South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-06-18

The large grain elevator nc HUT.
ington, this State. rented by CT. Nuter
/ d Co., of New York, was burned on
"Wednesday evening Of last week by in.
cendiarism. Loss $4,000.
Happiness consists in being per.
fectly satisfied with what We have got
and what we have not got.
A man in digging load OF sand
/ from n sand-bank in Seneca Falls was
buried to his shoulders by an avalanche
Of the treacherous earth. When discov.
cred by his friends he had been planted
about three hours. and was beginning to
grow--discouraged.
| "A man was recently accused in Pa.
ris of having stolen pair of trousers
from dealer in the Temple There
were several witnesses. but the evidence
was rather meagre, and so the accused
was acquitted. He was told that he
might go without a stain OH his charac.
ter )" but there Inc stood motionless. At
length he leaned over the side OF the
dock, and whispered, '.-The fact is, sir,
do not like to move till the witnesses
have left the court" ''Why is that 20
because sir, l am now wearing the
trousers stole
"A physician, in his recent work on
physiology. remarks that "it is estima.
| ted that the bones of every adult person
require to be fed with lime enough to
make amantlcpiece every eight months"
1t will be perceived. therefore, that in
the course Of about ten years each Of us
eats three or four mantlepieces and n
set Of front doorsteps.
"A poor little mouse, whose home is
under the floor of the ReceiUe Office,
came out this morning to forage for his
breakfast. Seeing some printing ink
which had been spilled on the floor, lie
thought that would make a good meal,
and he went for it. After nibbling a
little while he became frightened mt n
noise made by those watching him and
started to run back to his hole but the
ink being of sticky nature, he found
his feet held fast to the floor and himself
unable to move, whereupon he set up
doleiul squeak. In few moments n
long came larger mouse, probably his
father, who seemed to take in the situa-
ton Mt glance, and at once commenced
an attempt to release his diminutive re-
lative. He stepped carefully over the
ink till he came to the little mouse, and
laying hold of the back of its neck with
his teeth, tugged away till he released it..
The affair was witnessed by several per.
sons, who were so interested i'm the no
vel sight that they offered no molesta-
ton TO the animalss-dH dustin, ReceWe.
IF You want fun" remarked cid
Smilax, leaning over the gate and work
ing the gravel with his bare toes, .'you
oughter see my wife dig taters when
she's tearing mad.
The following conversation was o.
verheard the other day among lot of
schoolgirls, who congregated in front
OF house. Each one in turn appeared
to be holding up the domestic skeleton
which afflicted their several homes
One told how her little brother had bro.
ken his leg another about how sick her
mother was, and still another told about
how drunk her father would come home
every night. In short, they all appear
ed to have some grief to hold up-all
but one little beauty, who seemed only
unhappy to think there was nothing that
! she could tell to excite the envy or sympa-
thy of the rest. She listened to the re-.
cital of all these troubles as long as she
could, and finally she expressed her
self in this way: 'Well, girls, we all
have our troubles. Some have sick bro
theirs and drunken fathers and ugly mo-
theirs. Some Of us have rot the meas.
els and smallpox and scrofula. We've
got something awful in our family
What is it?' asked several. my lit
tie brother Benny is left-handed."
David Beauregard Hudson. the lit
tie boy who stabbed and killed George
Hillman, larger boy, who had struck
him. on last Friday week in Richmond.
Va, was tried on Wednesday and ac-
quilted
Newspapers are sometimes called
upon TO correct queer blunders in typo.
| graphy. The Detroit T,iJune has the
following. which is funny: Those OF
our readers who were surprised to read
! IN our report OF tho Congregational Con.
vention at Kalamazoo last week that i'm
/ some localities there were not shingles
enough for two churches will get our cor.
/ respondents intentions & the truth offbe
I story by correcting it by the insertion Of
/ the word support in place Of shingles
/ The church Mt Lodi was printed as hav.
ing been during the year afflicted with
measles! What the report said was
that the church at Lodi bad been during
the year afflicted with divisions"
n SOURCE or REVIVAL private
letter from Louisiana says that n new q.
ra OF agricultural prosperity seems n.
bout to dawn on that State. The crops
OF corn, cotton, cane and rice are all said
TO be splendid. Old planters say they
have never seen such crops at this sea.
son. Even the vegetables and fruits are
unusually abundant. There are no 10.
Gusts except the carpet-bagging tramps
and even they do not seem able TO ex.
haust the vitality Of the soil Baltimore
Sun, Jtne IL.
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