South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-05-19
NEWS og TUE Day.

Ing "a high as so per aero in the West
---.Dr. A. BURKE, bro, her OF the lac
under-secretary Cor Ireland, who WAS as
sassinated IN Dublin, Is living ia La
faystte, Indiana JESSE JAaEs. il is
said, was delegate to Ito Chicago
Convention. - Ex- Secretary BLAIEE is
said % have made three hundred thou
sand dollars by investing ia q Colorado
mine which was sold in London recent
w. An or,ier refusing visitors :. tho
Jail in Washington permission to see
GUIrEAU is now strictly enforced -.
Tweaty-six United States Senators are
to be elected this year. The estate of
be late Gen. Tuos. J. NcKAia 10 esLi-
mated ut $3.50, 0o) above ell liabilities.
-. General GRANT vas so years old
on tie ith inst -. Mrs. VANDERBILT,
the wife of the late Commdore's heir,
pays her chief caok seven thousand dol
lars year, or more than tie annual
compensation OF United States Sena-
tor -. About forty il,ion bushels OF
grain are usel every year in this coun-
try 10 make liquors. Cadet WKIrrA-
KEa is al Chicago seeking employment.
-. Hogs are heing trained TO work 10
harness in some parts Of Pennsylvania,
Armstrong county having several such
teams III service. "A colored woman
at Amissyille, Rappghannock county.
Va, on tue 18th inst, tied her son, 8
years old, hani ana foot, 20 her cabin
floor, made . Dire over him with spGnters
aud burnel him 10 death. The neigh
bors wore attracted to tbo plaza by
smoke issuing from the cabin window
Tue woman has been arrested and placed
in Jail .. Washington, Rappahanno,
county, Va -. General JoaN McDoX-
AID, ut Que time millionaire and tae
king of the great Wh'aiy Ring, of ST.
louis, in now p dilinG books for q iiv-
ing -. Fourteen Thousand punches of
bananas, aud ]. 600 cocoaua's, arrived
! in Baltimore few days ago. In Bal
5imore last week there were l52 deaths
-. IhwIS MANN, s. wealthy fnrmor OF
| Carmen, Michigan, hanged himself Of
| Friday last just IS hours sitter his mar
riage u beautiful young woman.
Mo.e than Ave thousand men IA Ike 9
| business vi taking whijeGsh frJIu III T
great lakes David PHILIPPE, uf RAM
dolph county, this State, has gone to
England, where he expects to inhciit a
large fortune. -.0ur increase Of popu-
lation the past yosr by Immigration,
vas about three million souls, or more
people than came to this continent from
Is discovery to lie be- ming Of tie
revolutionary var. -. The s'eSard Of
The Waite House in Washington ia re-
qUire'. To give 0 thoueana dollar bonn
fine waa.t ctop OF Arkansas Is the
besi for ten years. Ii some places it IS
alreAdy Invested, averaging twenty
bushels per acre. .-.DAyID SwINd, o;
iowa, who Is 81 years OIL, HIS had to
come down 6i.h three lhou anil lell:.rs
fox kissing his h.soi girl. lie though,
hs had cacap help aud was sadly diaap-
pointed Captain JAMS y. SyLYGs-
TER, who died in New Orleans rsoentl.
vas Tic man who captured Santa Anna
after tho battle OF SA1 Jacinlo. Al
that time he vas printer boy. ani had
enlisted 10 Texas rogimen; ia the
| spirit Of adventure. Ae vas walking
through some high grass after the leht
when he stumbled upoa Tue AI.1.ctn.
49,. The Corn 10 Georgia Is in siiG and
tasses--owing to tho weather, ga yet
We have not planted. -. Gen, GEoEGE
Crook is now being called upon to
make good Indians cf The bosliles IA
Arizona, and, q contemporary says. Is
viii 10 it il any man can twenty.
xix Massac du5e.ts togns hsye voted il
favor Of woman suffrage, this yeas
Nearly seven ;ho1sa0d immigrants ar
rived st Now York on Tuesday Iss'. the
largest number landed III one day since
Nay %, I573.-. FSASt Fisher, color
ed, guilty % committing : vile assault
on 4 German girl st Gaiion Quo. vac
arrested at Frcdsricss,own, Knox coun.
~, snl re.arusI 70 Gallon prison. An
unmaskad mob took tho prisoner os'
AID, after be nal 5sea recognized by
tie girl, hanged IN broad day light 80.
Twc,ty coloreI men from LyuChb1rg
Va. passed through Cumberland, hid,
on Monday sst % aors On ss'tira o.
the West Virginia Central Ra.lroai
near Deer Pa.k e.. There ate ~ present
| one ban bred orgLan boys 10 the Miller
deauai Labor School, cstobis!si in Al
hsmarle county, W., 10y The Iste StMU.