South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1891-08-21
ITEMS OF NEWS,

Fred. Douglass has resigned as
UnIed States minister in Hayti-
Peaches in Kansas are drug at
twenty five cents u bushel.
IL is said one acre OF land will
comfortably snfpor! four persons on
vegetable diet.
An IL year old Kansas boy has
been granted teachers certificate.
The College OF New Jersey has re-
ctiyed as gifts during the + ass year
more than 100000.
A colored man who graduated this
year from .he law department OF The
Kansas University was born q slave .
Twenty millions acres OF the laud
OF the United States are held BIZ
Ergiishmop.
Hon. James Russell Lowell the
poet, esssyist and diplomatist died 10
Cambridge Massachusetts, last week.
A large vein of fire clay, claimed
10 be OF superior quality has been
discovered near Terra Alta this state.
Willism Strong said TO be the CID
est Odd Fellow in the United States
died last week.
SIR George Jones. the distin-
guished editor Of the New York
Times is dead.
IL is estimated that at least 100
OoO pounds OF rubber are annuslly
used for bicycle tires.
Five marriages. in ten minutes was
the record made last Monday by
Judge Mccarthy of New York.
The lake in the Colorado desert 10
q; sand, with every prospect for q
speedy recession OF The waters.
1t is said the finger nails grow be =
tween sne ond half and two inches
10 length yearly.
A gill Of thirteen and q hoy Of
fifteen we're married in Wayne county
last week.
The rea easement of railroad
property made by the West Virginia
/ )ord OF public works shows an in
crease of 100000.
The wheat harvest is In progress in
California. In bulk and value IL il
expected to be one OF the most
important harvests OF recent yesrs
The State Farmers Alliance OF
West Virginia met at Grafton last
week The next session will be held
at Ciarksburg.
In k'owa, Kan. the super ntf ndent
Of 'chools is paid 500 q mon,h. The
primary teacher gets SIS month
add the intermediate teachers S35.
A fruit merchant in New York
sold this season to one restaurant
$4,000 pineapples for making pine
apple syrup for soda water.
The house at AppOmattox, Va, in
which General Lee surrendered To
General Grant has been sold for
$4,000 to representatives Of the
Grant Army Of the Republic.
The attaches of the Department
of Agriculture who went To Tcx4s to
experiment in the production Of rain
10y explosive claims to have been
successful.
From he summit Of Mt. Rose, in
NeYads. l0.S00 feet above the sea
level, the waters OF twenty zone lakes
may DC seen g'is,ening among tie
forests Of the Sierraa.
Galveston, Texas, has already
handled more than one one million
TALES of l0sl seasons cation crop,
and very naturally plumes herself
on having become the third cotton
port OF the United States.
There ia boy In St. CLAIR comfy.
Illinois, whose hair curls just three
days before storm. He is called the
Boy Barometer and is in constant
demand by the su:roulding popuIa.
lion.
|: is related as "a curious fact that
Paris, with population Of nosrIy
$500 600 souls has less than ore
hundred negroes within it's limits.
Statisticians say that The whole OF
France cannot muster a negro pop
ulation exceeding 500.
Fourteen loaded freighLed cars on
the Kanawhs and Michigan Railway
vent through q ,rest!e sixteen miles
south OF Charleston, Monday OF last
week. and were smashed into kind
ling wood. Tue engine and several
cars passed safely over
Owing TO the death of one Young
man and tho serious illness nf ans
o'hcT.irom the excessive use Of cigar.
cites the merchants OF Berkeley
Springs have each Gig ned contract
not TO soil Sny more of these deadly
articles 1t would be q good thing for
all merchants TO do.
Melon growers In Southwest Geor.
gia are angry. They report that the
returns from the sale ofihe crops have
been anything but satisfactory, and
THAT many growers will Lose money.
A grower that the Atlanta Constil1.
ton knows, after paying freight and
other charges on three carloads OF
melons had just eleven cents for
himself
a young farmer named Edwards,
while blowing near Sutherland
Springs Texas the other day, found
m fFnu not raeFt.I1y