South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1884-01-11
NEWS OF THE DAY.

coat Of the buieilng thus far bas asen
$i3,oco.ooo. ........ The New York
banks bold So, AS. 95o IN ex ess oi'ie-
gal Requirement - There were ISL
deaths isi Baltimore last week .......
Over ten thousand women are enga-
ged in the shirt and collar mauutas.
tories OF Troy, N. Y, and the pay role
OF one concern alone averages over
$1,000 per day ---lt is estimated hat
100000 s6relopes day are made
in the Uni:ed States. Baron Ru-
pertswcod, the richest man in Aus
tralia. Ia worth two hundred million
OF dollars - The largest locomo-
tive ever built is now being made In
Sacramento by the Central Pacific
Railroad. The engine and tender
will weigh los tons, and will he 65
feet 5 inches long ------ Armour 1; Co.
oil Chicago slaughtered LOCO 600 hogs
and Isl 900 cattle las, year .......
The Washington Monument - said
to ho only oue-six.y- fourth of al. inch
outof plumb A Young correspon-
dent complains that s,here arc T., ma
rs lawyer, IN the country Oh, no,
my boy: there aren't too many law
yers. There aren't half enough eli,
ents, that's all.'-3uriington Hawk
eyc.........A tramp who had been gi.
ven hearty meal in Nathan Taiio,'s
house in one OF the deep cuts at Tur-
key Hill, Pa, hurried back breathless
half an hour later and gave tho fami-
Iy warning of terrible snow slide
that was moving down the hill behind
Their home. A few valuables were ia.
ken out just before the avalanche with
almighty roar swept over the house.
The university OF Virginia is to
have the largest observation dome iii
the world. 1t is being made at Cleve
land 1890 DR.. Bliss received seven
thousand letters during the eighty
days of President Garteld's illness
He mad them classified and listed TO.
use in history OF the case. AT
the latest sale OF Texas State lands,
the average price paid was $2.0I per
acre. The highest bid was $40.
The Land Board sold 272,O47 acres.
The convent known as the Insti-
tute of the Immaculate Conception at
Bellcviile, Ill.,, was burned Saturday
night last, and twenty-five pupils and
five sisters were burned to death or
fatally injured in attempting to cs-
cape -. "A wild cnt, measuring 5
feet in length, was killed in the vicinl-
y of CheWsville, Washington county,
Nd last week. Burke, of At.
lanta, Ga. still buys Confederate notes
He pays half n cent each for all bills
below one thousand dollars, and for
that determination he pays twenty
ceuts. He sells them to Noriherners as
curiosities ....... Thomas Holloway,
the millionaire manufacturer of pills.
whose immense warehouse is one of
the sights Of London, is dead He
was cighty-four years old, and was a
man of great liberality. One Of his
latest ;cts of charity was a gift of
100000 20 the hospitals of London.
.----- Henry &. Ramsburg, a farmer
near Frederick, Md, has gathered
IT'S barrels of corn from field OF ten
acres on his productive farm. This
is an average of ~ barreles or S73
bushels shelled corn to the aero, and
is the largest yield yet reported -----
Hogs sent to- the market from Califor-
MIA have TO be trapped in the woods
in about the same manner as bears.
. On most of the ran ches, it is said, the
swine are az wild rs deer through The
woods, and cornered they will place
themselves on the defensive and fight
like tigers. Wheeling bas a
Telephone communication with Pitts
burgh farmers are burn
> ing hay for fuel, and prefer it to Iowa
soft coal 1890 Butleris being doomed
for the Grccnhack nomination for
President ......1 he Yuma Indians, on
the Colorado, bury watermolons in the
dry desert sand and preserve them
all winter, fresh and crisp----Thou-
sands Of worbmen continue to be
thrown out Of employment ali over
the country by the shutting down Of
factories and Mrs. Ruth
Everett, Of Salt Lake City, says that
: the Utah woman who signed the Pc