South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1884-05-09
NEWS OF THE DAY.


population Of 40, 600, ooo------Kero-
sene oil is solicited in Russia and
nude into candlcs----It costs $50, 900
a year to light the capitol grounds at
Washington------Last year there
were l,517 murders in the United
States, % legal executions, and lie
men were lynched.. ....... Myriads of
caterpillars arc destroying vegetation
in Western Texas. $4,000. Eighteen
thousand homesteads have been en-.
tered in Florida during the past year
1855 Jay Cooke, whose fortune was
swept away by the crash of 3, ia
to-day one of the wcalthiest men of
Pennsylvania. He has investments
in iron, coal, gold, and silver mines
and railroads reaching far into the
millions. Nearly forty million
pounds of maple sugar were rroduc-
ed In this country last year........
There are S1,7l7 clergyman in the
United States and IL, 567 .S6S COM
municants----A florist in Cham.
bcrsburg has remarkable rose bush.
During the last three years, and in
Guiding the present time, over 10, 900
buds were plucked from it's numer.
Gus branches. Some idea may be
had OF the value of this vine when
we state that these buds sold during
the winter at $15 a hundred. At
this time not less than 9, 700 buds can
be counted on the vine. 1t is believ-
cd that with two exceptions, it is the
largest and most prolific Marcchal
Mel vine in the United States
-Four hundred aud fifty men are out
of employment by the burning of
Arbuci els coffee factory in New
York. The total loss is $50, ooc----
The House Committee on Appropria.
tions has agreed to report favorabIy
on the bill to allow the government
to loan 81 900 900 to the Interna-
tional Cotton Exposition at New Or
MISUNDERSTANDING hens belong
ing to VIM. +. Smith, of Boonsboro,
during the month of March laid 90
dozen Of eggs. The value of the
eggs was Sl3 95, and the cost of
keeping the flock was Sc, leaving a
balance Of 81 95----Three carloads
OF chickens and turkeys passed
through Shepherdstown Tuesday of
last week, on the Shenandoah VAL
ley Railroad for the Eastern markets.
------A Mrs. Lowry, aged Ill and
a Mrs. Fairly, aged loo, recently
died in Wyoming county. Hogs
are dying of mumps in Chester Co,
Pennsylvania ---- Reports from
South Carolina state that the people
OF the Northern portion of the State
are in a starving condition. Dry
weather during the past six months
has caused total failure of cropa,
and there is not enough food for
either the people or their Stock
One Mississippi steamer can carry as
much freight as 1000 railroad cars.
1.-The Democratic State conven.
ton OF Oregon has adopted resolu.
tons favoring Tilden and Hendricks
as the choice of the Democrats of
Oregon for President and Vice
President respectively. The year.
ly sales of lumber at Dubuque are o.
YER one billion feet Wheat re.
ceipts at Minneapolis, for 1888 ex-
coed those OF Chicago, by two million
bushels 1.-The President of Mex
leo went into Office four years ago
poor He is now worth four million
Of dollars. Frank James has been
acquitted in Huntsville, Ala, Of
completely in the Mussle Shoals rob.
berry and was instantly arrested on
Missouri charge. The Gunlon
Steamer Oregon has just made the
quickest trip across the Atlantic on
record. The Passage from Queens,
town to New York, 1851 miles, was
made in six days, ten hours aud ten
minutes, an average of eighteen to
fifty seven miles per hour. This
beats my half day the best time G.
yer made before------A formation
OF tin and silver-bearing orc has been
discovered three miles from Glen.
wood, i'll Mason county, this State,
which bids fair to prove Of consider
ablo richness aud value Work
ers in ornamental wood now assert
that yellow pine, hard finished in oil,
Is the rival in beauty Of any wood
that grows, not excepting the cost
Hest OF the hard species, il being
susceptible Of receiving and main.