South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1891-12-04
ITEMS OF NEWS.

In the South. owing TO their docility.
The new court house At Motgsu.
town this State 10 nearly rssdy for
occupancy.
Wheat prospects 10 Kansas are
poorer than last year, owing to .
drought in the eastern belt,
OF the $40. 900 600 per sons carried
last year on steam vessels only sixty
we're killed.
The next annual convention Of the
virginia w. c. +. u. will b held
10 Winchester.
A 81. Louis ply sicisn states that
be has discovered peculiar micro
scopicsl insects IN cigarette.
John Slow 10 . blacksmith 1t Jew.
ell, Kan. He's Slow. but sheer tie
locsl paper remarks.
The largest terrapin farm in the
United States 10 on Hog leland,
Potomac river.
The Howers used during . season.
IN London cost on an average S25, 900
day.
The New York Camp of Coused-
eaate veterans will celebrate Gener-
al Lees birthday January ~. With
dinner.
Miss Annie Ridanour Of Jefferson
county has been promoted from 5000
to $1,000 in the Pension Department
at Washington.
A Connecticut man has invented q
machine which automatically feeds
his chickens at night and morning.
1t Is run by clockwor
Francis McCsrry an iron moulder
thirty-eight years old. attempted 10
rival Steve Brodie by Jumping of
the Brooklyn Bridge and WAS drown.
ed.
TIE three ,allest trees in the world
are believed tn he a sequota near
Stockton, CAL. which is 325 feet high
and two eucslyps in Victoria. Aus
tralia, estima.ed TO be ass AMI $50
respectively.
Oae tbsusand blu 'ldings have been
erected in the city Of Roanoke during
the past twelve months, snd the
monthly pay.rolis OF the various in
dus rics there fools mp $3.50 900.
William J Florence the famous
comnedian is dead. He Was sky
years Of age. and made his FIRST ap.
peararce on the stage over forty
years ago.
Hon 8 Elkins has offered to sub.
scribe $4,000 toward the erection OF
q Baptist College a; EIkins, w Va,
the present terminus Of the West
Virginia Central railroad.
The mother OF the late DIR NIX
Baldwin Of L udoun county. died At
her residence near Philomont on
Friday night, 10 the ninety eighth
yesr Of her age.
Mrs Mary A Plunkett ninety. three
years old, relict of Rev. w H
PluDke,t who was . Baptist preach
er died at her home In. PiItsylvania
county, Sunday.
From the Ii tie station OF Coves-
vile, Albemarle county. 5000 bar
rels Of apples have just been ship.
ped. mostly to Liverpool.
John B Stevens Of Dover, N Fl,
died last week aged 81. In his
boyhood he attended the school
taught by Daniel Webster In Cor.
nish, Me. He was the last surviy.
ing pupil Of Mr. Webster.
Mrs Francis Hodgson Burnett has
founded an asylum for newsboys In
London in memory of her dead son
Lionel, the original of Little Lord
FauntlerOy. 1t is called Lionel
Home and Mrs Burnett will give
largely to lis support.
The Hon Thomas Ryan American
minister to Mexico. who hes como
home TO confer with Mr.. Blaine, ex.
presses the highest admiration for
President Diaz.
In the English Church 10 Paris the
obs, quies OF Lord Lytton, the poet
and British ambassador TO France,
were held. Many distinguished
persons were present. The body
vas taken to England for burial.
A Wholesale delivery from the
Western peniIeRtiary at Pittsburs,
Pa, WAS foiled Saturday by the dis
covery of tunnel that the convicts
had dug from the interior leading to
the sidewalk on side. The work was
completed, only stone in the sides
walk rsmsing in its place. The con-
victs bad been working in the tunnel
for months.
Will am Allen. known as Land
Bill A len. died Sunday last in the
Franklin County (Ohio) Infirmary,
aged eighty one yesrs. He ives ct
d fferent times editor OF the Rhode
Islander. the Ohio State Journal and
tho Cincinnati Gazette. He spent
$50 900 In urihering q plan TO give
iC0 acres Of government land TO every
man who would settle on II. Ia 1868
his bill passed Congress. lie became
penniless in his old ags.'
Mi. John X. CoweD, general coun.
sci Of the b. and o., has written TO
the town council OF Oakland, Gar
rett county, that the ordinance liu it
ing speed Of trains through the town
to six miles an hour Is invalid and
that the company will resist IL. The
mayor and council have decided to
attempt TO iufOrce il and have order.
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