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South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-06-26
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JULY Ist, 1871.

TNHE next Annual Meeiing Of the 0verseers Of
Il the Poor will be held at the Poor-house, on
Tuesday The 2sh day Of July neg,.
All persons having claims against the Parish or
for services-tO paupers, must present hem then
and there properly proved for allowance.
BY order Of Board Of Overseers Of Poor and
Court.
c. S. WHITE, Clerk.
June Is, ls7f.-4t
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-06-26

Thomas Decker, dc,
VS..
John A. Gross Ada'r., dc.
DY decree rendeted 10 this Chancery cause
ID at the June Term, 1874. OF the County Court,
the undersigned Commissioner is directed 80
call before him all the creditors Of the said John
A. Gross, dec d to present are prove their debts
or demands against the Estate of the said Gross,
decd All persons interested will. therefore
take notice, that on the 25ih day OF July, 1874
at my Office in Romney, w. Va. ] shall proceed
to carry out the directions ct the above reeited
decree.
SAML. l.. FLCURNOY,
Commissioners County Court Hampshire Co.
June IL, ls74.-5t.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-06-26
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PRICE LIST
70" Spring and Summer Of
1874.
Boot and Shoe Department.

800 pairs Ladies Worpcco Shoes at 81
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az 20 cents 500 pairs Infants Shoes al
20 cents; 500 pairs Meas Henry Shoes
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SKIN Dress Boots al So so.
a re'y large assortment of Lod;cs,
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sSDSYCHONAKCY OR SOUL CHARMING"
How either sex may fssciuaie and gain
the love and affections Of any person they choose
instantly. This simple mental requirement ali
can possess free by mail, for % cents together
with Marriage Guide, Egyptian Oracle Dreams
Hints to Ladies queer book 100 900 sold t.
Address 7. WILLIAM & CO., Publishers, Phil
adelphia. June 20, 874
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-06-26
New Advertisements.
Commissioners Notice

John w. Phillips, Complainant,
VS..
Il. johnson and others, Defendants,
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-06-26
Hat Department.

Ny assortment Of HATS rs larger than
erer Embracing all The latest and neat.
est styles, and IF tho best materials and
manufactures
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-17

Mr.. Dawes, chairman of the house COM
mittee of ways and means, electrified his re-
publican friends by his little speech on the
financial condition of the government, not
less than Matt. Carpenter did in his arraign-
ment of the administration in the Louisiana
case. The defections Of these party
eaders are not new, but they
show the inevitable tendency of the
rogues to make the party toe hot for the less
abandoned MEMBER to stay IN. Mr.. Dawes
with a cold and unsparing caDdor points
out that at the end of the year the treasury
balance would be some twenty millions, but
tho various drains upon it in the shape Of
appropriations for the Indian Bureau South
ern Claims and others, which will reduce
it to half that sum. AS tor increased tax
alton, the people will not submit to it, and
that is the end Of it. His plan of relief is
simply economy and retrenchment. In the
course of his remarks, MIR. Dawes ami.
madverted very sharply upon the wasteful
extravaganza of the government. The
party organs will Of course have their howl
over IL.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-17

Grange may have the principles. or success and
prosperity ofouT Order we find that his grange
va not and Is not now cOmpOSed or The nate
ma declared by our Order 20 be eligible to mem
eersllp- We find thai they have been
oefeict IN not .obeying the requirements Of
our worthy master, when he demanded a sur
o. nGer OF the GispensaUon under which they
we're Worklngs That they are Etil acting I'm de-
nance OF tbe authority which Commanded them
.o stop, andy such Observation-Disclosures they haVs
forfeited fall right 10 be considered patrons Of
husoandTy IN good aud regular standing.
mat the secretary Of the National Orange be
INSTRUCTED to notify all the stale granzes within
yuLSdtcllon mat The boston gHsDge Is no
longer connected with The patrons OF hashandrv.
ana heneeiorth no fraternal recognition can be
extended u IL by any grange. STATE. or subordin-
grangel IS hereby required 10 make z formal de-
uland TOT the surrender OF the q SpeuSation and
Iltuai OF the BoSton Grange, and. when received
10 return 10 the state grange The money paid FOR
said dlspensation aud ritual, and return them
Mltnout oelay 10 Tie Office OF the secretary of
the National Grange at Washington. ghererort
was adopted.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-17

