South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1883-12-21

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Philadelphia Mint ---The South
CAROLINA Legislature has passed a bill
declaring unlawful ali contracts for the
sale OF articles TO- future delivery
Il is said that there will not he more
than half crop Of understandable corn
IN Nebraska ......... During the present
year 10000 persons visited tue Luray
caverns------There were I43 deaths
IN Baltimore last week isesides
her two hundred counties, Texas mas
Il territory twice AS large IA Georgia
yet undivided IAN epidemic of
smallpox is raging at Sunbury, Ohio.
During the year loo new locomotives
nave been bull, at the Altoona PA,
shops and $50 repaired ....... Mr.
Huntington, the raj lroad millionaire,
Is put down as worth $50 900 900 -
! Missouri 8 coal field. cover %, TOO
square miles -----Among the Iopu-
lation OF y. are 4,393 clergymen, 4 .4>9
lawyers and 4,354 saloon keepers "A
Well rained shepherd dog will drive
cattle or sheep better than boy -
Montana will produce the present year
twenty million pounds OF copper 49,
~ one Lau! of the seine % 800 null
lets were caught at Masonbo,o Sound.
N. g.. lew days ago.........I, is re-
ported that the humber of vessels lost
a. Gloucester, Massachusetts, recently
IS twelve, with probably $50 men.
The number OF lives lost during the
year viii not fall much short of two
hundred Toronto man waited
until be was eight, three years old be-
fore he got MARI d. Moderation IN
al! thing; is prominent trait Of Ca.
madam character. a Franklin
county (Tenn.) farmer realized the
past season $1,000 from eighty acres
OF Strawberries WOODEN cloth
was drst made in England In 1871.
Oranges are being successfully raised
in Nevada county, California;
The cigarette is almost as deadly us
the toy-pis;ol. John Mara, l4-year.
old boy, was found insensible on the
streets o! iloboken, n j Il few nj. his
ago, suffering from uico,in poison
ing lie ha,. mokcd too many ci-
garcttes.. SuWanEee county
Florida log required sixteen mules to
haul It and made fifty thousand tcet OF
lumber. Postal cards were introduce
cd by Prof Emanuel Herman Of
Vienna They were first used in Eng
land, Germany, and Switzerland in
1870, in Belgium and Denmark in
1871, and in NORWAY, Russia, and the
United States in 1S72--73. Beni.
Core. well-known citizen OF Weston,
w. Va was run over by train on
the Narrow Gauge Railroad, near
that place, Saturday last and killed.
.........Fourteen negroes will occupy
seats III the Mississippi Legislature.
::..Anthraclte coal is being found
in Virginia, land preparations are being
made to mine and ship it....,.The only
colored man iii Congress TIM session
Ia named O'ilara from North aroliua
----A steamship took, II Few days
! ag', ninety thousand pounds Of ire
) beet from baltimore Tor Liverpool
......Only one soldier OF our regular
army was i>illed in battle last year
To-day Is the shortest day of the wear
------ Hon. Dudley 9. Haskell OF
Kansas who has been I'LL for some
time, died IN Washington on the 10th
inst. Five comets are visible q,
, Bnenos Ayres, South A mcrica - =.
The nomnation Of Waiter Q. Gresham
10 be Postmaster General has been
confirmed by The Sen atc An eXper,
Gin u Lon don will case lately stated
: that pencil marks rubbed ont revive
J when the texture Of the paper return:
TO its normal condition The exist.
} ence OF these m ar!is proved most en-
barrasoing in The case in question
The Boston lire, too, proved that
pencll writing was more enduring
than ink Hon. Charles IIerndon
OF Frederic; sburg. Va, died Monday
, last, aged aixty-one yenrs, after an
illness OF several weeks. Mr. Hem
} don was for several terms member
OF the Virginia Senate & III Juse OF de-
legates III was regarded as ID safe coun.
selor and an able representative
a man of the name OF Colas, who had
the monopoly OF rat killing in Paris.
has just died lie used to feed ex-
elusively on the produce Of his sport.
Eight or ten times already he had
nearly died OF indigestion; this t.ihe
he expired after q heavy meal OF rats
before the doctor coald be called in d.
There are siXty-five thousand colored
, people IN Washington. In no city in
the United States, not even New Or.
, leans, is there larger colored popu-
latlon......Ice is eight inches think on
the waters OF the upper Hudson .....
Immigrants from the East are arriv-
) ing Gaily IN ST. Louis in strong force
on the way to Texas aud other
southwestern aud western points Tx,
ira coaches for their accommodation
, have to be attached t. almost all the
regular trains. The general passen-
, ger agents say that they never knew
OF such brisk movement oil settlers.