South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1891-02-27
ITEMS OF NEWS

There srs six farmers in the q. g.
Senate and IS in the House.
Boston is overrun whh boot ard
shoe buyers.
Whiskey was first made in Ireland
ny On English monk.
There are $4,000 coiored people in
tho city OF Washington.
Mexico is to have the longest tune
mel on this continent.
Gen. JOE: z. Johnson was one OF
Sherman's psii.bearsrs.
The salary Of the Vice. President OF
the United States is 50 900 q year.
Date trees seldom bear until they
arc twenty-five or thirty years old.
The foneraI Of Gen. Sherman took
place last Saturday In 81. Louis,
The pension deficiency 10 nov au-.
thoritativsly announced 40 $28, $685.
600. 90.
In the United States Sens FRIDAY
one hundred aud thirty pension bills
were passed in forty Eve minutea
Mics Willard wants tie eanteeus
OF the Capitol corksd mp to keep
Congress straight.
Tho United States has seven times
the railroad mileage Of any other
country.
Sixteen thousand men and boys
are out of employment in the Con-
nellsviile, Penn J coke mines.
OF all the evil spirits abroad at this
hour In the world insincerity is the
most dangerous.
The Eve largest lumber producing
states are in the order named: Mich
igan. Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, New
York and Ohio
A native Japane'e paper mentions
the case o. man aged iorty who has
divorced thirty FIVE wives and is
about to marry his thirty sixtb.
England has more women workers
than any other country in proportion
/ to population. Twelve per cent OF
the Industrial classes are women.
Gum arabic. which was once uni
versaily used has become very scarce
and dear and . substitute for it is
being made from starch.
John K. Parsons OF New York is
said TO have received for his services
to the sugar trust the largest fee ever
paid Ia this country, $4,000 600.
The President has ne9iasted -ex.
Governor Charles Foster ofOhio, to
be Secretary Of the Treasury. to suc>
coed Hon William Window.
Gen. II. n. Sibley, Mime sofa
pioneer aud srss Governor Of she
State died at his home In s.. Paul,
Friday morning.
A nan with mania for Stating en-
ginrs has been are sted ct Fresno, Gal.
He has started several engines tina,
were side tracked and eaHssd much
damage.
The largest order for single ad.
vertisemeut before the war vas given
by the Fairbanks Scale company TO
the New York II ibanc and It amount.
ed to So 900.
A steam phaeton has appeared In
Pans resembling an ordinary phaeto n.
II carries under the body Of che car
rage boiler which cannot explode
with funnel bent down and dis
charges smoke under the back seat.
The Indians call colored soldiers
buffalo soldiers referring to their
woody hair end nothing would induce
them TO take the scalp Of co!ored
man as it IL considered bad medi.
cine to do so.'
There have been more changes in
the present popular branch OF Con
gress since its election In 1883 than
have ever occurred IN any other Con.
gress. There we're six resigna,;o s,
ten deaths, and nine members uu-
seated.
When Livingstone reached the CEN
ter Of Africa he found millions of
people there who had never tasted
salt but they got to liking it and
would cell slave for pound OF salt
just as they would sell slave for a
bottle Of whiSkey.
A bear which weighed $40 pounds
was killed near Ronceverte on Sa,ur-
day by Solomon F. Perry who had
followed the animal back and forth
over the Ssssafrss Mountain for
ihirty-one days. The bear killed
eleven dogs.
The lower branch Of the Kansas
Legislature consists OF l25 members
103 being farmers not one Of whom
ever sat in q Legislature before ex-
cept the Speaker p. p. Elder, and
from the oldest clerk down TO the
page there is not an employe who has
had any previous legislative exper-
ience.
A snow white owl Of immense size
is troubling the superstioious hunters
about Phillippi, Barbour county, this
state. Several oil The crack shots have
fred at the bird ut point blank range
and are ready TO make affidavit that
| tbex, hif IL b,rt the bird attll i;vaa and