South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1892-05-06
ITEMS OF NEWS.

Ex-senator Camden, OF this
State has written card in which
he states positively that he will not
be caudidsts for the United States
Senate.
Six out Of the eight delegates at
large from Illinois to the Demo-
cratic National Convention are
strong Cleveland men. Ex-Assist-
ant Postmaster General Stephen
son is one Of them.
Near Hopkinsville. Ky, on
Thursday tornado struck u Pres
byterian church and rearly de-
stroyed it. 1t slso swept away
fences and damaged property
through the western part Of the
county.
The West Virginia Colored In
stitute was opened by It's principal,
y. Edwin Campbell, last Tuesday
at Charleston.
Five thousand houses on twenty
streets in Toxic, Japan, were
burned April 10.
A woman i'll Oregon has worked
twenty years ut stone cutting.
One ha'f of the paper used in
the United States Is manufactured
at Holyoko, Mass
William Astor. one of the rich
est men in the United States. died
suddenly in Paris on Tucsd W. lie
was 6l years old.
The President has appointed
Mr.. Il. Jefferson Coolidge United
States minister to France.
The cornerstone OF tho Grant
monument was laid il New York
on Wednesday of last week. But
no man tell when the monument
will be finished.
BY the death of William As,or.
his son, John Jacob, who recently
married Miss Willing, of Ph'la-
delphla, steps into q fortune of
100000, 200.
The building containing the
Colossal Panorama of the Crucifix-
ion, at Vienna, was DESTROYED by
fire Friday. The great painting
was entirely consumed. The loss
amounts to 100000 forms.
1t is stated that the Emperor of
Japan is likely TO visit the Worlds
Fair.
W. A. Cushwa, one of the most
prominent citizens OF Martins burg.
died Thursday night.
Louisville, KY, is alarmed at
the number Of incendiary fires &C.
curing there. There were seven
in one night recently.
Mr.. Henry M. Stanley, who re-
Gently arrived in London after a
long tour in Australia, has consent
ed to stand as candidate in the
Unionist interest for seat in Par
Lament at the general election.
A man at Hopkinsville, Ky., q
few days ago dug up on his farm a
gold watch which he lost 90 years
ago. 1t was pretty nearly all right
but it had run down.
Miss Sweet. the Dakota girl who
lost both Of her hands in the great
blizzard of 1888, is making a crazy
quilt for exhibition at the Worlds
Fair. Such pluck and persever-
ance deserves the first premium.
Several members of the Worlds
Fair managers for Virginia, in
Guiding the president, Hon. A. S.
Buford, were in Chicago last Fri
day for the purpose of arranging
preliminaries in connection with
the exhibit of their State. It is
intended to erect a special building
for the Virginia headquarters and
a reproduction of Washington g
home at Mount Vernon as an an
propriate structure for the purpose.
This could be set apart, as is the
case at Mount Vernon. for historic
relics and souvenirs of Washing
ton ard his family.
A terrible blizzard visited Mani.
toba last Thursday. At Winnipeg
people were blown off the sidewalks
and it was impossible to see two
feet ahead on the prairies. On Red
river the waves were blown fifteen
feet high.
The ministerial Institute of the
Winchester district, Virginia Con
ference of the u. b. Church, will
be held at Martinsburg, from Nav
gath to eth.
Among the handsome yearly, in.
comes reported of Richmond CITY
people we notice that DIR. Hunter
Mcclure, the great surgeon and
physician, is rated at only Ell 600,
whilst Maj. Ginter, the cirgarette
manufacturer, has 1865, 0OO-a
thousand dollars = .day-The BUSH
ness OF one is TO save life or anne
liorate suffering; the otheE-thoueh
otherwise. humane and generous
and publio-spirited-makes his
colossal income by putting upon
the market an article more deleter-
ious to health than any known
luxury.
DIR. II. &. Gaakell died suddo,,1v