South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1867-11-01
South Branch 9ntelligeneer.
RoMNEY, FRIDAY MORNING, NOV. /, 1861.

nesota. 1t is twelve inches lopg.-.We need
not care how short our passage out Of this
life Is, so it be safe; never any traveller
complained that lie came too soon to his
journeys end.-The Maine Medical Assu-
citation has decided that no physician is JUS
tilted in producing abortion except when
necessary TO save life.-Crops are good
in the Mississippi Valley, despite the cot
tom worm.-A telescope has been invented
in France which enables one to see objects
under water. 1t is said that marks can be
seen with it distinctly at a depth of five
feet.-A human skeleton was found in the
wall Of an old house in Newark, The other
day.--In Cleveland, Ohio, recently, man
named Moran, aged about seventy years,
who had lived the life Of vaerant rcr ma
ny years, went TO sleep in cellar and was
nearly deyourcd by rats. When found he
was dead, with most of the flesh on bis face,
hands and feet eaten off-A Chinese max
I'm says; We require four things of wo-
men: That virtue dwell in her heart; that
lnodesty play on her brow that sweetness
flow from her lips, and that industry occu-
py her hand.-The Philadelphia Ledger
tells Of school teacher Tho makes the read
ing of a newspaper regular exercise of the
school, and says the scholars like it greatly
"A gentleman of Waltham has made a
fortune, this year, out Of bis peach-orchard
"A miss-spent life quandering all your
salary on girl who does not care for YOU
--Sixty-six male inmates of the insane a.
sylum at Staunton, Va, are about to be
transferred to the insane asylum at Clarks-
burg, this Statc.-Norfolk, Virginia. ship
ped over 10000 bushels Of oyostess last
year, and the amount will be increased this
season.-Tho repentance that is delayed
until old age, is but too often 4 regret for
the inability Of committing moro sins.-
One hundred thousand dollars worth Of
fractional currency is returned to the Urea
sury Department every ay.-Commission-
er Rollins, of the Internal Revenue Blu
reau, has written o letter stating that by
the law Of Congress all aiIi1ayits are reliov-
cd from stamp duly.-Tho grasshoppers are
making great rayagcs in Iowa.-A Wiscon.
sin lady has beard two inches long, while
her husband hns not hair on bis head
Rev. DIR. MuAlerbnrg, the author Of the
hymn, 81 would not live Away" is in his
72nd year, ana has been minister forty
six ycars.-Dr. Francis, q distinguished
New York physician, says: at has gencr-
ally been my experience that those who do
not use tobacco are obliged to wort or walk
while thinking, For it is necessary item in
personal economy that the body must in
some measure be employed, in order that
the intellect may move at will."-Live so
rs you do mean to die.-Thc first newspa-
per was published in Virginia in 1880. It's
subscription price was $50 perannum Ad-
vcrtscments of moderate length $40 first
week, and 81 each subsequent week.-It
should be remembered that constant occu-
patton prevents temptation Learning is
folly, unless good judgment hath The man
agemcnt Of it.-Kocp money when you axe
young, that you may have it when you are
old.-Prisoners have lately escaped from
the Indiana pententiary through tunnel
sixty feet long--A yillainous Yankee has
been going about secretly among the ne
groes in central Florida, selling them, in
fours, at fifty cents each, wooden stakes
painted red, white and blue, ornamentcd
with small strcamer, telling them that
wherever they planted those stakes ut tho
four corners ola tract Of land, the land would
become theirs when the expected couGsca-
ton came. 1t is rumorcd that he has dis
posed Of cargo of these sticks, and has re-
turned to the North to get another supply
Accounts from various portions Of Mis-
sissippi state that the worm had appeared.
but 80 far cotton had sustained l,ttlc dam
age. The corn crop is unprecedented
It's thought chat the Iron Ore discovered
at the Shenandoah Irouworks in PAGE coun.
iy, is sufficient TO employ 30 furnaces any
number Of ycars.--Gcu. B.auroeard pass
ell through Grafton ON Wednesday Of last
week and over tho Branch Road Of the
Baltimore and Ohio.-A lawsuit in prus-
sin, which began in the carly part Of the
seventeenth century, has jus. been settled
~ compromise --Blruum' new umbuc.
The pscudo-gorilla, is expected TO leave thi.