South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1884-05-23
NEWS OF THE DAY.


1884 will amount 10 1000, COO
bushels ------A lady has presented
the New York Presbytery with $50, /.
600 for needy churches. Forty
five thousand workmen are engaged
in the matchmaking industry in
Switzerland------A cherry tree re.
Gently felled in the vicinity of Elk
Garden Mineral county this State,
furnished l8, 760 feet of this valua.
bic lumbcr.........It is estimated that
5000 sheep were kill, d in Maryland
by dogs during tho year lse3--
1t is noticed BY the Boston Globe
'that trouble is being experienced by
young men who were born after the
close of the war in securing pen.
sions'------The Baptist General AS.
ISOLATION Of Virginia will meet at
Norfolk on Wednesday next---
There were 1873 deaths in Baltimore
last week. j usticc John G.. Weis,
one OF the oldcst magistrates in AL.
legany county, Nd, died at his home
in Frostburg. on the I4th, aged 20.
He had been magistrate about 80
years ,--..Rev. Thos. j. Gooch,
Presiding Elder Of the Mexico Dis
trlct, Mo. Conference, M. +. Church,
South, died at his home in Mexico,
on the 1st inst------ VIM. w. Mas.
scy, paying teller of the Bank of
Commerce, OF Baltimore, has confess
ed himself defaulter in q sum of O.
yer forty thousand dollars, and has
been arrested and sent to Jail to a.
wait trial. He began to speculat e
with the banks money, and losing
heavily, went deeper and deeper in.
to the mire. He is also guilty of
forgery ....... GAINESVILLE, O., is ex-
cited over mysterious, wide and deep
assures, in the earth, and the sudden
sinking of three acres of ground, on
Which were many houses. Some of
the terror-stricken inhab: tants think
an earthquake has occurred. Others
thini an abandoned coal mine un.
der the sunken territory caused the
depression. ........A carload of TWEEN.
ty thousand pound oil fresh salmon
was shipped from Dallas, Oregon,
recently, the first ever shipped from
that State----Newark, N. j., makes
two million dollars worth of brick
annually. .Mahlon Linton, of
West Pike run, Washington county
Pa, constructed pond on his pre-.
misses about Il year ago and placed
three carp in it. A day or two since
lie drained the pond and foun be-
tween six and seven hundred feb in
it------The latest novelty in New
York city is paper soap, which is
mainly for the use of travellers. The
sheets of paper which are put up in
the form of q small book of about
three inches square, are coated with
soap and are said to be just ms good
as the regulation article, in addition
to being much handler. There are
fifty soap sheets in each book, cost
ing in the aggregate as much as an
ordinary cake Of soap------Only 3
years ago Malone said in the Senate
that he was better Democrat than
Ben Hill. Now he says he is bet
ter Republican than Dezendorf, the
stralght-outer who is fighting him in
Vlrginia------E Eleven States now al
low women TO vote in school affairs.
----Jacob Spohn, "a Pittsburgh drug
glst, has been arrested and imprison-
ed for murder. lie intrusted q new
clerk with the fill ng of q prescrip-
ton, which proved fatal when it
should have been harmless ---gO
years ago there were twelve women
doctors in the the United States
Now there are eight hundred in the
field and an army of recruits in
training "A heavy wind and rain
storm visited the village of Tarlton,
in Pickaway county, Ohio, on Mon
day last. About thirty houses, com.
prising nearly the entire village were
unroofed A man named Korshner
was dangerously hurt by falling
wall. At Lancaster, Fairfield coun-
ty, severa. buildings were unroofcd
and several bcrses were killed by fall
ing Earns.........W illiard's Hotel, i'm
Washington, was seriously damaged
by fire on Tuesday OF last week.
Loss about twelve thousand dollars