South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-11-14

Il was his retreating place in hours Of
despondsncy and trouble; and 10 a
small boat would he often dash out up
on its deceittol bosom, to make obIivi.
Gus the day, by his sec!usion from the
world. The rivers bad was his grave,
and dark shadows hang over it when
4 ever It comes under my contemplation.
Is itnot melancholy that one and a.
4 mother Of our friends should thus be
taken away ;,ha. we should see those
who have been endeared to usn child.
hood by ties the strongest, turning to
ashy paleness and conveyed TO the
'Fgrave. Does it not, when we see OUT
self, tbs las, lone trunk upon the plain,
create 10 US hopes and beliefs that we
are spared little longer. to Il! our
selves for the entering Of more blissfui
regions, to meet those who were wor-
thier than ourselves, and who have
gone before US But yet there are
lights Of boyhood, bright, burning and
cheering lights.
Wegeze on them with rapturous Joy
at alltimes through life. They hold
US TO them as with shocks of steel,"
and we are happy when we behold
their beauty and brilliancy. How in
teresting it is 10 contemplate the friend
ship of early days, and the thousand
incidents which varied our path as we
pressed onward toward the crowded
arena ofIife. Our sports with their
many laughable combinations land es.
capes from dangers and the romantic
scenesi in which we SO often engaged,
furnish a world ofthought; when we
look with retrospective gaze into the |
past, and we would not be deprived Of
their hallowed Influences. They come
like rich sounds Of music in the silent
night, when the hours have yelled
their brigh. faces, and their dancing
gait has changedto the dull creeping
Of palsied age. Oh boyhood /! bright,
beautiful boyhood how lovely are thy
scenes-how matchIess art thou ia the
sanctity cfthy influences.
Prison Discipline. An admirable
punishment! is in use in the Kentucky
Penitentiary, to tame the turbulent.
1t consists in the application Of cold
water, projected with force from
spout, SO as TO fall directly upon the
face. ...y.
Mrs. ANA Royal most indignantly
con,radicts the report which has been
going the rounds Of the papers for some
weeks past, uniting her in wedlock TO
Pop Emmons. Pop. she says, has al
ready wife enough for one man 10
attend to; and as she considers herself
entirely too important parsonage TO
be content with the "divided duty" of
any man, be he whom he may, she
feels indignant at the originator of the
gossip. She'repudia,es The idea Of be-
ing supposed to make the denial as
disparagement to Pop, and pronoun-
ces her alleged bridegroom good
and very proper man, for aughl she
knows 20 the contrary.-M Y. Sun.
An Erratum. Miss Biddy Fudge,
in the History Of the Judges, in En-
gland, just published, recounting the
miseries ofaulhors, says, that
"Though an angel should write It's a
devil must print.
And gives the following instance Of
the havoc made by the printer in one
Of her illusions !:
"But week or two since, in my Ode up
on Spfing,
Which meant to have made most
beautiful thing,
Where talked Of the dew drops OF
freshly blown roses,
The nasty things made it offreshly blown
noses"
Anti.Again.-The ladies OF Akin
son, Maine, PRESSED BY the impor-
lance ofthe subject, have established |
an an,i-corset society. We always
,ho't corsets an abomination--" Brace"
up ladies, and "undo" this odious GUS
tom.
THE BLISS OF HEAVEN.
Experience teaches us that the world
which we now inhabt is melancholy
scene Of affection, Of pain and death.
Shrouded in gloom and darkness, It no
longer blooms in lis primeyal beauty
nor exhibits itself as tit residence Tor
immortal beings. Sin has spread lis