South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1883-06-22

Fifty Thousand suigsasts lsss this
yssr thas up 10 Ne came time last rear
1T New York. Astoria. Oregos. is
making very rapid progress. Il bss
"a saInoo packing concerns within i,s
limits, employing 5000 people. . Hen
~ Busey. OF Flintstone. died wedues-
day. While be was dying little grand.
cop, i've years Of age. wandered on
to The creek and ~ss drowned. The
grandfather aud grsndchild were bur
led in the same grave. N. ArooId Of
Mineral oouHty, has . Shropshire buck
tina: Weighs over 500 pounds. The
total cut in the lawber regions Of
AiLneso,a and Wisconsin, this year i,
1000. 600, 900 feet. This is equiralen.
10 1880 square miles Of standing tim
Der. A black bear measuring "a
fee. in length, aid weighing 472 pounds
when dressed, vas killed ia Webster
county las: week. after receiving IA
balls and as many i:nife wounds from
crowd oil hunters. >. kosspth, the
famous Hungarian patriot and orator,
is 50 Yeas Old. The wife Of +. II.
Erans. confectioner, on Old stree.
Petersburg Va. Lis child and vouas
lady visiting the family. were poisoned
and made critically i'll on the 18th inst.
by eating ice-ersam which was season.
ed through mistake will, extract OF
lemon The Iowa Democrats romi-
mated Judge Kline Of Tama county
for governor. ...Ipeendiar;es ia cast
ern Indiana arc continuing the policy
OF burning the barns OF farmers who
have supplied Themselves with self.
binding reaping machines. T.. . Tho Mex
lean government has ordered troops 10
the new gold dig9ings in lower Cal.
Norma for the preservation of order
The project Of thu Territory is ordered
rot TO admit locations uutil he receives
special instructions from the federal
government. Thomas McGraw, faith
CT Of John McGraw, prosecuting a..or-
ney OF Taylor county, this State, is
dead. Mr.. MeGraw vas one Of the
early pioneers Of this State, having q.
pened the Grst store in Grafton. .Rsy.
Joba wyane Martin, ID. D., one of the
most prominent Presbyterian ministers
IN Pennsylvania, oied q. No.ris.owp on
,be 18th inst, agel 80 years. Ee was
for several years president and profess
scr OF languages of Lincoln University,
oxford, Pa. Alex Stephens estate
was valued a. only $4,000. lie serv.
Ell his state in public positions for 40
years, and accumulated a pittance, while
macy other modern statesmen were
ena led 10 save as much out Of their
salary in one terra Of Congress as he
did IN forty years. :. The annual nro.
ducts Of the British American sea 6,h-
cries are set down at about 500, 900 600
In France so. S75 sailors, manning 22,-
l25 ships and smael,s, are employed in
fishing. The total products from the
trench fisheries, iccludng TIE suua de-
rived from the sala of oysters, amounts
TO about S35 900, 600 per annun. The
annual valae OF the takes Of fish ia
Norwegian waters is u little over $l5.-
000, 0O0....A land terrapin has been
discovered in Berkeley county vita the
date I'LL cut Into its she'll .. Mrs.
Nancy Miller, Of Cumberland cclei.ra.
ted her 1854 hirthday last Sunday. She
claims to remember vixen Gen. Wash
lngton was entertained at the McNshon
House in that city. in October, 1874,
while he was inspecting tie western ar
my On the occasion OF the whisky riots
ia Pennsylvania -. We igy orted from
July !, 1882, to April /, 1888, sixty
FIVE million pounds more coffee and
million pounds less Of tea THAI during
the corresponding period of the pre- vious
fiscal year. 1t looks as IL aduiierateJ
tea had made that beverage un popular.
-. August UecLler, who lived near
Reading. Pennsylvania. disappeared a.
boa. three weeks ago. His wife was
haunted by fear shat nc had fallen In.
TO neishboring ore mine Tuesday
tue mine was searched, and Hechler's
body was found at The bottom with
tventy- pound ST ne round his neck.
An Yang Ming, the new Chinese con.
sui at New York in recent coHyersa.
ton with representative of the Her.
aid, aztec expressing bis willingness 10 !
assist the authorities n the suppression
OF the opium dens in tina. city, called
attention to The fact that tho opium !
which n brought 10 America does not
come ifom CbinG, but from English pos.
sessions. The treaty between the Uni. |
tel SlsJe5 and China, hc said, prohibit,
Chin zee from sending the dru. into |
a merica md Aecricapa from sooJ;,,