South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-10-10
South 3rameh 9ntsllissneer.
ROMNEY, FRIDAY, OCT. 10, 1878.

September 30th.
THE public debt statement shows reduc-
tiou of 1904 ,467 during the pas, m ,oth.
CATTLE IN TRANsITU.-The act raised
by the last session of Congress for the pro.
lection of animals fn transiiu' went into
effect on the Is. lust It provides that all
character of swine and stock transported O.
yer railroads aud by water, where there are
not sufficient accommodations or rest and
feeding, shall in every twenty eight hours
be stopped, rested aud fed for five hours.
The act attaches penalty OF from one to
five hundred dollars for It's violation.
THE Young Mems Christian Association
Convention for this State, will be held 10
Clarksburg on the 31st of this month
Primitive MANNERs.-There are many
quaint and primitive customs prevailing in
Sweden. Up in the north it is customary
to hang The door-key up outside to show
that the family is not at home. In Dale
carlis, when family is away at an outIy.
ing pasture, the house is locked up, but
slip of paper is fastened to the door, with
note to tell hungry wayfarers where the
key of house and pantry is concealed
In Chiilicothe, Ohio, WILLIE NEFF, O
boy ii years ole, was instantly killed, on
the 30lh ult., by being accidentally struck
in the stomach by the elbow Of boy with
whom he was playing.
THE St Louis Republican has al account
of most terrible affair which took place
near kingsbury, Missouri, some days
ago. 1t appears that young girl, whose
namo is not given, living near the town
named, was discovered by her parents to
be cnc'snte. A few days after the discovc.
ry they took their daughter to a cornfeld
near the house, and forced from her liv-
ing child. TbOy then threw the babe into
a shallow hole in the ground, and do,ibe-
rately stamped to death aDd so frightfu)ly
mangling it that when they completed their
heIlish work it was difficult to distinguish
the flesh and blood from the mud and olay.
The parents we're arrested.
SINGULAR DEATH INCIDENT.-REv. s.
IL. MERRILL, of Portland Maine, arose in
his pulpit in a church 10 Scarboro, Maine,
where be has recently been preaching, on
Sunday, 9th of September, and announced
as his text, There is but step beiweon
me aud death Then be stopped, sudden
J sank back upon the sofa, and being uua-
BILE to rise, was carried to his home, where.
on Thursday week, he died.
y BOX of straw bats shipped from New
York 10 1861, have just been received by
an Alabama merchant
The Williamsburg, Va, lunatic ASYLUM
was opened on the 18th Of October, 1773
-one hundred years ago. 1t is the oldes,
institution of the kind in America, aud old
as any but ono in Europe.
A MILD winter is predicted in the North
west, because the corn-husks ore thin.
a scHooL-TEAcHER in WatertowD, Mass.,
has been sued for assault and battery, her
offence being the physical cbastsement Of
pupil four years old. She should be held
to strict account, of course, but how abou,
the porout2 We should greatly like to
know that he, too, is to be severity punish
ed for putting q four-year-old child into
school at ALL
A BLACK bass was recently caught 10 the
Delaware, near Elston, which was found to
hold thirteen hooks in It's mouth, with as
many fragments Of lioe attached to them.
The Wheeling Register learns that the
famous horse SMUGGLER, who was recently
sold for the unprecedented sum Of $40,
600, has among bis grandsires well known
Ohio county horse, Twins TUcKAuoE.-
There are a number Of horses Of the same
blood still in West Virginia. char. cur.
To believe is to be happy; to doubt is
to be wrolcbed. Doubt woabens, belief is
to be strong. Belief is power. Only so
far as a man believes strongly, nightly,
can be act cheerfuly, or DO anything that
is worth doing.
EXAMINATION into the Dubuque, Iowa,
suspended banks shows extensive false en-
tries by tho defauIiing cashiers to deceive
the directors. Poor servant girls aud work
iugmen lose the earnings Of a lifetime. The
Catholics, whose funds the Bishop deposit
ed 10 the bank, are also heavy losers.
The Wauenton Iader says, Gen. Hun.
TON has left at this Office eight earns Of corn