South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1883-07-27
Nrws OF THE DAY.

The reports from al over Inc country
saw that wheat 10 much bcit than was
q expected. .Connscticut was the first
State in the Union TO coin money 80.
rhcrc are twenty 6ve copper furnaces
in Tennessee which turn out on annual
yield OF 2.600. 900 pounds OF "copper".
The report that the Mexican government
had made settlement with the English
10 denicj. Il is said that
the Egyp tian Bank At Paris has offered
To place . loan OF $4,000. 900 for the
Mexican government. =. There 10
fresh influx OF assist CT immigrants com.
inc by the way Of Canada. Tho Illi-
n"is State veterinary surgeon reports
CHAMBERS prevalent In sixteen counties.
80. The greatest length Of tue United
States from east to west is $500 mites;
greatest breadth from north to south, I,
600 average breadth. 1900 miles. =.
be Kanawha express or the Oh ,.apcake
aud Ohio Railroad struck q stone near
Fayeite CONTIGUOUS, this Safe, on
Friday, which throw the engine and
eight cars or the track. The engineer.
Frank Hyper. was killed. =. The great
est drawback 10 sheep ranchipg in the
Wost at prcs,rt IL the severe diseases
tina. are ravasirg many of tho hocks OF
the range. few years ct Corpora
ton Oh tho part of the farmers aud
creamery men Of Iowa, has brought the
business to be SO profitable that TO day
the dairy product is valued AT S25. 900.
900. Work will not DO resumed OIL
tho Washington monument until next
autumn. but as soon as marble arrives,
under the new contract with Mr.. Hugh
Sisson. of Baltimore, which j. is expec-
eel will be before tho middle Of August
the stonccutters will go to work shap-
ing l. Tor the monument. When Da.
VII Davis was young man he bought
a piece Of lsnd every year, this has
b, Ell held and cuel FOR, and now he is
worth Si,000.00o or so, mostly repre-
S"SS" ~ 'S"' SstA v. Ilc never spec
ulates. and never owned any stock, OK.
,ept come III bank he helped to start
at MS home Tho Kansas City Times
says high license has closed 100 saloons
IN Kansas City, and that this is more
than Prohibition has accomplished i'm
thirty years....A suDterranca can forest.
seven feet be,oS the surface al the
ground, has lcen discovered in Chasev
CLIFTON coun:y, n. Y. Many of The
trees are ID u, excellent STATIC of pres
ervation. .Tne State Tax Commis.
Sion Of West Virginia held is first meet.
Ing In Ch1llcs,own on the 2tull of TAI,
month Michael Poets. aged IL years,
while reading the Bible III his bo,sc, on
tue Shaker road, six miles from ALBANY
N L.. WAS struck 10y lightning and kill
ed. His clothing was stripped from
his back ani his fash laccratcd
Mrs. a. L. Stewart has donated SIS 600.
ooo Tor the erection and support of, in
The city OF New York, ono OF tn, lar
5cst colleges in the United States. The
building. work upon which is to begin
iinms lately, will bo the lar5es, and fiu.
cs. collegiate cdilice on this si.lc or the
Atlantic, if no, in tho world Two
dwarfs acre married in Ufbana. OHIO
Gu Friday evening last. Charles Wool.
cy. the groom, is four feet three inches
IN height and weighs lls pounds, The
bride, Miss Florence BitimaD, is four
feet high AMI weighs los poands. Both
arc over twenty lone years of ago :. Il.
is said that five hundred sal IONS will be
closed in st. Louis by the 6rs, of Sep
tember. Good for tie working of the
hISh license law. Nicholas Russ ell of
Bedford county, Pennsylvania. cut seven.
" dozen sheavcs Of wheat Off Of ono aero
and half OF grouni. 1t IL new kind
OF wheat. Two yetrs ago Mr. Russell
g"l Two heads Of wheat from Missouri
and this year 10 will get half a buslel
oil wheat from the increase from these
Two heads IA runaway couple from
virginia were married on the bridge nt
harper's Ferry late Thursday Of last
week The parties were Mr.. A. II.
Shank and Miss r. G Nicely. from
llarrisonburg. Va....W, u. Fletcher
aud two soas age ii and ID Of Tyler
county. took shelter under s1 oak tree
in corn field, during severe t'iun-
der shower. The tree was struck by
lightning aad tue youngest son insian.
tiy killed, bis clothes being torn into
shreds, and the father AMI other son
we're stunned aud rssuscitated with diff
Guilty The fnal dividend OF the
Freeeman's Savings'and Trust Company
is now being paid at ths offi,e Of the
commissioned in Washington city, Which
makes 62 per cent 10 all. The amount
required TO pay this dividend is s!s2 =
3o7.T2, Of which sum $3.50 has oil
ready been paid The Pres .yterians