South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1884-04-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.

dollar is slowly but surely moving
toward the melting POT ------ Brook
Ign, n. T., now claims eight hundred
thousand population. There were
12S deaths in Baltimore last week.
------Greenbrier w bite Sulphur
Springs has been placed under the
general management of Il. +. Eakle.
1880 Another large gas we'll has
been struck on the Emory farm, in
Washington county. Pa, at a depth
OF 1,240 feet. Horses in Marion Co. !,
this State, are reported to be suffer-
ing from some kind of lung disease,
which, in some cases, has proven ia +.
tal......... Pota: oes in Berks county,
Ia, are only eleven cents bushel
and farmers are feeding them to their
cattle......A serious famine prevails
IN the province of Kezan, Russia,
caused by failure of the crops .........
The manned soldiers of Georgia
have go far drawn from the state
treasury eS,oo0------Cold tea is
still sold at fifteen cents a glass in
the Capitol at Washington .---- The
Mayor Of Charleston this State, re-
ceives II salary of $500, and the Re-
corder $500 year Cor their services.
------There are eighty-five thousand
Hebrews in New York city,
Martinsi urg has company of anna
teur MINISTRIES, which are said to be
well up iii their biz. .Confeder-
ate Decoration Day WIS observed at
New Orleans, few days ago, in the
usual nanner----There are only 20
candidates in Barbour county for
Assessor, according to latest adviccs
ofthe Wheeling Intelligencer. And
the returns arc not all in yet The
Wetzel Democrat, this State, say S
that the late food deposited twenty
stoves on Paden's Island, in the O.
hio------ Joseph ID. Luckenbacb, a
student was fatally injured while OK.
ercising in the gymnas ium at Lehigh
University, and died at ST. Lukc's
Hospital, Bethlehem, Pa, on the Sth
inst. Bangs are going out of
fashion. This is sal news to Tie
woman who IS getting wrinkles on
her forehead - Two thousand
emigrants arrived at New York ST.
turday last en- two German steam
ers------ An Ohio gi.l with forty
eight toes was born recently. She
ought TO make a good aIltoo singer.
........ During the present century
$50 900 900 copies or the Bible have
been printed in 22G different langu-
ages. Rev. Dr. john 4. Euckus.
pastor emeritus OF the First Presby-
terrain Church, Is dead, aged seventy
four More than million head
OF cattle winteredin the Territory of
Wyoming, and the general round
up of this enormous number will be-
Gin about the middle of May----
Mr Sargent started out in life as a
printer, and, after drifting around
tor some time in the newspaper
world, lie settled down to study OF
the law in California. lie served
his first term III Congress in l861......
1t is calculated that there are now
residing in the United States nearly
"a thousand japanese, and of this
number it is said that not one has e..
YER been convicted Of any criminal
oftense in al American court. ........
Ohio has God Presbyterian churches :;
Illinois, 47G; Minnesota, a new State.
comparatively, has Pill Thomas
Davis, aged fourteen, ofSpartanburg
county, 5. c., began digging cave
in tie bank of the Tiger river sever.
al days ago, to make n place OF safe
ty from cyclones. His parents did
not know II. He was missed Mon,
day. lie had told some children of
his intention and clew was thus oh.
tanned. Upon searching along the
banks of the river it was found that
the cave had fallen in and that the
boys body had been crushed almost
beyond recognition. Hundreds of
similar pits and caves are being
made throughout the counties in
which the recent cyclones did such
great damage zee Joseph Cook states
that OF OF every ten thousand deaths
in Europe only seven are murders,
while in the United States, out of
the same number of deaths twenty