South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-05-28
Odds and Ends.

Il
States Infantry have LEFT that CITY for
their former stations in the vicinity of
Milwaukee and Detroit. And General
Phil. Sheridan is soon TO be married.
Boys, here's chance for YOU. An
Illinois girl offers herself to the cham.
pion speller or the United States. and
says she is worth $4,000.
There is a man in Indiana who ia
now living in n house with his fifth wife.
seventeen children, and three mothers.
in-law. And still he is not happy.
The latest thing out in the line Of
celebration is n reunion on the grounds
OF DIR. Billiard of New Haven. practi.
cling physician for fifty years. of about
1000 persons at whose birth he prores.
sionally assisted.
The Detroit Free Press says, Long
John Wentworth makes one plug hat
last HIM nine years, but he changes
shirts once in two weeks"
Mr.. Horace White. of Laona. Ny
has twin pair of short horn steers.
whose weight at one year old was 1.540
pounds, and now at two years old. ?. 942
pounds, showing a gain of l,402 pounds
III one year, or little less than two
pounds each per day.
During the past year sixtyfwo sales
! OF shorthorns came Off in the country. at
which 527 bulls were sold for total of
Sl40.76S, and 2,064 cows and heifers for
! SS63,O9l. Grand total, 1881 head, for
Sl,0O4, 100. Average of all, 1897. The
bulls averaged 1927, and the cows and
heifers $413.
An amusing incident, musty with
age, is told of the march of the British
through Old Cambridge, Mass. Passing
field where an old man was sowing
seed. one of the red-coats, in Jest, said
TO him, You may SOW, but we shall
reap" "Well, perhaps you may re-
Piled the native, ''for I'm sowin' hemp"
-Rey. Daniel Waldo once said: Il
am now an old man. L have seen near
century, Do You want to know how
to grow old slowly and happily? Let
me tell you. Always eat slowly-mas-
| ticate well. Go tn your occupation smil.
ing. Keep a good nature and soft tenn
per everywhere. Cultivate good men,
DRY, and to do this you must be commu-
NEGATIVE; repeat what you have read !;
talk about it. DIR. Johnson's great
memory was owing to his communica-
| tiYeness."
The grasshoppers have made their
appearance in this county. Many far
mers fear that the new clover will be de-
stroyed.- Woodstock Herald, Day 20.
The wheat in this county is, at pres
ent very promising, much better, we
learn than that of other counties of the
Valley-I6.
1T is related of the Hon. J. G. Os-
good, lately deceased, the inventor of
the canal dredges and other useful APP
pliances. that his first mechanical idea
! came to him in burst of amusement.
While in an upholstering establishment
one day, he watched some work-people
picking and curling horse-hair. and the
systematic waste OF time and labor SEEM
ed to him so ridiculous that he laughed
heartily, rushed out of the shop, and i'm
medIately invented n picking and curl
ing machine which, in the usual eulogis-
tic language, produced revolution in
that branch of industry"
-Ifthe celebrations of our Centennial
times shall arouse such a fervor of pa
triotism as TO blot out forever the parti.
san animosities between the North and
the South, no higher or better result
could be hoped for. General Bartletrs
eloquent speech at Lexington, on Mon
day, was an admirable beginning for
this work. and il is meeting with warm
approval in all directions. The PrO,.i-
de"ce journal says of IL F: 1--WE hope sen.
timcnts like these will spread widely o.
yer the country-sentiment Of fraternal
trust and good will for they will do
more good than any amount Of legisla-
ton or any agency of whatever kind.
Which the Government can set in opera
ton. 1t will be great and glorious re.
suit Of this Centennial year if il sho1ld
restore completely to the whole country
the controlling feeling that we are in.
separately one people, citizens of the
same republic, children Of the same an.
cestry. and inheritors Of the same histo.
~ and the same destiny.
DEATH OF 4 GREAT SUFFERFR.-yir.
ginia Stephenson, wife Of John stephen.
son, colorcd, Of this town, died on the
18th inst, OF cancer iu tho stomach she
having been afflicted with this dreadful
disease for thirteen years. The deccas.
cd was good woman. and had MANY
friends among the whites. Her funeral
sermon was preached by Rev. j. X. era.
ham, she being a member Of the Presbv.
terrain church. Winchester Ne1cs.
-Twenty.three carloads Of oysters ar.
rived at San Francisco one dav recently
from the East. They arc TO be planted
in San Francisco bay.
The muskc5s furnished TO the In.
dams in trade by the Hudson Bav Com.
pany are Of the old flint lock pattern
the barrels being so thin that the owners
are often seen strengthening them across
their knees
Life is made up, not Of great sacri.
fees or duties, but Of little things. in
which smiles and kindness and small OBJ.
legations, given habitually. are what win
and preserve the hearf and se~uro ce,y,