South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-02-27

~. "Aeo'kaf or RICHMOND, VA.
.N'chmond Is about to bo gobbled up By = gen
.leman In Mississippi. The Louisville Miss
Banner OF the i4,h instant says: .sour old
,nend' Colonel w. s. Boiling, informs us tina,
nc mas received letter from his attorney. in
winch he states that there can be no doubt I'm,
that the Colonel will recove, the ownershin 70
nearly one half Of the city of Richmond. Va. III
ne gains the suit he will be worth more than ten
millions Of dollars" Colonel VIM. s. BolIior
10 the mayor Of the little town of Louisville.
Miss.-Riehmond State Journal.
HE PROGRESS on THE VALLEY RAnRoAD.-The
track layers on the Valley railroad, approaching
o'aun'on, are working one hundred and twenty
nands ABOUT fourteen hours to the day, end Sun.
gay, Ia hurry through by the lst OF March. They
nay ABOUT three quarters of mile day, and on
yesterday crossed the bridge over Middle river,
AZ Clines mill. The ballssting is eight inches
oeePr ana the rails ut the joints are clamped BIZ
pieces OF heavy oak timber two feet in length on
outside, with massive screws through the rail
train OF locomotive and eight fats accompa-
mics the track laying party.-Siaunton YIadiea-
tor, FEB. 20.
The bill amending the charter Of the Valley
branch road from some point in Botetourt coun-
~ south OF Buchanan, ,hrough the counties of
Botetourt, Craig, Giles, .Tazewel, Smyth and
Washington, 10 some point the Tennessee
line, west Of Bristol.-Bahy Sun.
"A valuable letter, which was mailed from
New York FOR Liverpool twenty-five years ago,
was reclaimed at the Dead Letter Bureau of the
Post Office the other day. Where it has been
adj this time is mystery. II was posted on the
18th Of May, 1852, by Antonio Ysnagadelvall
Spanish merchant OF 60 Beaver street and was
addressed "Ale,o Yzaaga, care of the United
States Consul, Liverpool" draft on Brown
Brothers for f4l Ids. Id, payable to the person
addressed, was enclosed. The letter was recent
ly transmitted from Great Britain TO Washing
ton, where 1t was opened, and subsequently re-
mailed to this city, TO be returned TO the writer
is long detention abroad was not explained
An employee of Mr.. Yznagadelvalle called at the
Post Office to receipt for it. lie told Mr.. Clarke
one of the dead letter clerks, that Mr. Yznaga-
delvalle undoubtedly wrote the letter, but that
it was so long ago he did not recollect it. lie
said that Mr.. fznaga, the gentleman to whom it
was sent had been dead six years
The contents of the letter, which was written
in Spanish, showed that the draft was froua
friend in Havana, and that it was TO pay debt
The paper is yellow with age, and the ink fade1
and almost illegible The wonder among the
Post Office authorities is how il was found Mr.
Clarke says that there are several instances of
dead letters being recovered FIVE or six years af-
ter they were posted, but he doesn remember
one that has beet twenty-five years in transit
Superintendent Gayler thinks probably it was
discovered among the old papers in the Ameri
can Consulate at Liverpool,
EXPANDING Tue LUSGs. Step out into the pu-
rest air you find stand perfectly erect, with
head, and shoulders back :. and then fixing the
lips as if you were going 70 whistle, draw the
air through the lips into the lungs. When the
chest is about half full gradually raise the arms,
keeping them extended, with the palms of the
hands down, as you suck in TIE air, so as to
bring Them over the head just as the lungs are
! quite full. Then drop the thumbs inward and
after gently forcing the arms backward and the
chest open, reverse the process by which you
draw your breath ill the lungs are empty.
! This process should be repeated Immediately
after bathing, and also several times through
!
has never tried it, the glorious sense of vigor
/ which follows this exercise 1t is lhe best ex-
! pectorant in the worl'. We know a gentleman.
the measure Of whose chest has increa sed by this
means some three or four inches during as MANY
/ months DR.. Paine
HUNDRED DOLLARS Here is n paragraph
That should be cut out and pasted in every man
purse or bank book, to remind him that money
has no business there while he owes a debt -
A local paper says that in Dover, n. H., recent
/ ly, one hundred dollar bin paid debts amount
ing to 81, 900, and in eight hours returned 10
the man who FIRST paid it out in the morning.
1t happened that a owed 500. lie paid il
b owed G. $780, so he paid The bill over to him.
Thus it went, and the ninth gentleman to whom
it was paid happening to owe 500, paid it
to him, so that it paid all Of these debts and
came back to the original owner.
/ AN ANCIENT NECKLACE. Among the treasures
to be found in the Khedive's museum (says the
Art JourHaD is a necklace worn by Queen Aah-
hept, mother OF King Aahmes, the founder of the
/ eighteenth dynasty who was not only coeval
with Abram aud Sarai, but the identical Pba-
raoh who was plagued with great plagues" be-
cause Of Sarai-A bran's wife.
A Nr Hoffman, Of Dubuque took out his
wiies false teeth before burying her, whersupou
Louisville paper remarks that this was very
reasonable, because 10 The world TO which Mrs,
Hoffman has gone there may be weeping and
wailing but Nr. Hoffman is determined that,