South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1884-04-04

There were l59 deaths in Balti.
more last week ..:.....A number of
persons left Augusta county, va..for
California few days ago. The
Virginia legislature has reduced the
drunmers' license tax from $3.50 10
S!5.........The revised version Of the
Old Testament will be issued com.
plete, it is said, in Septe mbcr-----
About fifty five million bushels Of
wheat are annually used for eeed in
this country.........Franc leads the
world ia silk weaving------General
Thos. L. Rosser, the ex-Confederate
cavalryfeader, has sailed for Nicara-
qua to become engineer OF the Nj
caragua Canal Company------Plati-
num wire has been drawn go fine as
to be absolutely invisible 10 the ma
ked cye------Diphtheria in it's most
virnlent form. is rsging ut Top on.
Pa.........Judge Raymond is the la
test addition 20 the Gubernatorial
aspirants on the Democratic side--
Maryland has modestly memorable.
ed Congress for tho return of $72,-
600 advanced by the State in 1890
for the erection of public buildings.
The snow is now very deep in
woods Of Northern Maine. In some
OF the lumber sections it is fully six
feet deep Twelve million clocks
were manufactured in this country
last year. ..Itis stated tn, there
arc 500 rag dealers in New York ci.
ty and the Italian pickers-up gather
yearly S75o,ooo worth. Rags, bones
and old IRON doesn't souLd aristo.
cratic but there's lots Of money in it.
....... .A.Vermont paper chronicles
the death of a BRIDE of a year at St.
Albans Bay at the age Of seventy
throe------The Washington mcnu-
ment will DO $50 feet high when
completed, or forty feet higher than
any other structure in the world
Il is stated that steady flow OF imi-
grafton is pouring into the Arkansas
valley. The new corners are de-
scribed as good, substantial citizens.
----Gen. Grant says he is for Logan
for President-----Jeferson Davis ia
made executor Of the will of the late
Gen. VIM. Brown of Ga, who left
him $500, 900 There is q young
man in CHICO, CAL, who has al
most entirely lost his speech from
the excessive use of cigarette s---
Dorsey, the star-route crook, has
written letter in which he denoun.
ces McVeigh and James, and eulo.
gises Bob lngersoll as the greatest
man Of the country There are
eleven States in which women vote
For school directors. Kentucky is
one Of the States. .... New York has
u large and expensive police force,
yet forty thousand people depend on
gambling for livelihood in that eli.
ty. Gotham wants, as ccntempora.
Ty remarks, shaking up badly
Mercedes, the celebrated IIolstein
cow owned by T. Il. Wales, of Iowa
City, died on the 10th ult. Tie
COW and her calf, which also died,
were valued ut ten thousand dollars.
Her last calf sold for four thousand
dollars lit is reported that COL
ored man. who has wife and two
living in Cumberland, ran
off few days ago with white wo-
man------In the formation Of a sim
gle locomotive steam.engine there
arc no fewer than five thousand four
hundred and sixteen pieces to be put
together, and these require to be rs
accurately adjusted as the works of
n watch----In the canton Of Val al q.
Switzerland, cheese is sometimes
made when q child is born and rot
cut until tue funeral feast, perhaps
seventy years later Wealth lie com.
puted by cheeses-----The military
and fiTomen of Winchester have de-
,ided to celebrate the Fourth of July
N a manner cqualing, if not surpass.
ng, any previous occasions Of the
Kind ---- The Mexican Government
IS importuning Flemish people 10 in
loduec into that country the culti-
7ation OF Observation-Disclosures, while
engaged III digging a grave at Burr
u Hill, Plymouth Mass, came upon
he foundations of the old Pilgrim