South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1889-10-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.
JUDoE ALLEN q. THURnAx rsde
bis opening speeeh In the Ohio cam
paisn II Cincinnati Moaday.-Gex.
MAHoKs says be has no respect psr.
sonally for Riddlebcreer, or for What
he says.-GRKRN B. RAuM. or Iii.
nois. has been appointed pension
commissioned 10 succeed the late
Corporal Tanner.-NAvAL ofscers
express doubts n to the safety aud
practical utility of the dynamite crui.
ser Vesuvius.-DIsAFyKcrrp repub-
licans are sad 70 be working sRsinst
she par y nominees in Ohio q veil A
in Virginia.-BoNDs worth $4,000.
600 we're stolen from the Mexican
national tressury.-A GIRAFFE has
been born 1t the sociological garden in
Cincinnati. II 10 the fret ever born
In this country. The youn gster was
81 feet high at birth.-A RATTLE
SNAKE KEPT by jeweler At Orlando,
Florida, lived Ia months withou
food.-Ir is said that John L. Sulli,
van has already spent the $50, 900
be won In his eight with Jake Kilrain.
The Brooklyn Tabernacle fire was
caused by electric light wires.-BERr
MEYERS rode q mile in two minutes
and IL seconds on bicycle at Peo-
riaJ Illinois. Saturday.-THERK are
hundreds Of valuable farms in Yer.
mont that have been abandoned by
their owners and left to grow up in
brush, as farming In that State no
longer pays. The State authorities
are making strenuous efforts to in
duce emigrants from Europe to settle
on th'se vacant lands, but 20 far with
little success. 1T 10 said that Presi.
dent Harrison, Secretary Blaine and
other republican party leaders are
strongly in favor OF re 'eemiug their
campaign pledges by attempting to
have passed at the approaching ses.
sion OF Congress laws for tariff revi-
SION according to republican ideas of
the needs of the people.-IT is
thought that thirty States will be
represented at tho approaching
meeting in Washington Of the ma .
tioDal board of prom otiou OF the
worlds fair.-JouN NJ. LANesroN,
the colored politician, hes declined
TO take the stump for M ahone, and
has gone TO Ohio to speak for Fora
ker.--W. NJ. BATEMAN, a member OF
the North Carolina Farmers Ali.
ancr, and Mics Josephine Knowles
wore married at the State Fair a,
raleigh, Saturday, in the presence of
several thousand people. The bride
and groom wore white cotton bag
ging made In North Caroline. Mr..
Batcman took this method of show.
ing his hatred OF the iute baogipg
trust.-Two men we're killed and six
wounded Monday at Dothen, Henry
county. Alabama. in a conflict be.
tween the town au,hori,ies and mem.
bers Of the Farmers Alliance about
the collection OF licenses from the
drays employed at the Alliance ware.
hOuse.-SENAToR kENNA's baby son
is dead.-SENAroR QUAY is said to
be dissati.f d with the Pr esldent
because Of inattention 10 his demands
for ofhces.-CRNsUs O 1uree show that
the number OF mills in the South has
doubled since l8SO.-A SAILOR was
arrested in New York Friday for
stealing his wife's artificial leg. -
NORTH DAKOTA, one of the new
States. is already beginning to cause
trouble to the pOstm sslers of the
country. as letters addressed to pla.
ces in N. D. North Dakota) are
cent to N. D. (Maryland) II ls
surprising how many people write
M. D. for Maryland. instead of Md
town that has asked to
have a naval vessel named after her
is Marblehead, Massachusetts,, and
the request is made on The ground
that she furnished the first soldiers
in three wsrs-the war of 1912, the
Mexican war and the civil war.-THE
Bennington battle monument, that is
to be 301 feet high, has reached a
height OF 1874 feet. The rainy sum.
mer has retarded the work.-MRs
ELIZA STANTON. OF BelIefonte, Penn
sylvania, is lis years old.-LlRUrE-
NANT Brown. democrat, has been
appointed Judge.Advooate. G eneral
of the Navy at q salary OF $4,000.
He had no claim on the administra.
ton except that he spent great part
Of his time playing with Har.ison's
little grandson, Baby Mckee, while
the President was staying at Deer
Park last summer.--JoHN L. SULLI-
VAN says he is spelling for another
6gbt.-THE comp,icat growing
out Of the removal of Corporal Tan.
ner threaten to emlroil the President
with the Grand Army Of the Repub.
lic.-WAsHINoToN CRY now has 81
miles of smooth pavement and a
great many public improv ,ments are
going on.-J. +. HARTRAHYT, ex-
Governor OF Pennsylvania, is dead.
The legislature of South Dakota
has elected X. F. Pettigrew and Il.
Moody (republioans) Uni'ed States
Senators from that State.-THE an
cestOrs Of George Washington TALL
English) have been traced back to
1888. HE barb wire manufacturers
are forming a trust.-THERR are 60, =
600 boy tIamps In tue United States.
"A MAN thirty years old, with DO
hair on his head, no Wbiskers on bis