The result ofthe recent strike in this city
VIII be more far reaching than at first sup
posed. Particular care has been taken to
watch the omment of the state press on
the printers outbreak and the points repro
duced in these columns attest the adherence
in which the striking principle is held
by the entire press of the state. Out
of one hundred or more intelligent
journals, there are but two or three which
gave any countenance to the vicious prin-
ciple which the striking printers represent.
1t is very rarely that the press is found SO
completely united upon any point. Actual
knowledge of the evils involved AVE led
the editors to speak out boldly and help
awaken the working men to the dangerous
position IN which u~nprincipled men may
put them. These papers had no motive to
give biased opinion; they have not been
solicited, they were not themselves an
noyed by the union to any great
extent. Being mostly country papers en-
ploying but a few printres and those as a
general thing fixtures, they have no personal
interest IN the matter. Again, these out
spoken journals are not the representatives
OF capital, but on the contrary are thorough
sympathizers with labor and the labor in
terest. Their opinions are therefore the
honest expression of a calm judgment.
And the united judgment of disinterested
men is not likely to be wrong. 1t is, indeed,
certain to be right. No sophistical defense
can stand against the sense of right and
justice as it exists in Ill minds outside of
such as are warped by special influences.
There is therefore an impressive lesson in
this voice Of the press that men who are dis
posed 70 be thoughtful and candid cannot
refuxe 20 study.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-17

Buttermilk and bullocks hood are the
elixers of life which we have been seeing
these many generations-at least that's
VIVA; may be inferred from the statement
Of a sober Boston paper which never
prints anything moie exciting than
the live stock report. This saga
cious sheet. relates that a Mr.. Stickney,
who proudly filings his name to the world,
has been at the butchers abuttoir for treat
ment. That he went there emaciated to a
skeleton, but after a period of blood drink
ing, no has been completely restored in
health and gained enormously in flesh. His
method was simply to drink a goblet half
filed with warm blood fresh for the
slaughtered beast. This regime was contin-
ued ten weeks, when Mr.. Stickney retired a
perfestly restored and rejuvenatsd man.
This gentleman says that ten or twelve
other patients at the same place are pick
ing up with equal rapidity. A consumptive
who went there on the verge of the grave is
now able to swing an axe and 'knock down
q bULock." 4 woman apparently an incur.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-17

able paralytic, has picked M amazingly I'M
der the blood drinking, aud she confidently
expects to return 20 sctfve life. The aeeount
eomfoningly adds that the best part Of this
wonderful restoration isthat its costs, moth
-ing-being without money and without
price. ApropOs OF this wonderful thing, a
Minnesota paper relates the opposite effect
Of blood. a physician at ST. Paul, hold
ing a post mortem examination, scratched
his finger slightly on the bone OF the
subject, and the result was almost fatal
HIS hand was swelled to an alarming ex-
tent, and death seemed imminent, when an
antidote was found. The principle of the
last incident is well known, and the
virtue Of the first has been told in story
for many q hundred years. The TO-
romsnces of the middle ages are filed
with cases in which monarchs and
great personages have been revived by
d-aughts OF warm blood, but generally hu-
man blood, from beautiful women, or heal
thy babes. The bullock is much better and
will meet with less opposition by those dis
posed to test the novel elixir.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-17

The Connecticut republicans nave " COMO
baok" on Grant. They came together AID
nevor whereased once in his laudation.
They didn't even " point with pride' to the
achievements" of the administration or the
" record" of the party. Indeed, by all the
preconeeived signsand, tokens these nutmeg
republicans nave broken the faith and can.
not stand in the temple of the faithful in
any other light than sore heads of
the most frightful kind. Even when
they tried to use the syrup of party
seryitude, they poured out gall.
In commencing the presidents non-in-
tsrference in the Texas business they
made the most marked condemnation of his
outrage. These wooden republic
cans, emboldened by the late expressed de-
of the president to UNLOAD" go further
aad strike a reasonable chord by
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-17

