South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1883-08-17
NEWS OF THE DAY
There we're l7e death, in Bhtinore

Atlantic, Ga, which ccst STs5.0o0, was
brrred before day on SUNDAY morning
| last There was 10 loss OF life -.
I John Tesls, OF Williamson, ". Y, has
picked nearly 10000 quarts Of black
berries this season. .Goi mines In
tie famons Wilderness, Spo:lsylvanis
couniy, Va. ere hsing worked. it is
| stated, with profit. There were $50
'estts in Egypt Oh Saturday last
People are Hsong f:om Alexaud,ia to
les now cover portion OF their car
! Tiages with phosyhorescsat prepara-
ton. which makes them visible At night.
-. The price OF II wife in Siberia is
| eight dogs, and sore OF them are con.
siiered dear at that. when III, bride
is dressed mp ,5e>dilrerencc in the ar
! ticlc Of barter is. 10 al appearances,
very slight. pond at Milford,
Mass. wk.ch was stocked with black
bass i've years ago, was thrown open 10
the public on the lTth ult. Four or five
hundred people caush, 5000 pounds OF
! fish Oh that day Two valuable hors.
cs were stolen from. the field OF far
mor named L,ewclTyn, near Cumberland.
| BID. Sunday night On Friday night
/ three men. nameh Owen Doris, John
| kirwis and James Cannon, were walking
on thc Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
/ ha,
from Pittsburgh, AMI in stepping aside
% allow u freight train 10 pass they
were ground under the wheels Of an
express t.Gin coming In an opposite hi-
rcction Doris AMI Kirwis were in
SANITY killed and Cannon WAS fatally
injured. Mrs. Jackson has sent the
ersl Stonewall Jackson, to the Virginia
Military institu,e, there to lie cared
for. The horse is tho Same animal upon
which Jackson was riding when he re-
Ce!Yed bis GeAlii- wound at Chancallors-
Vile and is now twcnty GYo years old
The wOo'i,n tooth ri * business has
gown into large proportions. The lit
lie town Of Sehago, on Setago LAX. in
Name, has - fsc,ory which turns eve,
1000 cords If birch and poplar wool
annually INTO tooth picks. II manurac
lures 2-borso wagon load every day.
.Ihe population OF Wheeling. accor.
ding 10 recent enumeration. is 33 ,29S
~ gain of i,Gi2 in one year :. Florida
has raised n watcrmo lon weighing sew
euty- Eve pounds ard fifteen people
couldn't cat it q. +. MILLIONS OF locus.s
have just appeared in tho forests near
! Hc-iN,.d, ChatanT,a csunty, n. Y
I They appear TO a2yc emerged from
! lhe gronnl aad are aSeea,iins .he bushes
anal irees' So numerous arc They tina.
he bu.Lcs are thickty covered with
them, while much She larger part are in
/ the tree ;cps, which they have stripped
: o leaves. In he first three months
/ al tii3 year more Than 1000 horses
! ~cre cat up as beef IN Berlin But no
/ Ees!iHor vas permitted 70 buy q pound
! Of American pori; 80. Mr. II. \. Bur
! ton II Jefferson county Eas taken this
/ seasoH from ST.; stands cf bees, AZ lbs
! OF horey -. Boston uses 100 gallons
/ Of water dag for each inEaLitant. =.
! In Mexico nearly every ono is n smoker
+ nc school Children who have done
/ well in tEcir sLu,lics are rewarded bv
/ being allowed 10 smoke cigar as they
sand or sit ut their lessons. The
| sch)almaster ia seldom without cigar
in his mouth. IN the law courts all
persons commonly enjoy their tobacco
freely ant even tho accused in n Grim.
nal trial IS not d7nic This induigcnce,
bat is -llowe', il his cigarette goes on.
IN tho heat o. tic argument. TO light it
/ oIain by borrowing that OF The Officer
who stands nj his side to guard him
There IS tradition among the Indians
Of The wild west that the trial OF G,ner
u SieIidan's Wcstcrn pleasure trips
may 10 identified by ;hc empty 6hisk.
I cy bottles scattered .ion9 the route.
! \ LITTLE boy, age about 10 years, son
f. cf TIE late Capt James Russell Of Sic
+. y. .. X. Il. (wbo went down in the ter.
ribic Marrow Passage disaster several
( years ago. was run over by iunlway
horse, on High street. lIarpet's Ferry,
last Tuesday, and killed. William
Walker. eyed eleven year,. died at
Philadelphia recently from the effects
Of being stabbed in the abdomen by
Edward TfoddcD, aged eight years
Capt. Eads las thus far received 81
500 1000 for bis wora at tic mouth Of
'hc Mississippi ...Bishop Simpson Of
Tue Methodist Church, has preached in
an Overlooking church in Denver for