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South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-06-19

To The Creditors o. Travis Payne, decd:
IN pursuance Of decree OF the County Court
oi hampshire County, made in a cause therein
pending 10 subject the real estate of The ia Tee
Wis Payne, dec d., 90 the payment Of his debts.
you are required 20 present your claims against
The said Travis Payne, decd FOR Adjudication
10 samuel l.. Flournoy, Commissioner. At bis
once IN tomney, W Va, on or before the 9th
day a. July, 1914 Witness. q s White cis,L
Of said Court, this lh day Of June 1874
q. S. WHITE, clark.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-06-19

INVEST VIRGINIA, TO WIT AT rules held
w in the Clerks Office of the Comfy Court
Of Hampshire on the FIRST Monday in April 1914
Jotn Blue d; Anne L. his rife, Plaintiffs,
VS..
Njmrod Attire C Mary T. his rife, 4. n.
Iydtcys and Susan II. his rife, Charles
b. WHicrS and Re6ccca his rife, WD,.
A. KayL.endGH and Jemima his ,cjJc,
DavM Poe, Mnnoh For, William Y
For and RcJccca FOR, Dcfendamts,
in CHANCERY
The objects Of this suit nre, 10 assign to Re-
becca Fox, widow Of Vause Fox decd. her
dover in about 2, 600 acres Of tmbcred land in
said county, and to divide the residue Of said
land among those entitled thereto, or If partition
cannot be made, to sell the same ard divide the
proceeds among those entitled TO it.
And il appearing by affidavit that the dcfen-
dants A. l.. Witbers and Susan T. his wife,
Charles 3. Wihers and Rebecca his WIFE and
David Fox, do not reside in this State il is or
dered that they do appear here within one
month after due publication Of This order and
90 what is necessary TO protect their interests 10
this suit. Teste,
G. s. WHITE, Clerk.
June 10 lS74.-5t
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-06-19

the PRICE OF JcE.-. Complaints
pour in upon US as to the price of nor.
them ice in Richmond. Woneed notarque
the question. Facts spenk louder than
words. A gentleman Of this city who he's
occasion to use much ice wrote recently to
New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore,
inquiring the price of ice in each Of those
cities, and received answers which showed
that the price Of ice in New York is IS per
ton, and "to small consumers" $40 per ton.
10 Philadelphia "Boston ice is furnished at
50 per 1000 pounds to hotels ond saloons"
In Baltimore go cents per hundred for
the saloons and confectionery establish.
ments." 1t thus appears that northern ice
is furnished in New York at So per 1000
pounds, 10 Philadelphia at S12 per 1000
pounds, in Baltimore at s14 per 1000
pounds. tits furnished in Galveston, Texas
atS25 per 2 1000 pounds But in Richmond,
Firginin, thousands of miles nearer the ice
houses than Galveston is, we have to pay
$50 per ton .-Richmond Dispath
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-06-19

To The Creditors Of John a Gross, deed
lN Pursuance Of decree o. the County Co.-io
Hampshire County. msdc To- cause thereto r.ol-
ing 70 subject The real estate Of the 40 join 81.
Gross dec d., 10 Che payment Of hs dr9s sou
ere required 10 present yonr claims sgaIutt Toe
said John a. Gross, decd for adjod.cuo1 90
Samuel J.. Fiournoy, Commissioner. 10 DIE o,ars
i1 komney, Vi Yn on or before the 2Jfh Joy oi
July, 1874 Witness. q $. White, CIeik Of sea
Court, this lth dos Of June. 1879.
&. S. WHITE, Crk
June ID, l8If-7f.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-06-19

7'homas Dickcn, 6c ,

Thomas Diclop, 6c
VS..
Johu 4. Gross Adm'r., DC
DY a decree rendered IN this Cha1ce-y rfa-3
ID Of The june Term, 1879 Of the County Caur'
The undersigned Commissioner Is directed
call before bim al the creditors o. The ei.l aoa1
4. Gross decd 20 present ard prove fleir 3 r.
or demands against the Estate ~ tIr fsI1 Co.'s
dec d. All persons interested will therefore,
take notice, that on The 18Th Isy 60 July,
at my Office in Romney, W. Va ] shall Pr0
decree.
SAM'L. J.. FLOUBNOY
Commissioner County Court llamy ailc Cd.
Junc ~, l87s.--5f
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-06-19
WILD LIFE FAR 4 ( TEE Hg7,

