South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1890-06-20
NEWS OF THE wEEK,


have promised bic help. There is al.
SO talk q forcing the measure through
the Sensse By the Reed method in
che absence Of Vice. President Nor.
ton.-Tbe Congressional campaign
in virginis will be opened early.-
Mr. Mills has declined 70 serve ON
the House committee on rules be-
caase. !, is said, be does no. wish TO
be associated in committee work
with Speaker Reed. hail.s.nrm
visited the Valley Of Virginia. doing
considerable damage to the crops
hAV-stonee ~ large as hen esps fell.
- Four hundred and seventy years
ago too men In Hungary went to Law
about piece OF land valued ct $4,000.
but nobody WAS in sny particular
hurry. and 90 the matter dragged a.
long until The other day, wLe. the
court decided Il. The decision, how.
ever, 10 OF little prsctical interest to
aay body. % the land In question
has been covered by lake for the
last ZOO years. The Indians Of
Dakota are said to be starving, and
have begun TO take food wherever
they can Ind it.-The f.st new
wheat received at Baltimore came
from Virgins, and sold for 81 Is per
bushel-TArifr reform picnics are
very popular In Missouri and other
western States 1t is estimated
that over 10000. 900 cigars are man.
ufactured every day in the United
States alone, and this enormous
number requires In the neighborhood
OF 100000 boxes for their keeping.
As a result there are over 200 fac,o.
ries In the country turning these
boxes cut The wood OF which these
boxss are male comes from Mexico,
Central America and the West Indies.
- Many merchants Of Wetxel coun
~, this State, have been Indicted for
selling lemon and other essences.
Speaker Reed rants much atou.
the "denial Of political rigbts'' in the
South. Let him consider the dppri =
vatioa OF Democrats in New Eng
land of their share of Congressiona
representation, as shown by the fact
that at the last Congressional cleo
tions in November, 1888, the Rcpub-
licans polled an aggregate of 49,
090 woes and the opposition poll. d
31S,47', or very much more than two
hfths. Yet the Republicans have all
OF the twelve Senators from New
England. and twenty-three out of
twenty.s:x Representstives.-The
original mask Of Napoleon Bona.
'partc. taken after death at st. Hele
M, is offered for sale for 100000.
- The Normal Schools and the
State University OF this State are pros.
pering better than ever before in their
history Seven wolves were killed
in Nicholas county, this state, Iast
week. "A strange green bug is de .
stroy ing the wheat crop in many parts
OF liiinois.--The slave trade still
dourishc, in the greater part OF Afri D..
Ca DIES pie all tho efforts OF Euro
pean nations TO break it up. A
society TO prevent people from being
buried alive has been organized in
New York Sixty persons we're
arrest ted in New York Thursday by
us. Marsbals for refusing to ans er
questions asked by census enumera.
tors. Ten thousand people attend i.
ed the unveiling OF the Con federa'e
monument at Petersburg, Va, last
week.--The largest scorpse ever
conveyed 10 grave in Missouri was,
perhaps, that of the ncgress known a
Big Jude, buried last week in New
Madrid. The coffin was Sc inches
broad, feet long and SO inches
deep. She weighed $50 pounds. Il,
required the strength of sixteen pal,
bearers to place her in the wagon.
made for the occasion, and lower her
into the grave. Tho funeral of
General r. Lindsay Walker, the
chief OF artillery in A. p. HIPS corps
during the war. took place in Rich.
mond Thursday. The battered battle
flag that was carried by Pegram's
battalion during the war, was placed
on his casket.--The United States
Senate on Saturday passed 100 pri.
vate pension bills The radical
wing of the House Republicans has,
it is said determined TO force through
caucus plan for q fedora! election
law.-COmmissioner OF Pensions
Raum denies the charges Of malfes-
sance In office made against him. His
Office will be Investigated. - Sugar
has advanced 81 so barrel in Phil
adelphia, and dealers in that city ex-
poet the price 10 60 higher if the Mc-
Kinley tariff bill becomes q law
The Louisiana Lottery Company, of
fered the State OF Louisiana S25 ,000,.
900 for lottery privileges for twenty
FIVE years from January ], 1884,
More men die every year than women.
Tx. President Cleveland will
spend the greater part Of his summer
vacation ct New Bedford, Mass.--
The hot weather Of last week caused
a great increase in the death. rate in
New York. The deaths during the
week we're 82l Rgainst 656 the PRO.
yious week 1t IS thought that in
a year or two collisions between rail-
road trains will be things of the past,
as a device has been patented which
will enable the engineers on locomo
tives TO know when trains are hp-
preaching them from the other dircc.
ton, and by means of a telephone
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