It will be pleasant news to the quiet in-
mates of the various prisons and p~enitenti-
aries in tails favored land to learn that the
court OF appeals of New York, consisting Of
seven learned lawmakers, have disagreed
with the lower court in the famous car
hook murder case, and that they have re-
versed the decision, awarding Mrs. Putnam
5000 damages for the death of her
husband. 1t is too soen for the read
or to have forgotten the atrocious
story. Mr.. Putnam got into a
street car with a lady at one street, and left
it wounded to death a few blocks farther on.
A bully on this car persisted in insulting the
ladies in MIR. PutnIm's care. He resented
it. The car stopped. The bully, Foster,
grabbed the drivers car-hook and smashed
his victims skull. The court decreed the
railroad company liable, and assessed
5000 fine, and the superior or
court of appeals decide the verdict
not sustained by the testimony.
That the evidence did not show tho driver
eulpable of negligence? Yeu'd be surprised
to learn perhaps that the chief of this cele-
brated bench, is a perpetual candidate for
the presidency of the United States-which
his name it is Churche Sanford? Co.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-17
COMPLEMENTARY.
from the Seymour Times.

Mr.. Orth has in congress a financial bill,
called the "Indiana plan" The Indianap-
oils Journal, which shapes the legislation of
the state and nation, is the father of it.
Congress had better go to the New England
witch burners at once for models to follow.
Indiana legislation for the last twenty-four
years has been nothing but a villainous and
disgusting rehash of the legislation of the
witch burners, which has filled that country
with drunkards, with husbandless women,
with insane people and idiots, and well
nigh d~epopulated it of native born, well
formed and healthy citizens.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-17
HAS CONSENTED.
From the Owen county Journal

The name of Mr.. Hughes East is favorably
mentioned in connection with the Office of
treasurer of state. Mr.. East is a citizen of
u neighborc ountv-Greene-and has been
closely identified with the interests of the
people of this section for many years. He
is a stock dealer and farmer and is spoken Of
among that..class of our citizens as an honest,
upright, capable man. Not an office seeker
by habit or inclination, he has been prevail
ed on to permit the use of his name in con-
nection with the state .treasurer's office. and
should porridge rain in this part of Indiana,
we hope Mr.. East's plate viii be found right
side up. His Democracy is above reproach
and his character and habits of life are such
as should entitle him to the support of the
farming community.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-17

THE VERY OLDEST WoMAN.-It has long
been thought that the woman who once saw
General Washington when she was a little
girl could cap the sheaf, but she is cast entire
ly into the shade. Captain White, of the
schooner Louisa Harker, now lying in the
bay, is a pioneer of pioneers. He has a
mether-in-law livingin San Gabriel mission,
near Los Angeles, who has attained the
wonderful age of 1873 years. The.osd lady,
whose Spanish name we nave unfortunately
forgotten, is only Is years younger than
the celebrated Barr, who excited the wonder
of the court of Charles IL, n whose birth
antedated the battle eff Bosworth Field. She
still retains remarkable Vigor, and can sew
readily without spectacles. She was in old
San Diego one hundred and four years ago,
when that colony was being planted, and
was. the mother of a large family then. She
has a great prejudice against Americans
considers them limbs of the devil, in TACT
and only accepts such old Los Angeles fami-
lies as the Wolfskilfs aud others, on the
ground that they have been naturalized.
She shows no signs whatever o shuflling off
this mortal coil yet awhile, and may coli
ciude to try another. seventy years and lap
over two centuries.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-17

