South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1883-07-20
NEWS OF THE DAY.

WALTZ OsA ANS-SA A@is.~N'
N. IA Young msn il Oisego
county, gained sl25 eco on The rise in
hops within the last year....It is esti
mated that Texas has 1000. 600 acres
OF land that is capable OF raising suzsr
.--.There are nearly six thousand
Americans residing in Paris Refrig-
Grated beef is rspidly gaining favor in
Philadelphia. The new move has cut
do.a the pr;ces OF fresh mes. wonder
ful.y-.-.Since the passage OF tho pen
sion law the number Of attorneys before
the Office has increased from 4 0G0 to
1000. =. No less than 200 children un
der ten years OF sge died during the
frst week OF this month In Baltimore.
The chief cause o. death was ctolera in.
fantum from which there were IS deaths
..-.Within the last Tour weeks 10000
.ierces Of lard. worth over So .000. 900,
have been shipped from Chicago..-.
John Melody. of Kcyser, died last week
iroo, cancer on the tongue, the result
Of smoking siyarettes. IA farmer
near Harper's Ferry hal n litersry set
Of harvest hanls-four preachers one
elder aud teacher-all colored.
Three American Bishops died on The
ith inst Purcell. McMullen and
Pinckney -. Leadv Hes mines con-.
tinue TO produce 10000 tons week
The arul7 worm has made its appeal
ance il the northern section OF Ian
caster county, Pa, in large numbers,
and is committing ravages in the tobac.
CO llelds. More than half million
Of property ives destroyed by q recent
food at LONDON, Ontario. :. Florida's
cigar p-oScct for this year is estimated
ut 81 .O0o,0OO cigars. Five girls were
made very sick by tue extract OF lemon
used IN making ice cream for fourth
OF July dinner near Paris One hun
dred and Seven couples wko though,
themselves iIlsortel, aud too many o;
whom, perhaps, were go. apple, for
divorces in tic Connecticut Supreme
Court during the FIST six months Of
this year. Immense petroleum fields
have just 5cen Gilcoverel in North
western Wy oiDing Dir. John X
Keller. OF Mi liietown, Frederick coun
ty, Virginia, while engaged in thrcsh.
ing rye recently, wac severly injured
by the bursting Of one Or the cylinder,
of Tic machine he was using 9. The
corn crib Of George w. Moler. in Jcf-
ferscn county, w2s destroyed by fire .
few days ago. Ills four ear old son
got hold or some ma'c hes and went cu
10 play 10 wagon containing straw
standing under the .hcd, aud in n few
minutes oil was in blazo 1t is
said tbat Percy Shehan, n boy six years
old. living in TraPpo district. Talbot
County, Md, who has been to school on
~ six days, is described Us prodigy
in figures. Ito can calculate mentally
the most difficult sums in arithmetic.
and give the answer Instantly. Ills
powers of calculation ere wonderful.
and he is Quick t, learn anything -.
Two valuable horses ~ere frightened,
by the firing CT n cannon on the Alb
inst. III Wetzel county, this state,
which caused them TO run until they
droppsd dead ...The Needles, on The
Colorado river, has the reputation o.
being the hottest plaza on The coast
Last week be mercury registered 1870
degrees in the shale It. is 80 warm
there flat it is almost Impossible to
handle metallic articles or implements
without gloves, and even pick handles |
become SO hot as 80 be very nnco,n
Portable ia man was fined $40 for
swearing on tho streets OF Baltimore a |
few days ago and IN default Of payment
vas sont TO jail for Lhiry days.
Much satisfaction is expressed in |
Eng land at the governments indorse- |
nent of the new canal scheme OF NJ. d.
Lesseps. ...It costs Sutherland sl4l.ss
~ TAA'N HSNHNs ~ bLHU /
iocS TO feed him n year Hen. Mark /
Alexander of Mccklenburg county. the !
oldest living eX cougrcssmnn, died A.
The residence Of bis daug ter, at Scot
land Neck, y. c., Thursday night, the /.
5.h instant, in the eighty SIX year OF |
his ge....According 70 New York I.
physician, bydrade Of chloral threatens
10 become o more dangerous drug than
opium in any Of is forms. Adyices
from San Domingo says that Congress
has fixed the export duty on tobacco at
! I 80 per quintal FIR shipments made
daring tho period from February to June
and only 50 cents per quintai for ship
ments between June and February. The
objects are 70 prevent tie expectation
OF immature tobacco. Congress has al
so put All import duty OF II per cen {.
on Mexican silver IT Is 10 mOred
that Queen Victoria is becoming insane.
like her grandfather. George III. Tie
DriucipAl ground To- THE n lief racus