South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1883-10-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.
The shipment. OF cattle 10 Grsa

~ 'sDN'~ H'sHs eu' ShctH W lV,tOV ".
During tue last four months the ship.
ment OF cattle to Great Britain from
Canada has been equal to the whole ship
ment OF last year The coal product
of Missouri in 1873 was zoo, 900 tons;
in 1882 it vas 100000 tons. with
prospect OF yet greater increase. %.
There are two hundred and ,hirty-four
prisoners in the pcnite ntiary st Mounds
vile. this State, and fourteen OF them
are in for life Gath estimates Van
deFbilt's wealth at something over $3.50.
100000. In silver this sum would
weigh about 5000 tons, in gold over
400 tons. "A Mexican planter employ.
ed 200 men to Kill! locusts for him.
Their wages amounted TO s296 SO, and
they killed 81, 900 Of the insects
There are in this country only $4,000
Indians all told. IA panic has been
created among the residents and cot
tasers at Far Rockaway, Long Island
ny an epidemic of diphtheria. Twenty.
five deaths are reported as having oc-
Cured In one week There were IA
deaths 10 Baltimore last week Gov.
Is. L. Butler was, on the 26th, nomina.
ted by the Democrats Of Massachusetts,
for re-clec;ion. Tho Greenbackers had
already made him their candidate.
John Du Bois OF Du Bots, Clearfield
county, Pa. is said TO be worth. Sl4, OOO,-
600. Six hundred men are employed
in his lumber mills, 1000 get the timber
from the woods, and 600 are mining
coal for him. He Cffsrs to erect cour.
house and public buildings if a now
county is male of parts OF Clearfield,
Elk, and Jefferson counties. and called
Du Bois.-- Mr.. Levi Mccormick, a We
teran conductor on the Cumberland VAL
ley Railroad, has been retired from ac-
tive service on full pay for the balance
o: his life. Mr. Mccormick is - Years
Of age, and has boen conductor on the
road For 81 years. .S5irL-tail Bend.
VIII ky Flat, Puppy-town, Wild Yam.
kee Ranch, Squaw Flat, Rawhiie Ranch,
Loafors Ravine, Sqnitch Gulch, and
ioenail Lake. are few Of the places
IN Butte county. Cal. "A Curious
Georgia Industry is the making OF
wrapping-paper out Of rice straw and
palm leaves. a factory located at Sa-
vannah is now turning out four tons n
day Of excellent paper. 1t ia 67l per
cent. rice straw and q per cent, palm
leaves. II is OF superior quality, and
can be made 20 per cent. cheaper than
paper made of jute- butts and rags.
The rice.straw and palm leaves has
heretofore been waste. (. now Yields
to this one factory 500 day. keeps
money at home, and gives employ ment
to idle hands. The value OF horsenes5
Is Incoming quite q factor in our ma
tional wealth. Harper, the kentucky,
breeder, says he has been offered $50
900 each for Ten Brock End L9npfel-
low, but would not sell either Of them
Tor twice that money -. Mount JEFF e--
son Davis is the highest peak in Ne
vsda. Its altitude is 1905 feet.
Salmon can swim five miles j /, an hour
and evea ascend cata'a acts Ten cot
ton factories and nine gold mines are
In operation within radius of thirty
miles Of Charlotte, n. c. Tho cotton
factories yield the most gold .Eigb.
ty-one miss ioraries have been appointed
by the Mormon Church for mission
Work IN this country anil Europe.
Eighteen arc set apart for work in the
south, where the Mormons claim to be
meeting with considerable success
The first Chinese child ever born in the
city OF Washington is the daughter of
tho Chinese Minister. She il named
Mi Ju. Eli means America, and is civ
EN- in honor of this country IA re.
msrkablo specimen Of tho golden carp
was taken from the Thames at WalIino.
ford, in England, tho other day. II
measured thirty inches in length, TWEEN
ty''wo inches in girth, and weighed
twenty pounds ....A Massachuse,i q
preacher has . barrel OF slippers. with
a very mild winter, he hopes for q groat
saving in boot5.... The total outflow OF
all the mineral waters OF France is esti-
mated at l0,35i gallons per minute
Frank Hopping, four.year oil boy.
was playing with dog, on pubic
highway on Friday last in Lebanon
Ohio, when J . was attacked by drove
OF thirty hogs and literally eaten alive.
His cries brought assistance and the
brutes were driven away. Tue little fol-
10" was msngled fesriully. His cloth
ing was entirely torn from Che body, half
IT the scalp was torn away ana one Of
the animals tusks entered bis check and
tore out two Of his back teeth. Tie
suiT,rer died in great agony an hour az.
terward ... Paper is nov made in Swed-