South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1884-01-18

SsOO,OoO tuuoMt3ntS- ABOUT
seven people to house. .Twen
" thousand people annually loose
their lives in India from snake bites
----Paul Long, soldier of the war
of 1872, Tied in Rockingham cor.ty
last week in the Cpd year OF his age.
.........TweDty deer from Druid Hill
Park, Baltimore, are to be shipped to
Germany There were 19o deaths
reported in Baltimore last week
One OF the notable bridges of the
world crosses al arm Of the.Chins
sea at Sangang. 1t 10 five miles long
and has BOO arches. The Pulp
Mill, at Parkersburg. this State, was
burnd on the 4th. Loss about $40.
ooo------Senator Saulsbury. of Della
ware, 10 the only member of the SEN
ate who has never been married. He
10 called the Lone Star of that BODY.
------Some parts of Arkansas are
Hooded with counterfeit nickles, made
from substance found in the noun
ta'ns. aud the Federal officials at
FORT Smith are on the lookout
Duke and DaT.dy, the twin steers that
were on exhibition ut Cumberland
last fall, have been ratified off for the
benefit ofthe City Hospital at Youues.
town, Ohio, and realized 81. loo.
Bread lie made out of sea-grass in De.
vonshire, England. The grass is
cIeansed, boiled, chopped up and mix.
ed with a small proportion of oat
meal. after which it ia. baked into
loaves------John Hines, cashier of q
Great harrington. Mass. bank, ran
of with his fathers young BRIDE
The old man was sixty and the girl
under twenty.........Exccllentic ice wa,
gathered as far South as Danyille dnr.
ing the recent cold snap------I her,
were 1892 deaths in New Yorl
during the past year and 2S, 9S2 births
.........lt lie said that o rich disposit o
tin has been discovered near Balloon,
Fall, Va, and that it ha. been traced
lar enough to justify the erection o.
smelling works.........Dr. +. w. Ell.
dridge,who died recently in Chicago
was the Oldest physician in that CITY
lie had resided there since 1884
The severe cold weather of last weeI
extended in all directions. The or
ange groves of Florida suffered from
frost. AT Charleston, S. c., the Their
mometer stood lower than for l3,
years. In the north it varied from
15o to $50. In the east and west
was about as cold and at Oaklan,
Monday and Tuesday mornings O
, last week it was twenty-five degree
below zero.........Rev. j. E. Seneker
a Lutheran minister, of Shenandoah
county, slipped Oh the ice while walk
ing along the street Of Cabin Hill O,
Monday last. and was instantly killed
. lie was member of Concordia Sy
) nod.........Senator Joseph E. Brown
OF Georgia, gave 81 900 to the cree
ton of the Jeter Memorial BUILDING
at Richmond college, Richmond, Va.
and a little late he gave 81 900 to I'll,
library fund OF the college, and now
he gave another 81 900, the interes
OF which is to be used through al
coming time in educating some poo
but deserving young man at the col
lege"..... MIR. John III. CordelI,
prominent citizen Of uarrisonburg
Virginia, died suddenly of heart dis.
ease on Tuesday last. He was abou,
70 years Of age, AID came from Penn
sylvania in 1852------The Richmond
State votes for New York as the hes
place to hold the Democratic Conven
ton 1.-The suit of the Kendall
Bank Note Company, of New York
against the Virginia State Board o.
Sinking Fund Commissioners termi.
mated Saturday last in the Circuit
Court OF Richmond, with a verdicr
for the plaintiffs for 100000, the full
amount claimed, and interest DR..
j. b. McFerrin,a prominent minister
of the NJ. Il. Church South, whose
death Vas recently announced from
Nashville, Tennessee, is not only NO,
dead, but has fully recovered from hi,
critical illness The aggregate
fire loss for 1888 is Slo3. 600 ,ooc
There wero 1876 fires where the los:
exceeded Sloo.ooo. The fire record
shows an aggregate loss o: s1i ,ooo,.
600. The fire loss for 1889 il the