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South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-09-03
July 2s,1 1886:

VIRGINIA, TO WIT:
At rules holden in the Clerks Office
Of tie County Court Of Hampshire,
the first Monday in july, 1886.
John Roberts, plaintiff, against
Alexander Rowan and William Bose.
ly, and John Vandiver, adminis,ra-
tors Of James Bosely, decd defen--
dants, in CHANCERY.
The defendant Alexander Rowan, mot
having entered his appearance and Civ.
en- security according to the act Of
assembly and the rules of this court /;
and it appearing by satisfactory evil
dence that he is not an inhabitant Of
this country His ordered, That the
said defendant do appear here on the
LIST day OF the September term next,
and answer the bill of the Plaintiff and
that a copy of this order be forthwith
inserted in some newspaper published
IL Romney, for two months successive.
", and that another copy be posted at
the front door of the court house Of
Inc aid county Of Hampshire.
A ropy-Teste,
John B. WHITE, c. N. c.
July16, 1886.
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South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-09-03
Messrs. Alfred McCauley and
Jehosephat McCauleY,

PLEASE TAKE NO
TICE, that on Monday the 18Th day
of September neat, (l8s6) between
the hours of six 10 the forenoon and
six in the afternoon Of said day, at the
tavern of William Armstrong, in the
town of Romney, I shall proceed TO
take the dispositions Of sundry wit
uessss, TO be read as evidence in a suit,
now depending in the Circuit Superior
Court of Law aud Chancery, for
Hampshire County, in which l am
complainant in Chancery, and you and
others are defendants aud since you
are not an inhabiian: of this State, you
are thus notified. Yours, &c.
GEORGE McCAULEY.
August 20, 1936.-4y.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-09-03
VIRGINIA, TO WIT:
July 9, 1886.

VIRGINIA, TO WIT:
Al rules held in the Clerks Office OF
the Circuit Superior Court Of Lao
and Chancery Of the County of
: Hardy, on The first Monday IN June.
1886.
John HopeweIl and Hannah his wife,
Plaintiffs, against
Abraham Vanmeter and Garrett Van.
meter in their own right and as Elk.
ecutors OF Jacob Vanmeter, decd.
Isaac Vanmeter, son Of Jacob, Ann
Vanmeter, Rebecca Vanmeser, Su-
san Vanmeter, and William S. Gun.
ningham and Sarah bis wife, late
Sarah Vanmeter, defend ants.
In CHANCERY.
The defendant Isaac Vanmeter, son
of Jacob, not having entered his ap-
pearance and given security according
to the act Of assembly and the rules Of
this court and it appearing by salts.
factory evidence that he is not an in
habi,ant of this country /: II is ordered,
tina. the said defendant do appear here
on the first day of the next term and
answer the bill Of the plaintiffs, and
that copy of this order be forthwith
inserted in some newspaper published
10 Romney for two months successive
ly, and posted against the front door Of
the courthouse Of the said county Of
Hardy. A coPy-Teste,
CHARLES LOBB, c. O.
June IS, 1886.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-09-03
2S5 Acres.

more or less. Said tract of land lies
on North River,in the county OF Hamp.
shire, and is now in possession Of said
William Poston. The title 10 believed
to be good, but the subscriber will on,
ly convey such title as is vested in him
by the said deed of trust. The tract
is valuable, having upon it large pro-
portion Of the low grounds Of North
River, with many improvements, of
which persons wishing to purchase
may be satisfied by viewing the land.
SAM'L. KERCHEyAL, Jr.
Trustee.
July 80, 1Ss6.-tds.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-09-03
SPRING AND SUMMER
GOODS,

