South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-11-03
NEWS OF THE pay.


IN California which cost over $50 600
-. West Virginia gets $4,000 Of the
Peabody Fund this yeas. The pro,n
isin2 discoveries OF coal in lows Lave
been followed by no. less promising
discoveries Of iron ore =. Pennsylva-
MIA has ono hundred and Eve female
physicians. The widow and dauph-
ter OF Gen. Stonesall Jackson are un-
der medical t treatment at Cleveland O.
hio.--.It is es mated that tue erps
consumed in the United States cos,
S15.000.O00 annually LEE Ruo, rs
brother OF Jim Rhodes, tue murderer Of
The Massie family, was convicted n,
Charlottesville, Va. on Saturday OF
murder in the second degree and sen.
fenced 10 the State penitentiary for e.
leven years. - Rev. Dr. RoBERr PAYNE
senior bishop OF the Methods. Il.
Church. South, died ct Aberdeen. Miss.
few days ago.. The new steamship
| Werra, which arrived in Now York Sun.
day, made the passage from Bremen in
4
ten days. The aggrcs ate offerings
OF fnIpps ex-supeiiniendent of the
Philadelphia Alm,-house, amounts to
S'oO,OoO, and ii is estimated that he
purloined $4,000 annually Mr.
JAMES b. PACE is now regarded as the
weai,hiest man in Virginia. He made
his money in the tobacco business in
Richmond, where he resides The Il
d y. relief association has paid in two
years neatly 10000 benefits amouatipc
10 over $4,000. According to DIR.
Haltenhoff. Professor OF Oph.haimo,op
in the University Of Geneva, there are
IN Europe, 900 blind persons, who
cost about four million pounds a wear
and 40 Per cent. OF whom have become
oiind through neglect and carelessncss.
.--.lt Is asserted that in Inc three years
ended 1880 tLers were no fewer than
~52 Lceatres DESTROYED nv fire. or n,rt-
~ so, resulting in 1870 deaths, and
about 3,4O0 injuries. -. Vaccination is
henceforlh 10 be compulsory in China.
One cause Tor POPULAR opposition 10 il
Is That 1t is the practice the re TO vscci.
nate children on the tip of tie nose.
reward OF half a tael, which The Govern
ment has offered for every Child vacci,a.
'eo' has not he.n sufficient TO persuade
parents In easy Circums, ances to dis.
figure their children in this way land
law has therefore been promulgated l,un.
'shihS The iallnre to vaccinate by ii &c 6.
Imprisonment Tie next legislature
VIII witness the novel sight of father
and son repres entipg the same couaty
III the legislative halls, bat sent by dit.
terent political parties. The former hv The
Republicans, the latter by the Demo
Gratis. AT The late election, karayha co
This State, elected j. II. Brown aud J
+. Brown to the House OF ID lcgaies.
the first named. n Republican, and tbs
other, his son, Democrat Three
Inches OF snow fell at Winnipeg. man.
itoDa on hionlay las. -. rhu Flint
Mill at Fail River, Mass, was lc3.roy.
ed by fire on Saturday night last. Loss
nearly ST. 100000. The principal city
OF North Carolina has 1873 factories
employing 4, 456 hands, AID is about
TO have new cotton factory with 20, =
OoO spindles. - businc for the wear
| ended August 3 amounted To S15. COO
900, against 81 100000 the preceding
year. Egyptian cotton we'll iru;,ed
and with stalks ten feet high is being
raised in Houston county, Georgia
10 transport the vast amount of ,tton
now received, the Richmond and Dan.
vile Railroad has heen running spccinl
cotton trains Hundreds OF bnlcs arc
piled on flats, and tubs filed with vs..
ter are placed all through the cotton.
One ~atcbman takes care of two flats.
.-.At the conference OF the Free
Methodists az Burlington, Iowa, last
week, it was declared that Tile manu-
lactare Of wines and cider, tie brewing
of beer TO be used az beverage. O,
traficking in tile same, the raising AMI
selling of hops f3r brewing purposes,
and The growing, usiug or traficking in
tobacco for commercial purposes or
common use, is sin against God AMI
our neigl,bor and that persons guilty
OF any Of the above pra ct;ces are not
worthy Of membership in n Christian
church. During the week ended Oct.
81 there we're 953. 600 standard silver
dollars put in circulation by The minis.
....Of tho 600 grain mills in l1ol. !
land, 10000 are driven ty wind. The
bulk OF wheat meal is consumed by tn
public without passing through any
flour-dressin2 machine. Governor
ALLEGED CoLQUrT, will be General Hills |
successor in the United States Senate