South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1891-11-06
TIE MS OF NEWS.

The street cars were put in opera.
ton at Martinsburg last Friday.
Twelve average tea plants produce
one pound Of tea.
The state debt of Missouri has been
reduced q million and half SO far
this year.
The fir ct steel rails made in this
country we're made al Chicago In
May, 1865.
The man who does his hest In the
place he now has Is on his way to q
better place.
Of the forty -four states jn the
Union all but nineteen have adopted
the Australian ballot sy stem.
An Emmett (Mich.) county farmer
counted over 1000 grains of buck
wheat on q single stalk In his field.
ills one Of the Japanese variety.
The people Of Sou heastern Russia
are in such distress for food that /, he v
are eating their dogs, which have
been used as beasts Of burden.
Capt. Lewis Dyche. Of Berkeley
Spriogs. a veteran OF the Mexicsn
war, is the father OF seventeen chill.
dren.
At least twenty lives we're lost by
the burning Of the steamer Oliver
Bierne a, Milliken's Bend, Mississippi
river Thursday morning.
Rev Sam Small. the ivan gelist,
has been arrested in Boston on the
charge Of obtaining money under
false pretenses.
Senator Faulkner who was one OF
the recent Democ:aiic missionaries to
the Pac'f c coast. gives q glowing 40
count OF the trip and thinks much
good was accomplished for the party.
The storm Of Monday week it is
said swept all along the Atlsntic
seabo.rd. from MASSACHUSETTS, up TO
New Jersey. and all along the coast.
Both the sea and the wind ruined
thousands of dollars 9th of prop.
erty.
The General Council IT the Luth-
eran church, at Buffalo, N. Y,
adopted resolution requesting the
commissioners Of the World Fair TO
close the exposition on Sundays.
The Presbviery Of Baltimore pace.
ed a resolution urging the W"rId's
Fair commissioners to decide ct once
that the doora OF the exposition ehall
be closed on Sunday.
The number OF immigrants arrived
10 the United States during the
month of September, as reported bv
the Bureau Of Statistics. WAS So. 7O6,
as compared with 45,478 for the cor
responding month last year.
A very superior quality Of brick is
now manufactured from the waste
sand employed at the factories 10
grinding and polishing glass. which
necessarily accumuls es in such large
quantities. The bricks thus produced
have specific gravity OF only Is,
and are perfectly white.
Judge B. K. Higginbothsm, one Of
the most eloquent orators OF indians,
went 10 the Kelley Institute for the
hichloride OF gold irea' ment at Plsin-
fell. He took the injection for two
days and died the following night.
He stumped The state Of New York
With Roscoe Copkling for Garfield in
1880.
Saturday morning the barn Of
Barney Kilcoin. 3 miles from
Cumberland. on the williams road
wac destroyed by FIRE, together
with its contents OF grain, hay, inn
plements and three borses.
The sales nf loose tobacco in DAN
VILE daring the month Of October
amounted TO Z ,352, 900 pounds. The
sales OF the same month OF last year
were 4 10000 pounds. The de.
crease was due to the unfavorable
weather for handling tobacco.
President Sanford of the Adams
Express COmpany,ha filed bill in
the United States Circuit Court at
Trenton, N. j against John Hoey,
alleging that money Of the express
company was used 10 build the
Hollywood property OF Long Branch.
Dueha Vista, Virginia, has for
warded TO the Virginia State Fair
at Richmond a very large display
of iron and manganese ores, fire
claNa- olaaa- sand nchrn- Link col.