South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-04-25

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able quantity of this article is carried to
Boston, where it finds ready market /;
some oft being as white, and as valua-
BILE, as the best of the loaf sugar. It is
used quite extensively by families who
are so fortunate as to own a fine sugar
lot. The molasses is of the first quail.
| ity--a touch or two above the com.
mon. We are told by one farmer that
he should make about one thousand
weight of sugar this season, and bar
rel or two Of molasses. There are
some luxuries in the country that are
not known in the cily-or if so, they
are only to be had for love, or if pur.
chased at all, cannot be done "without
money and without price," Among
these are good apples, good cider, and
maple sugar. If some ofour meiropo.
Titan friends could see the streams run
ming into the sugar buckets from the
spouts that are let into the maple trees,
we as Yankee, loose our guess, iftheir
mouths would not water little, that's
ALL Claremont Eagle.
Ia France, recently, a powerful
young man attempted the following
feat, to settle wager With the aid
of rope he raised, with his teeth,
cask of cider, containing AZ gallons,
and carried it, without stopping, a.
cross yard Of considerable extent.
When, however, he bad put down his
burden, he was incapable of shutting
his mouth, and in few days died.
MARRIAGE BRoKER.-A certain Mr..
Mitchell Potter is about to establish in
New York. an agency for negotiating
marriages after the Paris fashion. His
advertisement says -
"The present mode of advertising
for wives is attended with many diff
culties and embarrassmen,s, which the
establishment OF an agency office would
eAsctually remove. With these views
on this subject, / think the experiment
ought to be made. shall therefore
proceed withon. delay to make such
arrangements for opening an agency
ia this city, (of which due notice will
be given, as he feels sure will afford
every satisfaction to those who are dis.
posed to patronize. what he firmly be- |
lieves to be a meritoYious and, useful
undertaking."
A LIBERAL oFFER.-A gentleman who
understands the manag ement of balloons,
will insure the safe passage and free of
expense. from Nashville to ANY other
port in the United States) of select
company of ladies and gentlemen efthe
following description. viz:
Five families who have lived togeth.
er in one house and are agreeable TO
each other pious clergyman owning
himself the chief Of sinners I; an honest
lawyer truth publishing editor !;
merchant or trader who always does
to others as he wishes others to do TO
him; a teacher without garrulity or
vanity handsome lady who never
looked in the glass; and person who
goes about giving aims in the dark /;
when these passengers are obtained,
the Balloon will be fitted up immedis
ately. Persons of the above descrip.
ton may form themselves into compa-
MES in any part of the United States,
and when formed will please repair to
this place for transportation. Wes.
tern Methodist.
Il dandy r0bbed.-The lodgings Of
dandy were lately robbed of pair
ofstays, smelling bottle, two pair Of
artificial eyebrows. and white sur
tout, in pocket of which there were
three love-Ietters, written 10 himself,
in his own hand writing.-Wi Rep.
An honest farmer being asked why he
did not take newspaper-" Because"
said be, "my father when he died-in
heaven rest his soul, left me good many
papers, and have not read them all yet"
-Ib.
A curious scene occurred upon the
steamboat dock at Albany, when the
De Witt Clinton was about to start. A
man who had been married for seven
months, had made arrangements to
leave his wife and come to this city,
The good dame was not however, dis
posed to allow such thing to occur,
without some exertion on her part to
stop IL; SO attending him 10 the dock,
as the last bell of the boat sounded for
her departure, and the last cry Of call
aboard" echoed along the decks, he
prepared to walk on board, when his