South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1884-05-02
NEWS OF THE pay.

'isits OF her physician. ........H House
elvants in Mexico receive from SO
to SO 50per month AID board them.
selves. They do not quarter with
the family they serve...... MILITARY
authorities say that I 900 Of the best
English soldiers with the improved
arms can do ten times the execution
that was done twenty years ago.
General Swain, one Of Garfield's
"chum cabinet is to be court
martialed for swindling ------Mrs.
Nellie Grant Sartoris, with her three
children arrived Mt New York Satur.
day last----In Mexico matches are
made doublc.ended After using
one end the remaining portion is laid
away for another time The dead
letter office gets over 4 ,ooo.o letters
a year------The album OF the Bank
OF England in which specimens of
counterteits are preserved has three
notes which passed through the Chi
caio fire. Though they are burnt to
a crisp, black ash, the paper is scarce
ly broken, and the engraving is as
clear rs new.........Austrian brides
are allowed twelve dozen stockings.
Surely no Austrian bridegroom can
complain of his brides cold feet
William Tate, OF Loudoun county.
Va, who died recently, left one thou
sand dollars to be applied to the edu-
cation of the colored children of that
Co.. Blackberries are plentiful in
jacksonville, Fla. They bring five
to six cents per quart at wholesale
and retail from nine 10 twelve and n
half ccntsper quart. More than
loo tons Of human hair are annually
bought and sold. Four ounces is
an average clipping from human
head; so that loo tons represent the
product of from Soc, GOO to one mil
lion heads. In Europe the heads of
female criminals arc shorn, and they
supply large market, but the grea-
ter part is bought by travelling ped.
dlers. Between the ages OF fifteen
and forty, woman can grow about
seven crops OF hair --One hun.
dred and eight bodies have been Ia
ken out Of the Pocahontas Mine, and
this Ia supposed by the superintend-
ent to be the entire number killed
by the explosion of March 3D.
Russia produces annually about ST..
100000 worth Of honey, or over 49,
600 tons, besides 5000 pounds of
y Ak worth $4,000, 900. 1t is nearly
all consumed in the empire, however.
------A young colored lawyer of
Richmond, II. 9. o. Benjamin, has
fallen heir to fortune of $1,000,
mostly in real estate, in West Indies
Ii was left by the grandfather of Mr..
Beujamin's mother. A bout two
million sheep are at present in Colo
RADIO. The clip this year will be ten
million pounds A North Caro-.
lima man whose house was demoIish-
ed in one OF the recent heavy winds,
afterwards found his watch hanging on
a small limb of tree, the chain wrap
ped several times around the limb.
L was ticking away % if nothing had
happened 1.-The bill TO exclude
bicycles from public highways in
kentucky was rejected in the senate
and bill passed making riders re-
sponsible for damages caused by
cat e!essuess.. The New YorI, Lee
gislaturo has passed a bill prohibit
ing the manufacture and sale OF o.
leomargarine and butterine----T The
largest peach farms are in Maryland.
On one estate there are 125, 900 tire es
and on another nc, ooo------It costs
$4,000 year to light the Capitol
aud grounds------Last year the Post.
Office Department used S11,ooo
worth of in; for stamping anu can,
ceiling letters There are 40 type
settlers, besides apprentices, in the
government printing oiiico......Next
TO the President OF the United States
the best paid Federal official is the
Clerk OF TIE Suprcme Court.........
Five thousand laborers have died in
three months OF tho Panama canal.
------ MIR. j. Gould's wealth is esti-
mated by tho New York Morning
Journal at SIS, 1885, 3, and lij an,
nual income at $l,G4o,c11 Thus
his fortune earns him &l2,SsS SO
every day and SO j5 each minute.
1.-The excitement Of the new gold
discoveries at Mt Pisgah, near
Pixies Peak, is becoming intense. A
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