South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-09-01
me- WIS OF THE DAY.


en,y-one million dollars have been coin
ell at the Philadelphia Mint so far this
year.. The number OF deaths in Bal
timore last week was AS aud the births
reported were l45.-. The wheat traffic
over the Richmond and Allegheny
railroad Is very heavy. In Baltimore
tho nu mber of smallpox cases has
been reduced from 20 to 50,and yaccina.
ton is progressing satisfactorily in in
fected neighborhoods. -. The WASH
ington monument is progressing, and
is now 29O feet high. -. Mrs. LINcoLN's
estate is $4,000, every dollar being in
United States bonds -. The street rail
ways OF Baltimore aud suburbs have ISL
miles OF track, 304 cars and employ l..
552 men and 1880 horses :. :. Warrants
for the payments OF $4,000, 900 on &C !.
count OF pensions were issued from tie
Treasury Department ut Washington on
Wednesday OF last week .Austr,l lila
has come TO the front with biz tree.
said TO be 450 feet in height, with a cir
cumlerence OF sixty feet -. Tie belle Of
White Sulphur Springs is Miss BREcK-
ENRIDGE OF Louisville. -. An addition
has been made to the list Of long bridg.
es In the bridge of the Pens acola and
Atlantic Railroad across Escauibia Bay
Florida, II is five miles and a oaartar
long, and was opened for use August Is
80. There are now Eve difieren, compe-
ting lines OF railroad between Chicago
and Omaha San Francisco has
population OF 276,000, OF whom 45. 900
are Chinese -. Congressman McKEN-
zIE, of Kentucky, has declined re-
election. He is threatened with fata,
blindness In Parkersburg this State.
hay last week sold as low as Sc and IS
per ton. On last Sunday week three
wagon drivers of Coups circus ere kill
ed. and twenty Others wounded in q
collision, near Burnside, III. A cool,
stove, made of silver and gold, and
valued at $4,000, was on exhibition al
the Denver Exposition. AN artesian
wen bored GO Yankton, ID. T., has de-
Vei"ped powerful magnetic properties.
n piece of steel held in the water be.
come speedily magnetized The ,lowry
Vi MISS l.. koFu SCHTLD, VIII, recently
married Leon Handlers was SI25.OOQ.-
oUo. The jealous husband of a pret-
ty woman at Fayette, Texas, branded
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Tie, making e star and cross, which she
must bear or each cheek for life
The MCDONALD fish ladder has been
adopted for the Potomac dams bv Fish
Commissioners Dclawder. Persons Las
ing dams in Maryland streams tributary
to the Potomac are required TO ercc,
fish LADDERS over them at their own OK
pense, under heavy penalty -. Va.
has expended on her public schools
during the past year Sl,l00,25S 90.
She has 1852 Of these schools The
yield Of corn in the U. S. this year is
expected to foot up I,700,OO0,O0O
bushels 80. Plans for the massacre OF
all the whites Of Choctaw county. Ala.
bama, were discovered few days ago
and several negroes concerned in the
plot were arrested and placed in Jail.
and tue ringleader hung without ccre-
mony A colorei baby in Lee Coun-
lyJ Georgia, was found the other dav,
| The Cahbert Appeal says, with large
ratllcsnako coiled around it. On being
discovered the snake uncoilei itself
and was immediately killed -. 4 young
lady IN walking along a railroad il Penn.
sylyania feS days ago caught spark
from passing locomotive. in her dress.
| and the dress taking fire, she was so bad.
~ burned that sho died in few hours.
William II Allen president of Gil
r1rd College, Philadelphia, died there
on Wednesday last. Ito had been suf.
fering for long time from general de-
bility and Brights disease. Prof
II. Il. WEIGH writes from Topeka
Kansas, TO friends al Blooming
ton, Ill.,. that his life is in danger from
tue liquor men there, because, as ossis.
tant States attorney, he has been pros
ecuting viol.tors OF the State law.
They have within day or two cut bis
buggy to pieces, disfgured his horse,
and threatened lis Ii c. He has had
TO call o meeting of the citizens to pre-
vent being mobjed. The Sultan
Of Morocco has 3G4 wives; only
needs one more 10 have one for
each day in the year. HIS life is one
grand re-un ion, and every day be re.
news hiS acquaintance with the wife he
last met tho previous year. When the
| Monday washing is hung out in the
] back word Of The nnlacn N looks like a