THEIR STOCK CONSISTS IN PART OF
Blue, Black, Mulberry, Green,
Drab and Mixed Cloths; Cassimeres
Cassinetts. White and Brown Linner
Drillings, White and Brown Irish Lin
mems, Colicoes, Ginghams, Painted
Muslins, Jacanets,pl and cross bar
ed, Cambrisks, plain and figured
Sw ISIS Muslins, Silk and Gauze Hand
kerchiefs, Black and Fancy colore3
Silks, Sarsinetts, Grapes, Black silly
Velvet, Silk and Marseilles Vesting'I
Stocks, Cravats, Silk and Cotton Hose
and half Hose, Silk PoDgee and Ban
danna Handkerchiefs, Bleached anI
Brown Muslins, Plaid and STRIPED
Cottons, Checks, Bed Ticking Sum-
mer Cloth. Black Lasting, Princet,a|
Beaver, Kid, Silk and Cotton Gloves
CITY AMI ETTD rATc
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-09-03
a30etrp.
From the Ladies Magazine.


STANZAS.
Happy, happy childhood
Would l were child,
Again to taste thy calm delights,
Thy pleasures undefiled.
Oh for those happy days,
When life was one long game,
And pining care thing unknown,
And sorrow but name.
Happy, happy childhood (!
Where are now thy joysf
The laughing eye. the heart 30 light,
And thy much valued toys?
The laughing eye is dim,
The heart is torn with grief;
From other toys. more dearly bought,
We seek vain relief.
Happy, happy childhood
Innocence ls Time
And round LIES early morn the fiow'rs
Of soft affection twine.
How sweet mothers love;
How dear fathers care;
oh /; what with chilhoods hallow'd iovs
Can youth or age compars'
Happy, happy childhood F!
Art thou flown for ayes
Alas the memory but remains
OF days. long past away.
Still, is that memory dear,
A green amidst life's wild,
And in my brig htest, happiest dreams,
| am again child!
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-09-03
VIRGINIA. TO WIT /:

VIRGINIA, TO WIT:
At rwles held in the Clerks Office of
tAa Circuit Superior Court. Of Lao
and Chaacery, for the County Of
Hardy, on the first Monday of Ju :
", 1886.
Solomon Shirsman and Catharine his
wife, {late Catharine Halterman, J
Nimrod Thorn and Elizabeth his
wife, (late Elisabeth Halterman,)
and Christian Halterman, heirs and
legal representatives of Christian
Haltsrman, Decd, plaintiffs, against
Joseph Miller and Isaac Miller, ad-
minis,rators of jacob Miller, decd,
and John Miller, executor Of Autho-
ny Miller, decd. Jacob Snyder
and William Robinson, administra-
tor of Christian Halterman, decd.
defendants. In CHANCERY.
The defendant William Robinson,
administrator of Christian Halt erman /,
dec'd.not having entered his appearance
and given security according to the act
of assembly and the rules of this court
and it appearing by satisfactory evi.
dence that he is not an inhabitant Of
this country; 1t Is ordered, That the
said defendantd do appear here on the
LIST day of the September term next,
and answer the bill and amended bill of
the Plaintiffs ; and that copy Of this
order be forthwith inserted in some
newspaper published in Romney for
two months successfully, and that a.
mother copy be posted at the front door
Of the courthouse o. the said county OF
Hardy. A copy-Teste,
CHARLES LOBB, &C.
July Is, 1886.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-09-03
New Goods !!

u. G1USU7t . Il JE1s Vz7TtSE7O7tB
AVING entered into Co. Part
nership, in the Mercantile Bu
siness, beg leave to announct
to their friends and the public general
ly, that they have just received an ex
tensive and splendid assortment 0
fashionable
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-09-03
NOTICE.
A. w. MCDOWELL,
ATTORNEY AT Law.

