South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1867-04-12
News and Miscellaneous Items.

proposes 10 tax bachelors for not 'spropos-
ing. "--OSE hundred and fifty-.ix millions
Of letters passed through the New York
persons have been arrested in Ireland for
keeping greyhounds without being worth
5000 freehold property MINISTERS can
now preach in Missouri without taking the
iron clad" oath.-TnERE is often but
slight separation between woman's love
and her hate. Her keen teeth are very
near her sweet lips.-AN exchange says
"therc is a good demand foe mules in some
parts Of the South" And there is an a.
bundant supply of jackasses in all parts of
the North.-IT is announced that King
George of Greece Is soon to marry a niece
of Queen Victoria.--TuE trustees Of Phil.
lips Academy, Andovcr, Massachusetts,,
have added ten-pin alleys To their new gym.
nasium.--WnY is the sun like good loaf
Because it is notlight until il rises -WIru
four metallic qualifications a man may be
pretty sure Of success. Those are gold in
his pocket, silver in his tongue, brass in
his face and iron in his bones -NINE thou
sand nine hundred people of color in New
York. abounds most with the
| lowly there ARE more blossoms in the val
leys than on the hills-GorLrIB Will
LIAMs, convicted in Philadelphia Of the
murder of Eliza VI. Miller, was on Satur.
day of last week sentenced TO be hung
Lucy STONE once said "TLere is cotton
in the cars of man, and hope in the bosom
of woman" Lucy made mistake, and
rot the cotton in the wrong place -TnE
population of Paris is l,S25,2Tt No
fewer than eight journalists are under SEN
tence of death in Spain.--IF the South ac-
cepts the Military Dill, il will be, says the
y. y. Day Book, just az the defcncelesa
traveller accepts the demand Of an armed
highwayman, and not otherwise IT is We
ry well for little children 10 be lambs, but
very bad thing for them TO grow up sheep
Ar the present time New York has hous-
cd up for higher prices, over 1000 900
bushels of wheat, 3, 600, 900 bushels of corn,
and 2,500, 900 bushels Of oats.--JosEpnus
CHAPLIN, Of Bedford county, Virginia, is
~ years of nge, is 81 inches high and weighs
between % and 30 lbs.-MiCHGAN rcfus.
es, through its Legislature, to restore capt.
tai punishment.-Dis New Workers
( 60 over to Now Jersey to get intoxicated, ms
matter Of economy. In the latter State
the fnc is two dollars, and in the former
ten.-DoN'r send manuscript 10 this OF
! hcc unless You can read IL yourself after il
! gets ETERNITY is depth which no
geometry can measure, no arithmetic cal
culate, no imagination conceive, and no
rhetoric describc.-A YOUNG lady Of Ur.
bana, H., who was recently caught smok.
ing cigar by the '1ocap Of the Gazette Of
d nl hor 1. q
Chat it made IL smell as though there was
a man around. '--FRoM all the principal
marts Of the country, we hear complaints
Of the dullness Of business, and consequent
ly heavy pressure on the mercantile com
munity. IL said to be more deeply felt in
New York than the other principal cities.
-MR. MnBURN, the blind preacher, is now
abroad, and under treatment, whereby lie
has strong hopes Of recovering bis eyesight
-THE Michigan House of Representatives
has concurred with tho Senate, that women
\ ought to be admitted to mem bership in the
+ University Of that Stats.-A MILWAUKEE
paper tolls story Of terrier " hich attack
! cd rat at grain warehouse in that city,
few days since the rat Eqnealcd, the
alarm was repeated by other rats near by,
and in a moment large swarm q rats sur.
rounded the unfortunate dog, gave him bat
tie, and, although be made terrible havoc
among them, ultimately killed and nearly
devoured him .--MANKIsD should learn
/ Temperance from the moon-the fuller she
| gets, the shorter Der horns become.-It is
said that an ingenious individual in London
has discovered a mode of cutting hair by
machinery. He will probably next turn
his attention to the possibility Of shaving
! by the same Doans.-- WITHIN the last year,
twelve Of the wcalthiest and most beautiful
young ladies IN Nashville, Tennessee, have
been married 20 Federal officers "A SOUrn.
ERN paper says "Ncw England fears an AL
ALBANIA cotton mill more than she feared all
The regiments that Alabama sent 10 the field
IN the late war "-HE who represents and
holds bis word sacred himself will have il
respected and trusted by others.--As "cx.
change" ia allusiou 70 a Congressional con
troversy, saysOf the parties, "the one stands
proclaimed IN the forum Of the people as The
murderer Of an innocent woman the other
as a coward and knave. A little more
grape "-POMERoY, editor Of the la Cyoss
Democrat who recently visited she luuatic
asylum at Lexington, KY, in speaking Of
the inmates, says Theodore Clay. son Of
The illustrious Henry, is here, an io,ellec.
tual looking patient, helpless, as il were, IN
sane over an affair Of affection. He has
been here many years, with no hope Of re-
covcry .-THE financial manager Of lead
Jog dry goods house in New York gets a
salary Of $4,000 year &c EoRoE PA
BODY is ~ years Of age. His reputation
will not be measured by years.-THH fate