South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-07-18

their inMuenCes--the iipelty tney guar
antee, for their personal sggrandize.
mentf Let every Wing in our whole
country put this question seriously to
himself, and then let him act upon
sober conviction. Constitution.
From the London Chronicle of May %.
The widow of the celebrated Capt.
Cook, died al Chapman, on the 18th
inst, in the gath year Of her age, the
55th year of her widowhood, and the
| AID subsequent to the death of the
only child that remained to Der of six
When the King of Owyhee was here
a few years back, he presented his
surgeon with an arrow made Of leg
bone of Capt. Cook, as the most valu-
able present be could make to an
Englishman.
| Matrimonial Lottery.-On the 21st
day of December last, | was passing
through the State of South Carolina,
and in the town of -, where 1 had
an acquaintance on whom called. !
was quickly informed that the family
was invited to a Wedding at neigh.
boring house, and, on being requested,
changed my clothes and went with
them. AS soon as the young couple
we're married the company was seated,
and the most profound silence ensued
-Ohe man OF the house being religi'
Gus. A young lawyer then rose and
4 addressed the company very handsome.
ly, and finishing his discourse, he beg.
ged leave 10 offer new scheme Of mat
rimony, which he believed and hoped
would be beneficial. On obtaining
leave he proposed -
| That one man in the company
should be selected as president /; that
this president should be duly sworn to
keep entirely secret all communica-
tons that should be forwarded TO his
official department that night; and
that each unmarried gentleman and la
1 dy should write his or her name on a
piece of paper, and under it place the
PERSONS name with whom they wished
10 marry-then hand it to the Presis
dent for inspection; and if any gentle.
man & lady had reciprocalIy chosen
each other, the president was to inform
each OF the result; and those who bad
not been reciprocal in their choices were
kept entirely secret.
! After the appointment Of the presi.
dent the communications we're accord
ingly handed up to the chair, and il
was found that twelve young men and
ladies had reciprocated choices, but
whom they had chosen remained a
secret 10 all but themselves and the
president. The conversation changed,
and the company retired.
Now hear the conclusion. passed
through the same place on the 14th
March following, and was Informed
that eleven or twelve matches had been
solemnized, and the young gentlemen
of eight couples ofthe eleven bad de-.
clared that their diffidence was so
great that they certainly should not
have addressed their respective wives,
if the above scheme had not been in
troduced.
| Gentlemen under twenty, and la.
dies under fourteen we're excluded as
unmarriageable.-Soathern papsr.
We are gratifed to learn that the
business on the Baltimore and Ohio
Rail Road, which has for some time
past been regularly increasing, is now
so prosperous that the Board Of Direc-
tors have determined hereafter to de-
clare regular half yearly dividends of
| the profits. The first of these divi-
| dends will be made on the first of DC.
tober next, the commencement of the
fiscal year ofthe company.-BaItinsors
american.
! Petersburg Rail Rooa.-The a.
mount of transportation on the Peters
burg Rail Road in the month Of June,
was $9,724-and including the mail
| $10,5o7.
ri Mississippi paper no'o 6fsore
as, states that recently a east number
! Of packages haze been sent from Wash
ington into all parts Of that State,
franked "free--Andrew Jackson, P.
u. S." When these packages came
to be opened, they iosrs found to con-
tain thousands Of copies Of the Extra
Globe, ,ohich was got up for the en-
press purpose of aiding the election
of Pan Buren, !'-Carolinian.