South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-11-17

- co<k ~ Sro4s4s--<. tse 8soUV
fis h ponds stocked With earp. The
cot ton crop will reach nearly 1000.
0O0 bales this year. .Of bnekwLest,P Pa,
produces Learly onc-hslf the entire
crop. The total Yell will he ever H.
OOO, Oo0 bushels. :. About $4,000 head
Of cattle were shipped TO Cuba from
Fiori la this summer IA. young man
name FALSoS OF Montreal. who tasted
twenty-three days. under an illusion
that lie vas commanded by God to do
so. died on Friday last 49,. Ex Sheriff
HERsn of Albums county, Pa, raised l.
600 bushels of beets in an acre and a.
half IF ground. He uses them for
feeding stock :. There were 200 deaths
reported in Baltimore last week NJ.
SAINT PAU. has offered the French A
cademy the sum # $4,000 francs to
found prize for the discovery Of cure
for diphtheria. The competition lie o.
pen to all the world. and Is not even
confined to the medical profession ..
Tie pension agent in Topeka. Kan.
recently cashei the largest pension ev
er paid out TO one person Ia that dist. let.
IL was arrears TO late, and the amount
was upward of $1,000. Acting Sec
rotary of the Interior JosLYN has set
aside ss fraudulent the prcemption en-
try made by divorced woman, il hay
ing appeared that tie divorce was OBJ
,aine with the Object ormaking such
entry. and that The divorced couple con
tinued TO live together. Albany, Ca.
has negro who Is turning white. The
change, so far, has affected only hi,
hair Upward OF 100000 letters
and postal csrls ale posted daily in the
world; 3,4iS,U00,OOO letters are unnu-
ally distributed in Europe, LAG .OOO.-
900 in America. rs COO in Asia, So
000 900 in Australia. and IL ,00C, 900 in
Africa -. A suit LrGrgh by the coun.
Is OF Roietourt TO collect $3.64S taxes
for 1881 from the Shenandoah Valley
Railroad has been decided in favor o.
the county -. Michigan claim, 10 have
gained $1,000 new settlers in her nor IL
ern counties tits year Sen'inels still
guard the tomb OF Garfield. Fear Of
body -snai chers induces this precauiion.
-. Mrs. 'S,ouewGlf Jackson has fsl en-
heir To $4,000, left ny a Memphi, adj
mlrcr OF The general. -. There ara in
Tie United States and Cara,la 116
You Mons Christian associations.
numbering 50, 315 members . For cv-
.ry 200 Of tie Inhabitants of Iceland
there is Lutheran preacher James
j. Perrin, Treasurer Of The School
Board of Lafayette, Ind, has presented
the city with pubic library con, aiming
over 10000 volumes Of carefully selec-
ted hooks -. The boys Of Mortified
College, Minnesota, were having a grea'
deal of iun In changing a physicians
sign for that OF an undertaken, when
big kettle full Of warm tar was emp led
upon them from the rouf Of the house.
More than twenty ci them hal 10 throw
away their clothes anil get thcir hair
cut very short. a colored man Was
found Walking alyng Howard street
in Bal;imurc on Monday last with the
small pox -. AT a meeting OF fifty in
dependent republicans at the Revere
House III BostJn, on the 9Th inst, Gen.
- ~
sets, was nominated for the Pre- si,ioD-
cy in 1884 ..- The Methodists This scar
are in luck -pohtica At any rate.
Governors elrc: Cleveland, Of New York
and Patti,on, al PeansJ lvania, are toth
sons OF Methodist Minister'S. Both
good ar.d true mon .. GgoRGn w
BuRGEss died a. NJrristown, P,., on
the 18th inst, eyed GS years. lie was
the first manufactured OF friction match
c. in America, having commenced the
business in New Yofk city in 1881 I'll
is est.matcd that The number OF voter.
in This State that ii not vote ut our
late election. was SO, 600 The comet
can yet be seen, but IL is growing dim.
$50. The rec ipts a. the Uniiel States
treasury cOntinno unusul1y large anil
tue surplus is growing rapidly -.
Thank gi,ing turkeys are preparing TO
be offered up. -. Information IS wanted
by Elizabeth Rechsteiner. OF Charlesi on
this State. OF her brother, JonN TURNER
who once lived in Cumberland, Md 49,.
According 20 n writer in tho British
Hediroi Joeraai. the opium habit may
be discontinued with perfect safety and
without discomfort by gradually redn-
cling the doses OF morphia, and subsii-
Lu.ing bromide OF potassium in increas-
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