South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1867-04-19
News and Miscellaneous Items.

Nasuuicrc SVatS III ihiuots. lucy htO ~
easily raised as the common goat, and are
very pro6table--TnE President has issued
his warrant OF pardon 10 n. Il. Vance, late
Governor of North Carolina.-MR. ELISHA
DURsT, State and county collector for Ale
gany county, died in Cumberland recently.
SENATOR Wilson, of Mass, told the ne
groes in Petersburg, Va, in his speech the
other day, that they were as good as he
was. We should call that n very cquivo-
cal complimont.--TuE receipts from licen.
scs for selling liquor in New York during
the year ending March 30th amounted to
sl,2S3,S5i 66.--LIKE the globe, when the
heart receives light on one side, the other
is often plunged into darkness.-JouN s.
&. ABBorr says gas is not gcntecl light
in Paris Wax is used by the ton.--Mr.
IliNAN GREGoUY. a very wealthy planter,
residing near Augusta, Arkansas, fell into
an alteration over game Of cards with
I DR.. cameron, in the course Of which the
latter drew pistol and shot the former in
the hip. Mr.. Gregory being in liquor,
tainted him for not shooting better than
that. DIR. Cameron, who was also intoxi.
the breast. Mr. Gregory placed his hand
uppu JUS llSloI, utlIbtIoNc aiul
at the Doctor, shot him through the heart.
Gregory's shot took effect almost instanta.
neously in Dameron's heart, and both fell
dead together WHENEVER you buy or sell,
make clear bargain, and never trust to,
owe shan't disagree about trihes. "-SEv-
ENTY FIVE cents is the amount lazy Lon
don clergymen have to pay to have their
sermons written in good style for them
THE fight between High and Low Church
is raging with great violence in the Episco-
pal Churches in New England. BRowN-
Low is quartering negro troops in various
places throughout Tennessee, ''to preserve
order in the coming elections. "-DANGER-
Gus counterfeit female who closely re-
sembles lady but is not n lady.-A MAN
in Indiana chopped eight and three -oighths
cords of wood in five hours, and received
$40 for it.-WoMEN never command till
they obey and arc never so much in dan
| ger of becoming slaves as when they have
a host OF lovers at their feet.-TuE Supreme
Court have allotted Virginia, West Virginia
and Maryland to the judicial District Of
Chief Justice Chase-A QUEER Suit was
tried at Binghamton, n. Y, recently, in
which n lady brought an action for assault
ton being that he kissed her while occu-
plying the same seat in n railroad car, she
being asleep at the time with her head rest
ing upon his shoulder. The jury failed to
agree. The jury behaved badly; they
should have acquitted the young man, as
he did no more than he had right to do to
any "youug lady" who goes to sleep in a
railroad car on his shoulder. SINCERITY,
in this world, is like gold among the sava-
ges, who barter treasure for glass beads
IL Is costly quality, but not current mo-
ney.-A YOUNG sailor who received blow
ing-up from his sweetheart, called her a
wind -lass.-BEAUTY and genius are the
most pcrilous Of all inheritances --THERE
have been two hundred female graduates
from medical colleges in Boston, New York
and PhiIadei phia.--A WATCH has been
manufactured in Paris which is wound up
by simply opening the case 10 note tho time.
IL only requires to be opened once a month
to keep it always going, and it il perhaps
the nearest approach to perpetual MOTION
yet inventcd.--AN exchange says Mrs Ca
dy stanton is pronounced as majestic as
Sumner and as elegant as Curtis--and like
both, she parts her hair ia tho middle.
Ar the Paris Exposition it is said that a
novelty will be on exhibition, in the shape
If an artificial horse. The ingcniously con
structcd animal, when ready for the road
will travel twenty five miles without stop
ping, and afterwards may be wound up in
few moments 50 os 10 90 az much farther,
aud 80 on Indefinitely A horse like this
must be q valuable acquisition, provided il
can be bougbtas chcoply as the noble animal
Of which it is q copy.-A WHITE owl, inca
surfing four feet eleven inches, from wing
20 wing. woa shot IN Connecticut Inst week
I. Daa bsau sDut o tnc Amherst Ioologi-
~~t ~~",ne' rCrrJsE a painted blind
l.rs u.t t.gb lo b.teId thc fools
.IJ belong Boz hcr-THE Frederick sburp
Uel0H tells q merchant who had pleas
ant April fool Joke all tohmsclf lie gave
n ten dollar counterfeit greenbaak 10 a couu-
try boy whom be did not know, but who,
while the merchant was out, passed il upon
bis clerk for fifty cents worth Of sugar, re-
ceiying nine dollars and Fifty cents in change.
Z. NJ NoRrOs has been appointed Uni
ted States Marshal for the Western Dis
trict Of Virginia The raid on the 'chig-
nonS still continues. The London Lancet
says il is certain that many ladies carry
about with them in their chfgaons the seeds
Of ringEorm, which it calls an fntractable
malady' il also says that much Of the hair
used for chigno1s is 'churchyard hair, pulled
from the scalps Of the dead To call a
young lady a witch is shocking, but to call
her bewitching, and possessed Of witchinQ
charms, plcases her amazingly. eyes Of
a loving woman are wells Of Paradisc-mir-