South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1892-12-23

states Senator.
There are thirty towns called
Washington in America.
The tomb in which Jay Gould's
remains were placed cost $50, 900.
The Worlds Fair Executive Com
mittee has declined to permit the
erection of theatre at jackson
Park.
A single row of pearls as large a.
peas, aud perfectly round, were sold
recently In Paris for si2O,0
At banquets in Queen Elizabeth's
time every guest came with his
spoon in his pocket.
Brazil and Africa have been con-
nected by cable.
The hesviest snow experienced
at Emporis Kansas, for many years
fell there last We IDesday to the
depth OF nearly q foot. 1t is too
heavy to drift and is worth thous-
ands OF dollars to the farmers. as
it will be fine covering for the
wheat and will saturate the ground
when it N elts.
There arc it is said, 800 900 COM
mercisl trave'ers in the United
States.
The Smithsonian Institution at
Washington, ID. O., will get an es-
tate valued at $500, 900 through the
will of the late Thos. G.. Hodgkins,
of Setauket, Long Island.
Thomas w. Keys, a native of
Jefferson county, died LAST week in
81. Joseph, No., aged eighty five
years. lie was the first conductor
on the Manchester and Potomac
Railroad, now brarch of the Bal
timore and Oh o Road.
Rev. j. Il. Davies, who has been
pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church, Tyrone, Pa, for four
years, has accepted call from the
trustees Of the Fourth Avenue
Presbyterian Church, New Yoi k, to
succeed me late DR.. Howard Cros-
by.
1t is said an aerolito weighing
10000 pounds fell recently IN Chi
huabua, Mexico, striking a cliff,
and in it's course down the noun
tain side disclosed o rich vein OF
silver.
A large hotel ia being built at
Bayard by the Bsyard Loan Asso-
citation. 1t is 20 be the most CO m
modious baiding Of the kind in
that section, Is conveniently near
the West Virginia Central ard is
supplied with pure water by spring
nesr by.
We see it stated that one hun
dred thousand acres OF coal land in
Fayette and Raleigh counties this
State have been sold to Drexel,
Morgan & Co. Consideration $500, :
600.
Ex-Gov. John p. st. John, ct
Kansas City, says that in 1880,
when settlers in Western Kansas
were penniless and threatened with
starvation, he wrote to that much
abused man, Jay Gould. about it.
He promptly sent So. 900, which
was invested in bread and meat for
their relief.
W. IL. Beller, deputy sheriff of
Mason county, who was lost last
month in a suow-storm while hunt
ing in the Yenpen mountains of
this State, was found alive last
week on Cherry river. Boller was
IN - terrible state OF mind AID sub
sisted for nineteen days on one
pheasant and one mountain mouse.
lie is unable to give clear state
ment of his wanderings IN TIE
mountains but his experience in
the wilderness was frightful.
Mira, John Paul, in q letter from
Chicago to friend in Richmond,
writes: General Groner and nv
self have just returned from a visit
to the Worli's Fair grounds, where
We went to se3 how the Mount Yer
non Blu lding was progressing. We
we're much gratified at the rapid
progress OF the contractor. The
whole framework of the building
1.-THE main portion) is mp, one end
partly covered, aud the whole near-
~ ready for the roof. From pres
ent indications it will be ready for
occupancy by the frst of April"
Tho Secretary OF sta'e OF West
Virginia has Issued charters TO the
World Mutual Benefit Association
OF Wheeling, with a capital Of $780,
900, and the Baysrd Coal and Coke
Company OF Bayard Grant county,
with a capital Of t7O0.
A San Bernardino (Cal.) wood
chopper claims to have found two
tin cans filed with gold to the
value Of 81 800 hidden among tho
limits OF a tree in that town.
An Oklahoma man who was
playing d aw- poker became so ex-
cited upon finding that he held four
aces that he fell dead Of heart dis
ease.
Moses W. Donnally, OF the Char
lesion Gazette, has boon awarded
a. RI