South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-08-20
Odds and Ends.

! Mrs. johnson.
} "A new system Of tclcgraphing has
, been exhibited In England, by which
communication can bc had with trains
while i'll motion. and moving trains can
communicate with each other.
! The champion farmer is Michael
Sullivan Of For'l county, ILL.,. who has
$4,000 acres in wheat and 5000 in oats
and flax. lIe Las 400 teams ut work,
and no less than 500 persons Oh his
| place.
"A correspondent sends the New
York OtSe' Der the following: "Old I'm
Gle Jimmie" was colorcd man. over 20
years Of age. who attended school, and
was trying to learn tc read. Ills efforts
and the patience Of his teachers were at
! last rewarded by his mastery of the nl-
phabct. Then he was introduced to the
mysteries Of photography, and the little
word lit was under examination. AZ
ter naming the letters many times, and
| pronouncinI the wor.l after his teacher
he still seemed puzzled. "Do YOU un-
dcrstand it, now?" said the teacher
"Wcll." he replied, 81 see the - and
the IT, but can't sec The it,"
REV. DIR. Randolph McKim, Of
Alexandria. n son-in-law Of Rev. II. III.
Phillips. Of St:tunton. has received Il call
to the Church Of the Holy Trinity, Mt
Harlem, y. y.
An evidence Of what may DO &C.
complishcd in the Valley by enterprise
and Judgment is furnished by the exam
pic i'll Shenandoah. The proprietor OF
the property Mt TOMS Brook station pur-
chased it in 1869 for S625. 1t is worth
now $4,000. A stave cutting machine,
plaucr. &C., provide employment for
twenty-five or thirty hands in work
ing up the timber of the ncighborhood.
no better or more abundant than can be
found in many other localitics.-- VIM
chester Ncws.
According to the returns Of the De
lpartmcnt Of Agriculture, the direct loss
es Of sheep owners by the ravagcs Of
dogs reach million ofdollars anuuallv
i'll wool and mutton; and the indirect
loss in the repression ofshccp husband
ry, and the consequent waste Of \ large
percentage of the grass crop, is still
larger. Reports from 500 counties, re.
presenting about onc-fourth Of the sheen
of the United States, show total OF
1925 sheep killed during 1874 and
even these returns arc not complete. Ii
some Of the States the loss is from fou
10 eleven per cent. OF the wiiolc'yaluc o.
the sheep kept. In this State the loss
IS comparatively small. though larger
than it ought to be. This should not
bear against dogs generally, but only
'shccp dogs" q tribe without ancestry,
blood, or the mcancst kind Of pedigree.
Any one ought to tell n sheep dog
at glance. They occupy the same sta
tus among the canine race that the
"hang.dog man. does among homos.-
Ger. Te'eyrmlh.
1.-Two frame buildings belonging to
Mrs. Keller. at Froatburg, Md, were
destroyed by fire Oh Tuesday Of last
week. The loss is about $4,000; insur,
cd for $1,000. Several adjoining hous-
cs caught fire. but by extra cycrtions
they were saved.
Look OH the bright sdc oC things.
for none are so happy as those who arc
for ever thinking how hard their lot is,
and how much better Off arc others
Think Of those who have less, and life
will be joyous.
"A rustic couple from Bcrk shire
county, Massachusetts, called upon 4
Hartford clergyman. on Thursday, and
were married. After the ceremony the
bridegroom inquired the charge. The
Clergyman joItingly answered that "n
cent pound would be about rio :"
whcreupon n mental calculation was
made by the groom. who then handed
out three dollars, with the satisfied com.
mcnt. "cleap cnough!''
They talk Of Andrew johnson as n
sclf-made man. lie was quite as much
= wifc-made as Sclf.made man.
"A DR.. Hoffman. Of Baltimore on
Sunday last endcavorcd to treat n little
child Of the name Of Dixon for scarlet
fever by "swabbing'' out it, throat with
n calncrs hair brush Tho brush was
attached to pen holder. and move
mcnt Of the child caused the brush to
drop into its throat and lodge in the
wind pipe. producing death in n few
moments. That Doctor is now in trou.
bic. and is threatened with n suit for
damages resulting from malpractice.
w lthin three months the vast amount.
nearly forty millions Of gold. has gone
to Europe and largely found its place Of
deposit in the Bank Of England. This
has, however. led to ne particular cx.
cltcmcni. as would have been the case
had VIC been conducting our currency
operations on an exclusively metallic ba.
sis: The withdrawal Of goll as au ar
ucic "t commerce creates no more dis
tnrtancc than the withdrawal OF an C.
qual value i'll cotton. or any other pro-
ducts Of our fields or mines; but such
withdrawal. if gold were the basis on
which we conducted our banking opera.
tons. would make itself fcl; at once as
the beginning Of panic.-Rih. EN-.
AS on ToETorsE.-On the o,l, inst
Mr. a. j. Topper. Of this city. while out
hunting on the farm of DR.. Gcorrc G.
Perry, on knobly mountain. West Va,