South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-01-20
NEWS OF ra11 pay.

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enue Of about fifty thousand dollars a
year. Ia Europe tie clergy do not
oppose cremation as strongly "a former.
iy.-..Of the ffty-one metals, thirty
were discovered ia this century. Six.
teen thousand acres OF white rinc tim.
ber land was recently sold in Clinton
county. Pennsylvania, for twenty thou
sand doilars.-- The white ehsrk some
times s,tains tho enormous weight OF
ten thousand pounds -. The latest
scheme is to bald railroad from Tex
as to Brazil IA lac Roy ~. V firm
makes nearly two thousand bs,ent nest
eggs day -. Senator SARGENT has
TWO daughters, both Of whom arc said 10
be praetieirg physicians. There are
S3,93l more male. In Texas than r..
males Tie exodus OF negrocs from
EdgeHeld, s. c., and it's vicinity. has
reached rather disccufagins proportions.
not a negro is left upon soms o. the
plantations. Alligator teeth in Gcor.
gia and Florida ate purchased for be-
tween two dollars and three dollars n
pound. .JACoB MiNNScK. veil known
farmer, OF Rockingham county, Va.
died last week. .gea so years. "A
mile is $3.50 feet, or 1,760 yards in
length. 1T takes 1920 silk worms 20
mako pound Of silk Snaii. have
bsen put in boiling water and have sur-
vived the terrible ordeal. There are
$3.50 stGests in Paris, With . total
length OF six hundred miles Silk
culture is growing in Louisiana, and ev-
cry years crop is improving in quality.
1.-The famous BoSton lawyer, RIcu,
ARD II. DANA, Jr., dad in Rome. Italy
recently. He hsd been travelling n Eu
rope for the last three yesrs. The
great discovery OF gold in California.
that turned TIE heads OF all mankind
WAS msde on tue i+th day Of January,
loi3.--.The Washington. City School
Trustees have by vote Ct thirteen to
three decided against the ADM ssion Of
coIored children TO the echooIs attend
ed by white children -. a horse was
frightened TO death by = railroad train
at Aiddletown, Nd, recently....A
beef vas killed by Gettysburg butch
er last week, in the liver of which WAS
found hair pin about tvo inches long.
The A'icgauy county, Md, Jail con.
tains fifteen prisoners, AMI the alma
house 60 inmates. .PTisoners in the
Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, jail
are paid At the rate of eve CENTS u doz-
Gu Tor all the stockings they krit (by
machinery over eighteen pairs per day
and some OF them make quite neat sums
of money in year a. that. One pris.
oDer manufactured tao thousand Doirs
OF stockings in December, thus MAKING
him seven dollars. Nine ueH build
ings were erected ia Oakland, Mary
land, Garrett coanty, during the last
year, besides other Improvements 4
cucumber from Talbot county, Georgia,
that weighed lfty-Gvc pounds, vas on
exhibition 81 the late State fair ia Macon
..Congressman HooE has resigned
his position rs msmber OF The Com
mit,eo on Accounts. Two Mormon
missionaries were recently moJbei in
England. Grain in AR.n, Chester.
Centre, Union aud Snydsr counties. Pa.
IS much injured en- account OF absences OF
snow. la many cases formers will be
compelled 20 put in other crops MI.
John h. A. Redmsn, Of Chsrlestown.
JoGersoE county, died on the I2th inst.
aged ~ years. He MAS conspicuous as
bright Mason. Csrthage, n. Y,
comes forEsrd with Woman who, at the
age Of one hundred and one, jumps rope
aud plays at leap frog. Next. The
Pecau crop OF Texas Shis year is valued
ct two million doIiars. lat 81. 10.
sspb, Missouri, Rev. Nr. Green ia abort
~ TO be tried FOR letting d young lady
sit Ia lis lap while teaching hsr a Sun
day school lesson Fifty leather
straps, each foot long, two inches
wide, and very thin, have been purchR5-
ed by The Port Huron (Michigan) Board
Of Education los uso in Publishing pa.
pills 10 the school "a merchant Of
Hagorstown, Md, Who bss been taking
mutj'alcl coins from bis custoners IT,
change, recently sent n boXful OK this
coin 10 New Yor. for disposal, and sur
forcd diecount Of 20 per cent.
The census Of Paris, taken on the 18Th
of December gives population Of D
2zj,990, asa,n., l,933.8vO in l8I6...
In taa trial q the alleged mrTierers Of
the Gibbons family, OF Cstlettsburg,
Kentucky, ON Tuesday iast, Jury was