OFFERS his professional services
to the public. He will attend the Su-
perior and Inferior Courts of Hamp-
shire and Hardy. His Office is 10
Romney, over the Store.goom Of c.
l.. Wren & Co.
Romney, July 80, 18s6.--tf.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-09-03

TERMS.-THe InteMgeness. IS Pub
Hshcd weekly, at Two Dollars ,fsaf
If paid ,0ithin the first Sir month $, q
Two Dollars and Fifty Gents, after ~
expiration of that time. Z
No subscriptions ,oil be taken srf
shorter period than sis months, mr. q
my paper discontinued (ezcept at ~
discretion of the Editor untsl all ar
rearages are paid off.
Advertisements Of q square or "
der uiH be inserted three weeks for y
dollar, and for each continu' sntyi
t,ceRty: fce Ce.ts-toagsr ones 10 W
same proportion.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-09-03
GOODS 8.
CON sIsTIN G OF


Blue, Black, Olive, Green,
Dfab, Steel, Mixed, &c. Cloths Cas-
simeres, Satinetts, Summer Cloths, E.
lastic Cords, Cartoons, Linens, Par
is Cords, and variety Of Gentlemen
and Boys wear, Ginghams, Cslicoes,
French Muslins, Fancy Handkerchiefs,
Poeketd0. Linen Cambria do. Vestines,
Irish Linens, Bonuets, Bonnet Ribands,
Betting, Hose, Half Hose do. Cam
hrics, Plaid Muslins, Book do. Swiss
do. Robinetts, Grecianstls, Laces, In
sertions, Matteonis Silk, CoIored do.
Grape, Bead Reticules, Blsached Cot
tons, Checks, Plaid Cottons, Brown,
Domestics, Cotton Yarn, &c. HATS
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-09-03
Miscellaneous.

~ Iv6HCH COHptsN6RS, or R0HG IN
gtous.-A gentleman who keeps an
extensive mercantile establishment 10
that city, says the Philadelphia Eu-
quirer, informs US, that for the last
three months, most of the gloves he
has imported from France, are sent O.
yer in boxes containing several do
zens each. On The outside Of every
box is an engraving representing Lou
IS Philippe and General Jackson sha-
king hands. The Capitol on one side
and the Tuileries on the other. Tie
gloves are labelled on the box, "Gaats
dc Ia Reconciliation" (ReconsiIia-
ton Glovss.)
A heroic Act reparded.-A paper
published q: Vienna, (Austria, gives
an account of the upsslting Of plea
sure boat, in the river, at that place,
containing the Princess Adelaide So
phia, who would have been drowned,
had it not been for Mr.. Bella young
American, who happened to be near
at the time, leaped into the water, and
rescued her. The next morning, he
was sent for, BY the Princess, who
presented him with diamond breast
pin, worth twenty thousand dollars
Mart. Gaz.
p A Correspondent Of the New York
Journal of Commercs, writing from St.
Louis, gives the following description
ofthe morals Of the people who inhabit
some parts of the new made territory of
Wisconsin "The principal amusement
Of the people in the mining country 10
playing cards-Sunday and all. There
is place called Mineral Point complete
ly paved with them; pack lying out
before every door. This is in Wisconsin,
Territory, and is place little distin-
guished either for law or gospel. The
law they carry in their pockets. and are
ready to read chapter at the slightest
provocation. lib.
The following is an advertisement In q
Philadelphia paper:
"Stolen.--A watch, worth a 600.
II the thief will return it, be shalt be
informed, gratis, where he may steel
one worth two Of it, and no questions
asked"
AT the Gait Hotel, Louisville, KY,
100 quarts, or 40 gallons Of milk, are
daily consumed, which, costing 20 cts.
gallon, makes an item, in the Dnual
expenses, of 2,92O dollars.
Contempt will sooner kill an injury
than revenge.
CANADA is compound Of the two
aboriginal words "Can," which signi-
fes the mouth, and "Ada" the coan-
Try i. G. "the mouth OF the country"
s.zazza
Unmarried Ladies in demand
A correspondent of the New York
Commercial, who writes from Cassyille,
in Wisconsin Territory says.
A great disparity 10 numbers prevails
between the sexes. Three fourths ofthe
population, for miles around. is of the
harder mould. Manageable LADIES' con.
sequently are in good demand. A mar
ried lady told me che had acted as brides
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-09-03

maid at three weddings within the last
year. for the want Of an unmarried one
to perform that service. In Two Of the
cases the brides were fourteen years old
the other twenty. At Dubuqe the pro-
portion is said to be seven to one: and
the gallant editor of the Visiter--a Judge
ofthe county court too stands publicly
committed to take the hand of the first
far emigrant who shall arrive {! No I'M
married female who has entered her
teens, can remain single longer than a
few months after coming into the terri
tory.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-09-03

