South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1883-05-25


- sonshs sxessd b $ss. ooo. 600 che
shipnsnts for The sans period last year.
....Hsli. he sslspbons invesios 10
worth s!E- aI1llion dollars. Tie fret
engiue ever built for the b. & y COM
pany vas sent 10 Chicago this week 70
bs placed on exhibition there. .. i. 10
, claimed that CSC. 600. 900 Was invested
last year by English aud Scotch capi-
talists An tho 1.-Two. stock business In Wy.
oming and Texas y. uardiug.a white
man. WAS fatally shot a his house on
the Kennedy and Adams section Of the
West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh
Railway Oh Tuesday night OF last week.
John Smith, a muIait, section boss, is
suspected Of having committed tie
crino -. Bishop Jesse Truesdell Peck
Of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died
, q. Syracuse. N. Y. On the 18th inst.
Of pneumonia. in the 73d year Of bis
sge. There is great excitement at
6uaymss, Mexico. over the reported
discovery OF gold in Lower California
Thirty.seven persons sailed from Gnay.
mas for Muiss on Saturday, and the
fare has. Iisen from IS 20 SIC IA
trestle bridge across The Lake Pont-
chartraio. On the Now Orleans anil
| Northeastern railroad. will be twenty.
one miles long "A large sam OF cur
vanav n ,aanpou v.A fr.,,o osxa oe ti,c ,.,t,
lie departments says tile Rio Ners,
not long ago. The explapation of the
ofiic'a in charge il that white
ants got iuto the box containing the
money and destroyed it. reducing it
even to powder. >. Siberia now ranks
only barely below the unitei States
and Australia as gold producing
country. The best Russian authorities
think its mines will yield ally or quite
1925. 900. GOO worth Of metal this year,
and the output is ste ably Increasing.
80. R1her. Lewis, VI Higerstown, MI,
who is % years Old, has jus. flashed
the mason work OF o c'stern which he
had constt ucted with his own hands.
A package containing two drafts one of
$1,000. another OF 5000 and IS gold
piece. belonging to q laiy i, Beaure-
gard, Mississippi. was found ITO miles
from that place, blown there by the
cyclone. - Tue old Chapman mansion,
stone building ante-dating the Ievo-
lu,hnary war, situated i'm Thorough.
faro Gap, Fauquier county. Virginia,
Was burned On Friday last Eben
kidder. Of Stowartstom Maine. mad,
a ton OF fGsple sugar this season.
| Nine crates Of cherries were received at
Now fosk from the South, las, week,
emil fo~ small lots or peaches from
Florida were selling at 81 u s. 80
per dozen. Mr.. jeff Rice, oil Bath
county, Kentucky, is tho owner OF q
horse that was in the Confederate SER
vice from the bsg nnirg 70 the cl> $, oi
Tue war. and rs s,,ll pretty good hose.
..-.At townsville. Missouri,is = couple
who have been married seventy five
years. Husband and wife are each 95
years old. Peter Dogart. the husband,
ls in poor health. but Mrs. Bogart is
smart. and does her own homework -
They have the 9th generation living
The negroes of Mont ,omety, Ala.
are in a state OF perfect terror On ac.
count or an item III the papers stating
that a party Of Philadelphia medical,
students were on their way dow there
10 select number OF the healLhies, he :
groeS they could find and kill them in
tue interett Of science. The women run
from every stranger they see and the
men all carry an extra razor. Henry
Willard, president OF the Northern Pa.
c'fc Railroad, has returned to New
York from trip over tue ROAD, and
yesterday submitted 10 the directors Of
the company most encouraging nc.
count of tho condition OF affairs in the
Pacific States. lIo says that Calfor-
MIA Will have, perhaps the largest wheat
crop sho ever raised. The crop pros
poets in Western Oregon and ths cas-.
tern part of Washington Territory are
unusually good. Tie Oregon and Cal.
ifornia Division Of the Northern Pacific
he says, will be completed ia thirteen
months. At Helena and Butte CITY.
Montana, thousands Of tons OF ora are
waiting on the dump for shipment via
TIE Northern Pacific TO Baltimore and
elsewhere. The Continuous cold wea.
ther of the present spring has given
rise 10 toe speculation tina. Tho year OF
1883 may be similar 70 the year OF
1916 the year without summer. Tn
TO the present line The weather Of 1883
} has been strangely like tie spting of
J 1916. 10 that remarkab,e year Ja1u.
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