South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1891-06-12
ITEMS OF NEWS.


July - this year.
Apiagus Of locusts thrsstsns the
Egyptian delta.
There 10 an average Of 2. ga ties TO
Q mile or railroad in this country,
West Virgiaiass . grsxine State
10 unsurpassed. I
One person 10 every ten who died
in New York 10 1889 was buried IN
polter's fsld.
The cabbage crop around Nor
folk, Virginia, is the largest ever
raised in that section.
After Q Beaver county (Ps.) man
had burned log he found in the
aches lump OF silver worth $3.50,
Two damaging wrecks occurred on
the B. d o. near .Aiarlinsburg last
week.
Accsfdiox 10 Ms. Alice Freeman
Palmer. there are 10000 girls in the
colleges OF abe United Sts'es.
1t 10 stated that . handful Of -four
bound on . severe cut will often stop
the bleeding.
MyriAds OF crickets are destroying
vegetation in parts OF Washington;
State.
4 farmer in Chase county. Kan,
has q cornGeld In which The rows arc
thres-fii,hs OF milo long.
White girls are being substituted
dor .cdfored waters In many hotels In
the Valley Of Virginia.
New York ply sicians are interested
in the case OF lad who swallowed
thermometer.
The oatmeal mills OF the country
have been consolidated into enc com.
pany, with capital stock Of $780,
600.
william K. Vanderbilt has built
the biggest hon house in the country,
spending $4,000 on the structure.
His name ought to be Henery.
It 10 said tha. the CHILEAN vessel
Ita,a surrendered TO the American
war. ships at Iquique, Chilli, and de-
livered tbe Ave thousand rifles taken
on board, at San Diego, California.
In America children are allowed to
go to work at the age of fourteen; in
Switzerland and France the age is
twelve aud in great Britain and Tree
land ten years.
Near Troy Obion county, Tenn.
. farmer plowed mp . trsasure.box
$500 in gold coin, buried
there during the war by 3 misery
long since dead, without
heirs.
Aboat dozen row carpenters who
went to Brunswick, Frederick coun- |
ty. Nd, last week have all been en-.
ployed. The Brunswick Herald says
there is work for 90 many more IL
they would come.
Nine hundred and four patients |
are now under treatment At the West
Virginia Hospital for the Insane. |
This is the largest number in the !
history of the institution With the
exception of about fifteen, who are in |
Jail a. different points awaiting ad.
mission. all the insane OF tho state
are comfortably provided for at the
hospiAl.
A retired farmer, who has been
trying experiments and note the 70.
suits. says that for the last three
years lie has plantsd q bean or two
in each potato bill. and has never
seen bug on the potato tops where
beans were growing In the same hill. |
IL this 10 protection Ae ainst she bug. |
the remedy IL simple and will pay
for the trouble In the crop or beans.
The census Office has issued . bull |
le,in upon the subject Of the produc-
tion of manganese In the United |
States. II shows the entire produc-
ton TO be 23.927 long tone, with q
total value Of 1928. 939. This product
is principally from the localities Of
Crimors, Va, Csriersville, Ca, snd
Ark, these districts hAv-
Ing yielded 20,325 long tons.
The schoonsr c. r. Hill has arrived |
at San Francisco. Cal, from Kodiak,
with news that the grip 10 |
great havoc among the na-
Iives, Hundreds have died at the
rate OF dozen pcs day. There ara
no doctors on the island and no meds
icAl storeG The natives are also suf-
feTIng hardship on account Of the
poor catch OF see offers, on which |
they depend for living.
The Indianapolis and Louisville
fact train ran into q tornado near
Crolbsrsville. Ind, Thursday night.
The engine and train sWsyed fearful.
ly, and the passengers were panic.
stricken. Lehman Bush, the engi- !
nesr could not stop until the train bad |
pierced the cloud, the train 2 ing at
hfty miles an hour. Its speed was all |
that saved IL.
Ia the United States Dislriot
Court at Springfield, III. ,, Saturday,
the Rev. jeremiah Holmes, of
StOnefOrt, Saline county, H., was
tried and convicted Of counterfeit.
ing end sentenced 10 three yeasg
in the penitentiary. The Rev. |
g Gorge Vancil, of Duquoin, Ill
pleaded guilty to the same charge
ane was sentenced to one year in
the penitentiary.