South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-01-13
WIS OF THE DAY.

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expect fifteen hundred converts from
London next month, comprising num-
Der OF families and about three hundred
unmarried women.-..A little girl has
died in Mobile. Alabama. from the bite
OF q cat. Tho wound had healed, but
she was attacked by bydroptobia, and
died in few hours. VANDERBILT
estimates his wealth at two hundred
millions. The new Doorkeeper OF the
House is, it appears. a nephew, not the
SON. OF ex-senator Bromnlow The
aggregate length of railroad laid in the
United States during 1881, in round
numbers. was nine thousand, the great
est mileage OF any one year. The
death is announced, in Paris. OF FRAN
co.'s MICHEL PASCAL, the French seulp-
tor, In his 68;h year. The cold suap
has killed two camels. six monkeys, and
some snakes in u Philadelphia MENACE
rie - ATTORNEY GENERAL BREWSTER
evidently intends to handle lae Star
Routes without gloves. Mrs. Cruz,
living at Florence, Los Angeles county,
California. gave birth on the 29th ult.
10 six female children. a game cock
was carried off by = bald eagle near
Rome, Georgia. Before the eagle go,
him out OF hearing he crowed cheerfully
in midalr. Three days aiterward he
came home by land. The eagle has not
been seen again. Miss CHLOE ANN
VIoLETT, of Alexandria, who has been
fasting since the 9Th OF November, IN
der an alleged revelation from the AL
mighty. died on Wednesday of last
week. ...DANIEL II. STONE. venera-
bile lawyer of New York. hes been
found guilty of perjury and sent to pris.
Oh at hard labor for q term of three
years. "A boy dropped a live coal
down the back Of q scuool fellow for fun
at Ware, Massachusetts, few days a
go, and the burned youths father thinks
the jokers father ought to pay one
thousand dollars damages. Hon.
CLEMENT @. CLAY, OF Alabama. who
had been @ member of both the United
States, and Confederate Senates, die,!
on the 3rd inst. lie was u graduate OF
the University Of Virginia. The Lon.
don Academy says: Tho balance Of
trade between Eng land and America is
turning against this country (Engla nd)
in the case of literature as well az other
commodities" ......Tbe Rev. Henry
| WARD BEECIIER received callers at his
house during New Years day 10 the
number OF about one thousand two hun.
dred..- Peanuts are on the rise again
The quotations are 6a97 cents per
pound. or $l.45SSl.54 per bushel, ut
Norfolk The Emperor of Russia has
pardoned the Polish bishops exled in
| 1854. Miss Linda Ethelz of Zanes-
vile, Ohio, was suddenly stricken
| dumb from SO me unknown cause three
years ago. When she awoke last Wed.
nesday morning she experienced an un.
| comfortable desire to speak, and to her
| astonishment found that her voice had
| returned to her as clear and as strong
as ever. She is about 81 years OF age
....Ex,President Hayes has just pre-
| sented TO Engineer JOHN H. Unglaub,
who ran the special train carrying the
retiring Presidents family March 5tb,
1881, and which collided with another
train near Washington, d. c., when sc.
r'ouS damage was prevented by Dir.
Unglaub's courage, gold watch and
chain valued at five hundred dollars.
..2,5OO buildings were erected in
New York City last year, at cost of
forty.seven million dollars DIR. I.
Hite Baldwin died in Winchester on the
4Lh instant. He was formerly a sur.
geon ia the United States army, and
served with the troops in the field dur
ing the Florida war. .Ninety-eight
cases of small pox are reported from
Richmond. The Grand Central Ito,
tel property at Martinsburg Is offered
at public sale. One hundred and
seventy seven buildings were erected
in Hagerstown, Md, during the past
year. The amount Of our circulating
medium on the, lst of November, 1881,
was 81 ,456, 1871, Ol5 as against $780,.
796, $50 one year ago. 80. Henry c.
Spaulding, who was famous once as the
inventor Of 'Spaulding's glue" found
himself in the New Albany, Indiana,
lookup the other night for druDken-
ness. lie says that he sold the right
to manufacture the glue to concern
who made round million, but lie got
nothing out of The only public