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South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-10-23

That your brothers evenings should be hap
ply passed at home, that their friends
should De your friends, that their engsge.
meuts Should be the slme as yours, aud
thas various Innocent amustmeots should
be provided fuE them in IA, family circle
Music is a. accomplishment, cb eff vaua-
BILE as home enjoymeu "a rallyiog around
the piano the various mem hers Of tho fam
ny, aud harmon;ziug their hearts as Sel ss
thcir voices, plr;icalT'y Ia devotional
strains. Know no miro sgYccatlc and
interesting spectacle than that of brothers
and sisters playing and singing together
those ele7a ed c1u positions in poetry which
crafty the taste aud purify Tho heart, wtls
their fond parents SIT delighted Ly. have
seen aud heard al elder sister thu, Leading
the fimiiy choir, VITO was the soul Of har-
mooy TO the whole household, ADD whose
lie vas a periec, sample os those virtues
which am hero euQesvoriog to inculoate
Lei 40 cue say in reading this chapter, that
too much is required of sis,,r', bat uone
can be expected to lead such a se,f-sacri &c,
ing lite; ic. the sliuted one to whom | re-
fer was all ! would ask any sister to be, and
happier person never lived u d. good
an! make oilers happy was her rule Of life,
aud 10 thIs she found the art OF making her
self SO.
Sisters should always be wiling to walk
ride aud visit with their brothers aud es
TEEN II privilege to he their CON pauions
1t il worth while to learn innocent games
for tho sake of furnishing brothers with
musemonts, and making home the 10 ost a.
gree1ble place to them.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-10-23

E1-TwcOty-onc girls Of Kcnosha, Wis
cousin, have Resolved, that if the young
men wont come aud see us we will 60 and
see tbenl
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-10-23

PEARLS. - lie who expects a friend with.
out faults will never find one
The discovery Of what is true, aud u q
practice Of what il good, are the two most
important objects Of life.
What you keep by you, you can change
and mend, but words once spoken you can
never recall.
How many troubles might mankind be
spared, il they would only stop to hear
each others explanations
a man shows himself greater by being
capable Of owning fault than by being in
capable Of committing IL.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-10-23

Story OF TOW NARsHALr.-O On one oc.
casion Ton Marshal c ri r j. Breckcn-
ridge preach, and fliliue in with him after
Tie service, accompanied him hone. Why
don't you preach better said Marshall. !
d. az well as ! eau, an 6crei Breckenridge.
Why don't you preach as lie Saviour jid
continued Marshall. That's hard to do ?
replied breckenridge. Preach IN paratlcs,
said Marshall that is very simple aud
easy thing to do that's the way our Lord
sets forth the truth. Well Tom, said
e. ct"nrilRc, have as high an opinion Of
your talents aF anybody else has, aud set
higher estimate on your reading and in
formation than most PEOPLE do. | d,fy YOU
20 make a parable, a11 defy you to fad one
ia literature outside Of the New Testament.
Nonsense exclaimed Marshall, / can mike
f.ly, aud | Can lIl hundred. wei, try
II, aul let me know, replied Breclc urid 20
Shortly o;tarwsFls they met agiiu. Wei,
Bot, snid VI rshaN, whatabout those ;hiucs
tho parallels ! have tried my besf,
aud oaa't make one-Ige looked every
where, eu3 l can't End Que Whot does /;
All mean? give it up. You see, repIi-
ID Breckenridge, why | dop't pre- ca in
PARALLELS. | can't do that GalatV.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-10-23

EE The most unpopular mau in the
country at THE season is said to be tho
man who saws bis wood too long for bis
ucishbors stove.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-10-23
Farmer and House-Keeper.

ry Caster oil IS az exoellcp, thing to
soften leather. eH0
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-10-23

The Winchester Mus says the Jail there -
getting 70 be a 10 natic asylum seven lunalcs be-
| ing now confined In e.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-10-23

j. ZAcuAnTAs, N. d. :. s. cnAlGEN.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-10-23

The afd quarterly meeting for South branch
Circuit N +. Church South, will commence At
Ebenezer Church o. Saturday tie gath day Of
the preseat month
The 3rd Quarterly Meeting for New Creek
Circuit, will be held 10 the Methodist Episcopal
Church, 10 this place commencing on 18th inst.
The Rev. G.. W Cooper, p E., and other min
listers, 81 expected, will be present.
"A Sea never INDUCED in by gos3ips Charity
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-10-23
a Confederate Story.

