South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1884-04-11
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Ter, was totally destroyed by fire on
Tuesday night OF last week, together
with its contents. There were i'm the
mill at the time 30 barrels Of flour,
LOCO bushels Of wheat, and also Mr..
Cunningham's farming implements.
.........Over Toe, 900 head of cattle
we're required at Chicago. last year,
to supply the dressed beef trade
throughout the country------Two
hundred mules were killed at Grena-
da, Mi, in fcrty-cight hours by buff
falo gnats ------The malady known
as grub is killing sheep by the
| wholesale near Newcomerstowp, O.
hio.........There is n man living in
Laurens county, Ga, seventy.four
years old, who is the father of forty,
seven childrcn.........lt is proposed
to tunnel the Sierra on the line of
the Central Pacific Railroad, from
Truckee to Blue Canon, and DO away
with the snow sheds, many of which
are getting old and rotten, and break
down easily under heavy weight of
snow....... There were 142 deaths
i'm Baltimore las ct week. ....... Hun.
dreds of young women in New York
city earn only forty-five cents day
by making shirts. AT Piedmont.
on Friday last, a young son Of Capt.
Mansfield, conductor on tho Cum
berland and Pennsylvania Railroad,
had his legs broken by falling out of a
wagon 4 pulling barrel of flour on
Tim. A minister out west advertses:
'Ma'rimony made easy-s1 down,
and balance on monthly installments'
$1,000 Washington Territory wants
to be 4 State after the next President
is inaugu:ated-- The agricultur-
al wealth OF Illinois for 1883 was
S67,404,oo less than the previous
year ------The newest design in fur
and feather OF namentation for bon
nets is cat sitting on boot-jack
with canary in its mouth 1.-The
Gazette Medicale de L Algerie calls
attention to great number OF facts
which appear to show that cider
drinkers are not troubled with stone,
and that patients having this affection
are either cured or greatly relieved
by that beverage----A party of four
hunters, of Greenbrier county, have
killed sixteen bears during the last
season. All o. them were killed
within that county------The Second
Adventists now come to the front
with tho startling and hcartrenling
information that the world will sure
ly Il without postpon ement come to
an end on the 4th of next November
.........Mr. Randall says that Penn
sylvania is now sending capital into
the two Virginias at the rate of a
million and half n month, the most
of which goes into mines and fac
tOries------Colorado has had anoth,
or sEow-slide in which whole min
ing camp was buried ........A little
girl at Barton, Maryland, was
taken with bleeding ut the nose aud
before the flow OF blood could be
checked died from exhaustion. .....A
few days since dogs made raid on
the sheep ownei by Peter Bargcr, of
Grant county, and killed every ami.
NAL in the flock --The Tucker
Pioneer says that the first white man
ever in Tucker county, as far as
known was Capt. James Parsons;
that he was captured by Indians
near Moorefeld, Hardy county, in
l7G3 was carried to Ohio; and on
his return home passed up Horse
Shoe Run.........TeXas, which has
262, 300 square miles of territory, is
the largest State III the Union, and
Rhod- Island, having ,0S5 square
miles, is the smallest. Texas makes
Phi States as large az Rhode Island
and have S0j miles over. Rhode Il
land is the most densely populated
State in the Union ------ Butler say >
he will not be candidate for Presi-
dent, unless tie is nominated. This
is kind in him. Winchester has
three bands, and recently all OF them
played in front Of the Courthouse
in That city.---'Ihc Flee oral Board
Of Lynchbnrg appointed colorcd lucu
Judgc' OF Election, aud now the
Republicans are complaining about
it, Wild hOps ara Incoming mn.