MiIitary.-sFelIer ossifers and gen.
tlemen sogers,' said Connecticut Jo-
nathan who had just been appointed
to the honorable station of c0rporGi in
company of militia insincibles-"I'm
tarnally obliged to ye, by gauley, for
'pioting me korporal, for III be
darn'd TO darna,ion if caIi; cat out 10
Gawky now, and git Poll Higgins in
spite OF broomsticks and punkins."
Constantine republican. [volume] (Constantine, Mich.) 1836-1838, 1836-07-13
THE NEWSPAPER.
BY CRADBE.

Lo where it comes before the cheerful fire,
Damp from the press in smoky curls aspire,
(As from the earth the sun exhales the dew,)
Ere we can read tho wonders that ensue:
Then eager every eye surveys the part
That brings its favorite subject TO the heart;
Grave politicians look for facts alone,
And gravely add conjectures of their own:
The sprightly nymph, who never broke her rest
For tottering crowns, or mighty lands oppressed.
Finds broils and battles, but neglects them all
For songs and suits, a birthday or ball.
The keen, warm man, o'erlooks each idle tale,
For Moneys wanted,' and estates on Sale;'
While some with equal minds to all attend
Pleased with each part, and grieved to find an end
To this all readers turn-and they can look
Pleased on paper, who abhor a books
Those who ne'er deigned their Bible to peruse,
Would think il hard to be denied their news.
Sinners and saints, the wisest with the weak,
Hero mingle tastes, and one amusement seek;
With useful knowledge some would fill the mind
And some for light trash are the more inclined.
This, like the public inn, provides treat,
Where each promiscuous guest sits down to eat
And such this mental food, as we may call,
Something to all men, and to some men all
Constantine republican. [volume] (Constantine, Mich.) 1836-1838, 1836-07-13

First settlement of the UeSt.-A century
ago no white man had crossed the Allega-
MES to see what lay on the other side. In
1749, lunatic, wandering, as was his
wont during his paroxysm, crossed the di-
viding ridge beyong the great valley of Viz
Aejnia land on his return asserted that he had
been upon streams whose waters ran to the
west. No great public notice seems to
have been taken Of this discovery, yet it is
upon record that accommodating party,
crossing the mountain in the same direc-
ton in the year l75l, and falling upon the
waters of what is now the Green Brier riv-
err, tributary of the Kenawha, found two
solitary white men, natives of New-Eng-
land, living on its banks, though some hum
dred of yards distant from each other.-
! Even in that wilderness, human passions
and pertinacity of opinion, had wrought
disharmony, and there lived apart from
the world, and apart from each other, moth
ing passing between them, but the morning
salutation, as the one came out from the
hollow tree which served him for shelter
and the other from his log hut. The Vir-
ginians subsequently made settlement
there, which was utterly cut off by an III
cursion of Indians.
1t was in 1857 when the first adventurei
from the banks of the Yadkin, in North
Carolina, man by the name of Finlay
came back to his family after long alb
sence, with accounts of the marvellous beau
ty and riches of the country beyond the
mountains. He subsequently returned
thither the same year, with a party, o
which the celebrated Daniel Boon was one
and from that time forward adventure
from among the restless inhabitants of tn
outskirts of civilization, were OCCASIONAL.
; seen to quit the vicinity of the clearing
! with their rifles, blankets, and dogs, an
. entering the forests, disappear for Will
? in the direction of the mountains.
7 This is Latrobe's account of the first sc,
Element of the west. 1t is since the con-
!, mencement Of the present century-on
i within the memory of every middle age
!, man, that the small and silent stream {
|; emigration has become mighty torrent
:, sweeping onward in its current myriads {
7 human beings. Before the enterprise, an
. stirring, lile-like energy of this multitude
:, towns and cities are rising-the howlm
= wilderness and Withdrawing prairie are me-
y ging in the cultivated fields of the whit
;, settler. While Witnessing the teemin
. population Of the West at the present da,,
: It is difficult to realize that scarcel
n two thirds of century have elapse
:" since the first settlers beheld, from Ii
= ridges Of the Alleganies, this fair domain
/, all its native wildness-with the Indian al
~ beasts ofthc chase fori its only inhabitants
II Greenfield Gazette.
Constantine republican. [volume] (Constantine, Mich.) 1836-1838, 1836-07-13

