South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1883-05-04
RoANEY. FRIDAY. MAfA 1889.

Gen. Na.h>a GoH is stumping tho
third dis:Ec, in the interest Of Judge
Brown. the Republican candidate for
Congress.
Hons. Henry 9. Davis. president.
JaGss O. Blaine. 4. r. German, g. Is.
Elkin'. Mr.. W.n. Keyser. M.jor Alex.
Shaw and Mr.. John A Hamble,on, OF
The west Virgins Central Railway
oossi, held a meeting ia Baltimore on
Saturday. Tho nuccess OF the compa-
~ in its coal operations In the Elk Gar.
den regions has been 90 satisfactory
that the proposition TO puah on the road
is strongly supported 6y the capitalists
interested In IL. President Davis re-.
ported thai tue work tctsecn Shaw anu
the head waters OF tic Potomac 10 being
vigorously rrshcd. the rails arc being
lsid and the mcsns arc provided 70 com.
plete this portion OF the road. I. vas
ordered that the road ~ extended, IL in
the Judgement OF tie president It be
deemed advisable. 10 the junction OF
the Beaver and Blackwater rivers, a
distance Of some six miles FROM tho
Summit near Fairfax Stone. The pres.
idcnt was also authasized to have made
suFveys looking to connection with
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Tic president reported that he had o.
pened coal department o. the compa.
ny In Baltimore. with branch Offices /.
New York and Boston, and hi. action
was approved.
BANANAS AND PLANTArNs.-A pound
OF bananas contains more nut1iment
than three pounds OF mea: or many
pounds OF potatoes, while az q food it
10 In every sease OF tn, word far sape-
sior TO tho best wheaton bread. Al
GiouS! it grows spontaneously through
ant the Tropics, when cultivated its
yield is prodisious. for 81 acre Of
ground planted with bsnanas will re-
turn, according TO l!umbol., as mueh
food material as :hirty-three acres OF
wheat or over one hundred acres of 20.
tatoes. Tho baaana. then, is the bread
or millions who could no. we'll subsis.
without IL. In Bcazil i, is The pr,uci-
pal food Ok the laoerins CLASSIC, while
It is no lcss pr zed In tho Island Of Gu.
ba. 1ndeed, in tho latter country the
'sugar-plsnters grow orchards o: i, ex-
pTess!y for the consumption of their
slaves. Every day Gerh hand receives
fis ration OF salt Ash or dried beef, as
the case may tc. and four bananas ard
Two 9!antaIns. Thc banana should
be called n'an.sin, for until lately there
was no such word az 5.nana-is di2id-
Ell iato several yar.etios, all Of which are
uSea FOR fo,d. Tho plantiuo mauEanito
is small. delicate fruit. neither longer
nor stou.cr than a lady's foreangcr. II
- the most delicious and pr;zei of all
tla varieties of the plsntain, Z, pla-
tho guinea, called by us the banana, is
probably moro in demand than any o.
tier kind l. is suhd:vded lot dil,er-
en-: varieties, tho principal of which
are The ycIl0T and purple baaanas We
see for sale IN our market; bl. Tue
latter is so little esteemed by tho ma
lives Of the Tropics that it is seldom
ca, On b. them. IL platino grande-
known 10 us as simply the plantain-
Ia n so svb'ivided into varieties which
are Known by their ssvor and their siza.
The kind that teaches our market is
almost ten inches long, yet on the Isth-
mus OF Darien there Srn plaa taina lint
grow from eighteen 20 TWEEN y two inch.
ca. They are never eaten raw, In, are
etIhcc hoiled or -oasto1, or are prtpar.
cd IS preserves
ANOTHER TORNADO IL LoUIsIANA.--
Few ORLEANs, la. April SD terri.
BILE cyclone visited Webster parish
from ,h0 northeast TO the southwest o.
We eDg,h Of track extending miles.
Many buildings wero blown away, and
1Hl5 from the fences were blown for
miles. On forty acres u hsasily tim
'fred land not = tree is LEFT standing.
3io fences ca the place were blown y
way, and not resiiec o. corn o. fcl-
I;"r is left. One v1,nau was sariously
49, several children were slightly hur,
t.ca' mirscu'ous escapes ar reported.
Several negroes who were bloz across
n fed alisht'd uninJUrcd
MATE7I,L or Tus T.. s. Courr Ju.
rtrs.--WN. DONALD. negro ., work
on tho cham oang hero, in execution
Of e"n'crco for larceny. received n
enmmons 10 attend as n petit Juror ,he
y. 8. Court 10 bc he'd a. Ha. iso:Jrr~
on the 9Th lay ~ May next. IL hss
male strenuous efforts 20 ob.alr his
release in ordor 20 obtain the pey Of
juror what Commentary j. here
apo. 20 chiefest lulwark of our liberty.
"A Juror w 40 Ia to n.z. crb,Ds Co..