South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-09-19
DDS AND e N ID . .
PERPETUAL MOTION isn't dead yet
Two applicants for patents think they have it.

The KEY. JACOB CREArH, of Car
thage, Illinois, thinks funeral sermons a
superhuity, aud will preach no more Of them,
beciuse the Saviour had no funeral.
Mn GEORGE G. CANNON, the Mormon
delegate to Congress, has, according to cur
rent report, secretly obtained divorces ia
the Territorial Probate Court from oil three
of bis wives.
"A PRISONER was rescued by his wife
wife recently at Memphis, Tennessee
When she visited him she carried to him a
pistol, which he took aud threatening the
keeper with death, escaped on a horse which
his wife also had ready outside. She was
arrested.
"A FRENCH physician has discovered
that the peculiar odor of Russia leather has
a very beneficial effect upon weak lungs, and
he advises consumptive patients to repose
upon pillows covered with that material.
A REMARKABLE Story. "A paper pub
lished in ST. Joseph, Missouri, is response.
bic for the following story, Of what it calls
a strange case, but nevertheless true one
Yesterday DR., l. II. ROGERS, Of Amizonia,
came down to this city, and when be got of
the train at the Francis street depot, he
was robbed of his gold watch and chain.-
Last night he dreamed that it was hid un-
der the depot, and this morning he went
and found it, all right and still ticking.
SINGULAR CAUSE OF DEATH--An eight
year old son of State Senator A. WARFEL,
of Lancaster, Pa, while playing with his
sister, on the 2lst ultimo, fell and striking
his chin on one knee, cut cash in his
tongue. 1t bled some at the time, but lit
to bleed at intervals until the 28th, when
physicians were called in. They pronounc-
ed the case hopeless. The child gradually
grew weaker, and died on the Both from
loss of blood. The case is very singular
one, few like it being known to the medi.
cal profession.
DURING recent storm in Jones coun :
ty, Georgia, IS trees on one plantation
werc struck by lightning.
BLACK walnut stumps, brought from
the interior of Virginia, are now shipped
from Richmond to Northern cities to be
made into buttons.
Ar BATIGNoLLEs 10 France, a man
named JOSEPH Worry recently died who
believed that he had been dog in q prior
state of existence. This idea was so strong
with him that he never met dog in the
street without stopping and talking to the
animal. A year or two since he assumed
the name of MEDoR |. and called himself
the King of the Dogs. He left his money,
1000 francs per annum, to a we'll known We
terinary surgeon.
DELAWARE has shipped more peaches
thus far this season than ever before dur.
lug the same time.
"A DRUG clerk who put up poison for
quinine took the matter very cody, saying
the victim was old and would have died in
few years any way.
"A DETROIT paper states that last week
man about 90 years of age, accompanied
by wife who looked still older, applied at
tho ticket Office OF the Central road for tick
cts to jackson. When told tho price he
demurred, and asked for second class sc-
commodations. There were none to be had =,
and after withdrawing for consultation he
returned to the window and asked We'll,
won't you knock off dollar if the old wo-
man will ride on the platform 2
THE Nashville Banner says that man
stopped North Carolina woman who was
driving Der family through the streets, en-
route West, and tried to buy her rig got
ting this reply: Stranger, yer'er ov q
wastin' ov yer breath talkin' to me about
sellin' that creeter. He's too noble a AMI.
mil, and be comes down from ancestors da-
tin back TO ther time what | can't remen =
ber Money can't buy that there donkey,
and yer might as we'll quit chatterin' yer
mouth about trndin ) besides, when
smokes / smokes, and when / trades
trades, and | ANT in bit Of tradin' humor
just now. So, stranger, yer might So we'll
close up yer Ay.trap
THE Statesville On. Co. hteHigencer
says: we are informed that Mr.. s. A.
LawraDce, Of Rowan county, has a pig
sixteen months old, which measures FIVE
and a half feet 10 circumference, six feet
from tip 10 tip, is three feet high, and
weighs over four hundred pounds. This
hog is cross between the Chester and Berk-
shire breed. He also slaughtered one re-
Gently, Of the same breed, which was three
hundred and sixty days old, which weigh.
ed net four hundred and twelve pounds.
-GOvERNoR Powers, Of Mississippi,
recently gave bis autograph to lady who
requested il at Republican meeting at Ma
con, aud it was made to do duty ss the sig
nature TO q pardon for young man serving
out term in the penetentiary, son Of the
autograph seeker, and succeeded in getting
him out Of the way before The trick was
discovered.
THE 'potatO-bug platform is the term
applied by the machine newspapers Of Min
noso,a to tho platform adopted by The far