South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1892-04-01
IrEMs OF NEWS.

Ell, it is supposed, by the careless
dropping Of lighted cigar on the
foor among loose papers. The
loss was mostly in public docu-
ments and the estimate is put at
$l5, 900.
IL is said ninety-five per cent Of
the Democrats Of Ohio favor the
nomination OF Cleveland.
or the one hundred and fifty
business men of Columbus, Miss
issippi, ninety-nine prefer Cleye-
land.
Walt Whitman, the poet, died at
Camden, N. j., Saturday, in his
seventy-third year.
The Democrats of Boston held
primaries in all the wards OF the
city last week to elect delegates to
the State convention and out OF the
twenty-five wards 2 instructed their
delegates for Cleveland.
Hills speech at Jackson, Miss,
it ia said has been a disappointment
to many people, and has not gained
him any new friends.
From April q direct postoffice
money-order service will DO estab-
lished between Austria Hungary
and the United States.
John Banks, q young colored
man, We struck by the st. Louis
express at Sandy Hook, Washing
ton county, on Saturday and kill
ed instantly. His body was thrown
at least Forty feet.
At conference OF the Method st
Episcopal Church South, of Staun-
ton, Va, it was decid. d 20 erect a
new building at cost of $50, 900
TO take the place of the one that
was crushed in by the last snow.
James Agnew and his wife were
separated by the Johrstown flood
and were reunited in Louisville,
KY, few days ago. They each
supposed that the other had been
swept away in the flood, and the
meeting was accidental.
Andrew Carnegie rates himself
as worth from $50, 100000 to 3d.
100000. He says he will spend
every cent of his money before he
dies. He is agnostic, and declares
he will never give penny to a
church.
III 8. Andrew Red bought at a
secondhand store IN Baltimore,
the other day, for twenty dollars,
an old painting by Greuzo that is
said to be worth so, 900.
The Lutheran congregation of
Winchester raised two hundred
dollars for the sufferers of Russia.
That was liberal contribution.
So far over 500 has been raised
in Weston this State for the Rus
sian sufferers.
p. L. Barnum. the most success
full business man America ever saw,
said if he had ten dollars and was
starting to sell an article, he would
invest one dollar in the article and
the remaining nine In advertising
it.
Senator Sherman is about to
build mansion in Washington TO
cost 100000.
In one of the great Paris hospit-
ais, out Of SO patients who suffered
from epilepsy 60 were found to be
the children of drunken parents.
Sidney S. Jackson, said to be the
Oldest horticulturlst in the United
States, died at his home near Gin
cinnati, Ohio, the other day, in the
ninetieth year Of his age.
Edward Box says that there are
only four authors who earn $50, 900
year with their pens, and these
lucky ones are wi liam Dean How
ellis, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark
Twain and Mira. Burnett. Lew
Wallace received 800, 900 in eight
years in royalties from Ben Hur.
Mrs. Charlotte Post Smith died
in Brooklyn, aged one hundred
and one years. 1t was her special
boast that she was a lifelong Jack
son democrat.
The city council of Hinton, this
State, has decided that no licenses
for the sale of liquor in that town
shall be issued for the year begin
ming May L.
A gold brick was recently ship
ped to San Francisco from Yuma,
Cal, the value of which is estimat-
ed at between $4,000 and 500, 600
1t weighed little over $40 pounds.
The Roanoke, Va, city council
has placed the license tax on each
barroom at $3.50.
Gov. Fleming has pardoned Yer.
non s. Weller, OF Jefferson county.
who was sentenced to one year in
the penitentiary for house break.
ing.
The building to be built at Chi
osgO for the accommodation Of the
Democratic National convention
will have a seating capacity, OF
$4,000, and will cost ga, 900.
There was an export of $500
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