South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1891-08-14
ITEMS OF NEWS

The Boston Globe knows a State
official of Maine who 10 wearing Q
straw bat that be bought in 1859.
Work on the consiruc ion OF ar
electric street railway 10 Mar,insburg
has been commenced.
The ST. J-mas Gazette of Lon
don saya tue Nick inley tariff Law in
the United STAT has crippled Eng.
Iand's trade.
A swarm OF bees attacked an or
gan grinder in Kansas City and
stung him nearly TO death. They
couldn't stand 'Annie Rooney
Charles Dickens old house in
Doughty street. London, 10 for sale
or is to be let or long lease. II
was from there be wrote the letters Of
Boz
At the banquet of the Virginia Bar
Association at the Greenbrier White
Sulphur Springs, Hon. VIM. L. Will.
son responded to the toast West
Virgins.
Phil Armour, the Chicago pork
king does an annual business OF $64-
100000. He seems to have made a
purse Of gold out OF q sow's ear,
whether II Is silken one or not.
A decided earthquake shock was
felt at Charleston, 5. G. about mid.
night Wednesday night. No damage
was done, bot the shook was of such
force as to rattle windows.
Mrs. Mary Lowell OF New York.
practical electrician, has invented
a continuance By which she is enabled
10 light her kitchen fire from her
bedroom.
Sonoma. Cal. has no fesr for her
water supply. A subterraneau river
runs under the town, and three arte
sian wells yi9ld a daily outpat Of
5000, 900 gallons.
Missouri is outstripping Kentucky
in the stock.raising business. For
merly the best horses and mules came
from Kentucky. but now the best
stock Is raised in Missouri.
A number of old canal boats that
were carried away by the last fresh.
ct have been fioated near Williams
port and taken to Cumberland for
repairs.
All eyes are now turned to West
Virginia. No other State is max.
ing such rapid strides in material
growth and the development of nat.
ural wealth.
On the farm OF the late Logan o.
born, in Jefferson county. this state,
476 head of grade Merino sheep
were sheared this season and Welded
an average of 81 pounds of wool per
head.
The citizens of Birmingham, Ala.
have subscribed 100000 to a mil.
!ion-dollar steel plant. Tue citizens
were asked by the promoters for
$4,000, and the other $4,000 lie in
sight.
Queen Victoria has in her pos
session dress woven en- tirely Of spi.
ders'wehs. which for fueness and beau
tY Is said to surpass the most splendid
silk. 1t was a gift from the Empress
OF Brazil in 1877.
A very extensive domestic indus.
try in Russia consists of the manu-.
taclure Of wooden spoons, which are
made to the amount of 10000 900
annually. They are nearly all made
of birch.
The great seal OF the United States
is affixed to nothing but treaties,
proolamations, commas ons, pardons
and pass ports. Che Government
has had but two seals in the 100
years since its foundation.
10 a recent storm in North Dakota
hails;ones of such extraordinary size
fell that residents sought refuge in
cellars. One Of the haiIstones 1T is
said measured twelve inches in cir.
conference.
Says New York Physician The
san umbrella is q life saver these
days. In thirty years Of active prac.
tice of medicine have never beard OF
a man being sunsIruck under a sun
umbrella.
The oldest living sx.Senstors OF
The Uuited States now living are
James w, Bradbury Of Maine AMI
AlpheuS Feloh of MiohIgsn, who en-
teredthe Ssuate In December, l847.
Hannibal Hamlin took bis seat 10 the
Senate in June, l948.
The largest gun ever made nv
Krupp Is tue property Of the Russian
government. II IL made OF cast steel
and has barrel forty feet long With
bore Of thirteen and one bali inoh-
es. 1t costs 81 500 10 Gre q single
shot from the gun.
Mr. George Washington died re-
Gently in johnson, county, Mo, age d
sixty years. He was born 10 JeGer.
son county. this State. His father
Was John Thornton Augustine Wash,
ingion, a nephew of General George
Washington. His mother was Ella.
aheth Conrad Bsdinger. = daughter
Of Capt Daniel Bedinger. revolu,
tionAry soldier.
The Chicago aud 81 Louis Limited
express train on The West ShOrt
Railroad run into freight train nea
Syracuse early Thursday morning
The day coach and the smoking ca
we're telesooped anA ten Italians
we're killed, The fireman of Oh,