South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1883-11-16
NEWS OF The DAY.

/ Strh5 attley, OF Randolph County,
( this State, killed three beats few
days ago------A flock of blackbirds
I estimated ut mile i'm length flew
southwark over Parsons, Kansas. one
morning last week .- Two steam,
ers recently brought over 500, 900 in
/ gold from Europe is estimated
that ten thousand hunters are killing
deer aud buffalo ia Montana. along
Tie line OF tho Northern Pacific Rail
road There were 134 deaths in
Baltimore last week ........ Tie daily
receipts of ca,tl G in St. Louis number
eight hundred 90 one thousand. In
Chicago from six thousand TO twel ve
Observation-Disclosures Simors. aged
sixteen years, OF CLARKE county, Va.
was Killed on Saturday last by the ac-
cidental discharge Of his gun
Nearly ten thousand persons IN the
State OF Missouri receive pensions
from tue government as soldiers OF
the rebellion. $500. james w. Jones
wealthy North Carolina PLANTER.
and one OF the largest men in that
State, died last week. lie WAS gem
orally known rs Big Jim Jones, ana
his weight Was over five hundred
pounds......Th capital at Washir g
ton cost $l7,672, l23 ....... English
doctors say ten drinking is causing
more mental and physl al diseases
tnan beer drinking ..... The tish-can-
ming establishment 1T Astoria. Greg on,
yields about two million dollars.
The largest oyster she'll in the world
is in the church OF 81. Surpl.cc, in
Paris. 1t weighs over 500 pounds.
and 10 used IA a baptismal font 80.
Mr. Blaine ia finding literature much
more lucrative than Congressional
work. For bis now book he gets
$4,000 cash down and row atty OF
fifteen cents a volume General
Sheridan is now in command CT die
y. 5. Array There il Il cnlorcd
church III New York city whose lead
ing members have property valued nj
tour million dollars - 4 mountain
OF copper ore has been discovered III
/ Nevada .---l Is estimated that there
are eleven million horses in the Uni.
ted States, one third OF which IRE
used Tor Icasure, driving, or riding.
The silk industry is mai,ns progress
n Utah. For tic weel; ending Oct.
20, the receipts OF cattle at the Nhca-
50 stock yard4 were the largas; ever
known. The number amounted to
upwards Of Gfly-twO thousand head.
exclusive OF calves Barnuu,' 4
tat woman is dead died in The midst
OF her honey moon John L.
Soldering, of Akron, Ohio, has taken
out entfor making paper bbls
HoFatio Seymou: thinks it would be
nnwise to give the ballot to women.
- they have now about az much pow
CT and influence rs is good for c,!.e r
sex IA deaf young lady in Mil.
ford, Mass who COLL receive n,
benefit from other artifcla! aida of
hearing, is said to have discovered
that she hears cOnvcrsaiiol ~ distinctly
by placing a slender wooden rod
galnst The throat mu,rle3 CT IT, per
son talking and holding the other enI
cI tie stick in Der own teeth ..
Northern Maine is &lrcady buried M.
der six inches Of SNOW .--VhIce fac
tories IN the United States consume
hc"rl9 two million eggs year in
making peculiar Kind OF paper used
by photographcrs........Mrs. j liza
Morrison, respectable cclorel wo.
man, who lives in Pcnnly'vlnil. has
undergone u complete transformation
IN her color About two years AFRO
white spots began to appear on her
face and arms, and Increased in mum.
Der and SIZE until now they cover her
whole person The physicians VINO
have examined her arc ut loss to nc,
count for this remarkable changs
/ ..."....Senaior Vance, of North Caro-
lima, in speaking OF his career IN
Washington, said recently. Il was
mighty nigh dead 10 get there, bot
III he hanged if ain notnigIer dead
10 get away The business fail.
ures Of the last seven days through
out the United States aud Canada
number 2ll, as against 2l5 the pre-.
vious week 1t is said that hu.