South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-06-06
field Gazette on the subject of intemper-

time perfectly terrific, and at another
ludicrous beyond conception; and some
times, especially if the patient is mar
of talent. they are the widest mixture
of the sublime and ludicrous, at one
moment chilling the attendants with
horror, and the next almost convulsing
them with laughter. Ihave seen mar
busiy picking up half pennies, sudden
ly gather black hnrrnr in his counter
ready to pounce upon HMM mo,
ment more the scene was changed ;
millions of rats pranced over the bed
clothes, & he amused himself with their
tumbling over each other. The visions
are commonly very evanescent, the
scene changing constantly, but some-
times the same vision will continue for
great length oftime.
recollecta patient who sat at bis
window all day, watching the move.
ments of a devil, who, he said, had a
bar in his hand, and was flying about,
raising up this and that building with
it. The delirium in this case, had a
singular termination. His wife was
absent, and when she came home,
he said to her, "Well wife, Pm glad
you have come home, for there'sa devil
here that says l must go with him, 81
want you to drive him off," and ION
that moment he saw nothing more Of the
devil. Ii would be we'll if wives could
always cast the devils out of their hus.
bands as easy as this. In this connec.
ton | will mention the termination Of
another case, related to me by my friend,
Dr. The patient for several
nights had been chasing dogs, cats, rats,
devils, &c. from garrett to cellar. At
length he went into the room where
the family was, took down the family
Bible, read long chapter, then asked
the Dr.. to pray. AT the conclusion Of
the prayer, he rose from his knees a
sane man.
Iii a remarkable fact that devils are
almost always among the visions Of
this disease. 1 can REMAINDER hut warn.
few, among all the patients that nave
seen suffering with it, that did not in
the course Of the attack see a devil
commonly they see great many. A
man once ran in great haste to cler'
gyman of my acquaintance, and said,
"Shew me quick, quick, that passage,
Resist the devil and he will ay from
you-for there are more than forty de-
wills, after me, there's alegion of them"
IIecollect ons man who went one step
beyond most patients-he saw devils
shod with SOULS Gathering about the
house.-This man was possessed Of
fine talents, had lovely family; and
was surrounded by great number OF
relations, among whom he would have
been almost an idol if he had not thus
given himself up to destruction.
Among the Athenians, under law
of Scion, any magistrate who became
intoxicated was put to death.
Mr.. Clayton made an unsuccessful
attempt to ascend from Cincinnati in
his balloon on the 18th ult.
The Massachusetts Horticultural
Register mentions that the salmon CO.
! lored Celery seed, which it says sur
passes every other kind, has been sold
at higher rate per ounce than pure
| gold. 1t was not wise man that
purchased it q. that price.
The New (Jackson) Common Coun'
Gil of New York, in the spirit Of that
miserable system which was first in
troduced by the dominant party, and
which we have always conceived to be
| its greatest blot, have turned out one
| Of the papers states about two hundred
city officers on account OF their pollti.
cal opinions.-Nat. Int.
A man in Ohio well mounted, urging
/! forward a drove of fat hogs towards De-
| troit. met charming lot of little girls as
thew we're returning from school, when
one of them, as she passed the "swlnIsh
| multitude" made very pretty courtesy
--"Whal my little GAL said the man,
''do you curchy to a whole drove o.
hogs!" mo sir" said she, with most
| provoking smile, only to the one on
horse back. ~ Detroit Free Press.
The two blacks, who were recent
ly convicted on their own confession
in Alabama, of numbering two white
Children, boy and a girl, were SEN
! fenced In he burnt to death. and the