South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1885-05-15
NEWS OF THE DAT.

Seven'y'hree head OF horses were
sold ~ Lexio2toD. KY, fe~ days ago
Tor $50. LIS, an average OF $3.50.
There are $50 patients in the Asy luu
At Weston, this State.
The El Pa.o Times says: New
Mexico spent last year for liquor SIS,
$4,000, and for churches and school,
81, goo
The catch OF herring on the lowe,
Kappa snuock River in V:rsinia la,
been 90 large this spriug that the own
ers of weirs have been throwing the IL
back into the river. it not paying u
sn'p tGem 90 market.
The ramors prevalent Vat = si'ep,
Chve'aud is in fear OF his life on &C
count Of threa ened assassination sro
without foundation.
Twenty yesrs have NJ. sufficed 10 de
stro, the explosive quaiiies of -h~lis
whlca were used in the late var. Forest
ti'es have recently LAID bare tn. old
ba't ledelds of ihs deruess, Virgin ia
aud many cd suel hare exp oded.
Al one time turing the Ro,o utionary
war tie curre3cv Of The coort-y hat 30
far deprecated that q barrel OF -four
Was worth $i,575. and john Adams
paid $4,000 for suit Of clothes and .
hat.
Florida manufactured last year co.
1913. 1872 cigars. an increase Of Is, 50O.-
600 over tho number made there In
1883. There are 1877 factories in the
stats.
A party. not named. applied 70 the
County Court of Calhoun county, this
State. for license to sell LOU with he
declaration that he woili sell whether
hey granted him license or not.
San Diego couaty. Cal, contsins .
population OF $4,000 and h.s u Ian
area OF $4,000 square miles.
James Henry, Of Williamsburg, Ky,
has two pigs with horns in their fore.
heads, the same as q rEinoceros.
That man is rich who mas good dis
posi'icn-whO is Dsirraliy kind, pa
tent, cheerful, hopeful, and VINO has
flavor of wit and fun in his comps ition.
A. L. Wilson, merchant and post
master at New Moorefield, Ohio, has
disappeared, leaving u wife amt many
creditors behind.
They have no Gre insurance com.
panies In Japan. When there is y fise
tie owner is executed.
Every month Q check for 81 1883,
being ne.tweiftb OF his salary az II
u neral on the re ired list, is sent TO
Gen. Grant by ths army pa master a,
New York.
Alabama physicians say that pneu-
monia 10 worse now in tnat State tnan
ever before in their experience
period Of so or 40 years.
| Much interest was excite d at the New
Orleans Exposition, y few days ago, by
tho unloading Of the silver brick from
Mexico. The brick proper. it Is SAID.
10 six feet long, three and one BALI feet
wide and s.x inches thick. Tie WHEELS
is of solii silver and is valued ct
100000.
William Ward, one Of the oldest
citizens OF Accpmac comfy, Va, died
last week, aged nearly So years. It. is
stated Mr.. Ward had seventeen chill
dren. tifty.three grandchildren AID
fifty one Notwithstanding a
total Of one hundred and tweuty.one.
nearly all Of whom are still living.
A Wheeling psper announces the
death last week, in BrsxtOn county,
this State, OF Abram Curtis, known a.
the walking ske etoa.' Five or six
years ago his muscles began to waste
away, and continued until he became so
enaciatsd that there WAS nc ually moth
ing but skin and bones left. He as
atty years, little above the average
height aud weighed but forty pounds.
He was able to walk about until few
days before his death. It is said tina,
by laying hio hand on his stomach III.
backbone could be felt. His case
bafiled the physicians that waited on
him.
Tue manufac urer Of paper from tas
refuse OF sugar csne has hesn begun In
New Orleans. and the Picayune an
nounced that on May the lst it would
ne printed o. bsgasse paper, as il is
called. This isa new mstupd IF paper
making ard SPEAKS we'll for the enter =
prise Of the South.
W1LKBsBARRK. Pa. May 81 com.
mittee OF physicians have discovered y
'ati,'actory EXPLANATION Of the epidem iC
at plymouth. Al the hvad waters
Of tho noun ain stream that sapplie.
plymouth with water IL n honse in
which typhoid fever has prevailed FOL
three months. The exctsta of the sick
wero thrown into vault 40 feet ire m
the stream, and Ssre washed into Tn,
stresm by the March rains. By hi.
pollution OF the water supply l,00t
persons were poisoned, and amour 81
have died Otber deaths are expected
Writers in the Lancet call attention
10 The great value OF hot water .ppli-
cations 10 TIE head in cases o. fain IN.
or syDcope Tuey say also thst
prompt use Ut it, apple - the fore.
head with cloths, will very often aver
such attsGks.