South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1867-12-06
South Branch 5ntetligenter.
RoMSEy, FRIDAY MORNING, DEC. 6, 1861.
About million of children arc said to


struction of one hundred and sixty thousand
teachers. Central Illinois Railroad
Company is said to be obliged to bring wa
ter for its engines to one of the water sta
tions distance of ffty-four miles.-In
Spain, out of population of 1863, 900,
according to the last census, no less than
10000, 600 could neither read nor write
y man, named WEBER, died in Chicago,
On Friday from the effects of chloroform
administered by competent surgeons, while
performing an operation. Sitka it rains
almost constantly-one fair day week be-
ing considered liberal allowance. 1t must
be a good field for the umbrella trade
ROBERT MoPENGILL, who recently killed
rival, by hitting him in the head with
stone, at st. Paul, Decatur county, Indian
a, for taking young lady away from him,
has been convicted Of manslaughter and
sentenced to the Penitentiary for twelve
years.-The eruption of Mount Vesuvius,
which commenced with fearful grandeur on
the 18th ult., still continues. The noun
tain is still sending forth pillars of Gre from
the old and newly formed cratcrs, and the
display is magnificent Seven streams of
Java are in full play. So says dispatch
from Naples. Every Mason might truth
fully say, if he would acknowledge it, that
he has been elevated in the social scale by
becoming Mason. The richest and no.
blest must fain confess that he is richer
and noblcr ty the privileges that his initia-
ton has conferred upon him than he could
otherwise be. His Lodge is older, grandcr
and more princely than Star and Carter
WILLIAM SPENCER and his wife, HANNAH,
who reside at Paulsboro, n j., appear to be
Of the highest responsibility, and are worth,
it is said, over 5000, COO, were arrested in
New York, on Friday, on charges supported
by affdavits and evidence in the possession
of Colonel WooD, of the detective force, of
being the chiefs Of the gang Of counterfeit
ers, who have recently put the spurious
sevcn-thirty bonds on the market Mrs.
SPENCER paid, cash down, $40, 900 as bail
for herself and husband on the examination
at Newark, where they were taken. Sew
eral other persons are supposed to be en-
gagged with them, and they are reported to
be very wealthy Official news has been
received that the treaty for selling two of
the Danish West India Islands to the Uni
ted States for 81, 100000 in gold has been
recently signed at Copenhagen. Denmark
retains st. Croix. The population Of the
newly acquired dominion is not sufficient
to constitute a State, so that it will have to
remain for some time territory WHAT
a DREAM DID.-In December, 1864, AS.
$. BRECKINRIDGE, n stock dealer, lost
valisc containing Sl2,931. 1t had been left
IN railroad car, recovered, opened, the
money found to be safe, and directed to be
forwarded to him. On receiving it, the mo-
ncy was missing. Who took it remained
mystery until few nights since, when one
of the persons who was present at the time
the valise was opened, had a dream, in
which the event again passed before him,
and he saw person standing near him who
had previously escaped his memory. He
at once communicated with some detectives,
the thief was arrested and the money re-
covered.-For some years, the authorities of
Munich have required from the parents of
each child that dies in its first year, dec
laration whether it was nursed by the moth
er or not, and in eighty eight cases of death
out Of n hundred, the child had not been
nurscd by the mother IA NOVEL SUR
A curious trial took place recently at FL
mira, New York. a man possessed some
nut trees; of which the branches hung o.
yer the ground of a neighbor, who picked
up the ripe nuts that fell from the tree, and
also broke some branches. For this the lat
fer was prosecuted for theft and trespass,
but was acquitted on the ground that he
was entitled to profit by fruit growing over
his own property. Appeal was made from
this decision, and the Judgment reversed lie
cause the principles Of civil law ordain that
all fruit and branches belong to the stem,
and the stem to him upon whose ground it
was planted, and that the right of proper
~ Of the latter does not cease with the
extension over neigh5ors' ground, no mat
ter how far this extension. The accused
was consequently condemned on both counts
OLD FHoWsbjp IN the LnHcd ,Siots
The report of the Grand Secretary Of the
Order in the United States reports the
membership the present time to be 217,-
$50, there having been an accession during
the past year of 33,764 members The
receipts for the past year have been 81 ,96j,
IT'S OIL, Of which SLIGO, 1913 56 were from
bodies under the jurisdiction Of the Grand
Lodge and sj0j SOB 45 from bodies under
the Jurisdiction Of the Grand Encamument.
The total relief dispensed in the same time
was SG90,G o. Of which sC25, $40
25 were Ivy the bodies under the jurisdic-
ton Of the Grand Lodge. The relief dis
pensod by bodies under the jurisdiction
Of the Grand Eucampmcnt was sGl $50 u.
--FAIru Il have seen lone tree stand
ing on prairie; have bchcld the storm.
of winter buffet against It's trunk, and the
gales Of Autumn bend It's lofty branches
90 the dust. but when the blast had cone