South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1867-10-25
South aranth Sntellisenfer.
RoMNEY, FRIDAY MORNING, on. Is. lsoi.
Moses Walton is the Conservative candi.

coming home with his family carly in No
Nember.-John Ii. Cough is fifty years old
and twenty-five years sobcr-The new Con-
stitution of Peru forbids any religious wor-
ship except the Roman Catholic -Phila-
delphia is examining with curiosity car
for use on common roads which lays down
the track before it and takes il up after the
car passes over it-An Ohio editor has ei-
phercd cut the number of grasshoppcrs in
that State-42, 626, 150, 00G-A gentle
man in Albany stated in speech which he
made there recently that the Radical party
was just now in yellow mulatto fever" and
10 the last state of "black vomit. y Butler
is already on the high road to the Demo
cratic party, and Forney will not lag far be.
hind him.--The latest rev word-it start
ed in New York--is "suicided." It's friends
my 1t is ne good as "colidcd Law suits
are often Improbable things. \ Vermont
PAPER tells of trial at law between two
men in that State, about sheep, worth FIVE
dollars, the ownership Of which was dispu-
ted. The case was heard twice, and the
plaintiff recovered SllG.46 damages and
costs Of the defendant; whilst the plaintiff.
although successful, was still out of pocket
some $3.50 for lawyers fees. Each of the
dlsputants might have bought a flock of
sheep for what it cost him to quarrel over
single animal-Caifornia raises fifteen mil.
lion bushels Of wheat this year. Pretty
good for State which only few years ago
lald SO barrel for -four Secretary Sew
ard on bis way TO Orange county, was ask
cd what he thought of the election. He re-
pied that experience bad taught him that
1t was hotalways the part ofwisdom to think
too much at the same time he believed
That the signs Of the times were iadicatiu,
that the people are right, and that if the !
public men were not fools they would be- !
lieve IN tie people. - The London Mechan. |
les Magazine describes new and very cf- |
fectlve Ice machine 1t is simply an air
pump fitted to bottle The bottle is half !
filled with water, and the pump is set to
work. Air is first pumped out, and then
The water rapidly cvaporatcs. To complete
the vacuum and increase the evaporation, |
the air and aqucus vapor pumped out is !
made TO traverse a hollow climber contain /
ing sulphuric acid, which of course instant |
ly ahsorbs the moisture The evaporation
IS so rapid that the remaining water is quick /
y converted isto mass Of ice. -Four mi !
nutes' pumping sufdoesto produce two pints
OF ice, with au apparatus which only costs
aeout fifty shillings sterling 1t is stated 7.
TINT movement is under adyisemcut in
Philadelphia to establish a new party, with
the view to the exclusion Of extremists on
both sides. -Ex-Congressman CULVER, of
Reno, Pa, says he will pay all his debts, if
bis creditors will give him time lie owes
$4,000, 000.-A writer in tho Chicago Tri. |
b"nc thinks Mrs LINCOLN is insane.-A
young lady of Cananlaigul, " Y, went to
a dentist to have some teeth extracted, and
in the operation he cracked her Jaw, but
'he being under the influence Of chloroform.
was inscnsiblc to her misfortune. The den
tist did not discoycrit but attempted to ox-
tract another tooth, pulling out a piece Of
the jaw Of sufficient sic to contain
two teeth. BY this time shc began to re-
cover from the elects Of the opiatcs, and
they were again administered, and physi-
clan and surgeon being immediately sum
moned, her jaw was set About six weeks
after, the young lady being Obliged to
breakfast, dine aud sup on grue) was iu-
formed by her physician in attendance that
she might loosen the banllg3 and commence
to use her jaw, which being done, she found
that her jaws were set; and after vain Of
forts to operate them, they gave up 10 de-
fpaiT, feeling that they were locked forever
At the latest accounts she was still unable
10 open her mouth, and was fed through
silver tuba Democratic candidate for
State Senator in Ohio has sirnifed his in
tcntion TO contest th, election, on the ground
that lie was defeated by a majority Of ono
hundred colorcd v0tcs.-A lady Of RIDGE.
Vile, Lorain county, Ohio, having the rhcu-
matism in her hip, recently employed an
Elyria doctor, who administered morphine
by blowing it into the veins. It affected
the whole system, went TO thc heart. and
caused her death in an hour Sometimes
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