South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1891-02-06
ITEMS oF NEWS.


Secretary Of the Treasury, Hon. l
William Window, died last week.
Coal Is fifty osnts ton In Pitts.
burg Kan.
Name and New Hsmpshire make
nearly ell OF the worlds spools.
Leeisnaw county. Mich., swarms
with foxes this winter.
Strawberries sell for $3.50 q quart
In the Boston maj ket.
At Santa Cruz, Cal, . sharks liver
has just yielded six barrels Of oil.
To take feathers OF hen and to
put feathers on Z woman both come
under the head q dressing.
Helena. Mont, win . population
Of only $4,000 contsius thiny.tvo
millionaires.
Three thousand cars are at Spring
Lake. Ia. waiting for ice for Mis-
souri, towns
Richmond was damaged TO the
amount Of $4,000 by Gre Friday
night last.
TIE mosber Of Senator Voorhees,.
a2ed ninety years died at her home
Indiana last week.
A drove Of f.0OO turkeys we're
driven from Parsons TO OsMe2o
Kansas.
Over seven thousand bales Of cot
ton were received st Norfolk. Va.
Tuesday, tho lasges, single days re-
ceip:s Of the season.
Salt Is cheaper in some parts Of
Kansas than plastering sand. At
kenapolis II is selling at from 81 10
$3 per wagon load.
The great skow piece OF the receut
fruit fait held 81 Marysville, Cal,
was an exact copy Of Suffers famous
fort, built entirely Of oranges.
An Atcbison (Kansas) man Is soon
10 marry the woman who stood spop.
sor for him when he Was baptized as
. baby.
George d. MONTH";, was sentenced
at Cumberland, Md. to Eve years in
the Peniteniiasy for killing Simeon
long.
An explosion Of nal praf gas, In
mine at Mammoth, Pa, last week,
caused the death Of one huudred and
ten miners.
Wbite!aw r ID, United States
minister to France, hss returned 10
Paris ate. his journey mp the Nile.
which he descended as far as the fret
cataract.
Upon the assembling OF Congress,
Friday the death Of Hon. VIM, Win.
dom, 81 cretary of The Treasury, was
announced in both houses, and an
adjournment Immediately followed.
A carload of maple sugar was re.
ceiyed at 81. Joseph, No., the other
day from Cauads. 1t contained
0.4l0 pounds, and was valued at
81 ,4s0.45.
Ger. Nathan Golf. the West Vir-
ginia republican leader has. 1t Is stat.
ed, decided to leave his immense in
terests In his old State aud locate in
Idaho.
The length Of the telegraph lines OF
the world at the end OF 1889 had
reached total Of l,6s0,0OO miles,
sufficient to go around the equator
seventy times.
There Is said to he railway in
Mexico on one section OF which the |
lies are mahogany, simply because IN |
thaHpart Of the country mshogany is
the cheapest and most available wood |
In sixteen cities Of Virginia tie
negroes own property worth S3.324,-
542. the greater part Of which is real
estate. In Richmond their posses
sions amount to $850,138.
Prof. Harriet Cook, professor of
history In Cornell, 10 the first woman |
ever bonored with the chair and |
equal pay with the men professors.
She has taught in Cornell twenty.
three years.
The Central Christian Advocate, |
ore of ;he official church papers of the |
Methodist Episcopal Church, is au.
thority for the statement that the
entire circulation Of the weekly
church papers is less thau 100000.
In counting his small change tie
other day michigan man found the
most valuable scent piece extant
The jsrring on the table caused the
piece OF money to spit 10 Two aud
from the center rolled gold dollar.
Bishop John p. Newmau will be
leader in the quarter centennial
Methodist jubilee 10 be held in New
Orleans. lie is TO be the orator of
the day and will take for bis sub.
jsel The Future of the Negro Race.
Amid the Indian wars, The exciGs-
ment in Congress and In The various
State Legislatures, Earl Marble, edi-
tor Of the Denver TomahaEk, stops
TO wish that somebody would invent
"a onion with the present smell lell
out.
Mrs. Walter Baker, OF Boston,
whose bejuests to charitable and ed.
ucaiional institutions nearly reach