South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-06-05

~
learn from the Winchester Netos, by Cant.
JonN FREY, special agent, for robbing the
mai !, taken before Commissioner WHIrrLp-
SLY and sent to Jail in defaul, of IS. 600
/ bail.
SUSPENSION OF A NORFOLK IVA BANK.
"A speoial to the Richmond ENQUIRER
from Norfolk, dated ibe 26h ult., saws
''The First National Bank of this city sus.
pended this morning. at a meeting of the
directors this afternoon il was asceriained
that the hank had hopelessly failed. 1t is
stated on the street that the deposi,ors will
only realize, about twenty five cents or the
dollar. Several merchants here will suffer
J by this loss, but none will be forced to sus.
pend business"
ESr There is a gentleman living on the
Southwestern Railroad, near Columbus,
Georgia, who has thirteen daughters He
buys clothing for them by the wholesale
Thus, when last in Columbus he bought
80 yards of calico, 100 of lawn, Is cor
sets, 26 pairs of shoes, and other goods in
proportion. Unlike many fathers who
have only one daughter, he paid cash for
all his purchases. Though an old mau,
he has never bought bushol of corn or
pound Of meat, but raises them himself
He has never sworn an oath, and does not
owe dollar.
ES- According to ANN ELIZA YoUNG,
who ought to know, CANNoN's four wives
are equally divided into two slaves and two
rulers. The first wife rules him because
he is afraid of her, the fourth because he
is in love with her. The two between DO
| 0 bo Ir,,. -
lasses.
WELL SAID Think before you speak
what you shall speak, why you should
speak, to whom you shall speak, about
whom you are To speak, hat will come from
what you may speak, what may be the ben
eht from what you may speak, and lastly
who may be listening to what you may
speak. Turn your speech seven ways, and
there will never come any harm from
what you have spoken.
GS' HERE is the pithiest sermon ever
| preached: Oar ingress into life is naked
and bare; our progress through life is trou-
bic and care our egress out of it we know
not where ; but doing we'll here, wo shall
do we'll there L could not tell moro by
preacbiog year.
GD" Hardly had wo time to rejoice in
spirit with our agricultural friends on the
failure OF the fly, chinch bug, winter kill ,
'and them 10 put in appearance this spring
when small hailstorm struck 10 TO mar
tho general joy. On Monday last visi-
tation of this kind swept across the New
town neighborhood, to the serious detriment
of the growing wheat. Some fields, we
mr. tnl fv,,, rnl 81
half. But the range was narrow VIM
chester Ne,os, 29M.
ssrThe body of ALANsoN DYER, who
died at Rutland, Vermont, in March, 1872,
of congestion Of the lungs, was recenu =
disinterred for removal The BODY was
found to be petriiied, aud weighed nearly
1900 pounds. At death the weight was
l45 pounds.
GS-The dog tax seems to be WORKING
we'll 10 Virginia. Forty five counties re-.
turn 81 900 during 1873, as the receipts
from this tax which go TO the support Of the
schools. La one county the tax brought
IN nearly two thousand dollars, but upward
of one thousand dollars of this amount had
to be paid out for damages to farmers
whose sheep hnd been killed by dogs. 1t
Is estimated that the entire State would
produce about 100000 from this source
of revenue, and the enactment Of general
law imposing the tax is urged, partly for
the purpose Of obtaining this revenue, aud
partly TO induce the killing Of the vagabond
dogs by which most Of the sheep are killed
VIII we ever got law to discourage dog
raising and encourage sheep raising ia West
Virginia ?-Park State Journai.
SsS-A citizen Of Detroit, who moved to
Lone Tree, Nebraska, several years ago.
writes TO tobacco house 10 the former city
to send him five pounds Of fine cut by ex-
press, adding Il am q candidate for sher.
1T Of this couciy, and think by iudici.
Gus use Of fvo pounds q good tobacco
Gao secure two hundred majority
ETThs New Orleans Iicayu,c tells Of
40 enormous ra', gray with age, aud fat as
an alderman, that appeared on Canal street
there 10 the midst Of tho food, bearing in
his mouth something that fuiscred about
like piece Of paper. 10 was tired and
bedrsggled, aud deposited bis burden be.
hind box and sat down 10 rest. A gen.
'leman made dash sc biz raisbip, and a.
way he went, leaving behind the article
brought in biz mouth, and which proved
to be a fgc-dollar greenback. Whether
the rat intended this as a contribution 10
the sufferers BY the overflow or was himself
moving to avoid The encrooohiog waters.
the editor was unable 10 say, but certain
u Is that he has not yet returned 10 claim
the property. Richmond Enquirer.
So A dispatch to she Petersburg Inder
APPeat, from Charlottesville, says: "A
Tich scene occurred 10 the court "a. dsvtba,