South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1884-04-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.

$1,000 nCtS siC tNtiN y Autu ui9clCr-
les of artificial teeth in the United
States, which make ten million OF
those useful articles per annum. They
are made offeldspar, l1alyn aud rock
crystal Eighteen thousand home
steads have been entered in Florida
during the past year ......... "A New
York man has been put in Jail for
having fourteen wives. Must be q
great relief to him. East Ten.
nessee marble is selling Cor loo per
cent. more than Italian marble in
the leading markets There is
said to be man now living in
Wilcox county, Georgia, who had
thirty-six nephews in the late war,
all of whom, except three, were
killed in battle. Fifteen of them
belonged to the same company
This country consumed SGT 900 900
worth of matches last year. Ten
ne'sce now has thirty-two cotton
mills.........The orange crop of Flo
rida this season is estimated at sixty
million bushels, netting $3.50, 900.
.........Goat Island at Niagara Falls,
is estimated to be worth 81 900 900.
------Governor Hubbard, of Con
necticut, the Hannibal Missouri
journal says, took with him to his
grave his anger against his daughter
10: having married his coachman.
lie lett her penniless, although she
is divorced, has q child and is iu DO,
verify. If she had married some mis-.
cradle foreign pauper and character
less dc3auchee with title as q han
die to his name, she would, no doubt,
have received the bes. share of her
fathers property Mrs. Stratton,
the mother OF the late Genera Tom
Thumb, died at New Haven Conn.
recently.........Therc is man living
In New York who hopes to live to
see the time when there will be no
more whisky, pistol, or dime novels.
------There are eleven States, il is
asserted, in which women vote for
school directors 1000 Within five
years Denver has grown from %, 900
to $4,000 Inhabitants 1t is es.
timated tina, the dogs in Iowa eat c.
nouSh annually to feed los, 900 work.
ingmen, and cost the State 50 900, =
COO or doUble the education of all its
chlidren------The rock taken from
the newly discovered silver mine at
Highland, Richie county assays 81
per ton------A canoe cut out of a
single massive oak tree, in the stone
age, has been found partly imbelded
under the river Arun, in Sussex,
Eng. 1t is fifteen feet long by four
feet broad. On last Tuesday, Mr.. E..
q. Roberts of Summers Co., this
State, caught, with hook, in New
River, above Hinton, catfish that
weighed thirty'siX pounds Abing
don Va. has five tobacco factories
one CT gar factory, three prizeries, and
two tobacco rehouses. "A con-
per mine at the base of the Blue
Ridge, near the source of the Rap
paharnocl; rivcr,in Fauqnier county.
has been opened recently, and il
yielding very valuable ore and viz
gin copper. Human skin and that
CT young rabbits have been SUCCESS
fully applied III small pieces to large
healing surfaces i'll wounds. DR..
wilson, however, in the Medical
New s, claims to have obtained very
much better results from the use of
the internal membrane of hens eggs.
The egg should be fresh and wsrm.
49, Chicago's new Public buildings
the Norristown Herald says are TO
be twelve stories high-in order to
compete with the stories told by the
newspapers in the city------The
Greenbrier Independent says that
Mrs. Elizabeth Mcclure, of Irish
Corner in that county, is the owner
of three ewes which gave birth this
spring 10 eight lamb5-two produce
ing three each, and the other two
......".The Greenbner Independent
says ;-'Govornor ii. NJ. Mathews is
suffering severely from an attack Of
crysipclas. Ithas incapacilated him
for business for q week past ......A
single cattle ranch IN Texas, at he
head OF Red River, is said TO contain
nearly $4,000 acres more than the
entire state Of Rhode Island contains
in territory------It is stated that the
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