other gentleman, pursued by Indians, came
to my retreat. | then gave up again all
earthly hope of escape, and told them had
determined to run down and jump into the
river. They insisted on my staying and
all dying together. AS our Maker would
have it, the savages at that time COM
menced burning houses to which their at
tention was drawn, and we lay until IL o.
clock, suffering all that men could suffer in
the cold water from the spring. On com.
ing out was SO benumbed with cold and
bruises, couldnot walk up the hill, on reach
ing the bluff, discovered to our great Joy a
party of soldiers had come to our relief
and that the Indians had fled. We reach
ed Lumpkin about dark.
"Gazaway seeing the Indians all flock
after me when / left the house, sprang out
of,ae second story and made his escape,
without being fired on.
"Poor Anderson he was shot in the
head, face to face with the savages, and
expired without groan.
"Kershaw was shot in his own house
his wife and child with Mr.. Pierce, re-
manned until the house was in flames and
near falling in, when they made their es
cape. The two Mr.. Donaldson's were
sleeping in the back room of my house
they fell and were burnt up. One or two
in Mathews house-making in all eigh
whites. Our dwelling and warehouse
Joice's store, Stark's store, Root q Sey
mour's, Matthew'S dwelling and new house
all burnt.
"Peter (black boy) fought near Ander
son bravely. The Indians made great ex
ertions to kill him."
For several days after the burning o
Roanoke, we learn the Indians kept pos
session of the place. On Sunday mornin
an expedition moved against it, with the in
tention of giving battle to the Indians if an
were there. On arriving at the spot the
found no Indians on the ground. A har
battle was expected as in two or three pre-
vious skirmishes the Indians had RENAME
masters of the field.
J The people are turning out in the cour
ties surrounding Roanoke, on both sides {
the Chattahoochee, en- masse, determine
, to defend the soil with their lives.
Constantine republican. [volume] (Constantine, Mich.) 1836-1838, 1836-07-13

Ladies.-All the troubles in England
will now cease, for the Commons have vo-
ted TO admit ladiesto the gallery OF the
House. In the course of the debate, 1t was
galantly affirmed that the presence of la
dies always had very beneficial influence
upon deliberative assemblies. DR.. Bowling
maintained that the presence Of ladies
would repress i'll breeding. Such had been
the effect in France and Germany, and all
the Cantons of Switzerland, except Gene
va. Mr.. O'Connell referred to the Irish
Parliament, where persons sometimes came
drunk, till ladies were admitted, after which
no drunken person ever came.--Boston
Post.
Constantine republican. [volume] (Constantine, Mich.) 1836-1838, 1836-07-13

From the record kept at the Custom
House of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia
Commercial List makes up statement OF
the arrivals al that port in every year for
the last forty-nine years. The table IS GU
rious in one respect, as it exhibits rather a
decrease in foreign arrivals, the great IN
crease of the commerce of Philadelphia
being through the coastwise trade. Thus
in the year 1857, the whole number Of arr.
walls was ss6, whereof 567 were foreign
and coastwise in 1900 the whole number
was 1880; foreign $50, and coastwisc
1861 in 1916 the whole number was 1900,
foreign 4S6, and coastwise lib; in 1920
the whole number was 3702, foreign 40
] I'd coastwiss 1887; in 1885 the whole
us 4002, foreign 429, and coast
Baltimore Ameticdn. -"
Constantine republican. [volume] (Constantine, Mich.) 1836-1838, 1836-07-13
TO THE EVENING STAR.
BY MRS. sIGoURNEY.