Eir., Dawes has enlivenedt the dreary waste
of party debate in the house a great many
times by thoroughly honest expositions of
the shortcomings ofthe party and its lead
ers, and his last work of this sor. win be
found NO what inferior 10 his previous per-
formances. The main points of the speech
are presented elsewhere, and to it the reader
IS referred and asked to. make his own COM
ments. MIR. Dawes as the Oldest me her of
the present Congress probably understands
the conditions which impede the cutting down
of departmental expenses, better than any
man in the country. He has not hesitated
to make use of this knowledge, and the eff.
feet can not prove other than wholesome to
Congress and the country at large. Dealing
with the facts, we find that by
the speakers exhibit, the financial con-
dition of the government has been growing
verse and worse from year to year and the
figures olinch this in the following fashion
for the last few years:
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-17

Instead OF petering out, as its envious rivals
have been prophesying, the Chicago Inter-0cean
has changed form from a bungling folio, to a
magnificent quarto, very similar in plan and
makeup to the New York Tribune. The col
umns are wider and the sheet considerably
larger than the other Chicago dailies, and when
the machinery works smoothly there
is no reason why the paper should not
be as presentable as its New York pro-
trotype. The Inter-Ocean is growing in strength
daily, and is a very much better paper now than
its best friends ever imagined it could be made
six months ago. Were it not for its disheartening
political subserviency, there is the "makings"
Of a journalistic power In the oddly named
sheet.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-17
TO WHOM 1T Nay CONCERN.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 8, 1874.
President and Members indianapolis Typographiea
Union, No. 1.

CINCINNATI, Feb. 8, 1874.
President and Members indianapolis Typographical
Union, No. l.
dianapolis to this place, 1 met on the same train
asmyself John Fishback, of the Sentinel, and In
a somewhat lengthy conversation with him on
the present strike of your Union, he informed
me that he had the promise of Governor Hen
dricKs that he (Fishback) might delay the state
printing for which he has contracted for
a period of six months, in order to
break the strikers. Perhaps Governor Hen
d ricks has go promised, and perhaps not. I
have only the word of John Fishback that he
me L am ready to make affidavit. Would IL not
be well to ask Gov. III. to rise and explain wheth-
er he has promised the indianapolis publishers
to use his influence against any class of work.
ingmen who are peacefully trying to better their
condition. III he has done as Fishback says he
union men OF Indiana knew il.
Yours truly,
P.J. C~UNNINGHAM.
above note appeared in the Union of yester-
day in connection with some comments reflect
ing upon Governor Hendricks. In justice to
that gentleman. / desire TO say that the portion
of it in relation to the promise of the governor,
that the state printing might be delayed for six
or any other time, is not true. 1 did
not see Governor Hendricks during the time of
the strike and had 10 conversation with him
upon that subject. Neither did 1 tell "P. J. Cum
nigham" hat 1 had such a promise.
JOHN FIsHBACK.
TNnrAU moi n Eohruorv IL Cd"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-17

s'Jobs" are breaking out all over tic pre-
Iinlnary work of the Philadelphia Centennial
show-sor tits their nature, 81 one might
say-to follow after big appropriations.
There ia something like ten millions Ofdollars
TO stay out" on the show and it needen't be
surpnsIngIfthere issome pretty tall stealing.
For a little while at least, perhaps outsiders
had better look on and see how the brethren
run things, and ifthe s~tealingis not too gen.
ersi the county might was o a little.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-17

clarifying the non-interference of. Federal
authority or officials in state elections, as
wen as in Louisiana. Mr.. Carpenter said
Something ofthe sort in the senate the other
day and was denounced atrsitor for it. That
loyal parsonage Mr., Morton remarking with
touching pathos that such a policy would
deluge the South in blood. There
is nothing like blood and thunder for
hurryiDg Oliver to the front. He revels in
gore. Possibly, because ne hasn't much
himself. The Connecticut republicans de-
mand a non-interference with the currency
and suggest a close cut in the expenditures
as a means Of grace and economy, hitherto
unknown to the great party. The
Connecticut republicans tell the truth
in their platform, and are to that
extent alone in the field. The platform,
which is not a platform according to the old
notions, virtually admits that there is no
longer any principle holding its members
together, and that the voter is at liberty to
vote where he pleases-but that if he votes
with the party, he will nave the same
old rot served up with al
the condiments of the season. 1t is not sur
prising that the Washington folks are
palsied by this chism which fortokens the
split up of the party, and it is very probable
that there are others han democrats and
liberals who will bear General Hawley's de-
feat for the senate with fortitude and re-
sivpation
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-17

