South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1883-11-23
NEWS OF THE DAY.

5f3, officers and men "A steam
bicycle is one of the attractions OF
PbGnix. Arizona.......C Chicago at
the late election, went Democratic by
three thousand........ "a lady in San
Antonio, Texas, has dove nineteen
years old------A Baptist divine esti-
mates that all India will be Christian
lied in fifty years should the present
good work he continued. The
question of the hour is not who struck
Billy Patterson but who struck Bill
ly Mahone?. There were 159
deaths in Baltimore last week 1890
The cholera is raging with fearful
fatality in the city Of Mecca, in Ara
bia. There were 240 deaths from
the epidemic last week.: >. Fish balls
IL Boston are called 'pisca,orial
globes .........New York girls of the
period, it is said, drink goats milk for
the complexion ----One OF the saw
mills OF john son Brothers at Frost
burg was burned Monday morning of
last week. Loss, no insurance, 81 900.
Two hundred Italians, lately en-
rioyed on railroad ut Wilkesnarre.
Pa. have left for Italy. They say A
merica had been misrepresentcd to
them, could hardly earn enough to
live on ------ Ben. Butler announces
himself a candidate for governor of
Massachusetts in 1884 $500 The rice
yield in Louisiana will be larger this
year than ever before - 'Swcll-head,'
q contagious cattle disease has made
its appearance at the Chicago Stock
Yard. ..... A farmer of Suanuee coun-
ty, Fla, has gathered two crops Of
peaches from his trees this year.
La Normandy it is no uncommon
sight to see driver refresh his tired
horse with pail Of CIDER, David
Moses, the husband oe the Bowery fat
bride, who died at Baltimore about
ten days ago, has sold her body to DR..
Alexandria Hill, of that city for SIS.
.........Packages containing 10000
Struggled false teeth were seized in
the mails which arrived at New York
from Germany Saturday last. False
teeth are subject to duty of twenty
per cent Conscience warns US rs
q friend before it Furnishes us as a
Judge 1t is estimated that there are
100000 young women in England
engaged in business The wife of
Congressman Lowery, of Indiana,
tried to cure q feIon on her finger
with oarbolic acid. Amputation is
thought to be Mr.. U.
Mendenhall, of Sir johns Run, Nor
gan county, it is stated, has lost TWEEN
ty-one hogs by cholera this fail. We
learn that Judge John Hovermale, of
the same place, lost all OF his porker5
by the same disease Ii is estimated
that 1oo,o alligators were killed in
Florida last year. There are rs
farmers and forty lawyers ia the Ohio
Legislature. ia lady in Cynthiana,
KY, has = picture Of Abraham Lin
coin woven in black and white silk,
which was made in Lyons, France,
at cost of 5Soo----Mre. Fred. Fisk,
of Canestota, n. Y, has q set of lace
curtains, the work Of her
own hands, and which have occupied
her four years. She has refused an
offer $4,000 for them---Oyster
dredgers in Chesapeake Bay report
that the bivalves are scarce and i'm.
feror in quality Over 4 800 vessels
are now dredging ........A car loaded |
with about 900 live turkeys from
Montgomery county, Va, on the Nor
folk and Western Railroad, arrived at
lIilIen Station, Baltimore, by the
Western Maryland on Monday last.
Execution of John Smith.-John |
Smith, the slayer of Josiah Harden.
was hung at Oakland Md, on Friday
Iast, in The presence of about twenty |
persons He made n full confession /
Of his crime, aud after eating a hearty !
dinner, Mr. Combs. the junior counsel !
who defended him, gave him a cigar |
Shortly after this he was led ont cfI
he jail handcuffed, accompanied by
he Sheriff, two or three deputies and |
Mi. Combs. Smith was smoking his
cigar as he mounted the scatfold aud |
seemed perfectly Indifferent. The |
sheriff told him to throw away his CT
gar aud this he did. Mr. Ison then /
read the jist psalm and offered mp a
'ervent prayer and when he had con /
GUIDED tie sheriff remarked Now /: /
T,Ip 800, ,,.1 "a, eos, L.-.o I-Ct 10 m .. =