South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1884-06-13

ing moro damage thau the po2u-
lar little cigarette says New York
athlete -----This year (1SS4) is the
two hundreth anniversary of the or
ganization ofthe Presbyterian church
of this country. It is also the two
bundredth anniversary of the intro.
duc::ou of the Baptist denomination
IN Pennsylvania. ........ There were
one hundred and thirty-two deaths in
Baltimore last week. Peter Neg
ley, late assistant United States trea-
surer at Baltimore, died suddenly at
Hagerstown, on tho 7th inst, aged
66 years.........A Swarm Of locusts
nine miles wide is devastating Tex.
malca, Mexico------Col. James &.
Clark, President of the Illinois Cen.
trail railroad, and formerly president
OF the canal, is reported to have had
sixty thousand dollars deposited in
the Marine bank, N. Y, but had the
extreme good luck to withdraw it the
day before suspension ---Col. Robert
Swan, Of Ottumwa, Iowa, in making
application for pension, has discov.
cred that through some inadver.ence
he never was mustered out of ser.
vice, 80 that constructively he actu.
ally Is entitled to some thirty-ive
thousand dollars of back pay as cap,
Barley & Hassan, coffee
dealers, at Baltimore, have assigned.
Liabilities $3.50, 900. nominal assets
$3.50, ooo------There is negro gra-
duatc at Harvard this year-Robert
Hebberton Terrell, Virginian, and
the son of slave parents. lie went
to college as q waiter, aud at that
time was illiterate; but some of the
white students took a fancy to him,
and helped him through prepara-
tory course, after which lie SUP port
ed himself by teaching Boston
class OF negro boys....... Foreigners
are taking possession of Massachu-
sets. From 1876 TO 1881 the deaths
OF the native born population exceed
ed the births by o9,7s6; while the
births among the foreign born resi-,
dents exceeded the deaths by 81, 1924.
.........Considerable excitement has
been caused at IIammonton, N. J.
by the discovery of the bodies of 81
infants buried in a plot of ground at
tached to the Mission Home, a sani-
tarium for children conducted bv
Miss 3. s. Nivison. 1t lie charged
that the death of the children result
Ell from improper food and want of
care------The South is now credited
with 372 cotton mills, of which North
Carolina claims 90. Their products
nave Increased from twenty -one mil
hon dollars in 1880 to forty million
dollars in 1884. The Mexican
ln'elligencer says that Miss Jessie
Walker OF that city has just received
from Philadelphia, 40 900 silk worms
(enough to fill room l2x1s feet)
and with which she will engage in
the silk industry-----The amount
contributed to college and university
education in the United State dnr-
ing the past ten years was S35, 1922.
900, and since 18i7 the total amount
given las not been less than 500
oo,ooo------Bi Bishop Pierce OF Geor-
gla, has walking cane that was
made from some Of the timber of the
nrst Methodist church built on A.
merican soil. The cane is 120 years
old, and was presented to Tie Bish.
ops father many years ago. The
Confederates joined in the recent de.
coration of tie graves of the Federal
soidiers, In the National Cemetery
at Winchester.........Ex Judge Noah
Swayne, LII. d., late associate ius-
tice OF the United States Surrcme
Court, died in New York city. on
Sunday last. Judge Swayne was
born in Culpeper county Virginia,
and was eighty years old------Mr
Anderson s. Mauzy, con of Mr.. Rich
ard Mauzy, Of the Staunton (Va1
Spectator, aud associate editor of that
paper, died last Saturday week, in
the 36th year of his age-----T The
Democratic National convention
meets at Chicago, July Sth------A
heavy thunder storm, the peals were
terrific passed over this place on
Tuesday night last.........Cubai is un-
der9oing one Of the most remarka.
bic dFoughts on record in that favor
eel island. No rain has fallen in five