South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1885-02-06
Sauth 4ranth antrlliSenser
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The cable r~ports the execution II
1hcuss Parry NJ 6 siv.y Ter the murder
81 Mise Burns. whom be Travelled one
hnnd'e cd m'les 10 shoot tor breaking .
eArriegs snyagent nt With hin.
a vein Of gold bearing qua, Il fifteen
Hundred tset broad and nine miles long
wss founi Mon.lay in the Conu,t all
AonntA'o, Ga. The vein 10 said to be
worth s2O. 100000
Since 1928 cholera has vi.iied Euro.
pssn Russia three tines and killed L.
100000 people.
Eighty million dollars IL spent an
nua!ly for public schools in the Unite }
0tates.
The b. 4 0. has put or three new
sleeping cars sixty feet long betwecs
Baltimore and Cincinnati.
II . important to know, remarks a
contemporary. that If kid gloves are laid
apou . damp towel for two or three
minutes they will 60 on with less chance
Of tearing.
Tue West Virginia School Journal
will hereafter be published at Morgan.
sosu.the printing being done by The
Ee~ Dominion.
Exuemss soms.lmss IN act. In China
Q dog thief is bebeade,i. hat the man
Who steals milli,n can ba hut slight.
~ punish d. and usually runs away to
Corea. In the United Siates a horse
thief is lynchet, aud an absconding
bank cashier goes TO Canals.
Telegraphing is az cheap now as
postage was half century ago.
20 Queen Eiizabelh's time, in Eng
LAM. red. yellow and black hair dyes
were in common use. the first, perhaps,
In compliment to the queen whose naiu-
raj hair. seldom seen. was reddish IN
hue. She herself possessed eighty
wigs oil various colors. TIE drmand
for hair at this time was go large that
shiliren were often alured into cor
ners anil sheared even the .auct,ty Of
the grave was no, respected, and the
dead were robbed Of their hair. The
Fashion OF lying the hair was Ivy no
means coDan ii TO women, men com.
monty dyed their boards.
One dry goods firm in New York
estimates that it is put to IN annual
expense of from $4,000 TO s2o 900 for
samples Of fabrics with postage. sent
all over the country in answer to re-
quests.
). ToPEKA KAN. JAM General An.
CUR telegraphs that the squat ers in Ok
lahoma number tour hundre 4, and 'hrsa-
ten Resistance to Federal su' hori,y.
Presiden, Arthur has sent instruction
10 Concentrate more troops At the point
Of invasion End ren owe the colonists as
peacefully IS possible.
The u Senate Committee SAYS
that in comparatively few wears all
ihe public lands suitable for homes will
be exhausted. Our lands are very val
liable, aui they at" rspidlv going into
private hands. Why should net the
whole force Of the government he exer
ted against the thieves who steal them?
The Northern Pacific asa winter
railroad does uot appear 10 be al that
the fancy OF it's projectors painted
One train hes beer buried in the snow
since Dec. 10th, and $4,000 u day ha.
been expended in futile endesvors tc
dig it out. The prospect at latest advi
ees was that it might thaw out in thu
spring.
A firm in Rochester hiss made q con
tracL with large glass works Of PhiIa
aeipbia for 1880. 900 tiles, which viii
weigh l0,000,U00 pounds and fill SOC
ears. Tbs 10 said to be the large.
contract for bottles ever made.
General SIMON CAMERON Of FeaDsvl
vsnis. nov near sc years oil. Ia sbou
10 make tour OF the Sonth.
DIR. HENRY L HELMDoLD, The one,
famous buchu man, is seeking releas,
from the Norristown. Pennsylvania, In
sane Asylum, where he has been cor'
aned FOR four yesrs.
In advertising The greatness o. thi
country. one 81 the largest manufactur
srs says the total production Of cigar
IN this country is about 5000, 100000 1
year. ibis Is quite puff for us.
BY means OF the new electric brake
invented by an American named
WALcKER. it is said that train run
pine at speed Of about twenty fv'
miles per hour was stopped in the shor
space Of six seconds. and within dis
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