Agents Wanted every where for this new and
beautifully illustrated Book Of the Authors tiir-
ty years Life and Adventures among the Indi-
ans, in the Mexican Wars, hunting wild animals.
&c, &c. Thrilngly interesting, and selling fas-
ter Than anything ever before known Send
F. A. HUTCHINSON & CO. Cincinnati o
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-06-19
Branch 9ntelli9enter.
| FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1874.
our, of Appeals of this State

ourt Oh ApPehiS OF tols otate
nt Wheeling. o. S. LONG,
Pf the Register of that city,
|ointed Clerk Of the Court in
Dir. HALL, resigned.
important decision by Judge
* the United States Court at ST.
was delivered on Tuesday of last
week on tho subject of loans by national
banks. Il is, in effect, that q national
bank is prohibited by the act of June 3,
1864, from loaning money on real estate
security.
ET BRowNLow has written letter de.
bouncing the civil rights bill and the poll.
ticians who voted for it, He commends
the action of the State Superintendent. of
Public Schools 10 Tennessee for the pre-.
cautionary measures taken by him to wind
up the schools 10 tho event Of this bill be-.
coming law.
EP-THE House Committee on Patents
has decided to do one excellent thing, viz :
report adversely to the extension of the A..
b. WILSON sewing machine patent, which
is the key of the whole sewing machine
monopoly. This 10 effect, says the Wheel
ing Intelliyencer, "tolls the kncll of the
sowing machine ring, ma we shall within
two years zee sixty-fve dollar and eighty
dollar machines selling for thirty doll irs
and forty dollars. 1t was high time tina,
this enormous tax on On article of household
necessity had been abated. Long ago the
inventors of all the essential parts of sew
ing machine have been made wealthy, and
the fortunes now being reaped from tho
manufacture are gathered by men whose
only claim lay in their possession of sufici-
ent capital TO buy patents aud build man
ufactories'
ETA SOUTHERN journal suys that over
one hundred and forty thousand people are
without food and shelter 10 the South. and
that the floods have robbed them of all but
life First the war, then tho carpet bag de-
mination, aud now the floods.
Gay The entire democratic State ticket
has been elected in Oregon. Toe logisla-
ture stands Senate, republicans IL, demo
Gratis 8, independents 10. House, repub-
llcans 10, democrats %, independents %.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-06-19
Trustees Sale
OF T4LU1BLE REAL ESTA TIE.

DY Virtue o. two deeds Of Trust executed bv
I'D VIM. Horner and wife, JOS B. uorner and
wife, John Ilorner and Thomas Horner, the one
to the undersigned I.emuel Pugh as Trustee,
dated the nth day of July, 800 and recorded
10 Deed Book 81 in the Clerks Office of the coun-
ty Court of Hampshire county, West Va, and
by which the beirs of David Henlebower, dec ID
are secured, and on which there is now due about
$4,000 co and the other, executed by the same
parties TO the undersigned James II. Hopkins, as
Trustee, dated the goth o. July, 1869, and re-
corded in Deed Book 81, in said Office, and by
which there is secured TO William HOPKINS the
sum Of 81 287 80 cts. OF which 81, l43 Ts eta is
payable on the 9th OF July, 1870, aud 81. l43 II
cts. on the 9th day of July, 1871, and on which
the following payments have been made, viz ::
Feb. 5th 1873, $3.50 90, Oct 18th, 1873, SAILS 90
and March 3lst, 1874, $500 90, leaving still due
the sum of 81, o6 10 cts principal and interest.
We will offer for sale at public auction TO the
highest bidder, on the premises on
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-06-19
=. j. EDW ARDS
PRICE List
Tor Spring and Summer Of
HSY A..
Boot and Shoe Department

300 pa'rs Lqdies 4Moroeco Shoes qisI
20 ; 400 pairs ChEiren's Morocco Shoes
al 90 cents 500 pairs Aa(anGs' Shoes at
70 cc"ts; 500 pairs Mrns Heary .Shoes
at 81 % 400 pairs Mems Icagy Boats
al 81 %; 300 pairs Mn's Fine car
skin Dress Boots at So SO.
Il re'Y large GsSoHmcpt If Ladics,
Kisses, ChiGRcen's &c Ccatlcmen's SLIP
PERS, and a complete stoch of elcgunt
dress Roofs, Shoes and Gaiicys, ofMs Gcr
qualities evcr Gronyht to his niarket emf
al tie lotrca prices
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-06-19

g Nine conservative Judges who ex
ercised that duty at the late election in Pc
tersburg, Va. were arrested, at the instance
OF certain Radical officeholders at Peters
burg, few days ago, taken 10 Richmond,
and, altho' the testimony very clearly'showed
that there was no violation on their part,
of tho Enforcement Act, The United
States Commissioner PLEAsANTs, instead of
discharging them, required each ono to
give bail in the sum of $500 each 10 ap>
pear before the next Grand Jury of the
United States District Court of tho city of
Richmond, TO meet in October, 1874.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-06-19
Hat Depdrfm emit.

