South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1890-12-26
IrEMs oF NEWS.

~oo scucfNoto i1oots 81 Ouu ". Wblt-
tier. is preparing 10 spend his Ssrd
oir,bd.y. q
II is said that coal oil in large VOL
uine has heen discovered 10 Jefferson
county. this State.
In Buffalo they have figured out
that ballot reform makes the election
cost 81 for each vote.
II is the impression 10 Washington
that the 10 han scare in the north
west is practically over.
IL is the opinion of many leaiiug
politicians that MIR. Cleveland can be
elected President without New York's
aid.
lie is stated that oil has been ooz-
ing from the grouni at Mo ms Cross
Roads, three miles below Shepherds
town.
Lionel Burnett. The original OF
Lit lie Lord Fauntisroy, written by
his mother, Mrs. Francis nudgson
Burnett, 10 dead.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis has engaged
hotel accommodations in New York,
where she will go to rsvise the mem.
DIR of her husband.
The Rev. j. C. White, the oldest
Presbyterian minister in CINCINNATI.
ia dead. agei IS. He was stationed
in that city so years.
Miss Laura Burns, of Msrtinsville,
nd. has head of natural hair seven
fest in length. Miss Burns hereelf
Is only five feet three inches tall.
Robert Dick, inventor of the mail
ing machines IN use in ali OF the large
newspaper Offices In the United States
and Canada, is dead. He was "a
years old.
1t is thought TO be the purpose or
the advocates Of the force bill to stir
up bitter sectional debate in the
Senate in the hope OF solidifying their
party LIKES.
At Benwood. this State, last week,
cooper shop and five d dwellings, we're
burned aud two dwellings badly dam.
aged. Loss about 81 10000, with par
tiai insurance.
The Hon. John Hicks, United
States minister TO Peru. has present.
ed collection of antiquities from
tLSt country to Lawrence University,
in Appleton Wir.
Senator BAR, in The 5 sJe, F,iday,
practically inilmated that il had heen
found impossible to rally enough Re.
publican votes 90 the support OF the
gag-Iaw proposition.
The coal shipments over the West
Fhginil Central railroad eince tho
beginning OF the year exceed l,000,-
600 tons, and the coke shipments aR :
gregated nearly 100000.
According to Assistant Pos, ms, ter.
General ClArkson. the State of Wash
/ ington has more coal than Pennsyl-
vanis. more pine than Maine, aud
more fish than Massachusetts.
/ A charter has been obtained for
construction of a railroad from Sum
NIT Point, w Va, TO Berryviils, Va.
Col. William M. Clements formerly
general manager Of the b. & o. road,
is one OF the incorporalors.
An effort is being made to raise
butfaloes on the Tranquility farms, ia
Sussex c7untY, Belyitere, N. j. In
the saLo State the Hunierdon county
farmers have decided TO attempt The
cultivation Of tobacco next year.
Having put up the price of all
kinds of store goods. the Mckinley
bill hss wound pincreasing tho cost
o! the article thsy are carried homo
In wrapping paper. IL has adj.
vanced i've cents per hundred pounds.
A youthful couple we're joined in
matTimnny ia Pennsboro recently +,
Mr. Norman Calhoun and Mrs. Dick
son. Tue happy groom is only Oh
aud bic blushing bride only so. A
bride and groom whose combined age
Is Ill years are not often met with
Teak wood is noted for its exIraor
dinsry durability, In India and
Burmah beams of the teak wood In
good preservation are often found in
buildings several centuries old, and
instances ere known OF teak beams
having lasted more than 1000 years
Senator Carlisle, OF Kenluoky, ADD
Thomas Carlyle, the great Scotch
philosopher, are sail to be from the
same family. despite The dissimiIarlty
10 the spelling Of their names. TIE
members OF tho family are able 70
trace their linesge back 10 the DAYS
Of good King Alfred-moso tran / :.
100 years.
Fort Worth, Texas, Is on q big
boom, and is growing 10 business aud
\ population 81 . phenomenal rate.
The latest big Improvement is a
! grand hotel, The sile for which has
inst been purchased for $4,000.
The building IL 20 be erected by q
Cbioago hfm Of contractors, aud Will
cost 100000.
a marriage, peculiar 10 tbe length
and brevity or the high contracting
parties, was celebrated IN PmkefsS
burg last week. ~. v Col ms. &C
years old, 6 feet and I inches tail.
vas married. 70 Miss Martha Farne-
worth. The bride is 8 feet inch N
heigbt-tall enough. when standing
on a chair, TO reach her liege lords
shoulders.
Horatio Harrison Hughes, Of How.
nrd county Mo-, is hero Of six
wsrs--the iowa war against y e Neck
Chief, The Black Hawk war the
Mormon wsr, the Florida war, in
I uh ch bB ranked maior,gene She
I hfonfoau rnar ard tho reheflfr.. a.