South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-04-15


easily resisted. The same writer says,
that while money is so scarce at the
Eastward, tits SO plenty at the West
that man who would not from his ap-
pearance be supposed worth mark, in
dependently of the world, will make
bill of 500, and pay It without ever
asking the price of a single article.
These are indeed glowing descriptions,
and lead us to hope that the abundance
described will in due time cause its eff
fects to be felt elsewhere. With such
soil as that spoken Of, and a moderate
share of Industry to till it, we shall be
able to laugh at the idea offoreign COM
petition so soon as agriculture shall
have been regularly established in a
land THUS flowing with milk and honey.
Bait. finer.
fl Good Or.-We had paraded thro'
our streets last week, fine OK, of the
Holderness breed, raised by the Shaker
Society of Union Village, who are pro-
verbal for producing good stock ofev-
cry description. The animal in ques-
ton will be four years old the coming
spring, and his weight and dimensions
as follows: Weight, 1923 lbs, l5 feet
8 inches from the tip of the nose to the
root of the tail 10 feet round the kid
ney; 3 feet 4 inches through and 5 feet
2 SO inches in height. He is not fat,
and we doubt not that with care he can
be made to weigh rising of three thou
sand pounds.-West. Star.
The Lexington Observer says that
in the town of Columbia, widow Ra-
chael Dickson is Clerk of the common
Pleas Court, and that one Mary Potter
is nominated for the Legislature in Nc
Cracker county.
1aten at his arords-The New York
Sun has the following account Of cool
conduct on the part Of robbef in that
city, w.. ,.., r. r r rsrr,s.
of Duane street, advertised in urpaper
a reward of $40, "and no questions as
ked,h for the return of a couple of mina
atures stolen from his office. The "ad-
veratse" as Power calls It, had the effect
Of producing him visitor in the person
ola very genteel looking young fellow,
who entered his office, Sun in hand,
and inquired as Doctor Ferris in ?"
"Certainly sir" replied the Doctor. "Is
this your advertisement, sir :" '1t Isl"
was the ready reply. "These, sir, are
the "pictwes," resumed the genteel
stranger, taking the miniature from his
right hand breaches pocket: land these
are the things which ! pt1shed them"
exhibiting bunch Of skeleton keys,
which he leisurely drew from the oppo-
site pocket. "Well'' said the Doctor,
81 suppose you want the promised re-
wardW "Your honor is pledged for it
sir" complacently replied the visitor"
and "no questions asked" The doctor
handed over the twenty, which the fell
low pocketed with the utmost nonchaA
ance, & "bidding the Doctor good day."
made his exit with a bow and smile
of the utmost self-complacency."
Pleasing Intelligence fom down East.
The Portlander of the 25th tilt. says:
eve saw yesterday a patch of bare
ground almost large enough to make a
man pair of breeches; and we don't
think the snow is more than six feet
deep on an average"
OBEDrnNcE-MrbrTAR be irnpli-
cit and Understanding. s'Sir," said the Duke
of Wellington to an officer of engineers, who
urged the impossibility OF executing the di-
rcctions he had received, 81 did not ask your
opinion, gave you my orders, and expect
to be obeyed"
This was declared by che Of the men, who
was the wit of the company, to be s:short and
sweet, like the gallop of a jackass. "-MrLI-
fARY MAGAZINE.
SKETCH OF THE ACTS,