South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1890-10-31

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Mrs Jefferson Davis is 10 New
York on visit.
Prairie fires have done inmens,
damage in North Dakota.
The President has returned t.
Washington from his Western Trip.
An. orange measuring a-ot in cir.
cumference has been found in Starke
Fla
Gov. Hill, OF New York, is can.
wasting this State in the interests oil
Democracy.
The population OF Pennsylvania il
5,248.574 an increase Of 865,6S2
since 1880.
A cloul.burst destroyed much
property in Brax,on .couaty. this
State, Sunday night.
A ,attler's brain is like begyar's
pack; il contains little but what has
been given to him.
There are about two hundred stn-
dents enrolled Ia the West Virginia
University at Mo-gantown.
New York ci,y's police census
make the population l.710,7i5 or
1877 PA over the federal census.
The n groes Gf South Carolina will
vote against Tillman, the Alliance
Democratic candidate for Gove'ncr.
II the fodder or hay crop is short
lessen the number of animals. Keep
nothing that cannot be fed literally.
A New York Italian fruit yender
has the following sign displayed over
his stand: 'Chois Ksliforny Craps
Mr. Joseph Pnliszar has retired
from the editorsh;p OF the New York
World because of impaired eyesight,
The tomato is easily improved by
selection. Use only the smooth ones
from which TO select seed for next
yesr.
The population of Texas is 2,252,-
220, Increase of 40.24 per cent, aud
of Tennessee 1893 ,723> increase 1850
per cent.
The New York TriJtne says: 1t is
estimated that one rainy dsy costs
the retail storekeepers of that city
500. o00-'
A carpet used in room at the
mint, after be ng 10 wear some years
was burned the other day in pans and
yielded $4,000 in gold.
A young woman at Ashland, Wis.
after suffering four years from what
was supposed to be consumption, has
jus. coughed up sbiugle nail.
An inmate of an insane asylum In
Georgia imagines that be is grain oil
corn, and will not go into the yato
for fear the chickens may eat him.
It ia said. that in Oklahoma. when
a man is charged with horse stealing
his lawyers attempt TO secure an IN
dictment for the less serious crime Of
murder.
The Courts Of Iowa and Kansas
have rendered decisions sustaining
the copsti,utionality of the U. s. Law
which permits the sale OF liquor II
| prohibition States.
A box of Italian rabbits has been
received at PaIatka, Fla. The ami
mails are ed for the length Of their
cars, some Of them measuring IL in
ches from tip to tip.
Miss Lizzie Mostly died a. The
resider CO Of her sister, Mrs. Russel
near Bedford City last week, after 9
short illness. She was sister oil
Col. John s. and Won. II Mosby.
Large numbers of pearls are being
found in the Sugar river, In Niscon-
sin, and the discovery has caused
great excitement in the country
through which the river runs.
The friends of Miss Hlnnie Davis
daughter of the late Hon. jefferson
Davis, say that her engagement to
Mr. Alfred Wilkinson, of New York,
vas broken off on account OF her iil-
health.
Harry Cris,ian, the negro despe fado
who murdered Detective Crow on
Elk Horn, on September 2, has been
captured in Logan county, w. Va
A purse of 5000 was made up for bis
captor.
The earnings of The b. & o. for
the fiscal year ended September 30,
1890, were @3,0s9,SS0 in excess OF
those of the corresponding period OF
last year. Still no dividend is de-
oIared.
Attorney. General Miller. Secretary
Mobiles and Judges Gresham and
Woods are mentioned among the pos.
stbilities for The succession 10 The late
Justice Miller on the United States
Supreme bench.
1t is not poverty so much as pre-
tense that harnesses n ruined man
the keeping mp a hollow show that
must come TO the end. Have the
courage TO appear poor aud you dis
arm poverty IF its sharpest sting,
Engineer Springer killed three deer
the other night at Gladstone, Mich d.
lIis engine was running thirty-hve
miles an hour, when buck and two
does stood in the centre Of tho track
fascinated BY the fash Of the head
light.
/ Etbabub Vohest hcEtV Vttnehut ~
Columbia, South Carolina, killed one
of his church members 10 order to
exhibit bis power TO bring him back "a
life. Unfortunately be did not pos
sess the power and now stands gOod
chance Of hanging.
Gen. Golf and Steve Elkins eact
want 20 go the United States Senate
from this State, and consequently
are diliigentiv canvassinO ali of its ga