TIE Letter tia, Caused Dsscrtjoa-- Ertraei from
Southern Er- Generals Speech IN iHaJaaa.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-10-23

Hone strstch-The stret,h seros, the mater
nal knee
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-10-23
An Evening at Home.
ny KATE SUTHERLAND.

Not going te the ball 2 said Mrs LIND
LEY, with look and ione of surprise.
what has come over the girl 2
Il don't know, but she says she's no,
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-10-23

"The ending Of ,ae coart is approved. The
prisoner is pardoled, and will report to his com
pauy r. r LgE. General %
During the second battle Of Cold Harbor. when
shot and shell we're falling like torrents from
tIe mountain cloud, my attention was directed
20 DE fact that Que Of our batteries was being
si.enced by The concentrated fire Of the eaemy
when reached the battery s.sry gun but one
had been dismantled, and by il stood the solita-
~ Confederate soldier with the blood streaming
from his side. As be recognized me he elevated
his voice above the roar Of battle. and said
General, have one shell left. Tell INC, have
] saved The honor Of Mary and Lucy 20 ] rails
ed my bat Once more a Con federale she'll went
crashing through the ranks Of the enemy. and
The hero sank hy bic gun % rise 20 more
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-08-04

SARATOGA, July GA strictly pri-
waite meeting of eminent railroad men
il being held here to-day. Commo-
dore Vanderbilt and Thos. Scott are
said to be in conference, and large
number of railroad men are registered
at various hotels. The most impOr-
tant business is supposed to he the
completion of details whereby each
road can do its own express business.
Behold, how a little leven
leveneth the whole lump! See
what the pluck, wisdom and pa
triotism of one man may do for the
country.
Even Vanderbilt and Scott do
reverence to the policy of Malone,
and lend a helping hand to relieve
the people from Express monopo-
Iy.
VIII the Richmond DISPATCH
now say that all the world is
wrong and Malone right Will
it give its readers a paragraph Oh
the subject of this "strictly private
meeting!
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-08-04
LITERARY

The seventh volume of the revised
edition of TIE AMERICAN CYCLIC
P.EDIA has Just been published, and
the work, which will consist, like the
old edition, of sixteen volumes in
all, is thus nearly half completed.
1t may be fairly skid. indeed, that
much more than half the labor of
lis editing and publication is over
for not only is the amount of matter
that is now virtually finished much
greater than that already put into
the hands of subscribers, but the
organization and arrangement OF
work, always the most difficult parts
of so great literary task, have long
been so thoroughly i'll order that all
the complicated machinery involved
in the undertaking runs with the ease
and rapldity of perpect routine.
Let us review what has been done
down to the end of the seventh OIL
last-published volume, and, first,
by way of gaining some merely
practical notion of The actual worE
involved, let us look at the purelN
mechanical side.
The revision of the CYCLOPEDIA,
at the time when the literary worl
on the seventh volume had beer
practically at the editorial office. haC
been going on for little more thai
two wears. The beginning OF Thu
period, however. It had been neces
sary to con sumo in that preparation
which constituted one CT the mos
important portions of the work. Il
was necessary, first. to examine thor
oughly the old edition, and to an
notate it throughout carefully anC
accurately with directions for th'
guidance of the revisers; second, t.
fully organize and arrange the system
on which the work was to be done
to mark out the divisions of labor
and to make arrangement with spec
ial writers; and, finally. to get al
the complicated machinery of TIT
actual office labor into the runnin;
order of an accurate and smooth
routine.
Counting the whole two years
however, or six hundred working
days, as fairly consumed in the re
vision, rewriting, and complete
nreparatlon of the seven volumes
or FIVE thousand six hundred page
thu far published. and We have
result chat sufficiently shows the ear
nestness and energy with which thu
work has been pushed. For, &C
cording to this minimum statement
the CYcLoPEDIA Office, with stat
of editors about equal in number t
that of an ordinary newspapers. ma
completed and put through all tn
various processes, and sent to pres
every day, an average amount equ:a
to ten columns of editorial matter
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-08-04
OUR EXCHANGE TABLE.

