South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1892-09-02
ITEMS OF NEWS

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Chief Judge LEVIN T. Ii. Irving.
OF the first judicial circuit and
member of the Court of Appeals OF
Maryland. died last Wednesday.
The questi on of opening the
Worlds Fair on Sunday will be
brought up again in the next Con-
gress. There is q growing senti-
ment in It's favor in the west, and
the international convention of
carpenters and joiners recently held
at st. Louis voted to ask all labor
unions to petition Congress in fay-
or OF Sunday opening.
A colored industrial fair is to be
opened In Alexandria Septem Der %
and continue to September 80.
The next triennial conclave of
the Knights Templar will be held
ut Boston. The one recently held
at Denver was largely attended by
knights from all parts OF the coun.
try.
Eleven houses were destroyed by
IRE at Curtis Bay, q manufactur-
ing town near Baltimore, recently.
1t is said Typhoid fever prevails
to an alarming extent in Rocking
ham county, Va.
Gov. James S Hogg was renom-
mated by the regular democratic
convention in Texas.
The Iowa Democratic State Con-
vention at Davenport was an en-
thusiastic Cleveland demonstra-
ton.
Luke Brothers of Va have pur-
chased land at DAVIS, this State, ON
which they will erect large paper
and pulp mill.
They are now talking of catch
Ing whale somewhere in the Ar
tic regions, and towing it alive to
the worlds fair city, by way of the
st. Lawrence and the great lakes.
Ocheessee, Fla, boasts of peach
weighing fourteen ounces and meas
uring nine inches in circumference.
London papers state that in the
thlrty-seven years of his pastorate
the late Mr.. Sturgeon added A.
69l persons to the rolls of mem ber-
ship of his church.
Rev. John ii. Coleman, a Meth.
odist minister of Troy, says that
his father and his uncle are the
Oldest twins now living in the Uni
ted States. His father is farmer
OF Gloversville, n. Y and his un-
Gle is Methodist minister OF Fond
du Lac Wis. They are ninety
two years of age, have "never been
sick day and "do not know the
taste of liquor or tobacco"
oceana county. Mich, has peach
orchards of 10000 trees.
There are $4,000 women tele-
graph operators in the United
States, and the num5 Der is constant
ly growing,
The original Bell telephone pat
ent expires in March, 1898.
Ant eggs is one of the most cost
ly dishes that the epicure of Siam
can enjoy. Only the nabobs can
afford such luxury.
A Missippi man who brought suit
against railroad company for the
value of a ticket which he bought,
and was unable to use, won his
case.
The Greek government has Yot-
ed the sum Of 800, 600 drachms to
be expended on the reproduction of
antique works Of art for the Worlds
Ia r.
w. j. White, a man who has
made millions out of the manufac-
ture of chewing gum, has been
nominated for Congress by the Re-
publicans OF the twentieth Ohio
district.
At Bolivar, Mo-, the other day,
the Texas giant, Colonel Powell,
seven feet eight inches in height,
married pretty Henrietta Mority,
the midget maiden, who has Just
reached an altitude Of twenty-two
inches.
Col. @. t, O'Ferrell, Of the 9TH
Virginia district, was on wednes-
day last renominated for tho sixth
time.
The exhibit OF the State Depart
ment at the worlds Fair will be-
especially interesting to students OF
American history. 1t will com
prise, among other things, State
flags used in tho revolutionary war
and original duplicates Of the
Declaration OF Independence, the
articles Of confederation and other
valuable documents.
Col. L. r. Cofran, Of Grafton,
died last week Of paralysis, lie
was internal revenue collector M
der President johnson. lie repre-
scented the delegate district Of lay
Tor, Barbour and Harrison ooun-
ties IA the years Of 1875, and
was mayor Of CRATIC n.