South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1885-01-16
SOUTH 1ranth 5atelliaenttr.
RoMNEY. FRIDAY. JAN. 1s., 1854.


delivered $500 temperance lectures.
About l6 years ago The interest on the
: sNs,isnardett vSs sl43. 600 oefs-a year.
.It'fs now csc, 100000,
The amount OF money now in the
United States. both pal err and coin, has
? reache d the comfortable sum of 81 800.
100000. 81 -
- IT, 10 said That Cattle are starving In
some Of the stock ranges Of Montana.
Ten years ago clam. were unknown
in California waters. Now there ore
millions ofthem du. on that coast an
nuaiiy.
An Arab tramp was arrested in New
York last week. In his belt was fonnd
$4,000 in Eng lish gold:
Prince Bismark's official salary is $l3,.
500 year, while tho ambassadors he
= send. to Londor an S.. Petersburg get
iis37.500 each. :,
Mesa. 90 are now sent 70 Europe by
cable ut I, very low rate Of 40 cents
per word.
Corn is selling for 25 cents per bush.
el in Illinois. In Nebraska the farmers
burn it for fuel rs it 10 Cheaper tian
wood.
Mr.. Joseph Winship, Of Norwich, Con.
necticut, boosts the possession OF a'sct OF
silver teaspoons made by Gov, Cleve.
land's father.
One handrcd miles in seven hours and
eleven minutes. tho fastest bycicle time
yet made, is the record OF Mr.. George
Smith. of Loadon.
Illinois has 222,47l farms, Ohio 257,-
leo, aud New York PAL ,O5s.
Samuel w. Vaughan, a leading citizen
ofPrincs Edward county, Va. died last
week.
Sen. Granite physical health Is such
as to indicate danger ia the near future.
Tie is advised by his physicians to dis
miss labor and anxiety.
Cigaretts are seldom made wholly of
tobacco. The cheapest grades are
made Of opium and sswdust.
Colonel Viles says that the star OF
real empire will have become fixed in
the West when the United States trades
VITA the whole world.
Gen. Bradley I. Johnson and Hon.
Jno. S. Wise, after many years Of bitter
enmity, bave become reconcled, Accord
ing to a statement of the Richmond cor.
respondent Of the Philadelphia Ledger.
The proceeds from lie recent fare for
be Comic derste veterans benefit in
Norfolk few days ago was $4,000.
Spain scarcely sees day now with
out an earthquake. Thousands have
left the affected region.
Russia is sending fresi beef in refri-
gerator cars to England.
English capitalists arc said to have
invested 100000 in Montana stock
ranches within year.
The Illinois Legislature is uncom-
fortably close, the Democrats having q
majority OF enc in the House, while
the Republicans have like majority
in tue Senate.
Mr. Vail. the Seattle King" of Neva-
dc, began business twenty years ago
with q capital of $500 lie paid the
$500 for Durham cow, and from ,ha.
COW he has sold forty thousand dollars
worth of higb-bred calves.
Gertrude Donald, n sixteeu-year old
school girl of Alliance, Ohio, was shot
and instantly killed ny peculiar acct.
dent While wagon load of house.
hold goods was pnssisg through the
street, n drawer in one of the bureau,
Gid out Of The cart. 1t so bsppen-
ed that loaded pistol was in it, an
the force Of The iall 10 the ground dis
charged it.. Singularty, the ball strucl
Miss Donald in the back and killet
her almost instantly. She lived lon,
enough to say, Oh, I'm shot
Prof. Wo.ouski. OF Washington city
who committed eucide several week
ago, left instructions "a to bnrial an,
n disposition of his effects. In tn,
details he requested that there shout
b no mourning worn for him inl
will do as be put it. He did no
want any sombre colors to indicate Tn,
state OF feeling OF those he left behind
but something soft AMI sentimental
expressive OF the delicate and livl
scnsibiities Of the heart. This vas
philosophical at least.
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