South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-11-05
A TRAVELLING PAUPER.

A TRAVELLING PAUPER.
The other day an old man, OF rather
decentiah appearance, presented ni"s
self a. the Commissioners ONCE, as
candidate for admission to the alms-
house. His countenance struck Coi.
Mann as one not altogether unknown
10 him and so he stated to the applicant.
"sesn me before, Dye say ," said tina
old man "why to be sure you naVs
we're 90 strangers, I assure You /; o. at
leas. we ough.'nt to be, for I've oeen
in your alnnsAouss this many year.
But YOU see, about Is months ago got
little tired Of nay old home, and 'ooA a
notion to travel DIT, and went on 10
Boston, and got into the almsnousa
there. hwas pretty good, andi made
myself tolerably comfortable and con-
tented, though the overssefs dia,ns
maau I should: and at last, to get rio
OF ma, they offered to pay my passage
to Norfolk, Virginia-Well, ! weos ana
90. into the poor house there; eu' .
made precious poor bargain OF Il, .
tell you. Hogs' fat and homnony, ana
hommouy and hogs fat, was all the va
rely of that concern SO you may De
sure dd'nt stay long, but made my
vay to Richmond. There foaad tae
poor house fare little better than az
Norfolk, but no touch al all TO what y
was used to; SO tarrying there long,was
GU, Of the question. The next place l
stopped a, vas Baltimore, and must
say 70. Baltimore that it's poor house
accommodation are not to be sneeFe0
at aud I should have made out fighs
we'll there, had'n. i. been that the CON-
pony was entirely too promiscuous foR
a New York enti-niger man. got a.
long with it as long as l could stand is
bu. that wasn't great while; and 90
packed of, and here am again, Col,
ready for my old quarters. "Fhere's
no place like home," Colonial; let them
travel that will, bat Bellevue is as good
resting place as want" And at
Bellevue the old man mads up his bed
the same night, and in the morning was
found lying in it with a countenance
perfectly placid and sersne-in deats.
N. Y. Sas.
VERY ExTRAoRpINARY.--O Of the
French papers mentions what, il trass
is very curious. A widow not over
young 10 years, but who thought she
might very well manage with another
husband, went to the Mayor Of Cher
bourg to procure the necessary papers.
She found from the certificates, that
her intended was actually her owa son.
She had been naughty ia her youth,
before marriage, and the young man
whom she was about taking as see
ond husband was the fruit OF that trans.
gtession.
The New Orleans Bee, in speaking
Of Nav York, makes use of the follew
ing remarks
New York is the seive Of the Union.
The honest foreigner is sifted through,
and settles upon the western lands
while the loaler, the pauper, and the
cut throat remains behind.'
s@ma
An old lady in an adjoining town,
who ha6ambilious views for her hus-
hand-and was much mortified that
vhen hs was elected TO the House of
Representatives, he never made
speeeh--mixed gill Of yeast with his
gin bitters in the morning, in order to
make him RISE when he went TO the
Hail. Massachusstts paper.
The Globe says, Van Buren, will
hereafter be the Gold candidate for tbs
Presidency. If the returns from the
receat elections are any sure test he
will be the cold candidate.
Absence Of Mind The last case Ia
that OF ship carpenter, who Bit the
end oil OF copper spike, and drova a