South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1890-11-28
ITEMS OF NEWS.


substitute for mule power.
Oliver Cromwell q bedstead has
been sold al su ion for so guineas.
The Methodist Episcopal church
appropristss for foreign countries
this year $40. 9o7.
It is expected the bondhoiders OF
lS44 viii take control OF the G. & @.
canal in few days.
Birds have q sps ciAl mechanism for
sweeping the eye. rapidly aud often,
by meaIs Of third eyelid.
joseph wharlina. OF New Orleans,
thinks he is the only surviving sol.
der OF the Back Hawk war.
Boston Is to have an iustitute where
ccnsumptive patients may be treated
by kocb's tuberculosis cure.
Secretary Window denies that the
treasury is empty and says he has
money TO meet any emergency.
The postal business Of New Orleans
has fallen on largely since the en-.
forcsment Of the sn'i-lottery Law.
A Baltimore judge decided that a
man 70 jpstifiAble in n ssulting any
onu who curses him In his own houfe.
The Influx Of population to South
ern California Is now almost as great
as during the boom Of three yesrs
ago.
Gen. Alfred C. Barnes, OF Brook
Ign, has formally left the Republican
party and united with the Democratic
fold.
Gov. John B. Gordon has been
elected United S,s,es Senator from
Georgia to succeed Hon. Joseph Z.
Brown. :.
The South Is in q more solid con.
dition than il has heen for years and
is marketing 10000 bales Of cotton
per day.
The Indiana Farmers Alliance has
passed resolution demanding the
abolition Of tho National banking
system.
Ex-President Cleveland>s popu
larity with the Democratic masses lie
one of the interesting topics among
politicians.
Two building were destroyed BY
he fire at the University of Virginia,
and Edward O'HaFs, q tailor, was
burned 10 death.
The Republic League is pre-.
pairing Tor Congress OF all Republi-
can nations during the progress Of tue
Columbian exhibition.
An effort VIII probably be msde at
the approaching scssi"n of Congress
to pass a pension deficiency bin sg-
S30.000,00O.
Gov. Hill has made up his mind
not to accept the New York Senator
ship, bat to run again FIR Governor
and keep 10 front for 1892.
Michigan democrats hope 10 elect
United States Senators in 1853 and
1895. They claim 10 out of the ii
Congressman recently ELECTED.
The Lafayette statue commission
Is making another effort to place the
statue 10 Lafayette Park, WISHING
ton, despite popular opposition
TuberculosisJ in it's familiar form Of
consumption, is The most prevaleu. of
diseases. II kills 10000 persons in
he United States alone every year.
The Same syndicate that purchased
the FaulkRer estate, Martinsburg, has
also purchased the Brown property
about one. half mile out Of the city.
The National Woman's Christian
Temperance Union 6nished its ORR
at Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, and all
jonrned TO meet next year ct Boston.
The official count Of the recent
vote in New York shows that thous-
ands OF blank ballots we're cost sn,l
that there mere many defective tick,
cts.
A grain OF carmine or half 3 9rsin
Of sniIiue will Iinge a hogshead OF
water Sd that q strong microscope
will dotect cOloring matter in every
drop.
Gr. CIarkson says the newspapers
were the cause of the political cS clone
which passed. over this country on
tue 4'h mat, Good for the news
papers.
There Ia no movement among the
Democrats to Dust Speaker Reed from
his sekt in the next Congress, but
merely to bring out the facts Of bis
reelection. ae5r
The heavy aTmorvd cruiser NSfne
was successfully launched last week
at Brooklyn nRvy-Yard, and was
Damed by Miss Alice @WilmerdiuQ,
grand daughter Of Secretory Tracy.
The earnings Of the b. g. o. rail-
road during TIE psst year we're a24.s
4l2,095 sgRinst $2l ,3O3, 900 in 1889.
Operating expenses past year $l6,-
O66.669 against si4,5l0,s44 in 1899 q.
A New York mechanic bas FO'ved
the problem Of making a penny 20 q
long way. He rolled a copper cent
into q ribbon ih:es. quarters OF an
inch vide and eighty.four inches
long.
Charles Jones, brother Of Rev.
Sam r. Jones, shot James Young,
colored, three lines at Cartersvil!e,
Ca, Saturday evening. Young died
m twenty-five minutes. Jones is In
jail.
There ls q man 10 Atcbinson. Kan.
Who lOOkS 30 much like President