South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1883-07-13
NEWS OF THrs DAY.

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r1o bundled s.d sese.sykvs dsGsAs
~ers reported IA BaatiuWe durlng Vbe
~eek ended Saturday e~eni.g, 81 more
chan tbc corresponding week of lss3
49,. Du6ng tbe past week there wore
over Eve t,rndeea deaths IN Dauie.sa,
egypt from eLdera TIE Aisea>e is
raesky spreading 49, SIX tAo1 saAd { Il i.
Tie we're d~o~~sd by tLe i.ss G,eA ia
tAe AtssissFS,a. and Eve thousand fan
lies were aaae asasea betwee. St.
Losss aad Keekrt The casz aitiss
IA Chicago eenseaueas upoa sAe eele-
srasica 81 tho FoartA uzubeeed -, II.
siadi.g 3 AessAs 5 fatally wounded.
. mere or less Usincd Cor life, and 2
slightly snjared. The chief in Rrumeut 9
Of destruction proved 70 be toy pistols
and snail caaaous-. 1T. Rev. Wm.
Pinkaey. ID. d., IL d, Bishop OF the
Episcopal Diocese OF Maryland, and
rector Of Ascension Church, washiss-
too, died very saddeaiy at Cockeys.
VILE. baltimore county. ON the Fourth Of
congestion Of che heart. "A father
and son quarrcied 10 Graves county,
Ky, 40 60 who should ride . resper,
when the father killed bis son BY
crushing In his skali with . club
....Ttsre we're dve deaths from drown.
ing in Baltimore on the Fourth ins
....In burning cabin in Franklin
county, Ca. two colored children per.
ished. aud dog which had been left.
with them refused to leave them, and
was burned to death by their side d. :.
Josiah I. Walls. Florida's colored Con.
gressman. will make between $1,000
aud $4,000 net from his vegetable crops
this. season. The cattle that were
shipped from Georgia recently are dy-
ing on the Texas prairies. Tue wealth.
er is too hot for them The Virginia
Chemical Works at Richmond was des =
'royed by fire few days since. There
was an insurance on tue works and con
tents Of about $1,000. ...A fsmily OF
i've persons father, mother and three
children-were drowned in the Ohio riv-
er. 70 miles below Madison. Ind., one
evening, last week tho waves from .
passing sseamer upsetting their siif
....Thomas Ball, the sculptor. began
life as painter, but. becoming dsgu s,ed
with a picture which wouldn't come
right. 10 took MP clay and modelled q
bust Ok Jenny Lind. which had immed.
late success and determined his future
.-..A shaft is TO be raised over the
spot where Custer and his brave com.
psnions fell, upon which will he insert.
bed the names OF the heroic dead.
Virginia has 5.5S7 schools. of which
over /, SEQ are colored. Great forest
fires are raging south OF Kalama, WASH
ington Territory. The losses SO f. are
estimated at 5000, 900. AT the Chill
dren's Home in Cincinnati q boy 5 years
of nge fell into q well forty-fve feet
deep, at the bottom of which a mar
was digging The boy alightod on the
back of the well-digger, but neither
was hurt. Selma. Ala. has over six.
ty artesian wells. and the water from
no two OF them is exactly alike. "A
three year old Child fell GU, OF a car
window recently, near Chrisman, ILL
nois, while the train was going twenty
miles an hour. The cars were stopped
and backed. The little fellow. unhurt,
had recovered from the surprise OF his
fall. and was following the train....
A ten 'ycar.old boy returning home
from church at Cheboygan, Mich. re.
Gently slipped and fell. A pistol which
ho carried in his pocket WAS discharged,
killing him instantly There is talk
of reinstating Dorsey as secretary OF
the National republican committee,
since he has been acquitted. By all
means. He would certainly be the
right man in the right place. "A piece
OF property in st. Louis sold on the 5tb
OF July, 1879 for two thousand francs,
Cess thaa $4,000 to be paid for in deer.
SKINS is said now TO be worth u ore
than Sl0.O00,000. Had the 500 been
loaned at 10 per cent per annum in.
terest compounded, the sum would now
exceed $40 100000. .. There is said 10
be one physician 10 every IS families
in the United States. wv. ID. Liz
ingston of sylvsnia, Ca, says that as
ho was crossing the Little Ogeechet
Creek abopt two weeks since he saw
fifty snakes all twisted and plated 10
getber, there being rattlesnakes. BLACK
snakes, moccasins, garter snakes, ra
snakes, coach whips, adders. gophe
snakes, king and pilot snakes in tn,
list, and all seemingIy in good humo
Ia Georgia oolored mother dreamed
/ sha waa hoatinu nv ccrru,ool for hrood