MoRR1sTowN-G dzetle.-The n. G.
r.. r. CO., has accepted the new con-
solidation act and elected Col. w. A,
Smith President
Helms thinks the fight between
I;ule, of the Chronicle, and Capt.
Iedgerwood, led to a little mutual
bloodletting and will do good and tend
to propagate sound christian doctrine.
lie also SAYS the locality of the fight,
the front Of Spence's Store, on Mar
Iet Square, Is more enthusiastically
moral ground than Dalton" Why
throw up Dalton? Joe Johnston fell
back from Dalton, and v by not Rule ?
The people of cambridge are trying
to have steamboat put on French
Broad.
A writer in the Gazette goes to the
the defense of Betsy Ward at Greene
Vile, and says she stood her ground
against cholera while the crusaders
were fleeing to the mountains.
SAIrM-Rcgisier- The Register
says Gen. Terry is the choice of Roam
oke Cor Congress.
Capt. Morton has organized Grange
at Salem.
Roanoke Red Sulphur has 100 wish
tors.
The Register continues to bite at the
advertising dead-head dodge of GER
tain Medical College. On this princi-
pie such colleges will thrive while our
newspapers starve.
BEDFORD Co.-Sar.-Rev. B. A &.
Davis has been speaking and preach
ing at Liberty and is very sanguine
that work on the r. & T, a. r.. r.,
will be commenced this year.
WYTHE Co.-Dispdtch.-Alf Bur
CESS, charged with having caused the
death of his wife has been sent to
Tazewell county for trial.
The Wytheville Fair will be held
October 9Th, Sth and 9th.
The Dispatch dead-heads the medi-
cal college, that gets all its advertising
done at the expense of the Press. Ii
St. Clair will join the Mems he will
have made move towards cutting OF
the tail of such dead-beats just where
he wishes the sheep-killing dogs OF
Russell urtailed-behind the cars.
SMYTH Co.-HerdLd.-Moss and
Crabtree, two notorious characters Of
Rich Valley, have been captured, ou'
Moss knocked his'guard into the mid-
die of next week and then walked oil
All three of the circuses give Marion
the 90 by the Herald says "let us
rive thanks" Hits the habsence oil
w'iskey that did the loike O. that with
ye.
Imbodcn seems to have taken the
starch out of the Charter for the Taze'
we'll road.
A little son of Geo. w. Deskins, OF
Tazewell county, was recently drown
ed while bathing i'm Clinch river.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-08-04
THE OLD DOMINION.
BY MRS. L. II. sIGoURNEY.

During the protectorate of Crom-
veil, Virginia refused to acknowledge
lis authority, and ser to Charles II.
hen a fugitive in Flanders, to come
md be her king. He accepted the in
and was about to embark,
when Cromwell died and he was re-
allied to the English throne. Yet
Lfter his restoration he remembered
he loyal colony, and caused her arms
o lie quartered with those of Great
Britain. Hence the title of "OLd Do
,li1liOn." As late as the reign of
ieorge Third, copper coins were is
ued there, bearing on one side the
United arms of England, Scotland,
Ireland and Virginia.
In days of old, when Oliver
Smote off the Stewart Crown,
And on our Mother Albion's throne
Without remorse sat down.
Virginia, in her new found home;
Far DER the wat'ry way,
With flial loyalty re. used
Subsection to his sway.
So, frowning in contemptuous wrath.
''pll send my ships" quoth he,
"And teach her at the lannon's mouth
What words to say to me-"
Then to that exiled Prince she turned,
Who long in foreign olimes
Had sought her refuge, here and there
Mid dark and troubled times
Who from the naughty court of Spain
FOrc'd in his need to fly,
PartoOk in Flanders, i'll at ease,
Cold hospitality.
"Oh, heir of England's royal line,
And Scotia's ancient race,
Come thou, and reign our Severn Lord,
With all thy kingly grace.
Charles, to this language of the heart,
Exulting made reply
"pll go, and in your brave New World
My better fortunes try;
eyes, there, on broad Potomac's shore,
Gay palace-halls I'll raise,
And the red savages will make
Rich pageant Tor our plays."
So all in readiness he stood
10 dare the billowy main,
While many a fancy, strangely bright
Swept through his dazzled brain.
But one with noiseless step drew near
w ho:e fat none may stay
Whose voiceless lip and palsying touch
The mi Lhtiest forms OBEY.
Down fell stout Cromwell in the trance
That never more must break,
While he whose sire en- scatfold fell
Was call'd the crown to take;
Was call'd the sceptre's power to wield
And cliffs were red with flame,
And shouts from tower to hamlet spak,
When back the wanderer came.
Yet lingering in HE grateful mind
Cleaned out her image fair,
Who sought him in his low estate,
And vow d allegiance rare.
And qunrter'd with his lion shield,
Thistle and shamrock green,
As token OF kings regard,
Virginia's arms were seen;
While history toucli'd her craven trac
With pencil like the sun,
Who, in her maiden blash, the name
OF "OLd Dominion" won
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-08-04
TUESDAY, AUGUST q. 1874.
EVENT and COMMENT

