South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1883-11-02
NEWS or r,IE DA-.

near Baltimore, was almos; totally de.
siroyed by fire last Friday night, is
estimated at 235 900. The erection
OF new buildings wiz be commenced
at once----Las, week J. II Smouse
aud John Wilson, while hunting a
few miles east of Cumberland, killed
IN six hours :orty-six pariridges-
W hat is thought to be fire deposit
OF manganese of superior quality has
been discovered Oh the farm of John
Frymier, near I.ynlurst Virginia, on
tho Shenandoah Valley Railroad. and
arrangements are being made to de-
velop it----A violent storm on lake
Ladoga and Gulf Of Finland, Friday
last, caused great loss OF life and to
shipping. Sixty vessels were stranded.
a number of bodies have been re.
covered.........Mr. Floyd G. Warren,
proprietor of the Charleston, w. Va,
Gall, died in Lewisburg, on the Dist
.........Mr. Whitmore, the Florida
skeleton, is SIX feet high, thirty.two
years old, and weighs seventy pounds.
.........Gold in large quantities is re.
ported 10 have been discovered near
Lisbon, Dakota Tx Congressman
Bradford died Sunday ut his home. at
Talladego, Alabama -, The rcccipts
olthe agricultural fair ut IIagerstown,
last week wero between $4,000 and
Sli ,ooo------Two Connecticut farm.
crs went 10 law over barrel of ap
plies. The case has been tried five
times, at an estimated expense to tic
llugants OF $4,000, & now it has been
taken to the Court of Appeals
He world consumes 1000, GOO tons of
tobacco year------T Three farmers
recently found nest Of Italian bees
IN tree on Bai!ey's Ridge, in Adams
county, Pa. They cut dowu the tree
and secured a lot of honey combs eight
inches thick, nine feet long and ag
gregating IN weight 127 pounds go.
at Lcvelady, Texas, Saturday night
last, two drunken ronrhs named
Standby and Turner stopped at TIE
house of Mr.. Montziuger, and calling
him outside, literally cut him to piec
'es in the presence OF his wife and
child. Mrs. Montzinger armed her
sell with an ayehande and attacked
The murderers, while her little sou
brought out his fathers gun and al,
tempted to shoot them. The weapon
was wrenched from the child's hands
by STANDBY, who threatened to kill
both mother and child if they raised
all alarm, and the murderers then
leit.........it is stated that lady in
Frederick county who last fall, being
short of hands on her farm, followed
The d'iIi during seeding time, and her
crcp thiu year WAS 100 bushels wheat.
The ladies' Of Cleveland hold an
annual doll show for a charity called
The Open Door Their last one.
held on yesterday week, netted ST.
600 - The fly is damaging the early
wheat fields in Knox county, Tennes,
Sec Two very destructive cyclones
occurred near Paris, kentucky. The
first demolished house, killing four
colorcd inmates: the second, sweep
ing from west to east, on Sunday last.
caused much destruction o. property,
but no loss of life Tallahassee
(fiorlda) city tax this year is eight
mills on the dollar The fumes of
several hundred gallons OF ANN onia.
liberated by tho explosions OF an ice
machine iii Cincinnati brewery a few
days age, killed SO horses next door
A schooner chased n whale rs
!cet long ashore on the inner side Of
Burnett'a island, III The mouth Of Gull
ford creek, Accomac county, Va,
and the crew killed him with axes
and spikes. They hacked The carcass
almost to pieces in getting the oil and
bIabbor, and left the remains on the
shore.......John Simpson caught n
bntiaIo fish weighing aovcnty,two
pounds in The canal in Louisville Ky.
III. Licbling, a prominent BUSH
ness man Of Latrobo Pennsylvania,
died tie other day in Mount Hope
insane asylum, near Baltimore. lie
inherited q large fortune from Ger.
many about agar ago. Tie change
4 in circumstances seemed too much
for the Young man and go fast did he