BY MRS. sIGoURNEY.
Pure Planet TO the darken'd west
Holding thy cresset lone,
Opposing clouds thy course modest,
And shade thy silver throne;
But soaring DER the troubled scene
Unmoved by frowns of time,
Thou with fair brow and ray serene
Dost hold thy way sublime.
Oh that might like thee discern
My chequer'd path Alright,
And from the Fount that fills thy urn
drink undelusive light,
And when that storm which all must meet
Shall chill my throbbing breast,
Ascending gain that peaceful seat
Where all the weary rest.
Constantine republican. [volume] (Constantine, Mich.) 1836-1838, 1836-07-13

Methodist Bishops-Thc Rev. B. Waugh
of the city Of New York, the Rev. WILDER
Fisk, President of the Wesleyan University
at Middletown, CT. and the Rev. L. A. Nor
ris. Editor of the Western Christian Advo-
cate, have been elected Bishops of the
Methodist Episcopal Church by the General
Conference lately in session at Cincinnati.
Constantine republican. [volume] (Constantine, Mich.) 1836-1838, 1836-07-13

Owning one half the Keel Boat CONSTAN-
TINE, they will be prepared to ship to any
Ports on Lake Michigan, Lake Erie or Lake On
tario, as the owners of freight may choose
Constantine, June %, 1896. ltf
Constantine republican. [volume] (Constantine, Mich.) 1836-1838, 1836-07-13

Real Estate in Ncw York.-The New
York Evening Star states that lot so feet
deep, sold in that city few weeks since for
81, 800 an inch measuring on tie 'ro''
Constantine republican. [volume] (Constantine, Mich.) 1836-1838, 1836-07-13
NABINET MAKING
T& CHRISTIAN KTJCH uyoul,

FSIl " CHRISTIAN KUCH would
respectfully inform tho citizens of
] Constantine and It's vicinity, that no
still continues the CABINET MAKING bust
ness, in all its various branches. He would be
happy to attend to all orders in his line, and
boys leave to assure the public that his work
shall DO turned out in manner inferior to none
in Michigan, in point of elegance of style and
durability
BUREAUS, SECRETARIES,
SIDEBOARDS, SOFAS,
COUCHES, BOOK CASES,
WARDROBE, PIER, CENTRE, CARD and
TOILET TABLES,
LADIES' WORK TABLES and STANDS,
MUSIC STOOLS, etc. etc.
made to order on short notice, and out of as good
materials as can be found in Michigan. His
shop is on Canaris street. two doors from the
corner of Water and Canaris streets.
Constantine, June 90, 1886.
Constantine republican. [volume] (Constantine, Mich.) 1836-1838, 1836-07-13

SAMUEL IN. ABBOTT, SADDLE
~ AND HARNESS MAKER, Constatine,
will soon lay in supply of leather and other ma
terias, in addition to his present stock, when he
will be prepared to accommodate his old friends
and customers in good style.
Constantine, June 30, 1886. 1tf
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NNOOTS g. SHOES.-

NEw ESTABLISH ZEN t.
l% PLOUGH FACTORY.-REID,T EEsDAL
g. Co. would state, for the information of
the public, that they have entered into co-part-
nership, in the PLOUGH business, and opened
shop in Mechanics Row, Constantine, for the
purpose of Manufacturing and Repairing Ploughs,
where they will be glad to receive orders for work,
in their business. Tho public are insured that
they will give strict attention to their business
Patronage solicited.
Ploughs WOODED in the most approved
style. Handles, Beams, de-, kept constantly
on hand so that Old Ploughs can be repaired on
short notice.; also, repairing of all kinds done on
the most reasonable TERMS for Cash.
Farmers are invited to call and examine their
Ploughs, and judge for themselves.
ISAAC BENHAM,
SAMUEL TEESDAL,
WILLIAM REID.
Constantine, Juno 90, 1886. lf