South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-10-20

fever 1t Pensacola, Pa, on Saturday
last and 2 deaths. and ca new cases and
) deaths on Sunday. There have been
LOOT cases to- date and IL deaths.
Pennsylvania has one hundred aad FIVE
female physicians IA. j. Wall. OF
Harrisouburg has been appointed a
deputy United States Marshal. The
estimate of the wheat crop of the State
of Minnesota place the yield at 35,975,,
600 bushels....A Jersey veteran is
claiming pension and seventeen ears
arrears on the ground of Chronic la
illness contracted in the army. Ken.
lucky has no great fresh water lakes but
it has great whiskey dis.illeries, and
the natives do not feel the loss of fresh
water much. Alabama expects TO
turn on, $4,000 tons of pig.iron next
year,. There are 10000 colored Bap-
fists in Tennessee with $50 churches.
-. ROBERT II. EARLY, a brother of
Gen. Jubai A. EARLY. died few days
ago in Missouri. 49, MIR, Ashford
Wilson, living on Murley's Branch,
Aiiegany county, caught 1870 bass in
Cresnp's pond, near Cldtown few day 9
ago.. There are fifteen Bessemer steel
works in this country. the annual lro-
duct Of which is 100000 tons.
French artisans are now. making smok :
ing pipes OF quality quite equal to
lhe meersEum, from potatoes. The
vote OF this State on Tuesday Of last
week was an extremely light one, onlv
aoont Tour hfths of the voters going to
the polls. The citizens OF Panama aro
being shaken up by earthquakes. A
house was burning at Oshkosh, Wis.
AMI a woman was left Inside. Her
husband cried, Five thousand dollars
to the man who saves Kerr A fire
man dashed in at great personal nsk
and brought her out alive. Although
The husband Is very wealthy, lie refused
10 give dollar Of the reward bu. the
Supreme Court decides that The offer
OF $4,000 was valid, and that the mon
ey must be paid. Mr.. James ID. Da-
wilson, the oldest member OF the Lex
inSton Wa Tar, died last Saturday.
-. The shares Of the Is. & O. par
value $1,000 sold last week ut 100.
The largest ship is the Great Eastern
She is $50 feet long, s3 feet broad, AMI
CO feet deep. She was built in England
In lS5I... A man was convicted of
ihree grave crimes in one term OF Tn @
Edgar county Ill. court. For one OF
these he was sentenced to ten years
Imprisonment, for another fourteen
years. and fo- the third the ircarccra
ton was to be during The remainder of
| his natural liee'-which would appear
to destroy his interest in the former
Two punishnenls.-. During Saturday
night, last the dry goods store Of Alr.
w. 1. LINEN at Shcpherdstown, was
| entered 10y some unknown person or
persons and neIchEdis Sc 10 the amount
oil so stolen -. There was blia hitting
frost IN Ohio en- Tuesday morning of
last week..-.A Georgia boy stole n
$500 horse and sold il for S2lt is
sad that the invention and subsequen,
improvements of the American p Tough
ma"e saving on last years crop in
this country of $90.00O,000. John
hd Hamilton has been appointed coun-
W treasurer of Augusta courtv.
There are now over 800 students at TIC
Oni7ersily Of Virginia a species of
| cactus IL made useful in Florida. The
strong fibre of its leaves is turned into
rope, lis juice INTO pleasant beverage
and It's tryn', litter the removal of Bile
! pith' into pulls. WIN. LangdOn, one
OF the best known citizens cf Jeffe;son
county, W. Va. died Fiilay, eyed ~
years. 1t is reported that during a
storm at Fairfield, Iowa, on Monday
wild ducks gathered about the electric
/ lights IN great numbers, extirguished
all but one and demolished several
| globes. y arly 200 ducks were picked
up within three hours The Edison
incandescent lamps. have been placed
IN the Baltimore Sun iron builiing, and
were lighted on Thlrslay last :. The
Rothschil ds are said 10 held sixty mil.
lions in Egypti1n bonds The New
York Herald s'ys that unless all signs
fail, the two greatest States in the u
Mon New York ADD Pennsylvania viii
drop out of the Republican column in
the Ginning November May it be so
Judges Of the Supreme Court il
Arkansas prohibit by formal orders
the sale OF liquors within a distance oil
three miles from public or private
school Successful experimeuts art