South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1891-07-17
ITEMS OF NEWS.


A notorious New York Criminal 10
only fourteen years old.
A double beaded kitten 10 among
the curiosities at Key West. Fla.
Mr.. Asior's new New York Hotel
will be seventeen stories high.
One hundred carloads OF water
melons are being shipped from
Southern Georgia per day.
Every minute. night and day. the
United States government collects
$3.50 md spends $46l.
A keeper Of the Cincinnati zoo-
logical gardens says no animal is
lied about so much 60 the giraffe.
In the gizzsrd Of hen killed at
Lubec, Maine, was found . email
gold pin lost ten years ago.
The injured by the railroad acct
dent near Charleston July A are more
numerous ths:. at first reported.
A mule at Morrell, Pa. attempted
to s,and on Lis head and broke bis
neck.
In sections Of Florida eabbages are
being given away for cattle feed. such
drug are they on the market.
Mr.. George vsnderbilts land pur.
ehsses tn the vicinity OF Asheville, N
C., go far aggregates 5000 acres for
which he paid $4,000
A man In Alabama Il 10 said lie.
tened 10 an amusing story told him
by friend and then laughed 90 hard
that he actually broke one Of his ribs
In the production of maple sugar
Vermont stands FIRST in the Union,
making nearly 1000, 900 pounds an
nually.
A girl picked 100 quarts OF straw.
berries in one day recently, near
Morenci. Mich, for which she was
paid $3.50.
The most extraordinary freak Of
extravaganza is an Eifrel tower in
diamonds, one meter high, recently
sold in Paris for 344,
1t is said the shipments of lambs
from Wytbe county this year will
reach $4,000, from which at least
YOoJOOV VIII DC realized.
Rev. Sam Jones, In an interview,
estimates The number of conversions
under his preaching at 10000 TO
100000.
1t ia stated than Tangier CAi,ica)
locusts fall into the street like rain.
and the sound OF :heir falling resem.
oles heavy shower.
One Of the peculiar customs of the
East Indian coolies, called Lascars, is
the putting of ring on the great toe
wheu they marry.
According to the last census there
were twenty six l5-year- old married
women In Paris and two Of them have
since been divorced.
The family Of the late Hon. John
.4etcher have placed granite mon.
ument In the cemetery at Lexington
10 his memory. II is Of a handsome
design and about fifteen feet high
The Missouri river is cutting into
The Kansas shore and threatens TO
leave St. Joseph two miles to the east,
with the city's million dollar bridge
spanning a dry spot.
JEFFERSON A. Harlow, Kansas Civ
letter'carrier, slept near an open win.
dow with the moon shining full upon
his face. When he aWoke he was TO-
tally blind.
Bulting beads is bad business. A
Georgia boy who was looked upon as
the champion butter OF his neiehbCr.
hood is now verging on insanity, il is
thought as result OF the many but
Ting contests in which he took part.
The heads OF nineteen Chinsmen
were recently cut of at Hong Kong
by public executioner. He did
the cory business with 9 sword
seVerIn2 q head OF q single blow. IL
was witnessed by an immense thronQ
A Arm has recently purchased for
New England factories within . ra-
dius OF Eve miles Of Charlestown,
10000 pounds Of wool OF this sea.
sons clip, for which they paid In cash
about $22 900.
A Saratoga letter tells OF woman
there whose hair has turned within q
year from gray TO blaok--its original
color. She is seventy years old, ami
her hair had been gray from early in
the /70's.
California State Controller COL
RaD'a attorney, j. A. Barhsm, has
advised him not 20 pay the $500, 900
appropriated by the Legislature for
CaliforDia's exhibit at The Worlds
Fair on the ground that The appTo-
pTlation iS unconstitutional.
James Ferguson, the famous steeple
climber, was killed at Albany, N. Y.
while painting one Of the towers o.
the peniteDtiary. He was at work
forty-fve feet from the RronnI, when
his tackle broke snd he was dasf ed To
death. He was about fifty years old,
and bad a national reputation.
A notice upon the window of
" nth Georgia postnfilce reads {:
When you Kun for YOre Male bav
Psshuns Know Shootin around the
Pnstofilce duren bushels ours nv
oarGcr OF the Postmaster bis sine and
Seal Chickens bot on Kommission.'
Wolves are working destruction TO
/ the nacks Of Webster county. and