South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1891-06-26
ITEMS OF NEWS rs;

Secretary Blaine is said to be
gaining strength daily 81 Bar Harbor
Con. John NJ. SchoGeld was mar.
ried last week to Miss Georgia Kill
bourne, at Keokuk,
An Illinois man is under arrr st
for passing confederate slO0 bill
on q farm.
Ozark, Ala, is getting rich. She
owes no money and has over $4,000
Of hard cash in her town treasury.
Washingion's big tree for sxhibi-
ton At the Worlds Fair 10 4 feat
square and l20 feet long.
Tho sudden death Of . friend or his
own ege has Q greater effect on . man
than 1000 sermons.
Two men are searching for q YES
sci load Of copper, which is alleged
to have been sunk at Erie, Pa.
Farm lands in the United States.
taking The country as q whole, oc-
eupy only 2s9 acres in every 1000.
Reports from 90 Of the LOG con-
tries OF Kansas, yhow the wheat crop
as the most promuins IN the history
Of the State.
While blowing at MAYS Landing
n. j farm-r uncarthed large
suapiug turtle which weighed twenty
pounds.
General Grants sister. Mrs. Mary
Grant Cramet. of Orange. N, j., is
lecturiug to ex. soldiers in central
New York;
Encouraging crop news comes
from the southern part OF this State.
The wheat. particularly, Is better
than 1t has been for years.
In the recent Missouri cyclone a
horse was carried over farm hous
and dashed to death in the field be.
yond, but the house was untouched.
The Wo-ld's Fair bil before the
Illinois Legislature has finally passed
Doth houses, 1t apprcp;ia,es $500,
900.
The Bank of Scotland Issued 81
notes as early as 1704 and their
issue has since been continued with
out interruption.
Professor Je'se Richards. msnager
of fhe West Virginia shorthand
School at Wheeling committed suicide
last week.
Solomon Efaw has been convict d
ut Clarksburg ofthe murder Of young
Bennett and sentenced to the peni.
Tertiary for life. he is only 81 years
old.
Four thousand women are employed
IN the vatious Government depart
meats mt Washington. Trey get
good salaries, have easy hours and do
good work.
Ys'e's Oldest living graduate is
said TO be Edward McCrady, Of
Charleston. S. c., who came out in
the class of 1920 with President
WGo!sey.
A freight train en- the Chicago
and Erie Road was ditched Thursday
evening at Disco, Ind, by . broken
nail. Sixteen cars were wrecked and
twenty head ofimported cattle killed.
An electric railway is 10 lie bull, to
connect Charleston and Kanawha
CITY, the new city laid out about q
mile and half from Charleston, on
the opposite side of the river,
The Prince OF Wales was born
November 9.l641, visited the United
States in 1860 and married daugh-
ter Of the King OF Denmark Marc h 10,
1868. He will be fifty years Of age in
November.
Wolves have killed large num-
Der Of sheep in Webster county this
State and the county Court offers
$50 each 70. wolf scalps, 10 which
citizens committee will add $40
more.
II is slated that great numbers Of
Indians are sick with lagrippe and
are dying at an alarming ra.e in
Alaska. One village has been de-
populated with the exception of two
children, and none left to bury the
dead.
After the 23d OF this month no
person or firm doing Business in
South CAROLINA will be permitted TO
sell pistol, or even 8 pistol car
fridge, in that State, without first
taking out a license and paying 5000
for j..
NJ. Eiffel, the during civil engineer
who conceived the tower in Paris
which bears bis name, lives up on
Jungfrau, in the Swiss Alps. lie
has just obtained permission TO
build railroad up the mountain to
his very dwelling.
A huge white oak tree that ran ont
800 feet Of Ium Der vas recently cut
up in Writ county this State. II was
30 feet long and measured yer 5
feet IN diameter at the butt and oyor
four feet at the top.
There is TO be m old-time celebra.
ton OF tue Fourth Of July at Roa-
nOke Yirgidia. Hon. James w. Mar.
shall, Of Craig county. is 10 be the
orator. There will be a Greman's and
military parade, a free dinner, and
fireworks in Ibe evening.
The sword with Custer usel in
his campaigns against the Indians.