South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-12-24
Ivrhe weather for several days past
has been very pleasant.

Iv-rhe weather for several days past
has been very pleasant.
SIn order 10 give our hands an OPP
portun;ty to enjoy tho holidays, as has
been our custom, no paper will be issu-
ed from this Office next week. Wepre- |
sent our patrons the compliments Of
the season.
ITSoms Of our citizens duriag the
first Of this week commenced filing their
ice-houscs, but wero compelled to aban.
don it on account Of the sudden thaw.
~The daily cost, per head Of the
inmates Of the Penitentiary in 1866 aud
1867 under radical rule, SIS cents; in
1875 under democratic conservative au.
spices only IA cents
PRIZE SToRIEs-A Liberal Offer
The proprietors Of The Baltimore Week.
" Sun announce liberal offer of Tuclee
Hundred Dollars in series or prizes for
six serial stories. For the best story
will be given prize OF five hundred dol.
lars; for the second, two hundred and
seventy.6ve dollars; for the third, two
hundred dollars for the fourth, one
hundred dollars; for the fifth, seventy.
five dollars, and for the sixth fifty dol.
lars. The award will be Announced soon
after the first Of March, and the pablica.
ton or the prize stories commenced at
once thereafter. or course they are OF
fered mainly for procurement of hand
some literary bouquet for the readers Of
that popular family journal; but the
proprietors also hope that the proffer will
be incentive not only to prominent wri.
tiers of the country. but to tho many
whose literary ability is dormant, and
was born to blush unseen for lack Of
opportunity. Several years ago SINH.
lar protier was made on three occasions,
with very successful results; and al
though the prizes then offered were much
smaller than those now propos ed, the re.
suits were exceeding satisfactory.
IPA contemporary observes that
President Grants friends are one by
ono going to the Pcnitentiary. 1t is
very distressing.
V a six gore walking skirt Is the
latest. Never mind the expense. Gore
while you're young.
sY'C. NJ. Shinn has retired from the
authorship OF the Grafton Sentinel. lie
is mentioned favo-ably az a candidate
for the position Of State Treasurer on
the Republican ticket.
tVComm Vanderbilt has just
made All additional donation Of one hun.
drcd thousand dollars TO the Vanderbilt
University at Nashville, which makes
100000.
IT"From the fall OF Adam for his
transgressions to the present day" as
Grant says. no nation has suffered more
from corruption in high places than have
the United States of America under the
present administration.
IV The Mobile (Ala.) Register states
that the negro does not produce halfthe
cotton which lie produced before the war,
and credits white labor with the produc.
ton or the crop; and the State Gazette
says that three-fourthS OF all the cotton
produced in Texas is the result OF white
labor.
A MISE or hen will
the hidden treasure Of the earth be re.
vcaled? In deep ravine on the farm
Of Mr. Joseph Bowles, three miles north.
east OF La Belle. Lewis county. Nilsson
ri. an inexhaustiblc unino Of whitewash
has been discovered. The deposit 10
snow-whitc clay, which, when properly
manipulated. possesses all OF tho prop.
scrtics Of the most excellent lime white
wash. II is extensively used as \ sub.
stitute for lime, by the people who re.
sile in the neighborhood When skill.
fully spilled to wall. it is said that An
expert cannot distinguish It from coat
ing OF the whitest and smoothest lime.
tV-Thc Richmond Conscrrator says !:
"Man wants but little here below, but
that little includes what is owing us on
subscription and job work"
t-TThere's lots OF men IN thi. world
that are like aroostcr-talSe the cocSadc
aud spurs of from them, and you couldn't
hardly tell them from hen.