South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1871-10-20
Gleanings by Late Mails.

Tor colts at the st. Louis Fair on the 5th
instant.
The Martinsburg Era says "a bass
weighing SIX pounds was caught in fish
pot near dam No. last week.
The modes of punishment on board
ships of the United States Navy are often
as novel as they are effective. Two sea-
men were recently reported fighting, and
they were sentenced to hug each other for
four hours, with sentry over them to see
that they did it eifectsolly !-4Ier. Ga=.
1t is said that forty-oue persons in
Chicago were shot and wounded on the
night of the 10Th instant, in the efforts to
make arrests. The station houses arc fill
ed with prisoners. Ninety charred remains
have been recovered.
On the 1lth instant, in the Circuit
Court of Marshall county, young Quarter.
the defaulting Cashier of the Wheeling
Savings Institute, was tried and convicted,
and sentenced to eight years confinement
in the penitentiary.
We are informed that the case of the
State rs. ii. d. Black, charged with shoot.
ing with intent to kill Colonel w. w.
Mckaig, Jr., (Which was removed to Fred
erick county, has been dismissed. - Cum
bertrand .Neirs.
"A colored man has announced himself
candidate for Mayor of Pittsburgh.
-Elmira rats don't know much. They
steal shoe pegs and store them away for
oats.
A certain Edinburgh professor once
l.
ion: Ounce you are, and Ounce you will
ever remain. That student was Sir Wal
ter Scott.
Slwdust pills, says an eminent physi-
clan, would cure many Of the ills which
flesh is heir to, if people would only make
their own pills.
\ RIGHTEOUs SENTENCE The pres
byter who scdnced Miss Chevers, at Deca-
tur, Georgia, and was found guilty thereof,
few days ago, has been sentenced to TWEEN
ty years Imprisonment in the penitentiary
He was also deposed from the ministry in
the Decatur presbytery.
The mayor of Macon, Georgia, has Of
fercd silver service premium worth $50
to the prettiest girl in the State, under II,
who appears at the State fair in home
spun dress.
-Ex Governor Sprague and brother,
Colonel Amasa Sprague, of Providence, r.
l., are erecting monumental mbstone, at
a cost of 100000, over the remains of the
deceased members of the family.
"A ton of hay will buy COW in New
hampshire. / must be land Overlooking
with milk if not with honey.
-Ch1nccllor Wyeth, of Virginia, it is
said, had six students in his Office, who af.
forwards became presidents of the United
States.
The Charlottesville MieHigeaccr says
two of the three Radical candidates for the
Legislature in Albemarle county were en-
gagged in the business of buying and selling
slaves before the war.
"A scientific Fronchman has made the
discovery that the ordinary tea-drinker takes
into bis stomach during the year leather G.
nough to make pair of boots The rea-
son OF this may readily be made clear. A
decoctlon OF tea contains tanuin, as fannie
acid, IN solution; milk contains albumen :;
and these two substances are the chief in
gradients Of leather, and as they actually
unite aud form leather when brought into
contact with each other, tho drinker Of tea
makes a sort of shoemaker's shop Of himself
This fact may account for the leatbery APP
pearance Of so many old ladies' and bache-
lOrs.- VOyId.
Theodore Tilion, in his Goi5en Age,
in an article on religious dostitution in the
South says :-'Churchcs are kept open in
places fortunate enough 10 possess such
things, but then II is for want of windows
aud doors, and in one place a good sized
poker was found in quiet possession Of a
a pevIcss meeting house Tilton's infor-
mant musf have just returned from visit
to some of the church cdfcos which bad
gone through the hands Of the Federal ar
my, during The late war. 'Pcwlsss meet
ing houses Didn't be see some 'rooa9sS
ones IL he had looked he would have
seen them l,oohess, windowless, powless,
Just az they were left by the raiders Of
sheridan and Hunters armies and others
who commanded tho dotachments which
carried devastation through Virginia and
even destroyed the churchos.-Ahr. Ga.
Lovers Of good smoking will be glad
TO hear that large deposit Of silicaio Of
mognesia, the substance used in the manu-
iacture OF genuine meerschaum pipes, has
been discovered in Patagonia. Hitherto
The article has been found In but small
quantities on the coasts Of Greece, Turkey,
and ASIA Minor and most Of the so-csllod
meeT'chaum pipes are composed Of mix
ture OF common pipc-clay and wax which
latter substance yields an unpleasant taste
In tho Internal Revenue Office it's es.