Richmond held her primary cleo
ton last Tuesday and Ex-Goy. walk
er was chosen over John II. Guy,
by about $500 majority, as the nOmi-
nee for Congress AS Richmond con-
trolls the district this makes Gov.
Walker the Conservative nominee
Mr.. Guy asks his friends TO rally to
Walker and elect him. The Execu-
tive Committee condemns both of the
contestants for their having canyassed
for the nomination. The committee
will have to let up on this sort of dis
cipline. Aspirants will canuass for 9
nomination where q nomination is
worth having. Some of the nomina'
ton are equivalent TO an election and
they ought to be eanyassed for.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-08-04
Communicated.
LETTER FROM THE CLENCH
VALLEY.
LEBANON, VA. !
July 80. 1874. J

Mr.. EDITOR.
Since the announcement of the COM
mittee that we are to have a conven-
tion to nominate candidate for this
Congressional District, there has been
n great deal of interest manifested as
TO who will be the nominee.
Having been over the county OF
Tazewell recently, can state Win
certainty, that the people are unit
for our present faithful and efficient
representative, Gen. Bowen.
Never has a public servant gwen
more general satisfaction to the entire
people. BY a straight forward and
honest course he has again endeared
himself to the entire community, re-
gardless of party lines.
In conversation with Gen. Bowen
a few days since, 1 am glad to state,
he occupies the position he did two
years ago, that he did not then, nor
will he now, canvass for a nomination
that he will cheerfully abide the de-
cision of the convention, and give his
earnest support to the nominee. The
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-08-04

A Virginia paper says that while
the Southern people may not banker
after the old flag. they discharge "a.
tie demands of good citizenship.
How about these forty-eight militia
companies in Georgia who refuse to
carry the flag p Washington National
Republican,
We know nothing about this Geor-
gia warn, but have no doubt it Is rad
zeal lie. But since conundrums are IN
order, how about that paving contract,
in which the editor of the NdtionG,
Republican figured as one of the prln-
cipal beneficlaries ?-Lyuchdurg Re-
publican.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1874-08-04

General says he will never again ask
the sutfrages of the people, and seems
profoundly grateful for the honor done
him, and regrets his or any ones ina
bility to do much against such tre-
mendous party odds.
CLINCH VALLEY.
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-10-22
VOEUNlFy IE naIaaH0sCylIE9gsQNG

pd i;T Es1
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-10-22
{ Growthaof london.

j Rev Dr. Ouyier writes ~ "Say what
we may OF the rapid growth, Of our
American towns, the monster strides OF
the British metropolis always over.
whelm me. b,London, now contains
5000, 900 people it. almost equals
Paris, New York and Brooklyn CON-
bined into one. You can drive fifteen
miles on one Of lite diamstcrs.t Wnep,
in my college DAYS, I once went out TO
pay a a visit qt6 iJoaufnhaT Bailie, the emil
peDt anthorets, who lived on Hamp.
stead Hill, j walked clear ont of town
and over open, fields. ] am now staying
at tie hokpitable NouBeNof our friend,
the Rev, Newman Hall who resides on
the same Hampstead Hill, in the midst
Of compacny built streets. ""PaJ [4'W
hGF .,s,u 4, frr--r--t ----r-- Il y5fff-!V i9ai.
"A New jersey clergyman sNys there
are about 'twehty different kinds Of 'reli-
gion, but man who WON'T wash and
shave and Puto9 clean shirts can't en-
Joy any Of them.
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-10-22
,aFg PeYAFTI A
% ~ Is subtle, and weary, and wide, sfat

