South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1884-03-28
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- - During the present century
l5o, ooc 900 copies OF the Bible have
been printed in 226 different langa-
ages......C Congress is not likely 10 ad-
jouru before August .........It is esti-
mated that the cattle drive from Tex
as during the coming season will be
over 100000 head.......yOver Zoo
wild ducks were trapped in a ware
house near Chico, Cal, recently, one
Of the doors having been left open
long enough for the ducks 10 go in
side for grain. Tie warehouse own
ers make a big haul of game in this
manner every year.........B Benjamin
Rupert, said to be the oldest Odd
Fellow in the United States. ded at
Dubuque last Sunday ------Thcre is
a Chinese population of six thousand
in the city Of Portland, Oregon, with
a total polla,ion of thirty.fve thon-
sand and this Mcngolian population
IS constantly increasing by immigra-
ton from British Columbia. $500. !.
Over twenty-five thousand men,
with 300 ncts, arc engaged in SAL
mon fishing on The Sacramento river,
California.........There was furry
in coffee Mt New York OH the % inst,
which caused decline in prices. 80.
Engllshmen are gradually getting a
strong fcothold Ill this country. 1t
has been computed that Englishmen
own 2o,9o1 G66 acres of American
soil, or territory about as large as
Ireland, which has 2o,S15 III acres.
------A party of Baton Rouge, La,
bird hunters recently killed 400 ro-
bins with sticks------Dr. Ezra Ab-
bolt, noted Cor his great Biblical and
historical learning, died at his resi-
dence in Boston, on the 22hd inst
- The Government envelope fac.
tory at Hartford, Conn. uses a ton of
gum week Strawberries have
made their appearance in Baltimore,
selling AT 81 so per box. Rev.
Jacob Helfenstein, ID. d., Presby.
terrain clergyman, died in German
town, Pa, d few days ago, aged 50
years.........IIon. II. Nj. L. Hunter
is critically i'll at his residence in Es-
sex county, Va, and is not expected
TO live.........The foot and mouth
disease was taken to Kansas BY two
Scotchmen, who had been caring for
diseased cattle before they left the
old country. in their clothing. II is
spreading rapidly------Nearly fifty
years ago a woman named Lois Ly-
man of cabot, VT, began to plait
the combings of her hair into rope.
II was half an inch thick and OF va.
riouc shades, the hair having chang
ed materially during the half century.
When she died few days ago the
rope was nearly loo feet long
1t is said that when the recent lorna,
do blew down the Baptist church in
Mt. Carmel, S. O., the pulpit was LETT
standing and the Bible and all the
hymn books were left undisturbed.
1.-The Wesleyan Female Insti-
tute of Stanton has one hundred
and forty.two pupils from seventeen
States----Chicago has 59,27l pupils
and 1878 teachers in her public
schools - The Montgomery White
Sulphur Springs is mentioned as a
site for soldiers homo The acid
works OF Thomas G. Chappell, oil
Federal Hill, was destroyed by fire
in Baltimore on Sunday last, and one
oil the uildings of the Flamingo
Guano Company adjacent, was par
italy burned. The building and
stock of the acid works were insured
for one hundred and fifteen thousand
dollars IN fifty.nine different com.
panies. The insurance will proba.
bly, cover the loss. all The machine.
ry in the buildings was new, and
there was full stock on hand. The
loss OF tho Flamingo Company is
thirty thousand dollars Nicer
schaum has been Discovered in some
Parts Of North Carolina. Damage
TO the extent of several hundred
thousand dollars has been done by the
floods at West Baton Rouge, La.
Plantations never before overlooked
are now under water.....A special
from Meadville to the Philadelphia
Press says: Six children from the viii
LACE Of VnlOnia went ont on gofnrdav