South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1892-08-12
ITEsIs OF NEWS.

throughout the country. In Phil.
adel2hia there were $40 deaths fol
the week ending ct noon Saturday
July 80.
In Baltimore there wore sos
deaths in the same week.
Congressman Cstchings, of Mis-
siss'ppi. says that the South will be
solid for Cleveland.
The State election in Alabama
last week resulted in an overwhelm
ing victory for the regular demo
cratic ticket, bonded by Governor
Jones.
The board of trustees of the I'M
ion Theological Seminary at Hamp-
den Sidney have elected Rev. DR..
Peyton Ii. Hoge, of Wilmington
N. o., to the vacant chair of 1.-The
English Bible and Pastoral Theolo-
gy" in the Seminary. The new
professor is nephew of the Rev.
DR.. Moses d Hoge, OF Richmond.
The cultivation of the grape in
France gives employment to no
fewer than 100000 persons.
A recent dvertisement calls for
'young woman to wash, iron and
milk one or two cows"
A merchant in Chicago exhibits
a pair of live japanese babies in his
front W ndow.
Durham, N. c., boasts of a TO-
mato which weighs one pound and
three-quarters.
1t is said there was a killing
frost in Montana on the night of
July q.
The eighty-first birthday of Jacob
Humbird was celebrated July 3oth
by family reunion at the home
place, Grove Farm, in Allegany
county, near Cumberland.
Eighty-ono vessels arrived from
foreign ports in July aud sixty one
cleared for foreign ports.
Judge John Ollie and other law
yers of Oklahoma are OF tie opin.
ion that the Indians taking land in
severalty have the right to vote in
the Territory. There are 3 800 of
these Indians.
Gray Gables is cool place and
Mr.. Cleveland ecomplishes a great
amou mt of W. k- every day. He
viii be given dinner by the Old
Colony Club at Falmouth, Mass. :
August Is.
Mrs. Robt. Morrell, an old lady
living ten miles north of HilIsboro.
H., was stung on the back OF the
neck by a bee recently and died
from the effects in thirty minutes.
Mrs. Morrell had been in the best
OF health previous to the singing.
A Tammany historian has dis
covered that Tammany celebrated
the three hundredth Anniversary of
the discovery of America.
Over 900, 900 orange trees we're
planted in Mexico last year by
planters from California.
The Columbia, with its vast
schools of salmon, has yielded more
wealth than any river in the world.
Butterflies to the nun Der OF
10000 will be shown in the Penn
sylvania exhibit at the Worlds
Fair. The collection is said to be
the most complete and finest in the
world.
Inc eruption OF Mount Etna is
again very violent. Immense
masses Of rock are projected out Of
the volcano to a great height, and
dense clouds overhang the summit
OF The mountain. The subberran-
can rumblings are severe enough to
cause windows to rattle in the
neighboriug villages. The lava
streams are again advancing.
A Sioux squaw, living near San
Diego, Cal, will exhibit in che
Womau's Building At the Worlds
Fair a dress Of deer skins, richly
embroidered with sixteen pounds
Of beads. She worked fox two
years in making tho garment.
From the San Diego Mission will
be exhibited a valuable collection Of
fine ueedlework by Indian girls.
Il is said the estate OF Myra
Clark Gaines, amounting to nearly
a million dollars, VIII be conau med
in lawyers fees after the debts.
amounting TO about 800. 600. arc