NY dssorfment,cf HATS is a,ger Man
erer. EHLraci"y all tie iafest and meat
cot styles, ard cf tie Jcst materials ana
naRH6IcfWrc.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-06-19
The Peace of Europe.

A Mighty War ID1n'iasni--7He Increase Of Huge
Armie' Beeoming IatOlsratls- Opinion Of tie
London "7in,es.'
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-06-19

Commissioaer County Court Hamg hic Cc
Junc ~, ls7s.-5f
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-08-13
An AcrObatic Rodent.

At the corner of Tchoupitoulas and
Gravier streets on Friday evening, was
given a remarkably interesting and daring
wire walking performance, which was wit
messed by numerous cOncourSe of curious
spectators. The performer was a full
grown rodent, and his apparatus was fur
nished by a telegraph wire which at the
point indicated crosses over the street from
the roof of Bassett & Co.'s liquor store to
the roof of the store directly opposite. It
appears that this gay and festive rat has,
during the past week. made frequent even
ing excursions across that wire, to the edi-
ticatiOn of the deniZens in that quarter. So
that for the past few evenings it has been
the regular thing for a curious public to
watch for him at about p. m. each day
that hour. curiOusly enough, having been
selected by his ratship for his mid-air
journey. True to the call, he came for
ward yesterday, as related, and accomplish-
ed the hazardous task in such clever style
as would have put to the blush the cham
piOn of twO-legged wire-walkers, and
which was applauded by the beholders
and enthusiastically. He APP
peared first to view on the roof of the
Messrs. BaSsett's store, where, near the
edge, the telegraph wire runs along an up
right at an elevation sf about foot. Mr..
Rat opened the ceremonies by leaping from
the roof to the wire, which he clutcEed
with his fore-paws, and upon which there
after, by a very skillful display of his gym
nastic powers, he swung himself until he
stood upon it on all-fours. Remaining
thus standing for a few seconds, as if to
take a careful survey of the dangerous
road tefore him, he started upon his jour
ney, and at a moderately rapid gait he
skipped along the slender wire as deity
almost as if he were on terra firma. He
never swayed to the right or left, but main
tanned perfectly erect position that evil
1enced a calm confidence and capacity as
to the results of careful training and eX-
perience. Reaching about midway the
distance he halted am instant, and looked
down upon the multitude of the upturned
faces below him. Whether he didn't like
the looks of the faces. or whether he was
in hurry to keep an appointment, he was
off again in trice, and at an increased pace
the remainder of his journey to
the roof of Messrs. Jackson & Co.'S store,
which he leaped TO the roof and
was seen no more. Speculative minds may
herein indulge their fanciful imaginations
to their hearts content touching the prob
able purpose of this rat in thus not only
making regular evening journeys across
the wire, but also in returning, for it is
clear that he does return, since he always
starts on his trip from the same roof.-Nei0
Orleans Times
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-08-13
A Mammoth Dispensary.
From the st. Louis Republican.

