South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1883-04-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.

the Iowa orchards are extensively win
ter killed. IA meteor Weighing COT
/ pounds 's the subject OF a lawsuit be-
fore Iowa courts, between the ;nsn on
whose land 1t fell and the man who due
Il out. -..Seven years ago Dir. BELL. OF
telephone fame. was a poor man. Now
lie is said to be worth $4,000. 900.
The Oldest inhabi.ant in Virginia is q
colored man, living in Augusta county
near Staunton. lie still! lives with the
family 10 whom he formerly belonged
although he has long outlived his orig
inal owners. His age. which il vel
authenticated. IS liz years. Fifty
Thousand pairs Of shoes are daily made
in the Prisons in New York. The OUT
side manufacturers claim ~ be unable
10 compete with the contractors. d. d. One
hundred and fifty persons have left
their homes on the Island IF Achill,
Ireland, for America for wau. Of food a,
houe %. The museum at Reading, Eng
land, contains among its curiosi;ies a
bridge formerly used to stop the mouths
OF scoldirg men and women in that
town. - X. MckINIsTRY, of Hudson.
New York owns the largest apple Or
chard in the wor Id $4,000 trees on
500 acres. -. "A count Of all the money
in the treasury is now in progress.
franklin fierce's old homo a. Concord
y. u, is to be turned into school for
girls. 80. One OF tie most rapidly grow
iug Southern cities is Nashville, Ten
nessee. The gain in population since
1870 has been more than 1900
Hon. II. ) GKAHruAM, OF Berkeley, is
mehtioned foc State Auditor in the
Martnsburg Statesman -. The United
States in 1880 imported half its but
tons, aIth Of its coWbs, an eighti OF
its PERU merry andstour -ff.hs of is jew,
city. Califoru:a's imported ostriches
lay eggs weighing three aud one.hai.
pounds each. Tue beet .sugN fac.o-
ry TO be put in operation at York, Penn.
sylvania, expects TO work up $4,000
tons OF beets per season, from which
will be manufactured 100000 pounus
OF sugnr and 100000 poands of mo.
leases. ...ihe cob pipe factory at
Washington, Mo. is pay.ng cent u
piece foT suitable corncohs Gen. G.
/. BEAUREsARD invented tho endless
cable syste,n and used it ia New Or
leans in 1870, afterwards selling The
patent 10 a Chicago firm. There arc
$1,000 women ia New York CITY who
support themselves In one shoe fac
tory in LyUa, Massachusetts, are TIKI
ty women, all Of whom ATE divorced
wives. -. Last week tho Broad Ran
Baptist Church, Lewis county this State,
wac totally destroyed by FIRE. IL was
oac of The finest charches IN the coan,
~, and has bu. recently been erected,
and more recently paid for st lou,
is shipped TO foreign markets during
1882 nearly a million barrels Of -four.
For an inland city this is big showing
Tor oi'9 year. IA fall of substance
resembling sulphar is reported to have.
taken place or three succ ,ssivo Fights
IN the vicinity OF Princeton, Hg. yhe
i'eopic there sbcns are greatly agitated
lbsy believe that The earth is s5ort %
be covered vita coating ef salrAur
in order that it will burn readily -
According TO the Cincinnati hnouiror,
tramp refused To- saw wood for his
din9er, giving &c his reason that he
was bitterly opposed to tn dcstru ction
OF our forests aud would DO Rothinr 10
encourage that KIND OF business. And
&c walked OF pickiEg his teeth
Slower College, AT Rarper's Ferry. has
enrolled students this year The
Wheeling Regis'cr says there will he q
thousand men at work on the Ohio l..
IL X. between Whecling anil Iarkers.
burg IN n few days Nv. X. Wander
bit gave a bsii in New York last Mon
day night tha; COO. $4,000. Alr Van.
dcrbilt Is n retired editor Of course
iraino viii be running regularly from
Point pleasant to Charleston by April
ist....GEoEGr w. SrATrs, worthy
c'I'z'n OF Montgomery county Mary
Iana, died Friday morning last at hi.
late residence, Of typhoid pneumonia.
Nr. spates was in tie GOth yeor Of his
age aud for q number ~ years wa.
prominently connected With tic man.
asemcut OF tie Chesapeake End Ohio
canal. Lawyers are gettinr ready for
Tue spring term 80. Farmers ere MAKING
preparations for hig Springs work
shower Of snow, tho Grst for thirteen
years, fell 10 Rome fortnirb. ago
and tho dome OF ST. Peters was White
for several hours Eleven on. n
eighteen men petished in the hlmes u
q burning boarding house, near Dsal-
wOOd Dakota. on the Ion al, ~