South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1868-02-07
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RoMNEY. FRIDAY MORNING. FEB. !, 1863.

'lHCe Ruc NFd.tDleSI man il tue i l!NltltU
State, it is said, is now in AFFECT poverty
San Francisco exported forty and half
millions in treasure during lSG7.-HERo-
poTUs relates that Persian king asked the
Indian soldiers that were in his service
what reward would induce them 20 burn
the dead bodies of their friends instead of
eating them. They replied by entreating
him not to mention anything so shocking.
The life Of QUEEN ISABELLA, Of Spain,
ia said 10 grow more and more shameful.
Her profigacies are no longer concealed
from her subjects.-A young girl in Louis
vile, Ky, whilst being operated upon by
surgeon in one OF the hospitals for disease
Of the foot, died from the effects of chloro-
form.-Some thirty boys were suspended
from the Springville, New York Academy,
week before last, for walking home with the
girls after school hours.-Among the one
hundred aud forty convcts in the State pen
itentiary of South Carolina there Gre eight
negro preachers.-M fLoURENs, who late
y promulgate the theory that a man ought
TO live to the age of two hundred years, has,
with singular Inconsistency, died at the age
II seyenty-four.-R Tape has often been
hurcsqued, but We doubt if more extreme
ease was ever recorded than the following,
credited to the English War Department:
There is tradition, said to be historical,
concerning clerk in the War Office who
once wanted peg wheroupon to hang his
hat TO save the expense of carpenter
h. applied for a hammer and a nail, with
which to drive it in himself Six months
passed bcfor he received any answer to his
request, and lie bad long ago set up peg
nf L., 4
the Tower arrived in Pail Mall with ham
mer sent to him at last through the medium
Of numberless acquisitions aud authorize
lions. AZ the same time he was Informed
that it was not the province Of the Tower
officials to supply nails, but that these would
come to him from Woolwich, and after a
few months further waiting they really did
arrivc-a pound of nails, brought by great
ambulance wagon, with its half dozen hor-
ses and its dozen attendants london re-
cciyed a million pounds of tea last week -
Charleston gives sad evidence of the mis-
fortune caused in the South by the war In
1860 Charleston contained forty thousand
people, whilst now its numbers barely reach
fifteen thousand. The extent to which ia
mine prevails in various parts of Europe
and on the southern shore Of the Mediter-
ranean, Is somewhat remarkable. We have
accounts Of the suffering for food in Russia.
IN eastern Prussia, in Sweden, in portions
ot France, in Tunis, in Algeria, &c, &c.
We live in the days OF war, pestileuce and
famine. The Bank of France keeps at
present two hundred million dollars 10 gold
and silver in its vaul:s.-In an action
brought in the Common Pleas Court Of la
milton county, Ohio, to recover damages
for personal injuries sustained by the plain
tiff and his wife, in consequence Of the act
of child four years Of aye waving n flag
in the face Of horse, it was decided that
the parent Of the child was not liable for
his willful act, and the judgment was for
detcndant.-Thc revenue from cigars in
1867 was So 500, Isl, which is the tax on
1872 200, 600 cigars. Its estimated by the
New York WORTH that fully 1000 900 ,OC0
cigars were consumed in the United States
during the year. This would give over
twenty-five to each person or, suppospg
that one-tcnth of the whole people smoke,
and half of them smoke tobacco in pipes.
we have au average Of 800 cigars consum-
ed by each of the gcntecl smokers during
the year, at a cost of at least $50 per head.
The following little gem, from the pen of
ALICE CAREY, can be read with profit, by
every one--saint as well as by sinner
"Do not long for wrong or evil,
You will find them if you do;
As you measure to your neghbor,
lie will measure back % you
Look for goodness, look for gladncss,
You will meet them all tho while
If you bring a smiling visagc
To the glass you meet a smile"
The winner Of drinking match in Bava-
ria lately succeeded in consuming one hun
ircd and nincty-Gyc glasses Of beer in
single hour.-laris has a new thing in car
rings, being little globes Of rock crystal ell.
Cd with water and miniature sea fishes and
molluses. BRIGHAM lOUNG has pronounc.
cd an cdict against tea aud coffee. The pro-
hibition is universal, so far as the Mormons
are couccrncd.-In Portsmouth, Rhode Is
and, clergyman has created great excite
mcnt among the citizens by turning hi.
wife out Of doors and taking up with his
kousekccpcr.-Nr ELnrucr. tho Demo
cratic leader ia the House. SAYS the South
ern states will be back in the Union I'm
few wcCks-Thc Pau libo Of Africans are
very kind 90 their wives, and when they
die cook and eat them Rev w. j. KFf,-
loco, ln Detroit has olopcd with the mar
red daughter Of one Of the Gcacons Of his
-hurch-A gallon Of brandy, costing Sl2,
yields sGl 80 when rctailgd BY the glass.
Whisky at 81, yields So 70.-At "a ball
90 rev ork few evenings ago, some of
tho Ialtl1 I al G.r.. ...-.. a "a q