Among the notable physicians of this
country, DIR. X. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, n. Y,
stands deservedly high. He has obtained
professional eminence through strictly legiti-
mate means, and fully deserves the enyiable
reputation which he enjoys. y thorough
and careful preparation for his calling and eX-
tensive reading, during long and unusually
large practice, have made him eXtraordinari-
ly successful in his private practice, and gain
ed the commentator even of his professional
brethren. By devOting his attention mainly
to certain specialties he has been rewarded
in a very great degree, and in these lines is
recognized as a leader. Not few of his pre-
paratiOns compounded for these special cases
have been adopted and are used in their pri-
vate practice by physicians throughout the
country, and his pamphlets and larger works
upon these subjects have been welcomed as
valuable additions to medical literature, and
placed among the regular textbooks of many
medical schools. Acknowledgment of the
services which he has performed for medical
science has been made by presentations of de-
grees from two of the first medical institu-
tions of the land, and by the translation of
several of his works into German, Spanish
and other foreign languages. The increasing
demand for his specifics sometime since ne
cessitated the opening of 4 regular dispenSa-
nv for their preparation, and from a small be-
ginning the business of this establishment
Thus during the three months ending March
81, 1874, the sum expended for postage alone,
not to speak of that paid on newspapers,
amounted to $2,0S0.70. Over hundred per-
sons are employed in the various depart
ments, and a corps of able and skilled ply Sc
clans are retained as an advisory board in
difficult eases. Elsewhere in tO-day's Repub-
licdn whole page is devoted to a communi-
cation from DR.. Pierce, setting forth some
thing of the history and details of this vast
establishment, which will be found not unin-
teresting reading"
If YOU would patronize Medicines, scientific
cally prepared by skilled Physician and
Chemist--use DIR. Pierce'S Family Medicines.
Golden Medical Discovery is nutritious, tonic,
Alternative, or blood cleansing, and an une-
qualed cough remedy; Pleasant Purgative
Pellets, scarcely larger than mustard seed,
constitute an agreeable and reliable pbysic;
FavOrite PrescriptiOn-an unequaled remedy
for debilitated females; Extract of Smart
Weed, magical remedy for Pain, Bowel
Complaints, and an unequaled Liniment for
both human and hOrse-flesh; while his DR..
Sage's Catarrh Remedy is known the world
over as the greatest specific for Catarrh and
g Cold in Head" ever given to the public.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-08-13
The Tragic End of Marshal COncha.

A correspondent writing from Madrid
to the London Times, gives the following
details of the death and funeral of Mar
Shal COhcha:
you have already heard i'm detail how
the General met his death in animating
his army to the attack on the CarliSt en-
trenchments at Monte Mure. Shortly be-
fore he climbed the spire of AbarZuZa
Church TO take a coup d'oil of the line of
battle. He was accompanied by men,
Der of his staff, TO whom he spoke serious
ly and contidentially. 1t seemed as if he
had a presentiment of what was to hap
pen, for he remarked that if any untOward
event occurred in the action about to be
commenced. he wished il to be borne in
mind that, though he had Entrusted his
plans TO nobody, the remaining in Estella,
when taken, formed no part ofthem. Helm
tended merely 10 garrison itagainst future
attack, and then 10 pass on with the army
into all the CarlSt lairs. one after the 9TH
er. Descending from the tower, he walked
along the high road till close to the fatal
Monte Mure, where he observed the final
repulSe of one of his divisions before the
impetuosity of the Carlfst defense. The
road to this point becoming very bad, an
aid-de-camp said to him: General. had
YOU not better mount?' His horse being
close by, he seized the name and had one
foot in the stirrup, when the fatal ball
struck him and he fell senseleSs TO the
ground. all that he could articulate being
slIuerto en- las GUeyyjllasr Quick as
lightning, the young lieutenant of Hus-
ssrs, Montero, lifted the iRanimate body
across his own horse, and. putting spurs
to the animal, Utterly fled with it in the
direction of AbarzuZa, followed by one or
two chosen companions, the Carlists cav
airy in full pursuit the moment they per
ceived what was going on. On went
Montero with his precious burden. Once
or twice his horse slipped over the rugged
highway; but true to the hand and spur
of his gallant rider. he was up again in
moment. Date! Date p (Give it us
Give il us y cried q CarliSt in pursuit. and
a hand to hand contest ensued between Die
Carlists and the Republican soldiers who
rode after AIontero. dust as the latter
reached the army lines the body slipped
off the saddle, but it was instantly replaced
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-08-13
A Story of Shipwreck.

