South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-08-06
Odds and Ends.

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few days ago. aged GA years.
SALT AND SUGAR.-The New Orleans
Bulletin thus discourses: "If men are
the salt OF the earth. women are the su.
gar. Salt is a necessity, sugar is lux
ury. Vicious men are the saltpetre -
hard, stern men, the rock salt; nice,
family men, the table salt. Old maids
are the brown sugar; good-natured ma.
irons, the loaf sugar; pretty girls, the
fine pulverized white sugar.
In the lives of the saddest of us
there are bright days when we feel as if
we could take the great world into our
arms. Then come gloomy days when
the fire will neither burn on our hearths
nor in our hearts, and all without and
within is dismal, cold and dark. Every
heart has it's secret sorrows, which the
world knows not OF; and oftentimes we
call man cold when he is only sad.
There is an old story OF an oarsman
who taught couple of belligerent di.
vines a good lesson. Their controversy
upon the real merit Of works and faith.
as reliable means of salvation, was re-
newed every time they crossed the river
in his boat. One day they found he
had scrawled Works on one oar. and
Faith on the other. They smiled at
his whim. but they found out what he
meant, when, in the middle ofthe stream,
he dropped Works." and pulled only
at Faith" going round and round, get.
ting on never n rod. Then, taking
Works alone, he had no better success.
Finally, with Faith" in ono hand, and
N orb s,o ts.f l,.~. L.
to the shore.
-Darvensville ARK. Independent says
"An entire family. consisting OF father,
mother and five children, living 6 miles
below Lewisburg. on the river, were poi.
soned last Saturday by centipede get
ting in the spout of the coffee pot. 1t
was boiled with the coffee and killed the
entire family. The father, mother. and
two Of the children were found dead. sit
ting upright at the table. The other 3
children were found dead near the door
in the yard, showing that the poison
acted rs n deadly narcotic
Hon. Jefferson Davis has declined
the Presidency ofthe Agricultural and
Mechanical College ofTexas which was
recently rendered him.
Here is bachelors opinion on q
very important subject, to wit: "a pref
" girl has no more moral right to con-
ceal her features with one of those ugly
facetitting wells than rosebud has to
wear waterproof, or the sun TO put on
green goggles" The pretty girls will
therefore consider this important uucs-
ton settled and leave the wells to the
ugly girls.
IS. 5. Bellows, q wool buyer from
New York city, was attacked by high
waymen few days ago. ten miles from
Steubenville, Ohio, choked, gagged and
robbed oil $4,000 in money. The rob-
bers told him they had been following
him up for week.
The China Nail Of recent date
says: "a Chinese was this afternoon in
formed that the comprador of the Deut-
sche Bank at Yokohama had absconded
with 10000. Instead Of exhibiting the
virtuous Indignation expected, the in
gcnuCus native exclaimed, lie too much.
ee good man; He too much fooloo.-
/ Why for he no takee $4,000, or littee
more y
"A dove flew into church ct Hoo
sick, n. T., and rested on the Rev. III.
j. Lewis head. The superstitious A.
moDg the congregation believe the omen
meant that the pastor will soon die
and 60 to Heaven; but the pastor does
| not seem oyerjoyed.
"A little girl, seven years old, dauoh-
ter Of X. L. Blair. of Harlan, Shelby CO..
Iowa, was bit in the leg by rattlesnake
while she was walking through the gar
den The limb commenced swelling We
/ ry rapidly. and the child was immedi.
ately heavily dosed with whiskey, and
common soda was bound on the bite.
the application being changed every
half hour. The little girl recovered, and
the town is in tumult, the temperance
men declaring that IL was the soda and
the license men that it was the whis kew
that effected the cure.
"A young lady in indianapolis
sought TO impart the hue Of health TO her
checks the other evening when dressing
for party. and found the requisite bloom
in the coloriDg matter Of some CHINA
mon candy. During the evening her
cheeks became very much swollen, and
the poison soon after communicated IL.
selfto her eyes. She is now quite blind.
and there seems 20 DO little hope that
she will ever regain her sight
james Crawford. aged so years.
Charles Palmer aged 95, and Mrs. Rev.
nolds, aged IS, residents Of Bottetourt
county, Virginia, and neighbors, have
recently died.
Hard money, free trade and home
rule arc the three cardinal principles In
the platform Of the Maryland Conserya-
tive Democratic party.
AT che federal soldiers reunion at
Hartford, Conn, General Hawlev. who
was among the speakers. said ave
have won the victory for the Union -
now we have one more victory 20 win.
Let Us win the hearts Of our late anta0-
onist"
Mr.. John T. Mccormick, Of Goshen.
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