South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1885-02-27


The Agricultural Bureau reports .hs,
ksntacks o. > 3.i,s73 hor .es, value
~ $25 436.455; ll6,06A males, vain,
SSs17.So6; SOA.7 cows. value SlO..
li9.75i; 503.607 oxen aud o,bsr os,tlc
value si3.a5i,2OO.
Tie National Board OF He,lth h.,
prepared a ststen.n. calling tbs a,ten
uon OF Congo - To the n~css sity o!
providing sgs,ns, the threatened epi
dem'c OF Asistic cholera TINS year. Til.
report ehows ,hst in every instance
where the t'agu- has become epiicn, c
In Europe. it has broken out in tai.
country either the samo year or tho
next year.
BY the partial destruction OF pork
packing house at Detroit, recently,
large quantities OF frssh and salt pork
and lard were consumed. Total loss
nearly $4,000.
1t is S ated tina. General WoLskLRY
has received $3j5.000 in bountie. for
his military services.
II is sisted that Mira. Mark Hop.
KISs, widow Of tho California million.
aire, 10 to build At Great Darlington.
Mass.. the finest residence in America,
The house will be Of blue stone, ami
cost when complete $4,000. 900. Work
will be carried on night AMI day ut the
quarries. A thousand men will be EN-
ployed on the jon. for three years COM
mencing early this Spring.
About one O'clock on Sunday morn.
ing last, a railroad collision occurred on
the Petersburg branch OF the B. & q.
railroad that resulted in great loss O,
life anu destruction of rolling stock.
Fast freights 1873, going sect, and l9I,
easlbound. collidet in a cut At Toll
House, a point midway between Par
kersburg and Grafton. Lloyd L. Bar
rcn, engineer; John Wsunstreeth, fre-
man, aud James Mcintyre, brakeman.
were killed outright; AMI A. Cannoa,
engineer. and j. J. Bartlett, fireman
were seriously wounded. Both engines
and a;number Of cars were completely
wrecked, and trains Were delayed about
eight hours.
Mock turtle seems to have q new ri.
val in the field of fancy dishes. A Ma.
ryiand paper says: The scarcity OF
muskrats down on the eastern shore Is
accounted for by the fact that the meat
OF this clean, root-eating rodent now
goes to the city, where it commands a
high price for terrapin suppsrs.
With $4,000 idle men and women in
New York city, m .aning al least d los.
OF $l,OOO 700 week ia wages, an idea
OF the misery, suffering and pauperism
with their attendant train of evils which
exist In the metropolis may easily be
had. The situation is not only sad, but
alarming.
As the last hymn was being sung in
Plymouth church, Brooklyn, on last
Sunday morning. Mrs. Henry Ward
Beecher was taken i'll in her pew. Her
son helped her TO the lecture 70 IN from
whence she was taken home In q car
rage. Mrs Beecher had slight attack
OF paralysis Of the muscles of the throat,
with which she was troubled before.
A bill to prevent children from &C.
curing the hsbrt of using tobacco" was
introduced few days ago In the Micn
igan l. gislature.
The Cunber' and Times says,th. man.
agement Of the Con solid alton Coal Com.
pany are to be Congratulated upon the
showing of their lately submit ed an
nual report winch declared a dividend
part OF 100000, and an addition of
S34, l6O to their royalty fund which now
amounts to $I07,l97. Generally con.
sldered, the past year was not one of
remarkable prosperity to the operators
OF our region, and the Consolidation
Company must have managed most e.
economically to- DO enabled to make this
showing
An important discovery of z I'D, saws
the Alta CaIifornis, has been made
within the last few days near San Fer
nsndo, Los Angeles county, Cal. The
location Is within four or FIVE hundred
yards of Msclay Station, which is three
miles south of San Fernando. The
range OF low hills where the mi "a il 10.
Gated resembles the famous Silver KING
mine in Arizona. The ledge has been
traced about half a mile. The vein i.
from four inches TO a foot wide, and
assays $3.50 to $500 per ton.
a writer in the Atlantic, speaking OF