South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-03-25

tried at Dover, N. H.. The amount original
ly in dispute was a small calf; and the legal
costs on both are estimated at two thousand
dollars A verdict was rendered to the Plain
tiff.
AcTroN Preserves HEALTH.-You see
men of the most delicate frames engaged in
active professional pursuits who literally have
no time for illness. Let them become idle
let them take care of themselves-let them
think of their health-and they die !! The
rust rots the steel which use preserves.
Just and generous conceptions of the divini-
ty are the souls true wealth. To spread these
is to contribute more effectually than by any
other agency to the progress and happiness
of the Intelligent creation. Toobscure Gods
glory is to do greater wrong than to blot out
the sun.--CEANNING.
The City Of Now York seems to be the cen
ire of every species ofnovel absurdity, in pol
tics, morals and religion. In the first, the
agrarianss loco fccos and Jewellers are prose-
IYting with industrious activity. In the Sc
cond, Fanny Wright and the Moral Reform
Society disturb the peace and quiet of the CT
ty, with nightly lectures; and in the third, the
sects of Mosmons, Mathiasites, Kissers, &c.,
are ehdeavoring te supplant all the establish
90 lOTIUS anu CGTcUUHlGS Vi WOlSllp, ny lltWs
and heretofore unheard of devices. Some of
the pretences of these innovators would be a.
musing, if they were not offensive from their
grossness and blasphemy. The following is
speciIr>1 ofthe performances OF one ofthem,
who. at the latest dates, was holding forth in
Chatham street chapel, New York.
In speaking of the miracles of God towards
the children Of Israel, the preacher said that
the children of Israel having acted unruly and
doubted his power he determined to kill 600,-
o6O Of them, when Moses ssiumpedin between
them and caught his uplifted arms and said,if
you kill 10000 of these people, where is the
glory Of your name; and God was so Impress
ed with the truth of Moses observation, that
his arms dropped powerless by his side"
sis there any one here who has friends they
wish to be prayed for?" 'I have" said one.
"How many prayers do you wish said:
"Three, one for brother travelling on land
an unfortunate brother at sea, and benight-
ed cousin, who walks the ways of darkness p
Then he prayed. els there any body else
TO be prayed p 'sYes. Pray for the
Merchants Clerks said one; sspray for the
Board of Brokers' said another; ''Pray for
James Waston Webb and the whole of the
Press said third: all Of which was cheer
fully complied with.
SINGULAR s. FATAL PREDICTION.
A melancholy tale of real life is rela-
tedin the last Madridjournals. A gen
tleman named Don Gonzales L'loneui-
er, is now being tried in that city for
the accidental murder of his fatheran
mother some years since. 1t appears
that during Napoleon invasion, Con
zales then a youth; and much devoted
to religious duties, on coming one day
oat of Church at Cordova, where he re-
= sided, was accosted by one ofthose for
lorn people called in Spanish gitanies,
(gipsies) who, to operate more power
fully on his sympathies, promised to
tell him his for which purpose he
accompanied the individual to their en-
campment.-There he was told he
would in certain number OF years,
murder his own father and mother, who,
it was declared had both sinned against
their God. Gonzales was dreadfully
impressed and made wretched, with
this, to him, unaccountable prediction,
as he knew nothing to justify the i'm
precation against his respectable pa
rents. He went home and fell into
profound melancholy. What was his
horror to learn now, for the first time,
that both his parents had been the ten
ants of converts, and violated their
VOWS! Immediately he became plum
ged in grief, and determined to avoid, if
possible, the commission of the crime
designated for him, by retiring, I'M
known to all the world, to some distant
mountains which he did, and, in asol-
itarv ravine, built him hut, and devo-
ted himself toreligion and hunting. A
beautiful brunette peasant girl, nam
ed Catalina, came across his path
He became enamoured, and mar
ried her. Immediately; without the
shadow of a cause, he was seized
with the most fend-like jealousy. One
night, during a dreadful rain storm, while
absent in the mountains, or prowllng a
bout his domicil, to find some apology
! for the passion which haunted him
unknowingly to him, two wandering a
ped persons, in distress, knocked at the
door, drenched with rain, and implor-
ed for lodging. The benevolent and
innocent Catalina admitted them-put
her husbands clothes on the old man,
and hers on his wife instead of theirs,
which were wet and learning, to her
extreme 10y, that they were the parents
of her husband in search Of m,placed
them on her bed to obtain repose, and
went herself to the chapel, in the gar
den, to offer up thanks for the h fortunate
event which had restored them to her
Gonzales shortly after entered with his
yaouble-barrelled gun, and seeing TO ms :