South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-06-10

the wings Of the wind. The man swift
ly followed, and almost breathless, they
both entered at the same time the
abode of Emma. 80 mother ex-
claimed William: "St6p, my boy" said
his companion, "let me speak to your
mother first" and turning to Emma, he
said, "Be calm, madam, for we have
glorious news, wonderful news for you
the ship Anne is close at hand p
Emma spoke not, but her heaving bos-
ON and wildly rolling eye frightened
the boy, who running to her & throw
ing himself on her neck exclaimed
"Why | thought you would be SO glad,
mother, that father after all is alive, and
coming to US, but you don't look so at
all; what is The matter, why do you
look SO strahgely?" Emma buried her
face in the bosom Of her Child, and re-
lieved her bursting heart by weeping
aloud. Locked in each others arms,
they mingled their tears & their touch
ing thanksgivings to God, for his IN
speakable mercy, while the man who
stood by, though quite unused to the
melting mood himself wept like an in
FAINT.
"But how is it 7" exclaimed Emma,
her recoilections returning as her agi-
tation partly subsidized, "has the ocean
given up its dead p "No doubt" re-
Piled the man, ''they were driven out
to sea, and have been detained at some
port to repair damages
Soon, to the waiting eager eyes Of
the wife and child, appeared that state
ly ship, her white sails filled by a gen
tie breeze, and bearing her najestical-
ly along over the soft ripple of the
sparkling waves. Soon she was per-
fectly moored in the quiet harbor, and
a familiar, beloved form seen to step
1i'om herdecl1s and approach the house.
Soon they were folded to that heart
which but an hour or two before they
had thought no longer beat for them;
and dear little Charley was praised,
and hundred times kissed by those
lips they had deemed cold in death.
The following amusing anecdote is extract
ed from a forcible article of the New York
Evening Post, designed to arrest the late pre-
valent rage for speculation:
A traveller, once, in the West, on setting
out early one morning from the place where
he had passed the night, consulted his map of
the country, and finding that very consider
able town, called Venice, or Verona, or Vi
emma, or by the name of some other European
city beginning with V, occupied point on
his road but some twelve or fifteen miles off,
concluded to Journey as far as that place be-
fore breakfast. Another equally extensive
town, bearing as sounding name, was laid
down at convenient distance for his after
noon stage; and there he proposed hating
for the night He continued to travel at a
good round pace until the sun had attained a
great height III the heavens, and until he com
puted that he had accomplished more than
twice or thrice the distance which he propos-
ed to himself in the outset. His stomach had
long since warned him that it was time 10 halt,
and his horse gave indications which plainly
showed that he was ofthe same opinion. Still
he saw no town before him, even of the hum
bleat kind, much less such magnificent one
as his map had prepared him to look for. At
length, meeting a solitary woodchopper e.
merging from the forest, he accosted him, and
inquired how far it was to Vienna. "Vien-
ma !'' exclaimed the man; "why, you passed
it five and twenty miles back. Did you no.
tee stick Of hewn timber and biazcd tree
beside the road That was Vienna" The
dismayed traveller then inquired how far ii
was to the other place, at which he designed
passing the night. "Why, you are right on
that place iiow," returned the man lit be-
gins Just the. other side OF yon ravine, and
runs down to ciump Of girdled trees which
you will see about mile farther on the road
ssAnd are there no houses built?" faltered out
returned the woodman ''they hewed and
hauled the LOGS for a blacksmith's shop, but,
BEFORE THEY RAISED IT, THE TOWN LOTS
WERE ALL DISPOSED OF IN THE EASTERN
STATES; and every thing has been left just
as YOU now see it ever since"
SEWING ON GLAZED CALIco.-By pass
ing a cake of white soap few times over a
piece of glazed calico, Or any other stilencd
material, the needle will penetrate with equal
facility as it will through any other kind of
work. The patroness of the school Of indus
try proiioulices this to be fact worth know
ing, the destruction of needles in the ordina-
ry way occasioning both time and expense.
-TaGnton paper.
ANEcpoTE.-An old reverend, who had
preached great while IN meeting house in
Stonington, being unwell, and the weather be-
ing rather stormy concluded one Sabbath that
it was unfit for him to oficiate, and sent his
son to inform the congregation of the fact.
The boy, although a minister's son, was some
what tinctured with greerhornsm. He pro-
ceeded to the house and took his stand where