South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1884-02-22


Moro than 30.0oo dozen efes were
shipped iron East Tssnsssse to Bal
tisuors and n. r. daring last week
Reports from Nevada, state
that the night Of 18th was the coolest
ever known there. AT Halleck the
thermcmeter registered forty five de-
Greoe below zero. ........Tt 10 said that
the ducks in CHI tapsake bay, Cali
fornia. subsist entirely upon wild
celery, which. IT i reported. grows
in abundance in that vicinity.
Electric Rdison b a. deaf o. . post,
but his eye is ~ quick ~ lightning.
A Pennsylvania. journal remarks
TINT the beer brewed in the United
States 10 enough to float the Amari.
can navy.........6 uddah, the white
elephant. 10 pronounced by connis.
seurs to be q beauty. ........ Mount
Rtna, in Sicily. 10 in q state of erup-
ton. Four hundred families have
been forced to abandon their homes
in Nashville, Tennessee, from the o.
verfow of the Cumberland River
Tho Philadelphia Medical News o.
the 18th inst. says that General Grant
is doing very we'll, although his re-
covery from the effects of his fall has
been delayed by rheumatism
Fred Douglass's honeymoon is OBJ
scured BY tho cloud of q threatened
lawsuit by his late housekeeper tor
services rendered ------Accordiug to
the Chicago Journal, Household eer-
wants get four dollars month in
Mexico. They require no Gags out
or company in. and treat their mis-
tresses with becoming decency----
The Illinois watch company, of
Springfield, employs one thousand
persons....... .Ot the 2,6l6,s79 pu-
pile at elementary schools In Japan
only 73S,691 are girls. At the high
schools there arc only 204 female
pupils out of IL .3l5------ The Presi-
dent has signed the bill uppropriat :.
ing one hundred thousand dollars for
the benefit Of destitute Indians In
Montana------Ned Hampton, color
cd, who was oIcc the slave of the
grandfather OF Senator Wade Hamp.
ton, died recently near Jalapa, 8. c.,
aged Ill years------At Lexington,
KY, on Friday night last, Wallace
Brookman and Richard Craig went
TO bed drunk at tho Ashland House,
blowing out the gas, and were sufto-
cated----Five years ago the old fields
and lush underground around Mo-
bic, Ala. sold for little or nothing.
Now from $25 to $500 per acre is the
ruling price----Quinine sold at LAO
cents All ounce last week, which it is
said, is the lowest price quoted in
twenty years. During the war it
reached its highest price 81 per
ounce AT the recent sale in Bal
timore OF the effects Of the late w.
w. Carter hair from the head of
Henry Clay was sold for So cents, a
piece of the towel used in stanching
the flood from Abraham Lincoln's
death wound for 81 35, and an au-
tograph Of Chief-Justice John Mar
shall for SIS cents .-----At n micro.
scope exhibition in Boston lately the
sting of q honey bee was thrown up
on the screen, the point of which was
80 sharp as to be hardly distinguish,
able. AT the time the finest Of fine
needles was shown under the same
power Of the microscope, and the end
of the needle measured five inches a.
cross. Science may be correct, but
when that same sting enters tender
spot it feels about nine times bigger
than crow. bar----Mr. w. w.
Corcoran, of Washington, has pre-
sented to the Southern Historical
Society, of Richmond, Va, the ORR
ginal Constitution of the Confeder,
ate States, signed by the representa-
tives of South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Lou
isiaua aud Texas------According to
the Scientific American tho cable
railway at the Giessbach IN Switzer-
land 10 operated by water. On the
arrival of car at the upper station.
1t is weighted with a sufficient guam
tity OF water from a reservoir, sup
I he'd by a spring, to draw up the o.
ther car D.; 40 that each ,ar alternately