South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-04-03
Speed of Narrow Guage.

~ ufeh MADE inst pafseu ger trains
on three feet gaags roads must ueoess.rily run
very slow Experience teaches otherwise Dali
y on the Csiro a ST. Louis Narrow Guare Road
ninety miles in length. passenger trains run the
entire distance In four hours and CITY min.
uies, and make sixteen stops. Their sch dule
time IS ls miles per hour, including sop
ping, over maximum grades OF % feet 10 the
mile, aud the regular train ia from cars weigh
ing, IN the aggregate, 50 tons This Is about
the average rate o. mail trains on wide puape
roads with much easier grades. On the same
road special train, carry ing several prominent
Hallway Ohicials, travelled ine mi Is in ten mi
nu'es, or at the rate Of 6rIy-four miles per hour.
Extract from Chicago R,iirgy Rerie,V.
We learn that On The 22ad ult, in the old
Fields, Hardy county, colored man named l.
saac Rowe, IN the employ Of $. D. Mcneil, Esq,
by Ncci dent lost bis life Itappears that he fell
from the OK while driving wagon loaded with
corn, and ''the wheels Of The wagon ran over his
body i1juring him so seriously that he died on
the following d,y"
Eso-lu is said that one OF the Oldest abiost
and best known members Of the Suffolk bar once
dryly said that there no such thing as know
ing what law was until the Supreme Court had
had its opportunity to guess at il.
- Tie new Iron Furnace at Paw Paw, in this
county, is rapidly approaching comp e,ion, and
ore is being brought from Hampshire county
there in large quantities Morgan Nerclsy
March %.
The Cumberland Times Of Monday last is
Informed that counterfeit nifty cent notes in
great numbers are ia circulation in that city
We sympaibize with our brother for, he SAYS
he has not seen any of ihem--or any other Kind.
With us, also, either kind is very scarre Sub.
scribers 70 the "Inteiigeneer,' pay up, without
delay.
George Harpoldt colored, having abandon
ed the idea of going to tho Legislature from
Burke county, North Carolina, has accepted the
position of porter for the Central Hotel, at HEX
Dry. So tha Press informs US Cnrab. Times.
No doubt, the place he is fitted to ill
Eminent Men Of Science have discovered
that electricity and magnetism are developed IN
/ the system from tie iron ia tie Jloo6 This ac-
counts for the debility, low spirits and lack of
energy a person feels when this vital element be-
comes reduced. The Peruvian Syrup, a pgctox-
de Of Iron, supplies the blood with its iron ele-
ment ard is the only form in which it is posi-
be for it to enter the circulation.
1t is no longer the vulgar ;itie of drunk
euness," but rather the polite and expressive IL
tie Of "dipsomania' by which the evil is now
to be known.
A youns lady's excuse for not taking sup
/ per Mt recent donation was, that she didn /
want 10 run the risk Of injatiug her corset.
A few days ago, Mr.. George Arnold, near
South Branch Bridge, in this County killed Al
Bald Eagle, that measured from tip to tip oc its
wings eight feet
We are told that 800 ears ago Indies comb
ed their hair just rs they do to-day. This won t
do in a civilized land and among Observing pee
pie. Three hundred years ago ladies used to
comb their hair on their heads nov they hang
it over the back OF chair to comb it,
A barkecper, in polite pnrIance, is termol
Professor Of Mizology.
Out in Indiana list week, man named
Gale married woman named Breeze. Look
out for squalls
California has an Indian III years old
Wei, who cares Lo, the poor Indian
TT There are over ten million women in
America, and yet Tom Hutton of Georgia, huog
Iim5'lf on account of girl fifteen years old.
EIAgEISIED,
On the 25th ult., by Elder j. A. Cowgirl, Mr.
Fowler C. Horn to Miss SARAH Su,NuoLrzrR,
/ 10Th az fbis c,rrtv