EYEcg gP0VR Fssy a
u II Is subtle, and weary, and wide kEHf
1t measures the world at my sides
II touches the stars aud the sun
creeps with tie dow 10 my foet e.
1t broods on the blossoms. and none,
Because Of its hrpoding, are sweet; sas
II edesas uliAke in the grnss.E II
II "a Nheneyer, Whenever psHsa AA'sN
SS$RA blowa to- 3fsS soutti. .sith fhabjrd;E
Nthe norsh, Through tho SNOW, 1t IL heard,
With tho moon from the chasms of night
1t rises, forlorn and afraid; Svr1gT <-nv a
II turn from the lea. TO tho figtit, Il ~ a.
cannot forget eyade;
When It shakes ut my sleep as a dream.
amqdef tt stihes Al my yoreani.l " q
It smiles from the cradle It lies
On the dust of the grave and 1t cricH e-TS3
IN tho winds and tho waters ut tslips y =.
In tho flush of the leaf to the ground
It troubles the kiss OF my lips;
1t lends tnsny lsvghternaouad; ssypeSs
It makeSthe piotEfe but paint: " AgE
It unhalocs the brow Of the saint n -
The, c,cEnine and crown Of tho king,r- q
ThasWerd af Che aSldSr Tho FingI :, I. *
or tho BRIDE, aud The robs OF the priest,
.sifRhe,8pds, fnssher prispas Idf, atouS 19frsotp
The aogols That sang In the east
ezzHSYeeE thecrpss Of my known
And wings there arc mono that can ny
From Its shadow with mo till die
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-10-22
A. Penny Wise Chan.

am thinning of4iie Hour 1 spent
down on the Bay of Naples. where the
sunny. Italian goes in swimming in tho
face "a eSetSbod&. The sunny Italian
ia, slender youngster who swan we'll
wanted d copper for his excellent diving;
you'd ] drop one into m the water and see
vent md came up PRESENTLY with itsaarrs
in his eyes 3; the copper, was lost Eud he
would have to, co, ,hnnary for he vas
poor. I was. touched by his sorrow,
and down he went after second cop
per,abu returned with the same pitifnl
atory, embeliished to "a degree, but be
went too far, fnre at that moment he
choked, and ont OF his mouth flew the
two c0ppers, TO nv amagsmept and
rehagrin.1, said, t"Sonnv, thoneh yon
olive inl thiB state of nature a thousand
/ years. yon awallow'no more ofumy cop
Ppers!' !'.niSdn JTd1ictseo CuU. e +.d,nd
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-10-22
laDear't Georpe how aweet and

N& q" Dear I George, how sweet and
wayN that wheat is T., said a fit fit sy+oun 3
iady 'l6S1tki5s ,ihngTidly from q oar win
dow 80. J" Yes, love, how hbeRutifnl y
says deaf teofGe, more, intent on FL
sin.patiingi hiso,irm ,Rrolj al d tSerty.four-
hope qqrsssO how ike a. Al A. on Ike
a dwepmi 1:Y How likStGsts,E rtorte3
Adisgnafed, erangeE;3,"them's pate,
young man." Lis Gf I's
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-10-22
IahM M'RsaAgeAa1oeWSfgd

!. p . y 3
CTS e',s ss|',gU sOUTH Us.E 4 lyslARO OIaIN ,l
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-10-22

a6d podT .sgoidt lis nj AMl
cd ni.ftutfn4 vibntn bfnow II All,
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-10-22

"A lyTO s Experience 6atlng MacafOnl.
Acrhtribntor to tho Arcadian tins
describes his experience in eating mac
aropi
" I know men Who have been. for years
under Italian tutorship in this city try
ing to learn how to swallow, the food of
sunny Italy with ease and grace. But,
after nil their efforts, they remind 'yon
oIoanianaconda swallowing mis- bianheG
Il, ! remember my. own attempt, not long
ago, IN the company of Signors Muzio
aud Strakosob. The delicious vernicu-
lar food came in coils one hundred feet
long, s.nck my knife into it, cut off a
section and swallowedit. Horror seized
upon my companions.i JlqaJ i.fE59i
b g Corpo di Bachhi!Y exclaimed Mn
20. Placidamepti fizz-z dam !!
It is ancre AsacriIeegeIa 'Eiao ~ 2FHi'
. ,As for 9Skakosch, he was petrifed
with grief and indignation, Meip
Gott" he exclaimed finally, you m,isa
not coot him!" s9tli 1ei eg3Hmi
j ! leaned back i'll despair, looked at
the intermineble food, and Watched my
friends dispose of it. They reeIcd il, on
their forks, put one, end OF the glutin-
ous cable in tlieir 'moi,ths, and paid it
out in their rtoinnch Without n bite. 9ti
= The operation was n ibeautiful one.
Ut was not.so much like eating as it was
like taking in q stern line but it was, q
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-10-22

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"a ilsv sSeoD 10 ,,obio oa n7ks2Nszsd 10,
q o y tnos
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