The present Massachusetts legislature,
house and senate, have ~expunged the reso-
luton censuring Charles Sumner for his bat
tle-iag resolution. 1t was the body elected
with Grant which put this singular piece of
legislation upon record, and it was the body
elected last fall which %eXpunged it. At this
rate the next body elected will return the
great senator to the place he has honored for
twenty wears.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-17

The costly Moth, gave the irrepressibie
Cox a chance to make one Of his inimitably
~satirical speechesin the Housethe other day.
A few of the most telling points are pre-
sented elsewhere. The lay the little gentle
man punctured the plea for extravaganza
should be a lesson to lax members for all
tirne,-but it won't. There is nothing the
ave rage member forgets so soon as the value
Of money-whep the government own il.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-17
A THOROUGHBRED BOURBON.
From the Ledger-standard.l

The Indianapolis Sentinel is anxious that
Mr.. Pratt, the senator from Indiana, shall
be succeeded by a man after the style of Gov.
Harvey, of Kansas. Coy. II. declares him.
self a radical, and the radical papers of Kan
sas claim that he is sufficiently radical to
suit them. We suppose they know the man
and his antecedents. If they do, we desire
to take as little stock as possible in that kind
of politicians. In fact, we can names dozen
or more good, reliable democrats in Indiana
that are honest, capable and faithful, and
further than this we are not disposed to look,
whatever the hybrid and mongrel politicians
may think.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-17

TIE Rev. Mobilier Harlan has openeda
vigorous oiIensive'campaign in aid OF Boss
S5epherh and the Washington ring. The
veneraSle w. w. Corcoran, whose name is a
synonym for generosity in the natlonai
capital, is daily paraded in Harlan's rirg
newspaper as a swindler and an associate Of
Tweed. The stun SO far published IS all
sound and fury, signifying nothing.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-17

The peremptory decision of the national
--,,ga in ex-eommunicsting the Boston
hammers will have a tendency TO lessen the
hay seed fever. There Will be less OF the
learned profession in agricultural bfeah-
erhoodit is thought. Hay seed, however
sill rul.s the market?
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-17
e
rFrom the Brownstown BANNER,

. Aa H lLAouu Tue DFONHStOWnb banner .
We can say we believe Mrs. Keigwin TO
be free from deception and treachery in her
mediumistic powers, and if our spiritualists
were as generous as they are enthusiastic,
they would not hesitate to contribute the
fee required to secure her presence in our
town. There is at least passing qualification,
if not perfect satisfaction. with the writings
which come upon the states from under her
mystic table-writings which can be read
without fear of bringing a blush to the cheek
of the most modest lady-writings which,
come whence they may, it is apparent are
not made by her hand. We are not pre-
pared to adiudge s~piritualism altogether a
humbug and delusion. There is a grand.
mysterious something about it well worthy
the attention Of enlightened minds-minds
which can investigate without d~ethroning
reason itself. But it is as possible to serve
God by worshipping the devil, as it is ascer-
tain the merits of spirltualism by encourage
ing the humbug medium impostors who
practice shallow tricks and hollow subter-
fuges to beguile the unwary and unsuspect-
ing.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-17
ONE TERM.
Iron the Cnnnersriue Ernrcs

VI TIVE y NVHHt4oFlAt LApItos.I
Candidates for county offices in Marion
county pledge themselves neve1 to ask for
Office again if elected one term. Since She
republican party came into power those Off
ces have been filled by members of what is
called the court house ring One term
would make a man independent, but IL
elected two terms, he could uss half of the
emoluments of the last term for ~electioneer-
ing purposes, and thus secure the election
of his right bowerThis deputy. At the last
city election the democrats elected their
mayor. This has frightened the 'ring." and
they are now begging tor only one term. 1t
is a pity that the legislature does not pass a
salary bill that would end the money prac-
tice