South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1883-09-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.

y MAXIM IRE 49, je lndian population OF
tic United States is nov only $4,000
.--.Cs'crrh'srs sre Seriously aamag
ing Lolisisnts cotton crop .Aibsay
ships shoH, 1000 barrels or potatoes
daily &c tSe city of New York Tue
coffee AMI sugar crops Of Java were bad
iy damaged by the la'e voicani: erup-
ioas.--.Dr R,bcr, A. Lrc1s, ot J.f-
ferson CT Ints this sac. dirR ia ,sdsv
! OF last week - t~enty-ssyca ihousapd
thiee hundred ard Gig i...ea deaths nave
| occurred from cholera since its outbreak
10 Esrp:. Portland. Oregon, had on
ly a5ou, 5000 population twenty years
ago. At the Willard Celebration the
other d. " sl'e hal proc sss',u two miles
| long IA process has been invented
| by which heavy parks can lie manufac-
tuted from s.ra~ 80. The ltrgest ii Gee
of wool repaired FOR this year VAS takec
! from French Merino ram owned a.
Los Angeles, Cal. L. weighed 63l
! pounds. Polk county, Fia., will gath
er 5000 900 oranges from 10 900 trees
this season -. Il :ruhl:rs are NJ. always
uugratciul The United Sta'c- has
paid its soldiers 500, 100000 ~ pea.
sions =. There are 200, 900 com nercial
travellers in the Uni.ed States. They
cost their employers, il i, estimated,
| $500 600. 900 year The peanut
crop will add s6,00O.00 to the wealth
of The Nation. 'Despise not the day Of
small things. An Atlanta, Ca, child
wac so badly lacernted by stray cat
which it attempted 20 pat tina. it will
die. Buffalo has more miles OF rail
road track within her corporate limits
than any other city. An exchange
says there is N IN on exhibition a. u
Dime museum in Milwaukee whose
beard is seven feet long. Ii began TO
grow in abundance whom he was twelve
years old LAP eight-leggcd calf Is
the product OF Kentucky. Two-legzed
ones are too common TO attract any at
tention Within three years the nun
! Der OF saw mills in Arkansas has in
creased from $40 TO over | POO.
| E'even Hundred assisted Irish pauDers
were recently landed in Cl1ad, ana are
being sent across into tho States from
different points BY stealth. Quite
number have bean sent back 10 Canada
from Buffalo - Tho peach- growing
! centre IS gadually moving south. 4
| few years ago there were great orchards
in New Jersey. Then Delaware was
the chief producer. Now Maryland and
| Virginia are coming II The from. The
largest peach farme are in Mary land.
) The Round Top farm las rs, 900 peach
tTees. On the estate OF Col Watkins
there are l2),00U trees a peach tree
usefulness is over after ten or twelve
years Of life. and the soil n which il
grows is unfit fos- peach culture The
old Industry OF glass making has bad
such revival in Venice that 5000
! peoPlo now make bcada, While many
others ere employed in glass blowing
| and mosaic Other nrtq, which haze
/ just revived, are artistic castings in met
al and lace making. and the marufac.
/ lure Of furniture in imitation of antique
designs in ebony and ivory has been
/ begun IA circus fat woman veigh-
ing 592 pounds. has just IN nrricd man
who Weighs only 1870. Tie lies musr
/ have theiI pets -.Ol Eciday nigh
last Richard Browa OF Pittsburgh, his
wife and five children while at supper,
ne heartily OF canned corned beef.
and about an bout later all were attack
cd witt violent pains in The stomach,
accompanied by vomiting. 4 physi-
clan waa called in AID pronounc i the
symptoms those Of poisoning One Of
thc children, Wesley, aged IL years,
/ grew rapidly worse, and died at o.
clock Saturday morning. The other
members OF tie family are still in
| serious condition, but il il though, will
/ recover THE herring fisheries Of
Scotland employ nearly 100000 people
one'seVenth OF the population, The
boats represent m Jnsy yal1c OF 3d.
100000. The aunutl YELL OF cured
fish has risen from 10000 barrels early
In The century to 100000 and has
[ trebled in City years, while in the same
period tho value OF tn nets has increas-
ei % ger cent....The petroleum field
! OF California IS reported by visitor