South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1891-01-23
ITEMS OF NEWS.

bank with capital stock Of $50, 600. |
Miliet. the French sculptor. and
the Duke OF Bedford are dead.
John A. Hart. Mayor of Cbattan moo
Ga, Tennessee, died las, week.
Ninc church buildings will he
elected in Roanoke this year, at IN |
aggregate cost of $500 900.
A street railway Is TO be built con.
Meeting waynesboro' and Basic City,
Virginia.
Georye Bancroft. the venerable
historian died 10 Warrington City
Saturday.
Buck, the thirty five year, wax
horse OF Capt. t. II. Buck died last
week.
II 10 announced that the Norfolk
and Wcsern Road has determined to
build tranch into Richmond.
The Sultan OF Turkey has attact cd
TO his body.guard q soldier who 10
one husdre I and ten years old.
In Sou heru Illinois the continue
ton OF deep snow promises an ALUM
dant wheat crop.
Gladstone declares that the Irish
party has vindicated itself by putting
ss end 10 she leadership Of Parnell.
Senator Voorhees,, OF Indiana, has
gone home to see his venerable moth.
Or. who 10 reported TO be seriously III.
The movement, or alleged move
ment. TO nominate Senator Sherman
for 0overuos Of Ohio. sexs fall has
snddsply subsidized
| The Indian troubles in the uesi are
said to be at an end ~ the hostile
Indians turned in their arms at the
Pine Ridge Agency last week.
/ Eighteen Boston Capitalists passed
through Lynchburg Wednesday On
route to points Ia the Southwest on q
prospecting tonr.
The United States 10 the euiy i'm
pertsnt country which will not be
represented at the Worlds Fair d
Jamaica next month.
4 The supreme Court OF appeal me,
In Charleston last week with all ths
Judges present except Judge Luca,
who was too sick to lea.e home.
Il Farmers Institutes are 70 DO hslt
, in zach Of the congressional dis.
tricts Of Virginia under the auspices
OF the State Board OF agriculture.
General Longstreet is giving ah bit
, leisure time TO his history Of the va
: with the expectation OF finishing II
before the year is out.
DR.. W. II. MabHrn, the blind chap,
lain Of the House of Representative
is writing book ON the pioneers o
the Mississippi Valley.
CAarles snd Augusta Thiekes. o
New York, an aged couple, poisoned
themselves. They left q note tha
they wanted TO die together and de
: sired to be buried together.
The Ohio VOL growers have com,
TO the conclusion that they have beer
deceived by the wool manufacture or
and the Mckinley bill and are b gin
ming to kick.
, The Seine and other French river
, are frozen. except 10 mid stream
The harbor of Geneva is frozen owe
for the first time since 1880, and ri
navigation Is stopped.
A formal tender of the Virpini:
Military Institute grounds for tue
jackson Monument has been made
by the board Of visitors TO the presi-
dent Of the jackson Memorial Asso-
cia'ioD.
General Milledge L. Bonham. o.
South Caroline, has wrItten.to Gov
ernor Tillmsn confessing a misappro,
prialior Of State funds while Adju.
tant-General Of the State. The
amount is placed at about $1,000,
} Lee Beebe. of Lee, Mass, who won
fame in 1883 by predicting the grea,
March blizzard OF that year, says the
worst storm Of the Present season will
visit tbis country between the Let and
middle Of February.
Professor Shaw, OF the GueIp Ag-
ricultuYai College, at Ottawa, Ont,
: calculates that Canadian farmers will
suffer by che Mckinley tariff to the
extent OF $500, 600 on the egg trade
and $l,S00,000 on Barley. Professor
Shaw has not much faith in On Fog.
lish market.
The distress among Che poor in
cerssin parts Of Ireland IL OF such q
character that unless the British gov
eminent takes prompt action the
fearful scenes oiIhS famine years Of
1876 and 1s47 are likely 70 be repro.
duced.
Thirty years ago Denver, Col, con-
sisted OF miners camp and one sss
loon now II 10 talking about the time
IN the near future when IL will be .
bigger city than Cbicago. IL covers
an area Of fifteen miles sqaare, and
has population Of nearly $50 900.
Mrs. AmeIis Townsend MoTysfrs,
rsltet Of Holland N. BicTyeIrs, late
senior bishop OF the Southern Meth
odist Church, died on the i4 inst.
hrs. McTyeire was q TelatfVe Of the
Vanderbilts, and wss InstFumental 10
procuring the endowment OF VandeTs
bilt University.
TIE Shenandoah Brass and Iron
Works, 70 be located At CD srlsstoWu,
has been chartered by the Secretary
Of stAte Of West Virginia O. A.
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