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

has worked more than ten hours per
day, at the speed of more than 5000
revolutions per minute, at a cost for flu
ell of one dollar and twelve cents per
day, and is now in as good condition
as when his labors first commenced.
The original cost was only six hundred
dollars.
The Ohio Express gives some anus
ing particulars of a practical joke play
ed off on pugnaciously inclined mem
Der Of the Legislature in that State,
which forms on the whole the best sa-
tire we have ever met with, on the
rascally practice Of carrying concealed
deadly weapons. During the exciting
debate in the House of Assembly, re-
specting the United States Senator, Mr..
Kelley attacked, in an ungentlemanly
manner, the member from Sciota, Mn
Glover He said, addressing himself
to the Speaker, in the significant, and
approved language Of the legislative
bully, SO admirably hit off in the Pick
wick papers; ''that he should make no
reply. but upon meeting the gentleman,
Gf such he could be called out of the
House, he would give him that treat
ment which his remarks demanded,
SC. ION the day following, Mr.. Kel-
ly appeared, armed, exhibiting in his
bosom, the hilt ola dirk of much ele.
sance and finish. This extraordinary
exhibition, as was no doubt intended,
excited much remark, and Mr.. Y. Of
Licking, determined not to be behind,
Mr.. Kelley, rugged himself out, for the
purpose ofridicule, with wooden dirk
of considerable length, and placed it in
his bosom, leaving the hilt observable
to the members, which was formed of
a huge corn cob with button on the
end.
The members wearing The real and
fictitious arms, sitting side by side, Mr.,
Younts cycling Kelly close, would out
now and then with his wooden article,
and exhibit its poiiderous dimensions to
hima This created itiuch laughter,
which was Immediately turned upon
poor Kelly, and cost him severe melti-
fication, s rendered ridiculous the idea,
that any member should arm himself
in a deliberative assembly Of enlight-
ened ffeemen! 1t is consolation to re-
fleet, that the Joke severe as it was, was
taken in good humor and had the desir-
cd effect of inducing a bloodlers aban-
denment of the abomniable system, in
this and many other instances.
Mysterious Di,pensation Of Prortaenee.
In the complicated and marvellous
machinery Of circumstances, it is abb
solutely impossible to decide what
should have happened, as to some e.
vents, if the slightest disturbance had
taken place in the march ofthose which
preceded them.-When we first ap-
preach the apartments of the silk or r.
band weavers, we observe little dirty
wheel of brass, spinning round upon Its
greasy axle, and the result is, that, in
another apartment, not many yards dis
tant from it, beautiful piece of silk is
sues from a loom rivalling in its hues
the tints of the rainbow, There are
many events in our lives, the lapse be-
tween which was comparatively much
greater than the distance between the
wheel and the fibband, but where the
connection has been much more close.
If private country gentleman in pass
ing through Cheshire, England, )abodt
the year 1870, had not been overturned
in his carriage, America, instead cfbe-
ing a republic at this moment, might
have continued dependent on En-
gland. This country gentleman hap
pened to be Augustus Washing
ton, Esq, who was thus accidentally
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