/" Her Majesty" the Gazette of Friday
last officially announces, "has been gia-
ciously pleased to confer on Mr.. David
Webster. late second mate of the bark Ar
racan, the Albert medal of the second
class" Never yet was distinction more
fittingly or wOrthily bestowed. The Arri-
can, on board which Mr. Webster was the
third officer. was bound from Sinefields to
Bombay with cargo of Goals. She ap-
pears to have rounded the cape and to have
passed the Mozambique in safety; but as
she approached the line the great mass OF
coal in her hold broke out into a fierce
sheet of flame, which burst up through
the matches, swept the deck and licked up
everything before it. On the 18th of Feb
ruary the vessel was finally abandoned,
and the crew took to the boats in the
hope of reaching the Maldive Islands, a
large coral-reef archipelago some four
hundred miles to the southwest of Cape
Comorin. in the direct line between NADIA
gascar and Ceylon. For three days the
boats kept company; then the current
was found too strong, and it was agreed TO
separate, first dividing the provisions and
water. The long boat, under command of
the captain, made for the coast of Cochin
China. The mate, in charge of the gig,
and the second mate, Webster, in charge OF
the pinnace, with a crew of four men and
a boy, made for the Maldives. On the
fifth day heavy sea struck the little craft,
and so disabled her that she dropped
astern the gig; and from that time she
kept working to windward until the 9th
of March. On that day the last piece of
biscuit was served out, and the last drop
OF water handed round; and men began to
ask themselves, What next? They had
now been tossing about at sea in an open
boat for three weeks, in the full glare of a
pitiless tropical sun. Their reckoning
they had entirely lost. As far as
they could judge they had drifted to the
west and northwest, far away into the
barren square of open sea which lies north
of the equator, and between the 50tf and
Goth degrees of longitude, and across which
sail rarely fits, save it be a stray trafficker
between the Red Sea and the Seychelles.
or some Arab dhow with its cargo of hui
man cattle plying betwixt Alden and Fan
zibar. Day followed night, and night day,
and they were still drifting to windward
beneath vertical sun. without either food
or water. Then came long. fierce silence
of absolute despair, and at last they began
to gaze on each other with wolfish eyes,
and so to cast lots who should die. This
was done while Webster was asleep, and
the lot tell upon the ships boy, Horner.
In the struggle which followed, Webster
woke, and from that moment he and the
boy kept watch each over the other turn
by turn. Fortunately, Webster had with
him loaded gun, with which he swore
that he would take the life of the first man
who laid finger on either himself or the
lad. 1t must have been a fearful time. The
boat itself was steadily drifting to wind
ward At the one end of it We're the three
hands, at the other Webster and the boy,
each taking his turn to mount guard with
loaded gun while the other snatched few
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-08-13
Taking Cold.

The secret of avoiding the unpleasant
consequences thought to spring wholly
from the action of cold upon the body has
very little dependence upon exposure, but
a great deal upon an impure and weak
condition of all the vital processes. in
other words. with an average or superior
constitution, and an intelligent observance
of all the laws of health, men and women
could not take cold if they wanted to !;
they might be exposed to the cold TO de
gree equal to the beast in the field, and
with like impunity. But in the case
persons with feeble constitutions. and who
disregard knowingly or Otherwise-and
most frequently otherwise-the conditions
of healthy existence, no degree of care
will prevent the taking of cold, as it is
termed. They may live in house regu-
lated with all the precision of a dollhouse
they may cover themselves with the
most highly prote tive clothing the mar
ket provides, and yet they will take cold.
The consumptive person does not live,
nor ever will live, even if kept IN atemper-
AZURE absolutely uniform, and clothed IN
wholly faultleSS manner, in whom e
well-knOwn signs of one cold after anOth-
er will not be apparent. But, on the 9TH
er hand, there are those who, like the late
Sir Henry Holland, of good constitutions
and living in accordance with the laws of
health, may travel as he did from the trOp-
les to the arctics again and again, clad on
ly in an ordinary dress coat, and yet
scarcely know what it is to have a cold, or
sickness of any kind. The truth is, that
in order to avoid taking cold from Ordina-
nv, or even extraordinary exposure. the
vital processes of the body must be made
strong enough to rise above the untoward
influence of external conditions. If the
body is not thus superior, if il is so weak
that it can only act tremendously under
the most favorable conditions, continued
state of health is not among the pOssibili-
ties. No more will a weak body maintain
itself without harm amid great external
disturbance than will the weak machinery
of steam vessel maintain itself without
injury amid severe storm. The avoid
ance of elemental disturbances are not pos
sible in the one case any more than in the
other, vet it is precisely what persons by
the ten thousand are to-day seeking TO ac-
cOmplish in the preservation of their health:
The study is not how to make their blood
purer, their bodies stronger, but how to
dodge the ugly weather.
The conclusion from all this is, that
neglecting the conditions upon which
strength of constitution and purity of
blood depend. and then striving to avoid
in sedulously careful manner the evil in
fluences of cold upon the body, is like neg
Letting the substance for the shadow OF
health or more properly, it Is like one
who starves his body, and then strives to
keep quiet in order that his strength shall
not be exhausted. Let food be taken and
the exhaustion from exercise will not ell
sue let all the conditions of health be OBJ
served. and then the natural changes of
the weather will fall harmlessly on the
healthy functions of the bOdy.-Sanitarian.