South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1889-06-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THERr is a wide.spre.d d;,no.,,,,,

! THERE Elsa widespread disposi,io,
among the farmers Of Vermont Z,
sell their cider. notwithstanding tb
Law against 90 doing.-TuE month O
May in England in 1889 will probs.
by take rank 40 the wettest on rec,
ord.-THE President has ordered
strict observance of the civil .seryic,
isw.-THE Eieclro-Au;omatic Tran.
ell Company Of Baltimore has built 4
circular track two miles ABOUND Al
Lsurei, Md, on which it now runs
with electricity. trains OF telescopet
cars at speed Of two miles per min
ote. On straight, level track the
company claim that they can rur
sneir trains three miles a minute
ne cars are about l8 feet long and
"a feet vide, aad are intended 70
carry light freight aud nails
a BEAUTIFUL MONUMENT to the me
mory OF the late President Garfield
mas been erected in Melbourne, Aus
uara.-PREsIDENr HARRisoa CON.
tri6uted $500 to the fund for ,he
yohnstown ufYerers--GiDRoN Il.
PEAsr, OF East Wilton, Maine, Who
was sergeant in the Black Hawk
wal. 10 thought to be the only living
United States soldier Of that war
In the United States there are 10000
lawyers, about one to every 900 In.
habitants. In France there is only
one lawyer to over 5000 people. In
Germany the proportion is about the
same a. In Francs. HUoo
BLANCK. who has just completed an
analysis ofthe Allegheny river water
Tor the State Board of Health OF
Pennsylvania, reports that it is pu,
rer than at any time for years.-THK
citizens of Johnstown are buying
hundreds OF portable houses to serve
as temporary residences or places of
business. The wholesale merchants
OF Philadelphia. Pittsburg, &C.. are
selling to the retailers on long time
and thereby enabling them to Gel
started again.-THE Russian army
will soon be provided With breech-
loading rifles that will carry 5000 feet
Noiseless powder will also be used.
These improvements in the arminR
OF the troops involve immease ex-
penditares.-HoN. JEFFERSON DA.
Wis, Who was cighty.one years old
last week, was seen in New Orleans
street-car Friday clad in suit OF
Confederate gray apparently in the
enjoyment of excellent health TIE
small grain crop Of Dakota. il is
thought, has been burnt up by the
suu.-FRANCE's war vessels are said
to be of an old-fashioned type and
not much more account than the old
tubs that constitute our navy. Hon.
j. RANDOLPH TUCKER has been cleo.
ted professor Of law in Washington
and Lee University, and has accept.
ed.-A SALEM ID. T.) newspaper
prints the following unique adver.
tisement: IF John Jones, who, TWEEN.
ty years ago, deserted his poor wife
and babe, will return, said babe will
lick the s,uff1n' out OF him.'-SUC-
cEssFUL experiments in teleeraphing
from moving trains were made on
the Raleigh and CASTOR Railroad, in
North Carolina, last week. The cur
rent Is maintained by means Of q
drag, which is attached 10 the car,
and which slides over q set of wire.
laid along the rails. Messages were
received from the Offices ct Raleigh
and Greensboro while the train was
running a. the rate of 50 miles an
hnur.-JoHN L. LEWIS. the phenom.
email fat man, died at his home 10 EI :.
mira, New York. Monday. from cry.
sipelas. Mr.. Lewis weighed at his
death GAG pounds.-THE Supreme
Court of Ohio has decided that pref.
erences made to creditors on the eve
OF assignment by the assignor, are
void, and that the entire property of
the assignor must 60 to his creditors,
according to their legal claims.-THK
Virginia democratic State executive
committee has fixed the State con.
vention for Richmond, August IA
AN Idea of the hardness of times in
Persia may be gained from the fact
that men who had a dozen wives have
had to reduce the number to three or
four.-Gov. FORAKER, OF Ohio, de-
clines to be q candidate for re. nom.
inatiOn.- JosRru JOHNSON, of Ma ..
con, Georgia, was lately parslyzed,
and one Of the effects OF the stroke 10
that he cannot now speak without
leughing.-THK amendment to the
constitution of Rhode Island pro.
hibiting the manufacture and sale Of
Intoxicating liquor. which was adop.
ted in 1886. was on Thursday re.
pesled by popular vote, the majority
in favor OF repeal being 1886, g..
ago more than the necessary three.
tifths.-GEN. A. G.. MYERS, late
Quartermaster-G General of the Con-
federate army, died at bis residence
in Washington Thursday.-GEN. ST.
MON CAMERON, or PeDnsy lvania, and
Mrs. Rutherford b. Hayes, wife of
the ex.President, were both stricken
with paralya ais on Thursday last.
Their condition Is crItical.-THE re-
port that Mrs. Harrison dismissed all
the colored servants from the White
House is untrue. More colored peo,
pie are now employed there than ey-
er before. -CHARLEsToN, our Stat g
capital, Is TO have q republican daily
paper.-CARDIEAL GIGBoNs, of Bal.
timore, has conferred orders on Ran.
dolph Uncles, the first colored can
didate in the United States for the
priesIhood.-TRUsTs have been de.
clared Illegal in Michigan.-A NIL
WATHRR NAN haa 1aai0nad - -.