South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1891-02-20
ITEMS OF NEWS.


on my Twenty years in Congress-
There is colored woman dentist
in Cincinnati,
A Young couple in Pittsburgh
eloped on skates.
Pullman Palace cars are to bs
painted white.
There are still ninety six log
schoolhonses remaining in Oregon.
1t Is said the Manningtop, this
state, oil field is producing 2,S45 bar
rels daily.
Philip Grifi,bs, OF Easton, Pa,
broke his leg few days ago by sud
denly turning in bed.
List year the people OF the United
States drank % ,228,536 barrels of
beer.
Illinois is after the English spar.
row with bounty OF three cents q
head.
A movement ia on foot to develop
White Sulphur syringe and make Of
1t q sort OF Southern Saratogs,
Ii is said the amount received for
the support OF free schools in this
state last year was $l,26s,273.54.
A State Sunday School convention
will be he'd at Grafton March II, Is
and 10.
or every million people in the
world 900 arc blind, and the other
999 200 cannot see their own faults.
Joseph Thomas, a colored man.
died IN Baltimore a few days ago,
leaving a fortune OF $4,000.
1t is computed that there are now
about 10000 nickel in -the-slot mach
ines in use in this country.
Samue, Morcy who came into prom.
inence during the Garfield Hancock
presidential campaign of 1880 is dead i.
Gen. VIM. 4. Sherman died in
Now York Saturday. aged seventy
one years and FIVE days.
A school Of whales was eeen last
week spou:ing along the Virginia
coast.
The farmers In Georgia and South
Carolina are said TO be In q better
condition than they have been since
the war.
Hon. James Pholau, member of
Congress from Memphis, Tenn, died
in Nassau. Bahama Islands, January
30, of pulmonary consumption
A l6 yesr old SON of T. 81. Daw.
fell into the Warm Spring Run at
Berkeley Springs the other dsy and
was drowned. He was subject to fits.
A cave Of large proportions is ssid
to hare been discovered in Warm
Spring mountain. near Berkeley
Springs.
The largest and richest vein OF tin
ore known to the world al the present
time has been discovered it is said,
In the old Dablo mine shaft, forty.
Eve miles south OF Durango, Mexico.
Coal transportation over tho w.
Va. e. railroad for week ending Sat-
nrday January 81, 1891, were 2o,607
tons, year TO date, 1928 tons. In.
crease over last year of 1908 tons &.
At last reports $4,000 persons bad
been affected by The grip in Yoka
hama. Japan, Including the Emperor
and other members Of the royal
household.
A German explorer declares that
the whole of South Greenland ia CIV.
cred with sheet OF ice that is from
5000 to 5000 feet deep in the val
leys.
Judge Pratt, Of the New York Sa,
preme Court, has just been relieved
OF 3T8 grains Of Confederate lead,
which he had carried twenty mine
years under his nose bone.
The United States government has
extended an official invitation TO
Great Britain to take part In the
Worlds Fair which is 10 be held in
Chicago in 1898.
The United States has a milo Of
railway for each 400 Of population
and each % miles Of area, while the
balance Of the world has o mile for
each $500 of population and 227
miles OF area.
Bishop j. 9. Cranberry, of the
J Methodist Episcopal Church South,
recently had successful operation
performed by DIR. Mcclure of Rich.
mond for an osseous growth sn the
mouth,
The shipments from The mines of
the Cumberland coal region for the
week ended February 7 we're S5,596
tons, and for the yosr 45G ,953 tons,
an increase of 1891 tons as com
pared With 1890.
!. N, 10 hnsOp, brother Of Judge
Okey johnson and d. ID. johnson.
OF PaTkersburg, died in Sou b Da.
kota last week. He was for years
editor Of the Freeman, the temper.
ance organ Of West Yirs inia.
A benevolent citizen Of Norfolk,
Va, who refused to allow his name
10 be made public, has donated $50,
600 to the Boys Home, which will
be spent in erecting handsome and
modern building.
Benjamin r. Fuller died al his
homo 10 New Albany. Tod. The
deceased was a mess-mats OF the
celebrated Davy Crockett duriug The
war between Texas and Mexico for
Texas independence. He was also
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