South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1891-06-05
ITEMS OF NEWS.

suffering from loss Of memory, due TO
On attack Of grip.
A portrait OF ex-Pre.idept C.eve-
land has been been placed in the
White House.
Floors Of rubber, claimed to be as
duraols 90 asphalt, and cheaper are
being tried in Germany.
An English s,atis,ician estimates
the worlds ipdeb,etiness at $780,.
100000 900,
A number Of mules and horses were
killed at Cotton Plant, Arkansas. the
other day by cloud OF Buffalo gnats.
1t is sold Mrs. Jefferson Davis 10
considering the question OF making
her future home in Richmond, Va.
The Luray Caverns bavs been sold
to New York syndicate for 1925
600 oash.
The pefrifed foot cf monkey has
been taken ftom q Florida phosphate
mine.
The number Of crematious in Paris
during 1890 amounted TO 1883 +,
against 749 in 1889.
1t is said there is enough oil in
West Virginia to enrich the State
without counting the timber and min
eral wealth.
The to- al number Of white inbab-
itants in Yves, Virginia is 729.262
There are SO sos colored people
eight Indians aud sixteen Chinese.
The loss by the recent burning Of
the Bark Extract Works al Stsun-
ton, Va, is $4,000. The works
will be rebuilt at once.
Mr.. Razor is the suggestive name
of man who was srreated the other
day a. Hannibal, Mo-, for carrying o
concealed weapon in his boot.
J.B. Byoaawell. OF ALI haretta, Ga
owns a goose that walks about on q.
wooden leg made from a piece Of
bamboo.
The General Assembly ofthe Pres
byterian Church (South.) affirming.
ham, Ala, closed it's sessions last
Friday.
Georgia timber land has increased
from one hundred TO six hundred per
cent. in value within the past Eve
years.
The big tree taken from the Mon.
mouth forest Iof California for the
Chicago Worlds Fair 10 80 feet In
circumfereD
It is said the safest piece of water
upon earth Is Lake Urumai. Persia
more than 1000 feet above the sea
level. 1t is very shallow and 10 Inv.
ing thing can exist in it.
Rev. DR.. Joseph Mcdowell Trim.
BILE, the widest. known Methodist
minister in Ohio, and also the oldest
one in service, died in Columbus
recently.
A Chicago burglar fell asleep in q
house IN which he was waiting for an
oppor' unitv to rob and when he
awoke he was In the clutches Of the
Law.
A solid train load OF mahogany.
logs OF stweniy-seven cars passed
through New Orleans a few days ago
destined for Cincinnati. Tho ship
nents came from Mexico.
10 the Crystal Palace, tLondon
there is happy:fsmily Of twenty
one In one cage. II includes lions.
bear 8, tigers, psnthers. ronies, goats
and b oar'hounds.
Five leases have been fled on Gar
re.t county, Maryland, mountain
tracts by companies org anized for
silver and other mining In that re-.
gion.
John Gladstone, the father OF the
ex.premi.r OF Great Britain. trained
his children to give q reason for every
opinion they offered. Il WAS In this
way that William K. Gladstone was
early trained to debate.
Mr.. Isaac Weed, Of Ronoevsrt Q
West Virgins, recently fell heir 10
500 900 by .he death OF sn aunt in
one Of the Northern cities Mr.. We ed
is the ialher.in-law OF Ex-Governor
Sprgue Of Rhode Island.
John b HollenbeckJ who was
lieutenant in the war of 1912, dieI
Sunday May rs, at Burlington, VT.
sged 80 years, lie was the oldest
Mason 10 the world. having been in.
iiiAted IN 1918.
The poet BroWniug's annual in
come from his work during he latter
portion ef Lis life was $40. 900. Mr.
Swinburne Is said to make $4,000
per AMMAN and Lord Tennyson $3O,.
900,
Cot worms are doing much damage
TO growing corn add potatoes nes r
Waterloo Iowa. Many fields in all
parts Of the country have been re.
planted, the worm taking all the
sprouted stalks.
WmIW rightman, living near Mid
dlelon, Indiana, who has kept sever
al hundred bushels Of whost stored in
his barn for year while removing
tho wheat for market, found $1i,509
10 gold coin and paper cufrency. How
the money came there is q mystery.
Stockmen, whose cattle have been
driven from the Cherokee strip. have
formed a syndicate, and will establish
q grazing ground in Missouri They
propose in a short time 10 make Mis.
souri, the lesdiug cattle State In the
Union.