South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1868-03-06
South Branch 9ntellissneer.
RoMNEY. FRIDAY MORNING. MAR. 6, lses.
Tms yalne of the sheen killed hv b. III

100000. The subsistence of the whole
number of dogs in ali the States is estima-
ted by him to cost annually 500 600, 600.
-BAsnFULNEss, even TO a fault, is ever TO
be preferred to hardy CONFERENCE.-The
AKERMAN, a member of the Georgia Con-
vention, being suggested as a candidate for
Governor, in the Atlanta Opinion, declines
the honor on the ground that be has nei-
Their ambition nor qualifications for the
executive Office" Such modesty is cx-
ceedingly rare in these days.-A PROCESS
has been invented by which scraps ofleath.
er are worked over into large sheets, so
that the new article is as good as the piece
from which the scraps came.-THE vanity
of human life is like river, constantly
passing away, and yet constantly coming
on.-A GENTLEMAN in Illinois owns an es-
tate so large that he has three hundred and
twenty miles of hedge upon it, lie is to
SOW new field of ten thousand acres for
the FIRST time this year.-THE platform on
which GRANT is TO stand, must be made
wide enough for two. lie frequently needs
some one to holdhim up .-PovERrY, with
honesty, is far happier choice than pen-
" with wickedness. will have
to pay over a million and half pounds
sterling year simply for the water used
by its Abyssinian army. Ii has to be,dis-
TILED at cost of two shillings n gallon
A HORSE was frightened to death in Oma-
ha, recently, by passing locomotive on the
Union Pacific Railroad. 1t was a fine and
apparently healthy animal. The intense
fear which it experienced was so great that
1T fell dead without a struggle-Two tip
sy British soldiers cursed the Queen and
are now serving a fye-ye sentence with
branded backs.-A STORY is told Of iolly
good fellow who resided in Chicago about
four years, and while on an Eastern visit
was asked how he liked the water out West.
5y George, Mr. -" said he, after
moments reflection, 81 never Thought to
Try 1T "-PRIDE destroys ali symmetry and
grace, and affectation is more terrible enc
my to beauty than the small-pox A
YOUNG woman at the West was run away
with by calf, whose horns became caught
IN her cnnoliDe.-PARTY is the madness of
many, for the gain Of a few -WHAT would
this world be without women? \ shiftlcss
concern.-lF you would be happy, have but
one woman In your bed one friend in your
bosom one faith in your heart-A LOCAL.
editor has Just seen man whom ne thinks
was pretty well occupied lie had his wife
on "ne arm, baby on the other, a basket
and cane III his hands, a cigar in his mouth
and two little hopeful heirs hanging on to
hIs coat tails. A DOMESTIC young lady
a home maid.-A RESIDENT Of Maine has
invented and applied for a patent for a con-
trivancc which promises to do away with
the common buttonhOlc in collars, cuffs and
all articles of outside wear whore the but
tonhole Is used. 1t consists Of small aud
durable eye upon the stud or sleeve but
ton, and is secured by movable swivel.
which can be fastened or undone instantly
AN essay in an English magazine csti-
mates the annual amount OF money tran sac
tons in Wall street, New York, ut between
$4,000, 900, OOG aud SIG, 600 600 600
JESSE MAINE, who had not tasted drop of
water for forty years, died at North Ston-
Ington, Massachusetts,, last Saturday. He
drank nothing but cider, and survived it
seventy-tve years.-THE wife Of Mr.. JAS.
a. MURRAY, of the village Of Buffalo. AL
len county, Ohio, gave birth to four BOYS in
two days last week three of them weighed
eight pounds each, and are alive and DOING
well, but the fourth, weighing six and a
halt pounds, did not live 10 see the light of
this busting world.-A LEADING writer
says that 1T Is no matter of wonder with
him that brain workers, IN all the wears
since tea was introduced, have regarded it
with the greatest favor. IL mas a power TO
1ubdue irrltability, refresh the spirits and
renew the energies, such a. no other agent
posscsscs.-llIRAM SMITH, an eccentric old
bachelor, at Chester, Massachusetts,. is ha-
wing his sePulchre hewn in a large rock in
that town. lie pays man seven hundred
dollars to do the work, and by the .tirula-
ton the cave is to be seven feet long. four
wide aud four deep, aud after the coffin is
put in, tue aperture will be sealed up with
marble slab and cement SMITH saws he
doesn't want mud TO yet around bis bones :;
nc means to have dry place for them -
HE Ballard House, in Richmond, was sold
on the oath ult, at public auction, for $50
600. IL is said that the property original
~ cost S206, 600 Mr. WM. DAVIDSON.
Of New York, purchascr.-THERE arc poo
pie in New York who pay two hundred dol
lars per week for board, nearly double what
they would pay in first class botel. For
this sum they have n suit Of rooms, a yri-
waite table, arc catered fer by FrcnchcoyS
with accommodations for two servants-in
all, four persons The wages 10 servants
the "cxiras,' the carriage hire. The ailor's
mi,incr s., and wine merchants bills. un-
doubleday amount 70 a hundred dollars
more, bringing expenditure up To- twenty
thousand dollars per year 4 heavy sum
Tor just keeping body and The modern rem
nant oi sou, together for one ycar.-ONE
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