South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1891-06-19
ITEMS OF NEWS.

mails in enduring cold.
More than seven million tons of
salt 10 used each year In the world.
The fund OF S2.500,O00 which Mr..
Peabody left for the poor OF London
now amounts to over IS 900 ZOO.
Claus Spreckles has decided to
double his sugar refinery, making il
the largest in the world.
Gen. John M. Schofeld, commsn.
der of the United States army, 10 10
be married shortly.
The estate Of the late p. T. Bar.
mum, the great Snowman has been
appraised at S4.s79.532.
Twcnty-pine years last week since
'StonewalP Jsckson's victory over
General Shields al Port Republic.
The largest state prison in the
United States is located at Jefferson
City, SO.
Secretary Blaine il at Bar Harbor,
where he has orders from his physi-
clan TO remain in perfect quiet.
King Humbert has sent siOO TO
each child left en- orphan by the
steamship Utopia disaster.
The reported illness of General
Longstreet is ccnlradicted by him.
self.
Dense smoke from the far of
Michigan fires spread over part of
Georgia recently.
An Atchison girl who is soon 20
be married will pay tie expenses OF
the wedding tour.
Fifty~seven out OF ninety-seyep
high school principals in Michigan
are women,
The shipments from the mines of
The Cumberland Coal region for the
week ended June 6 were S9,l29 tons.
Eastern capitalists have purchased
for $4,000 Eve thousand acres OF
coal and timber land in Webster
county, this State.
A Hagers'own paper says tho ,ail.
roads transported $4,000 persons to
that town during the TINKER meet,
ing.
A Georgia man in splitting wood
one day found a hickory nut firmly
embed ded In the heart CT The timber.
do" 1t came there Is mystery.
The Frenchman habi,ually raises
his ha. when q funeral pas ses him on
The strest-a rare spectacle in
America.
a Tennessee country newspaper
has discovered that reaches can fiy
like gras.hoppers. and can be seen
late at night coming home 10 rocst
j. b. Beckwitb, the oldest resident
OF Wood county, died last week,
eyed ninety one years. He was born
In Loudoun county Virginia.
Tie fret application ever made =,
q woman for appointment as a rail-
way m.!! Clerk was received by post
master General Wanamaker Friday.
A man in Kansas glories In the pos
session Of a calf that weighs ONLY rix
pounds and has to be placed on a
box IN order to reach the maternal
fountain
MIR. Jacob Smith from near Graf.
ton this state was telling 8 tree the
other day when it fell unexpectedly.
crushing him beneath 1t which killed
him alno st instantly.
The Confederate veterans of Win
chester, expect as an organized body
to attend tho Jackson monument GER.
emonles at Lexington, Va, Gu the
2lst Of July.
There are SIC prisoners in the
penitentiaiy at Noun dsvilIe, Line OF
whom are women. A new mees-
house. 50xlj0 feet and two stories
h'gn, is to be constructed.
The oldest college in North Amer.
lea was founded in l53l-the College
OF st. Ildefonso, in The city of Mcxi.
co. The next oldest is The Laval
College Quebec.
A pension claim of Mrs. Harrison.
widow OF the Presidents brother
who died Of Consumption in 1870.
has been allOwed-s8,00O arrsarsges
and $50 &C per month.
Illinois Is getting rid of all her
church and school bells. Il bas be en-
found that people go TO church jus,
tue same and the school chill
died are rather too early instead Of
too late.
The execution Of William Blsrsv
for the murder OF bis aunt and grand.
mother on he night Of May g 1890
took place in Baltimore last Friday. II
10 The first hanging that has occurred
Ihere for a number OF years.
The bridal veil originated in tho
custom Of performing the nupiiaI
ceremony under . square piec1 ~
cloth, held over the bride and groom,
TO conceal the bushes Of tho former
at the marriage Of q widow IL was
dispensed with.
The highest place in the world
regularly inhabited is said to he Tho
Buddhist monastery. Halne, TbiI,t
which is about l6. 900 feet above sss
level. The next highest is Galera. a
railway sIstion in Peru, which IL 10.
Gated at height Of 1862 feet.
| A suit TO break the will Of the Ia,s
Judge Gideon d. Camden, brougbt
by bis children, is now on trial a,
Clarksburg. Under the will judge
Camden left nearly all Of his large