South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1883-08-03
NEWS OF THE DAY
All the electric l;gh,s IN wash;u

ION u ~, were pun out Oy tncuuer
storm Saturday night last cholera
is declared To exist IN Campcachy and
Oayaca, Mexico. The sea lion given
to Druid Hill Park Baltimore. by
John w. Garrett died Thursday night
of last week The building OF the
obset vatory tor the great McCormic
telescope At the University of Virgin
Ia has cecn beguI----School teachers
IN Silver City. New Mexico, are paid
$3.50 month. ........It is stated that
within the next two months $4,000
barrels petroleum will be shipped from
Baltimore THE shipments OF boots
and shoes from New England last
week to Baltimore were larger than
to any other city III the coantry, and
aggregated Si5o, 900 in value - Ii ia
asserted that lo,,ooo negroes i'm the
United States are Roman Catholics
......Col. King. OF Texls, has sold his
ranch and cattle near San Antonio
for four million dollars 10 an English
syndicate. This is said to he the arg.
est ranch IL the world In the last
two years the Okeechobe Land and
improvement Company, OF Florida,
has drained and rendered susceptible
OF cultivation 535 ,285acres 49,. An
other Blind Tom has come to aston
ish and plague the American public
A colored boy, nine years old, at
Rome, GA, is said TO play tho piano
like an educated performer The
extensive works or the Howe Sewing
Machine Company in Bridgeport.
Conn, were partly burned on tho Goth
ult. The Buildings destroyed occupi.
ed three sides Of square and were
four stories high. The loss on the
buildings, machinery and stock burn
ed Is about $3.50, 900, Insurance s275,-
600. a large five story brick build.
ing opposite, occupied in part by the
company. WAS saved, together with Il
portion OF the foundry ....At bur-
Der shop IL Gloucester, Mass, some
days ago, while Il female barber was
shaving customer the lightning
knocked the razor out of her hand
and cnt piece of his ear Off. One
hundred and eighty houses have been
destroyed by fire i'll a town in Russia
The jury in the case Of ex-rreasurer
Iolk, tried ut Nashville, Tenn, for
embezzlcmcnto OF State funds, brought
IN Il verdict OF guilt OH the Goth ult..
and fixed The penalty at twenty years
imprisonment in the pcnitentiary and
n tlnc 10 the fall amount OF the en-.
bezzlcnc:It, which was about $500.
ooo----TEe government OF the United
States does not own an acre of public
land within the borders of Tennessee.
1t costs Turkey fifteen millions of dol
lars annually to support the Sultan
and h's harem Last year Arizo.
na produced over IL 900. 900 pounds
OF copper. Thus far during the pres,
ent year the increase has been 80 per
cent, and new furn aces are going up.
Arizona's output will probably he a,
least $1,000, 900 pounds for 1883 =.
1t Is estimated that there are 900 900
Mormons IN tie United States, and
that the society is rapidly growing
Every member Of 1t is foe to our
laws and institutions. yet how to dis
pose OF them is difficult question.
...'.....A larger elephant than Jumbo
has arrived III England. This is said
to be by tie New York Tribune the
largest captive elephant i'll the world
He IS not qnitoso high as Jumbo, bnt
bu!kler, weighing nearly five tons.
His trunk measures in its tlIickost
part three and one half feet in crs
conference - The parents of fifteen
{ IN, ( l..
cd for q Wholesale marriage of their
daughters on n certain feast day. The
girls didn't like their prospective lius-
bard, and went III body TO the nv.
er and dreamed themselves on ;he eve
OF the ieast.........The yield OF wheat
in llar:ord county Maryland, this year
is unprecedented. Judge Walters.
ON his farm at Thomas's Run. j, is
thought will have so bushels 10 the
acre. Harry Wilson, near Belair. ilas
thra5hed his crop, and had by meas
urement from tho thresher so bush
els OF Fultz wheat on 13 acres. or 40
bushels 10 the acre Father Bosco.
the famous Italian missionary. is now
in Paris. He has erected scminarios
which contain 10000 poor boys. lie
furnishes 600 priests every year To the
church. Over twenty thousand priests
educated by him are now PREACHING
in various parts OF the world. lie is
almost blind and very feeble. In
manner he il childlike, simple and
gcn'le------ltcports from. all sections
OF Lancaster county, Pa, show thnt
the bail and rain-storm Of SATURDAY.
| night last was more destructive than
was indicated b. tie earlier rcpori.
Over thousand acres OF growing To-
bacco were completely DESTROYED.
much Of which. however. il insured.
The streams were greatly swollen, aud
several bridgcc carried AWAY. num.
Der OF narrow escapes from drowning
| beng rcpor'cd------The next Demo.
cratic National Convention will be-
composed OF 500 delegates. Uuder
the two-thirds rule il will relnire 3jj
to nominate------T The Boston Adver.
user says spool thread paid daty OF
twenty cents Oh tie dozen spool4. and