South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1891-05-08
ITEMS OF NEWS.

~ ufo Cali mat Was DOgu with buI
one eye and no Sign Of . tail.
Field Msrsbal Count Won Mofke
died Friday night last 10 Berlin, at Tie
ago OF 81 ysars.
| II rs Ssed that between ifty and
sixty thousand copies Of Whittier,
poems are sold annually.
/ Macon. Ga, has . Ten yesr-old
stenogarbef end Typewriter, Who has
stsrted In business for herself in q
prominent Hotel Of that town.
Barnum desired to be erenateJ
after his death. bot HE wife persuaded
BIN TO abandon the flea as destruc.
tive TO her peace Of mind.
Gen. Armfstesd Lindsay Long
former stsn officer Of General Lee,
died in Charlottesville, Virginia las,
wednesday sged sixty -four years.
II 10 aDnouDced that Mrs. Grant will
not allow the ces she has
written Of her late husband, Gen. U.
s. Grant, TO be Published.
Doctor Garrisob's trial for thu
shooting Of DR.. Raifd commenced in
the Circuit Cosrt Of Ohio county May
Alb.
Forest Gree have DESTROYED thous.
ands Of dollars worth OF timber in
the mountains in the vicinity Of Read.
ing, Pc.
SIX young ladies received the de-
gree OF doctor OF medicine Friday ut
the ninth annual com me cement of
the Woman's Medic al College of BAL
timore.
According to tho public debt state.
ment. the first issued ny Secretary
Foster. the increase during the month
OF April was S1,514,323.
Over sixty thousand Immigrants
landed IN New York last month.
which is the largest number landed
since the same month ia 1882.
Bishop Wilson OF tho N. T.. Church
South IS on visiting. toar through
Virginia, North Carolina and Ten
nessee.
A railroad bridge near London,
England, collapsed while an express
train was passing over it. Six cars
went through and were smashed to
atoms. Many persons we're injured.
The construction Of o railroad from
Sisun,on to POINT on The Wesl
Virginia Central Railroad near Bev
erly is being agitated, and money is
to he raised In SIauntJE Tor 8 preilms
mary survey.
The number Of inh sbitants OF Brit
ish I:.dia by the last &c nsus Ia $780,
100000. en- increase Of nearly 3d.
100000 since 1881. The population
Of all India amounts TO about ESQ.,
100000.
FIVE, instead Of three men, were
killed in the collision between 1.-The
Cincinnati express train on the Met
ropolitan Branch OF the. Baltimore
and Ohio Road last week.
Judge O. a. mden, OF this
State, died recently at Hot Springs.
Arkansas. He was one Of the dele.
gates that nominated Samuel j. Til
den for president.
A blighting frost has done great
damage to the fruit In Northern In
diane. Clover and vegetables were
badly hurt. bat the wheat and oats
are uninjured.
Michael O'Toole, chArgedsEwith
killing John Schal6t. 81 Homecoming,
was arrested Thursday night, al Lei
senring, Pa. His trial has been set
for October term OF Court.
DR.. Hattie B. Jones, Assistant Su.
perintenden, of the Weston Asylum
for the insane. has resigned her posi-
ton, greatly TO the regret OF the
Board Of Trustees OF that In stitutiOn
and the people OF Weston.
Congressman George D. Wise OF
Richmond, has gone to San Francisco
TO look after the estate OF . bachelor
brother who died in California about
a year ago. Among other possessions
was tract Of 43 acres near San Fra n
cisco. for which Dir. Wise received .
few days ago an offer Of $1,000 an
acre.
Sales Of leaf tobacco 10 Dsnville'
Virginia for April were 4,552,O0O
pounds, an increase Of nearly $780,
600 pounds over the sales for April
last year. The average pTi CO was
1912 per hundred pounds, the
largest average price for several
years.
The town Of ChilIicothe. I'll :, Is ex-
cited over tho action Of n teacher In
one of the public schools. She tied
the bands Of two little children to a
stovepipe in the school room and
ha hted lot Of paper in the stove 10
punish them. The cbildren's hands
were severely burned. Tho teacher
vas dismissed.
The Michigan Legislature has pass.
ed on act devised by he democrats
| TO divide the vote of The Safe on
The presidency The bill, which
Low goes 10 the Governor; provides
for the election of presidential
electors by congressional districts,
with two delegates a. large one from
the eastern and the other from the
western section Of the state. The
Sena,ehas passed The appor,icnment
bill, which il 10 thought. will give
seven Of the twelve districts OF
Michigan 10 the democrats,
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