South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1891-03-20
ITEMS OF NEWS

grants srnvel on tbe Hermaua from
Bremen lsst week.
A Salt Like City editor. who is
blind, is TO have his eyes replaced By
those OF q rabbit.
To mako one pound OF honev the
bees must visit fron 1000 10
100000 flowers.
A dealer in artificial limbs says tbnt
y00. coo Americans have lost one or
both legs.
Tie big pontoon bridge across the
Missouri river at 50. Charles. Mo-,
was completely destroyed by floods
Two hundresi gallons Of milk and
cream are shipped from Faiistoa-
Hartford county, to Baltimore every
day.
Mr.. Porter, superintendent Of the
Census, writes that the populations OF
Cumberland as determined by the
offisiaI corEt is IL, 729.
The pension appropriations OF the
Fif.y.6rst Congress are sos ,OS0 600
more than those OF the kftieth Con.
gress.
James N. Corhin. Of Jrffersou
eIunty, cele brated his one bun6redth
and first birthday few days ago.
lie is said 10 be in excellent health
Thirty zen were arrested and
twenty six stills Destroyed az an il
lcit whiskey,raid in Alabama recent
ly.
Rev. John Amber, well-known
Clergyman of the Protestant Episco-
pal diocese OF #sa Virginia died last
week.
Judge Collins Fitch. Ken,ucky's
oldest Mason, is dead. He was 80
years olasssnd, Lao be, n Mason
since 1920.
The largest barn in The United
States is aboat TO be- erected near
Lexington. KY. &c will be 1000
feet .tong and 100 .fess, vide.
Tennyson has just written a tpoem
for which he received ten dJlIars a
word. Writing poetry beats publish
ing a country newspaper.
The great snow.storm in eEngIand
has cut off communication with many
towns snd vil1agss and in sosns dis.
,ric.s The people nre threatened with
Garvaiieo- ~
A new fad in New York is called
the pine bath. Those who take it lie
in tank aud have the tepid extract
of pine poured over them. Ii is said
to be very Strengthening.
Rev. George Crosfeld died in
Berkeley Springs tfast; week, aged
about 20 y sarss of ,parsfysis. For
many years he was active ID the
methodist ministry.
Gustavus Bentley, q farmer riving
near Meadviile. Pa, has been arrest
cd for shearing his sheep in February,
He Gains TO have done it go they
would fatten quicker
The new states have already re-
ceiyed their nicknames. Washing.
ton is the Chinook State, Nusth Da.
kota the Flicker tGip State, Sou: b
Dakota the 'SiDaed Cat Stale, and
Monrana.the ST abbed toe STATE.
| Two coloted children IN WincBes-
ter, one eve years cd and the Other
ten months. left alone and locked in
by their mother, Matilda Johnson
whilst she went out 10 service, were
burned lie death on Friday afternoon
| Foreign export values OF domestic
breadstuffs frum the United States
fell off nearly $4,000, 900 in February
compared with the correspond ding
mon'h Of 1890. TIE exports Of cot.
ton increased ss,oOo,CO9 in the same
time.
Ms. Eleanor Baker's large beqrest:
% educational and benevolent iasti
IutIons, amounting to SI,6sO,000
represent money made in chocolate.
She was the wife of Walker Baker
who made large fortune in the
chocolate trade.
| Lewis Mountain, lsd Ct eleven
years, at Monsou, Me-, has a doc
team with which he recently drove
from his home to that Of his grand
father in Milo. distance Of lfir y
six miles ia seven hours. The triT
was made juet after a snow-stcrm
when the roads were -in.very bad cor
dition.
There is one gentleman in New.
man, Ca, sho evidently does no
think marriage a failure. He WI.
married about ten years ego and or
each Christmas morning snce be la.
presented the minister who cmcia,et
at The ceremony With q $40 g Il
p.ccc.
Congress vo ed the som OF 5000,
] coo for a building 10 contain IA cx
J hibit Of woman's work OF the World
Fair in 90. II is 20 be built from
designs furoished by a woman archi
tecs, and vii be kept as perms
: nent memorial after the fair closes II
d. Shich woman's work bn1 her organ.
= nations can find home for all TIN
Edward Hall died 10 Washington
Ohio, aged ninety-six lie wss borp
: in4 MARY land ia 1895. and had live,
0 under every presidential adminIstra
? tiop. Mr.. Hall became Masol
whom quite young and urou one coca
sion sat 10 lodge with General La
! sa}eue. BE was a well-kEcwn Viii
and afteTwsrd a republican.
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