South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1891-05-29
ITEMS OF NEWS.

passed througl Cumoerland last
week.
Hundreds of school houses In Ohio
are filled nightly with farmers or.
gan iziog lodges OF Farmers Alliance.
It ia reported that gold has been
found on tho lands OF Mr.. John F.
Sewers Of Stonebridge. in Clarke
comfy. Virginia.
Mrs, Jane OFerrall, mother OF
Congressman O'Ferrall. died a, her
residence in Bridgewater, Rocking.
ham county Saturday.
MIL. Mitchell Slower has just
refused . $45.00U offer from q New
York party for his peach farm at
Edgemont. Jefferson county.
Until Secretary Blaine is able to
resume his Official duties Hon. John
w. Foster will act ss diplomatic ad-
wiser 10 The President.
Three men were killed by the ex-
plosion OF . boiler ut Wilson's saw
mill, on the West Virginia Central
Railroad last week.
Judge jackson OF the United
Sta.es District Court has decided
that West V:rsinia's boom Law is IN.
constitutional.
The one hundred and third annual
meeting Of the Presbyterian General
Assembly met in Detroit Michigan
yesterday week.
Brunswick, until recently called
Berlin. Maay land 10 now the termi.
nus OF the 6rst division Of the b. d o.
instead OF Martinsburg. Mar,ius.
burg will retain the repair shops.
A telephone line has been estab-
Hshed between London and Paris, o
distance Of 2y7 miles. rs miles Of
which is laid under tho English
Channel,
The B. 6 o. Railroad bridge at
Harper's Ferry is to be remodeied,
the change being designed to do
away with the curve 10 the bridge Oh
the Virginia eide,
A scientific gentleman writes .
magazine article to say that those
who do mental work should eat very
little, II any meat, in warm weather,
and then only al breakfast.
Secretary Noble says that the
charges agaiDs, young Raun, son of
Commissioner Raum, of selling Off.
ces and classifying In the signal ser.
vice examination are true.
The biggest orange tree in Loui.
siaua is claimed TO be in Terrebonne
parish. II is fifteen feet in circum.
ference and fifty feet high. The
yield this year is expected to reach
10000 oranges.
The first conviction in this State
under the law against using the mails
TO send money to the louisiana Lot
terry was made at Charleston last
week. Warren NJ. Frame, of Raleigh
county was convicted and flo ed s25
Henry Brose, of Etna, Pa, and
Thomas O>R,urke< of Pittsburgh,
died Wednesday from the effects OF
eating the smoked sturgeon that has
poisoned more or less seriously 500
people in the city AID b0roughs.
The General Asss mb;y OF the
Presbyterian Church met
at B irmingbam> Alabama, Thursday
morning OF last week. About 100
delegates answered TO the CAL, DR.
Dubnse was elected moderator.
Bessie, the five.year-old twin
daughter Of Mr.. franklin Hsgan, of
Piedmont, this state, was so badly
burned while playing with matches
ON Tuesday morning of last week,
that She died thu same evening.
The clerks in the United States
Treasurer's Office have Unidentified
$l6.90 of the $4,000 charreh and
burned in the recent wreck near
Waring Station On the b. & D. 10
Maryland.
john w. Morris, who dropped dead
10 Cumberland yesterday week from
heart disease while at work in the
carpenter shop OF the Baltimore and
OSio Railroad. Was born ia Winches.
ter, Va, and Was IN the sixty first
year of his age. He was in The EN-.
ploy ofthe Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road Company for IS ysArs.
A small black bug, apparently
new variety , has done considerable
damage 10 Illinois corn. which, to-
gethsr with the cool weather, will
necessita,s replanting Of most Of the
fields in Christian county Dat lice
have done some dsmsgo to oats. The
prospects we're never more favorable
for heavy wheat crop.
1t Is said that telegraph poles erect.
ed In Norway sre frequently thrown
down by the antics OF bears, who are
fond OF climbing them and attempts
ing TO play pranks on The cross beams.
II Is said they are deceived by the
buzz OF the wires into thinking the
poles are bee trees aud they climb up
lie search Of honey.
A funnel.shsped Cyclone oue.hsif
mile wide passed north OF ST.. Louis
Missouri on ThuEsday Of last week dee
stroyiDg a number OF dwellings and
killing and injuring many people and
sweeping away houses, barns, trees
and fences. A child was carried
half mile bat escaped alive. Al
horse was lifted over a house and
landed = quarter Of mile away. The
feathers we're stripped from chickens,
geese and turkeys and hundreds Of
cattle, hogs aDe sheep we're killed.
he old 'Waggouer House.. on the
farm Of . b. LefevFe, ct Bunker