South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1867-11-29
South 3ranth 9nteiligenter.
RoMNEY, FRIDAY MORNING, nov. 20, 1867.
The Washington Chronicle announces the


johnson has entirely lost his sight.-Judgc
II. W. Shelley has recently sold his farm
near Staunton containing 440 acres, to Mr..
Halle, Of Alabama, for the sum of 81 >, 900
Seven distilleries around Richmond have
closed operations, the owners not finding
them profitable. Massachusetts, has n pop
ulation, by tho last census, of one hundred
and fifty eight to the square mile.--The
Democrats gained over thousand votes in
Thad. Stevens district at the late election.
This only proves that lie is becoming as o.
dious at home as abroad.-Speculator in
Southern Indiana are buying flour at Sl3
per barrel to hold until they get twenty for
it They will have to hold it quite while.
The Cuba sugar crop isrcported to prom
Use an unusual lountiful yield, the fields of
cane all over the island being very luxuri-
ant. The grinding of the cane has begun
IN some places.-The United States own :
100000 acres of land.-A family fcul
IN California was recently settled by a meet.
ing Of the bolligerents, who fell to without
word, and stayed not their hands or their
pistols until six were killed and one NOR
tally and three dangerously woundcd.-Nc-
grophobia is not so bad in Ohio as it fused
to was The disease there is dyingo
ny rapidly. Democratic ballots proved to
be 4 successful antidotc-Over sixteen hun
drcd cars Of whcatcamc into Dubuque qrom
the West during Octobcr.-Mr. Iincolns
debts, when he was killed, amounted to thir
ty-eight dollars and thirty-onc cents. Few
things in his career are more creditable TO
his character than this.-A French physi-
clan is curing his patients who arc suffering
from debility aud reduced and enfceblcd
blood, by giving them the fresh, warm
Hood Of chickens, ducls, and other fowls.
4 wicked wretch was asked why Le mar
rici SO little wife? why said he 'tho
best way among all evils IS to choose the
least. "-Experience is u torch lighted in the
ashes of our delusions.-A boy in Hudson,
Wisconsin, was sent out to catch horse,
and, while leading him home, carccssly lied
the rope about his waist Some hours af
forwards the horse was caught with the
corpse Of the boy still dragging after him.
The Democrats OF Ohio ought to be sat
islicd. They have the Senator, the Legis
latnre, beat the Negro Amendment, and
Won neariY al the money The Republicans
siaked on the geefsl result A proros-
---sisssal saake employed at the New
York Central l.t averages about
tsenty victims dai34 The park has the
garter, grass ana ea3er-snake.- Boston
paper calls Etontiont the fact that there
is an omigtgtjan Of Americans to Germany,
as well as Of GeFnans to this country 1t
says this is owing to the increasing cost Of
living in the United States, and that per-
sons of fixed moderate incomes have discov
cred that living and education cost far less
IN Germany thanin American ci;ics.and they
are settlingin many orthc continental towns
In Stuttgart the Americans out-number The
English rcsidonts-NasLyillc policeman
shot a negro in the head lie fell, but i'm
mediatcly picked himself up and made of.
When secured, his skull was found uniniur-
cd, but the bullet, perfectly fiat, lodged I'M
der the skin.--A huge eel is told of By the
London Times as having been shown a Lon
don, after being caught in Que river, in
Yorkshire, England. It measured five feet
eight inches long, and Ill inches in girth,
and weighs thirty-siG pound -'An adyan-
tagoous treaty has been made with the A.
Ia,lo t. c. we give them everything they
want, and they agree TO steal nothing they
do not want.-Wondell Phillips, lccturinp
IN Philadelphia on Friday night week, said
Thad. Stevens was a true statesman, "from
The crown Of his head to the sole Of his foot
nc was for the black man w. VI. Pritch-
ard married his fifth wife in in Pate. Ma
rylaud, last wcob, though he has only reach.
ed his thirty -lourih year-In an article ON
drunkenness, Doctor Hall says "To be q
great orator, peerless beauty, or tia star
Of the socill circle, whether man or woman.
is next door to being la-,."-A colorod wo-
man near Savannah, Georgia, recently pavo
birth TO triplcts, two of which were coal
black and the other as white as the purest
Caucasian So say tho Sayanuah Repub-
lican. "A forty-iyc year c.urtsaip IS still
progressing at East Lynn, Massachusetts.
Robert Fornoy, charged with The muir