South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1883-06-01
NEWS OF THE DAY

dlnsrent State government eb,ut Si6,
100000 per annun, an the Con,nis-
sicuer OF Agriculture ssys IL ccsls $50
ceo,OOO per snnun 10 iced lhcm 4
million and half o, youns shs6 were
Turned loose ia james Rive. last FRI
day. BY Col. MeDonsid. Fab ccmmi..
sioner for vir.iuia... .Psris has asout
a .ho0ssAd fires yesr =. I, only costs
four cents q pound 10 scud butter from
Nebraska % New York. Gen Gus
iis Leo has drawn SIPS, Coo OF tue
$4,000 appropriated by Congress for
Arlington. The remaining Sto.Q00 ~
held for SUCH taxes as ;Oay "a due on
the estate. Three s,.s =; ships, with
., 30 immigrants. arrived al Baltimore
on Saturday ard Sunday last. /. q. Ne~
Orleans exported one ffi. the corr
sh'ppsd abroad during april 'Nome,
Sweet .ione WAS recently played in
New York. and distinctly heard by tel
ephone IN Chicago. -. "a .stal type OF
measles is pr,yafing At ST sonyillc, IL y
ma" ha county. this state, which lie Ink.
ing Off whole families. :. /. Frederick
Douglass denies the statement tina, he
is worth 100000 or $3.50, 600, and de-
c!ares that both his fortune and his
annual incoiAs are very greatly over
route trials are getting ask. bus still
the anod o. oral0ry, IL 500 day,
sweeps on 80. Next year, 1884, will re
the centennial year of American Meth
! cdisin. Not that McinoIism was in
troaucod here That year. the frs. soci-
city being form in i7!D, bu. in lis /
he Methodist Episcopal Caurch was
organized, AID he d!ifrron. branches of
The church are preparing TO celebrate
tie event. The completion OF the iron
| hii'ss oI tbs Atlantic and pscito Rail
way over the Canon Disblo, in Arizona
adds ano:heT 10 the liz! or higa bridges.
|; spans dsIk, gloomy gorge. The
bridge ID 240 feet above ihe Naler. AMI
oil feet long. Ii ns;shs $3.50
pounds, and cost $2CU.CoG VI est
Virginia had fost graduates frou, Js.-
'eison ii sdicrl College a. PhiladvI1h.n
this sp:ing. or, Oh !. class of 200
GIiisau's bones bavs been polished up.
strung on wiros and paced on Exhibi-
ton Ia ths Army Medical Museum AZ
Washington ID. c.. The Iamou. Haht,-
balm fsnliy, Ike al Of eartL aTs fast
passing sway. Another nembar, The
Hon. lsra.l Wa aburn jr. OF Maine.
died q, fhiialsiphha May l2.h, Of par.
aij Sc. he was The Cl!est of the ave
fanons bro hers. - Neu York doct ,rs
ha'T found that pneumonia Increase,
every year, ANA npte ~ catiaus fac:
mat tie malay prevails 10 the months
OF The highest winds, ami that the NUN.
Der oil deaths incre..,e =, thu wind IN.
ereasos.... Mrs.. Thomas Hines. of
Green Island, nesr Troy, n y. after q
s'ru2 sIe OF eleven years. has resolved
pens'on prPers fer $780, and an al
!o"nncc OF S75 per uonth. Her bus.
bands head was Injured al the battle of
GsttysbGrg. and lie Is now al inmate o.
tile soldiers iussre Asylum ut Wa.h.
ingtUn 1t IS stated thu: Rev. J. II
Thompson. lac president OF Tho State
University, has received call from
chu:cl III Brc"klyn, 81 salary Of So
zoo. George J"hason, son Of rrad-
'ah John1on, Ct Now York, died Al tie
A !insto l"use, Hot Springs. .rk.n.
saS. Oh he 2ls; alt. lie awoke during
the nigh, before and ct MP TO get =
hrnk from the pitcher. the mouth Of
"hic'. 1.s broken. Tbs pitcher fell and
severed the femotal artery. lie was
found Pnlseleas and specc!iess in his
blood. and although surgical aiG was
rendered, be died during Tie day. TIE
body was embalmcd and sen. 10 New
York In 1892 there were cish, nil
lion barrels Of salt consumed in the L
njIed States. Nearly three fonrihs OF
The quantity was made ia this ccun.
try, Michigan alone producing sbou,
three AMI quarter m,IIioHbarrels Salt
was sTSt made st Sfracoss BY white
men in tic year 1888, wien tie anna.
al prod &C. was 100 barfds, in 1850 it
was CO., 900 barrels. Tho f s. salt
male in Mich gao in lSG', when
tLe annual product was 40 barrels in
1877 il was ,G6l 600 barrels g.. Ali
gator steskIs sail % he a F1rida dain-
ty.-..An Cd lady living il Micaizcn
50 years Of hgc, within the past two
yoars has knitted tncriy-ionr pairs Of
socks and Stockings and four pairs Of
nIt,ens and made and q1ited uino
patchwork quilts, some OF them Uf very
M iuGtc pieces aBd intricate patterns. DO
sides assisting with Ito housowork and
. doing gcnerH! seSias Tor the family.