South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1884-03-14
NEWS OF THE Bay.

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wac recently blown from the track
By terriic.windstorn: There are
said to be llyooo one legged men in
the United Statcz---viIginis. Ten
iicssee, Alabama and Georgia pro.
duced 7o4. 900 tons OF iron last year,
against go, 900 tons IN lSS0.-.......
Eighteen thousand homesteads have
been entered in Florida during the
rast year There are thousand
cures for rheumatism, but the latest
for goct Is the sting Of bee on the
sore place.....s..A citizen of Gaines.
vile, Ga, now worth $4,000, never
wore pair of shoes until after he
was twenty-one years of age ------
Twelve million clocks were manu-
factured in this country last year.
Miss Winnie Hall of Texas, is the
Oldest old maid in America, she is
just oIe' hundred years old-.......
There is more telegraph business
done in the city OF Chicago than in
the entire dominion OF Cahadn.....
The days are lengthening oct at both
ends now, and daylight is getting the
upper hand of darkness - There are
about 400 births aud about i Too
deaths per week in London. .......
Shad were Introduced in the Califor-
MIA waters but seven years ago and
now they are SO plentiful that they
arc drug on. the marSet there......
California farmers raise sixty two
bushels of sunfiower seed TO the acre,
and after grinding gallon of oil
from each bushcl feed the refuse TO
chickens and cows. Thirty.tive
different kinds Of pie were on the
table At 4 recent festival held at At
lanta, Ga------The weather is more
pleasant here than it was last week.
------A wedding party of thirty-fivc
men, women, and children was cross
ing the river Theiss, in Hungary, a
bout three weeks ago, when the ice
suddenly broke under them, aud the
entire company, with one exception,
was drowned ------Bra celets for gen.
tlemen are among the leap year
Jewelry....... "A Nashville man was
fined $500 for kissing a school teach.
er. fit hsdnt been for two or three
of the scholatsNu he caught them at i.
she wouldn't lave charged cent.
A Texas doctor calls lis great qui-
nine combination Chill nasher.'
------The time to make good reso.
iutions is. all the time. DIR. Bill,
llngs says that one-half the colored
children born in Baltimore die be.
fore attaining the age of two years.
.........It eeens strange that no mat
ter how much gold a man gay steal
he Is only seiftto the peni. ntiary for
gui,t------New York city pays an
nualiy 1920, 900 for pure milk and
So, 2oo, 900 for SKINNED and water.
1880 Lace stockings are the latest
extravaganza in hosiery ..'Flem.'
the famous fiddler OF Nashville.
Tenn, died recently, aged SO years.
lie was the musician at the reception
OF President Monroe in that city in
1919, and played the violin at all OF
the public and private entertain
meuts given in the early days of
Nashville ...... Mrs. Exoina Thorn.
as, OF Sperryville. Rappahannock CO.,
Va, is 81 years of age, and in 1881
wove with her own hands SSS yards
of cloth. In January OF this year
she wove rs yards OF cloth. She can
see TO read without glasses the finest
print-in fact, has rarely used glass.
eS at oil. She is in excellent health.
1.-THE famous desperado, Billy
the KID was recently shot and kill.
ed Ly farmer, near Fort Worth,
exas.........The managers of the
Presbyterian Hospital in PhiIadel.
phia, after full discussion, decline
the the $4,000 offered the institution
as proceeds OF the recent charity ball.
They express their appreciation of
the kind spirit which prompted the
gift but say that Jas the hospital is
church organization they can
not consistently accept money made
By balls------A convention Of north
EN- negroes iAto be held at Pits burg
the Goth Of April, TO discuss tue con.
ditiou oftbe coioTed race ia the south
$500 PaFtfidges from Tennessee are