1900 bushels of onions this
year from three acres Of land The
steamship Asia was wrecked few DAYS
ago near Callingwood, Ontario, and one
nun dred lives lost.-- Congress sat 3
months and not cent Of reduction in
taxes dill they make. This too with
surplus, it is stated, OF $3.50. 900 of
revenue in the treasury. -. California
has discovered spider webs so a,ont that
they can be used to tic Up grain bags.
-. The biggess trees in he world are
the mammoth trees OF California, One
OF grove in Tularo county according
10 measurement made by members Of
the state geological survey, was shown
to be 27G feet high, loo feet in circum
ference At bsae. and 7G feet at point
II feet above The ground. Some OF the
trees arc $40 feet high and s. feet in
diameter. Seine OF the largest that have
been felled indicate an age Of 1000 To
=, SEQ years. Five hundred aad fifty
ommigrants landed at Baltimore
on Friday last. Diptheria is prevail.
ing TO an alarming extent in various
sections OF our country. The man
arrested in Tennessee and taken to
Va has been identified
as james ri does the murderer Of John
.. Massey and wife . 49, The vile Of Gen.
Is. +. KELLEY is In Cumberland visit.
ing relatives u,lgc CuRIs-IANCY
has been granted fuil divorce from
his wife. anil so end, that great scan
DIAL. .Jamea II. Graham. l.. l. D., for
twenty years president in 'gc OF The 9th
Judicial district, and professor of law
IN Dickenson College, died at his resi-
dence III Carlisle, Pa, on Tuesday last,
49, Two daughters Of Cassius y. Clay.
OF Kentucky, will 10 delegates at the
National woman Suffrage convention
10 be held soon at Omaha Senator
Sherman expresses regret that money
should he used even for campaign pur-
poses in politics. Ho says evil only
can result from it,. I he mast crop in
Virginia is the heaviest known for years.
.--. The Cumberland Times states that
a gentleman was out on knobley hunt
ing day or two ago aud succeeded in
killing fine turkey. which weighed.
when cleaned 10 pounds. The beard
measured : inches long 1T is stated
that SAMUEL FoGnT, a German laDorer,
was found in the river At Hamilton. O.
no, last Sunday, with bullet hole in
bis head. lie had not been seen since
FRI lay, when he had thousand dollars
in his poss cssion, and was about to re-
turn 10 Germany. His money & watch
were gone when he was found.
& rbLher singular phenomenon hap.
pcned on the laud Of John Dean, three
miles from town, a few days ago. On
to- of point tunning toward the creek.
said poiat being of n horse shoe shape.
the land sunk across the neck which
would be represented by the heel Of the
horse shoe. IL is not a slip, but the
ground for twenty feet in width and
seventy five yards in length sunk down
about thirty feet. This was dona so
evenly that the fence. trees. stgmPs sun
every thing on the surface still retain
their exact position, with the exception