South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-01-27
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D The latest statistics, ia aoout $50, 600,
sn. increase Of i25. goo since thecensus OF
1880 wss taken. Richmond now has
fund or about thirty thousand dollars
with which to build monument to Gen.
X. Il. Lee. .Ks,RxG, Speaker of the
House Of Representatives was wounded
four times during the late war /. :. Edi-
son has $50 patents. The Presbyter-
ian Church in the city Of New York, on
Fifth avenue, Rev. DR.. HALL, pastor.
cost $3.50. 900. The live stock trade
from Southwestern Virginia to the
Northern markets is very light at this
time compared with previous years. On
account OF The drought last summer
much of the stock ~as rushed to market
then Western prices are curious
sometmes In Mile, City. Montana,
corn Is forty cents a bushel and eggs
ten cents apiece. The hired girl de
mands ten dollars a week with every
Sunday out 1t has been asserted hy
Professor Buckland tina, the most vio-
lent po'sons have no effect on the
hedgehog. .-.A best OF Guiteau. the
assassin, 10 on exhibition at the Mason.
&c Temple in Baltimore The deaths
from diphtheria in tho vicinity of Fred /.
erick, Maryland. are estimated to foot
up l:5 during tho last three months.
.--.A religious revival is so attractive
at Madison, Ohio that all the stores and
factories are closed during tho after
noon, while tho employees 60 to meet
ins Suicide wa7 accomplished Al
AndoreF, Mass, by gnawing the phos-
phorus from matches and drinking a
pint CT ink. - Tho mother OF the late
Gen. Custer died at Monroe, Michigan
on the i4ih inst. The wife OF a
Methodist presiding cider in Maine is
suing Tor divorce. Her most serious
allegations is that Lis credit is SO bad
that when lie is away from home ell Q
cannot get trusted for $50 much as .
red herring" Which makes it difficult, TO
~" '''S iS'hi't ODe OSlticu egg
makes meal for three persons Two
million five hundred thousand acres Of
! Government. lands in Alabama are omen
10 presumption .. One bank in Boston
has l6 tons 81 gold stored in i;s vaults
IAN Imprisoned girl at Burr Oak.
Hichigar, Cat e7ary baton from Der
clothing and swallowed them ia an in
ehec'uAi attempt ~ suicide Queen
YICrcRTAs SnnIsl income is >, 215 ,O0o
She ought TO be able to live on tina,
sum Five hundrel and forty five
resideuts of New Yark City were COM
DIttted 20 insane asylums last year.
Mr.. HuoH MoonE, residing near
Oakland, Nh, has lost three children
within tie last two weeks from diphthe.
ria. Another OF his three remaining
Children, it is said, is not expected to
recover. Seine New York courta have
recognized tho existence Of moral in
sanity -. Whit'aker's ears ara 10 claim
tue attention Of the American people n.
new Indiana has l2G lady preachers
and 10 lady doctors Tho supreme
court Of Illinois has reversed a decision
ttat SUI Tor natuJcd inter est on \
note past due acted as n bar TO tho COLI
lection Of the principal. The city of
New York pays more for cigars thsn
fox brtsd. There is not a ship in our
navy that can run fifteen knots an
hour. -. About thirty cases OK smallpox
are reported among The colored poop c
OF Portsmouth,, Virginia. 4 crlored
seaman died from the disease tea DAYS
ago, and the colored people, not know
ing /. was the smallpox, gave him q
large funeral, and 80 spread the conts.
gion. In Yorkshire, England, lately
n burglar WAS found in a very tirhr
place indeed. HE legs were hanging
down chimney in which he had stuck
aud it vas necessary TO take down the
nantelpiecS and part OF the chimney to
release i'm The money received by
The dairymen OF klgin. Illinois, district
Tor butter, cheese and milk, during ths
past year. 10 estimated at q total OF
four million doIlsrs....A New Orean,
police court few days ago fined 6
girl s. FOR klssing . man without hi,
consent. Girls always get the man,
consent before kissing bin IA 1ocI
OF eleven thousand sheep hive iust af-
rived in Nebraska from Washington
Territory They were on tho road twc
years ...Col. Richard Price Morgan
The Oldest civil engineer in the United
States, diol st Dwight Illinois, las
week, eyed 80 years.. Capt. Ends es
Inmates the coat OF his ship rsilEey q