South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1883-10-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Ihos. FerTeSee.-- The potato crop OF
ireland Is said to 6e unusually good
1t is said ,aat tao thousand four aan-
dfec and fifty watches are nsnu!actur-
ed IN this colnrty ,very working day In
The Sear. 1t is said that General
Grant is now million aire The Ter.
mination OF tong stnpdiny cbancery
suit IA England is said 10 have left sew
etai Portsmouth, residents, one of them
nofkhoase paupcr, entitled to an estate
valued from $500. 900 to 81 600 OO0
Home Springfield, o ply scians are
speeuiatin2 upon the influence of the
telephone upon the sense of hearing.
ihey have found several cases wherein
oisease oil tue year has been aggravated
ny using it,. There has been but one
ram Ia Iazoo county, Miss. since lest
spring Bertha has nearly 600 million
aires - The world consumes . O0o OOo
IONS OF tobacco year Mr. G. T.
fagenhart, skillful machinis,. Of
tCiarke county, Va. has constructed a
steam buggy, In which he is maxim,
good time over the country roads OF
Clarke. lie says he can travel twentv
miles an hour with his steam buoov
....Of the deaths in Boston during the
past year Is per cent. resulted from
diptheria. Texas organized sixty
elsht new counties last year, making
zoo In the State. The increase Of her
taxable property in the year was $50
ooo,0OO- There were 1873 deaths in
baltimore laat week -. The figures for
the past eight months show that the
shipments during the present wear of
California fruits to the East will agpre.
gate ~ OOO tons, an increase of over
eioht hundred per cent. in three years
-. Within ten years, writes a Western
man, thirty California milionaires have
diad and not one OF them was distjn.
gulshed in life for anything bui his mon.
ey. .Vennor has Southern riva, in
Preseason G. II. Gather, of Alabama
who says that the winter will be very
cold and early, and Phenomenal for
Its raroxysmnl spells of heat, succeed
ed by intense Geld over The country
Arkansas has paid the United States
government an aggregate Of nearly So
100000 IN the shape of internal reye-
nue. tax during porioi or twenty. one
years. Crops of 200 bushels and oc-
cssionaliy over that amount, OF strawber
ries ara reported to an acre, $50 bush
els being only q fair crop, states DR..
iiosElDs, OF Vermont. and at 10 cents
a quart such crop viii return S47O
per acre, more than half OF which is
clear profit -. The Las Vegas GAzErrE
says that John Quincy Adams, who is
we'll known in Socorro county, New
Mexico. has sold third interest in his
late fad for $4,000. While prospec
ting he found his hav on fire. his
ptospector's glass having focused the
suns rays upon IL. AS the haversack
contained six pounds of powder, h.
dropped it and got on, of TIE way. 1t
fell into a creyicc, anil large mass Of
rock was blown up Adams turned
mourntuily to gather up what might lie
LEI. OF his effects, end found vein Ct
silver that the explosion had exposed 10
view -. During thunder storm in Mil.
ford township, Pa, two gi,ls, Ella EIa-
! 10y and lizzie Harris. took refuge in 4
sprInghouse. Lightning struck The house
and both girls were knocked senseless
When they recovered it was found tina,
the electric fluid had singed Miss Ma.
loy's eyebrows and banged her hair as
nicely as though it had been donc with
pain of scissors Mr.. Spurgson =
publications have an enormous sale in
Scotland, where Eo is venerated
There will be over seven hundred fairs
held in the Ulitsd States this fall
Two million, five hundred thousand.
baskets Of PEACHES were shipped from
Delaware this season .. Lieut. Story,
recently returned from Alaska 70 San
| Francisco on The revenue steamer Cor
win, reports !Lc discovery in Alaska of
an immense river more than 800 miles
in length, and reported by 'ho Indians
40 bc 20 miles wide at some points
The authorities Ct the district of IIuas-
teca, Mexico, have ordered every man 10
destroy one peel; OF lo2ust5 daily under
penalty Of fine or a peck ~ corn
/ Tie oldest church nov standing. ercc.
t,d hy the Eogish s,ttlers in a morica.
IS situated in lsle Of Wight county, five
miles from SmithGeld on the main road
| from Suffolk, 10 m open trac, OF wood
land. This venerable old building was
erected, It is believed. in 1852
/ TWENTY cotton mills in northern Gcor-
( sia pay - per cont. dividends annually.
and new ones nre luild'ng when
Major T. i 6Iboft F., bocLc1o.r ,.f,ri, -