South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1883-07-06
NEWS OF THE DAN

An ice famine prevails a. Dallas,
Texas, the factories being unable 10
supply the demand. Prices are nov
fson three 10 five couts pound. -
Gen. Crook and Capt. JCEn Burke OF his
stall have left New Mexico on route for
Washington, d. c.. Mrs. JoLnstone.
widow of General Albert Sidney John
stone, and bei daughier have left the
South to mako their homo in New
York city. There is q negro girl IN
Newborn. West Tennessee, 10 years
old, who is said to weigh 800 pounds
- The man OF "a who has spent but
six nights out CT Holy in his life,
never used bit Of tobacco, does not
know tho taste Of alchohol. and never
uttered a profanc word, is proud OF
these distinctions. "A few days ago
while boring for water in Cambridge,
o., vein OF water was struck at the
depth of IL feet that shoots several
feet above the surface and flows At the
rate OF Eve gallons minute. Nothing
like it has ever been seen in the neigh.
borhood. :. Prof. Brooks, OF the Red
House Observatory, Phelps. n. Y, re-
potts telescope observation on the
morning OF the 80 ult., of an enorn Gus
group of spots now central upon the
suns disc. The diameter of the group
is $4,000 miles. and the spots arc visi.
ible TO the naked eye. They cxhibi,
violent yoloDic action. electrical storms
and aurora accompanying the solar out
break -. North Carolnaians who Try
TO raise sheep ere discouraged 10y the
refusal Of the Legislature 10 pass dog
has an old colored man named Major
Brown, who is bright and active and
makes livelihood by acting as janitor
for stores, who is l0T years Old. The
wheat crop Of California is estimated
at $4,000. 600 bushels Since the FIRST
OF March To the middle Of June, Chi
cage packers have s!aughtere and sal
ted l,TGQ, 900 hogs, against 931 eco for
the corresponding period last year -.
monster owl measuring ! feet from
Up 10 tip vas shot in Marion county
this state, last week BY Thomas j. Ncp-
tuGa. Tennessee boasts strawberry
& inches in circumference. a Ton
OF SILvEI. CoIN is now being turned
out daily at the Philadelphia mint.
The most OF this is in dollars, and some
Ibompsou who lives near Moundsviiiie,
has CON fenced a new industry in that
section, tina OF silk culture. Some
months since lie sent 10 Italy for some
silk worm eggs. aad in the early spring
he received theas by mail and succeeded
70 raising thousand or more Gne ,heai-
t.y norms. which hase already about
finish: making their cock oons. lie
intends Saving the eggs CT these and
Increasing La stock 10 about 80 zoe.
sir. T. und ers:aHds The care and atten-
ton of these worrpI 10 perfection, G.d
when he has snitable buildings arrang.
ed he will greatly increasS tis stock
aud make q business OF silk crltGre.
lie says with proper care Tie busllcss
will pay from 30 to 60 per cent. ant.
wonders that more people do not
engage in it. Grant county has elG
dogs - .Watcrmelons are beginning to
appear ia the st. Louis market &. The
post office at CharlestowD, this State,
was broken into on Friday night las,
and robbed OF "a considerable quantity
of stamps and other valuables. :. . The
Japanese are teaching about 100000
children in their public schools on
American auI English systems..-.
Eight Car loads o. emigranis passed
west over the Baltimore aad Ohio X. K.
ON yesterday week.. JUDGE lIoADLY
the democratic nominee for Governor OF
Ohio, was at one time law partner OF
the late salmon L. Chase. lie is con.
sidered the ablest lawyer in Oaio, nna
his income from all sources is said to be
S200,0O0 a year Iowa expects 10
raise 200.000,000 bushels OF corn and
100000 OF wheat this year, and the
oat crop promises to be the largest ever
known. 80. An old medal was plowed
up in Lawrence county, Indiana, tho
other day, which belonged to he hard
cider era Of 1910, when Gen. William
Henry Harrison was elected President.
IL bears on one side a representation
of q log cabin, and barrel Of ciier
placed under au adjoining tree. On
the reverse are The inscriptions: 'The
peoples choice, the hero Of Tippecanoo
-Mej-Gen w. II. Harrison, born
Feb. .. 1772' II will he ,,rssentod 20