South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-08-22
Academy at Romney.

this and adjoining counties the opening of an
Academy for liberal education here on the 18th
September proximo. We are informed that DIR.
WILSON, the Principal, is a graduate of the Uni
versity OF North Carolina, at Chapel Hill, the
alma mater of many eminent scholars and men,
Sa ripe scho'ar, with many years experience
Ms 'eacher' lie comes to Us recommended by
Governor Vance General Young and other dis.
ungulshed citizens Of his State, and with every
assurance OF his capacity, success and peculiar
fitness as an Instructor OF youth.
There IS no village in the State where greater
attractions and inducements combine for Inc es-
'bliShnfn' Of schools, male and female, for lib
eFA and useful instruction or preparation for our
pest colleges. We trust that this enterprise will
obtain the generous support Of our people inter.
ested in the promotion ofliberal educ alton The
school, its progress aud success, will be looked
TO with extreme interest and we trust TINT il
Will speedily become permanent establishment,
sustained by the best and most enlightened in.
fuences of our people.
From the advertisement to day the reader will
observe change 10 the terms of tuition in this
Seminary.
SWe acknowledge the receipt of com.
plmentry tickets of admission to the En-
hi6ition cfhe Berkeley County agriculture
and Mechanical Association at Msrtins.
burg Also, to the Fair Of Me AgricM-
ture and Mechanical Society Of Allegomy
county, Nd, West Va. and Pennsylvania.
The Berkeley exhibition Gomez off on Sep.
tcmber Dab, 10th, 18th aud 18th. The
Fair at Cumberland, September 10th, 18th,
18th and 10Th. Thanks for the tickets.
An advertisement 10 the MteUigencer would,
we have no doubt, amply repay both asso-
ciations. Free Advertising, with US, is a.
bout played out-hencc, notices sent don't
| appear. GA ,cord to the ,cise is suffioe Mt"
POSTAL SERVICE Whilst at Berk eley
Springs the other day We were inf rmed by
Col. CHARLES GREEN, Of the "Florence
House" that under the present postal ar
raugement il takes just four days to send
aud receive letter FROM Martnsburg and
other local points along the Baltimore aud
Ohio Railroad. Very often the mail for
Berkeley Springs is carried to Cincinnati,
and back before delivery, anc such is the
disarrangement, generally, that it retards
and makes uncertain oil business transac-
tons When it is known that all this diff
ficulty could be easily remedied by placing
the way mails on the noon, instead Of the
evening trains, is seems to US that the post
master general must be controlled by some
petty spite towards the people living along
l;,o g 81 nj
road MrtinsJurg Statesman.
BY the present arrangement our mail ia
cilities are not as good as they were twenty
years ago. II takes four days to send and
receive letter from Cumberland just twen-
tyseven miles distant. We hopo the Post.
master General will consider the M alter aud
act on the subject as TO the way mails
east and west, over toe Baltimore and Ohio
R,iroad, between the former city and Cum
btrland.
Rs'Tbe Post.c flee Department gives
notice that "Pos,- office clerks shall not read
the contents on postal cards"
This reminds US Of a "6neer- boarl" in
'he aug 'iblnS County OF iihmpshlTe, west
Virginia, near Abernathy's Mill, which
reads thus One mile to Springfield, if
YOU can't read this enquire at the MILL
Winchester Ne'es.
Excuse US Mr.. Ne,cs If there is such
Ginger board" of course, its the act of
some wag.
An abstract Of the proceedings Of our
County Court will appear in our mex, mum.
Der. Also as soon as received at the Clerks
Office the result, Of tho School election.
-Notwi'bsIandiug all they say against
It, shere is not en- tdi'or 10 the State who
would refuse, we know we would not, 70 &C.
ccpt back pay"-from subscribers.
EEThe rain which prevailed in this
section the grcster part Of last week ceased
on Monday morning last, and the weather
since has beer clear and warm.