South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-08-25

There were IS new cases Of yellow fe.
yer at Brownsville. Texae. ON che 2lst
inst. and two dcatha There we're sew.
en- deaths at Matsmoras, Mexico. -.
The total Lcmber of deaths in Balti-
Eoie last week Vas 1888. -Four ste. m.
ers laods6 l.662 immigrants at Castle
Garden New York. Friday last. -.
Matches have been advanced from rs TO
o0cents per gross by monopoly -. The
miners strike in the l'ittsburAh region
is ackao~ie'igc ny the leaders TO be
failure. A large Dunber OF strikers r..
turned to work on Saturday last a, the
old wages &. .B:ackberries are so rlen-
iiful at Ii. llaire, Ohio. tLst they are sell.
ing fer 80 cents u hushel JonN b ISIS.
Lrn OF Donegal. Pa. was bitten by rat
siesnakc While working in the harvest
held recently. He sucked the poi son
rom the wound, drank three pints oil
whiskey, took powerful emetic. and is
doing vol. The Utah commissi
has arrived at Salt Lake City. The
Mormon Church on Saturday last set q.
side $4,000 to fight the new law. :.
JOE SrEIGAnT. while black bcrrying on
Furnace Hill Pa was attacked by q
tlack snake that lie says measured 10
feet in length. lie killed it. "A
North Carolnt farmer has this year
sold $50, 900 worth Of potatoes, al. OF
which he raised on his own land
Fwen'y-sevcn missionaries for China &
Japan left San Fran, isco recent, in one
steamer 1T makes no difference what
the weather may he in other parts OF
the country in April and August. they
always have Hot Springs i'm Arkansas
AS WILLIAM kEoLE, a farmer near
Huntsville, Ala, was aearching the
woods for his COW he was bitten in the
check by lnree striped snake which
8 ung down from n limb i'm lis path.
Tie died in a few hours A Japanese
idol ofthe tirst-class will sell in London
for $4,000. IA silk hat in &c ting
mate passes through the hand, of twelve
men. Lockjaw induced by drinking
too freely OF ice water whilo overhead
Cd, killed boy at Ottawa, recently
1t Is estimated That the gypsy children
Of England number $4,000. Al last
accounts there were only two Cases of
smallpox in the hospital at Staunton.
-. Singing at c"lored camp meeting
ut Abbeville, s. g., was heard 5 miles
....B, l'imore has population OF 340.-
900, and chu CHI membership OF w.
600. .PAsToa Love. Of the United
Presbyterian church ~ llarrisviile o..
hic, few days ago, was chloroformed
and robbed If So, 900 by his two sons,
whom he had reared TO the ages Of IL
and Ia with exceeding religicu, igor.
FREAKS of lightning: Mrs. CnAs.
HUBER Of M!ck.ipuo. Kansas, held her
infant on er lap Vile her son, aged l.
and Katie Rodgers. aged IL, sa; Oh o.-
Their sile OF r. W. are sale here with
mamma, said the boy. A bolt of light :
ming struck n large Tree in front OF The
porch on which they were and killed
the TWO children. leaving the mother
and infant totally unharme AT Chau-
tauqua Lakslightning struck tue young
daughter Of james Hamil ON ,ca,in. her
shoes from her feet ami burning OF, let
mar, but rot Otherwise u in,in. her
Mrs. FRANK ACORN Of Dcuhan, Mass
vas Killed 10y Ia, inning while at work
at her sewing machirc...-A solid mass
Ci copper ore of pyrrmldal form, eight
+ ct high AMI two and one half by three
feet thick at the base, weighing two
tons, IS one of The Wonders in the ex-
hibiti' 1t D.bver IA memner OF
the board OF trustees OF Milv.llc, Iowa,
advocate All ordinance to compel ever,
adult resident to 60 to church once
every Sunday The Rev. JOHN n
Brisbee lent bis horse for race at Mad
ison. Ten, g. for that is to- 10 arraignet
beforo Presbyterian tribunal. Iii,
uorse won.-- The difretc, &C between
a thief and defauI,er is, that the de-
faulter steals enough 10 hire lasl ers tc
defend him and the lawyer doesn't
A boy Of six anti girl of two. at Bal
IardvIIle. Nob.. are mated for marrlag,
ny their parents, who have signed an n.
greencnt that the wedding shall cccu
IN ....A house wns left standing
right side up in tie centre ola corn
field by one of the Iowa torna,l oUs, ano
nobody in the neighborhood kneW
whose IL WIS.,. Some people iu lows
lave built siie-bil cellars % retrea, In