South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-04-02
Odds and Ends.

Obisco county. Cal. for Sl.4oo.
LIN Minnesota storm two years 4.
go a man named Taylor was lost. He
had fifteen hundred dollars with him at
, the time. His bones were discovered
the other day, aud the money was found
all right. -.
The coal house, containing over co
thousand bushels OF coal. az Columbia
Furnace, Shenandoah county, was con.
stunned by FIRE ON last "Wednesday after.
noon. The wind was vxy high and the
destruction of the entire property. In.
Guiding mill, hotel, store, residences aud
stables would have been the result. had
not the timely arrival of the Woodstock
fire company, which. after great efforts.
saved the surrounding property Via.
chester Nescs. Huch 26.
Aunt Leah, from time immemoriai.
tcr w least from about TIE iirst oaenina
of the famous spring as watering.place.
cook at Capon. died few days AGO M
the good old age of one hundred and
fourteen. She was described. and repre-
| sentcd in an engraving, in Harpers Ma.
gazine fifteen years AFRO. She was then
said to be over a hundred.-B.
1t is one OF heavens blessings that
we cannot forcbnow the hour of our
death; for time fixed, even beyond
the possibility of living, would trouble
us more than doth this uncertainty.
We are all living too fast. The man
who Is always in n hurry generally has
his own work to do over again, besides
being more liable TO trip up and find
himself sprawling in the mud.
"A savage watch Dog was set 90
guard hen house in Homer, New York.
A six-year old girl in playing about the
yard followed some chickens to the
house. The dog ferociously attacked the
child, mangling it so that death ensued.
A SINGULAR CRcUMsTANcE.-T fol
lowing we take from the Westminster
Adoocdte: Rev. ID. i. Sayler, near Double
Pipe Creek, had Mr.. VIM. Mort employ
ed TO prepare some fence posts, but az
the weather was too cold in February. he
quit work and placed his tools in the feed
room of Mr.. Sayler's barn. Some days
after. Mr.. Mort entered the room to get
his tools, and was surprised to find rat
with its tongue, nose and lips frozen to
the blade of the axe, and the rat appa-
rently dead. The rat was taken from
the axe and laid on a gate post and to
the great surprise of all soon revived.
1t was afterwards killed by Mr. Sayler.
A girl in Macoupin county, Illinois,
recently sawed cord of hard wood in
one hour and forty-fiye minutes, each
stick being cut twice. She is described
as pretty and not yet eighteen, and per-
formed the task in fit of anger, because
her mother told her she was not fit for
anything else but to sit in the parlor and
read novels. How such girl as that
would rattle her husband about when
she got mad ut him
AS result of the extreme cold the
trunks of many apple trees in Northern
New York have cracked open from the
roots nearly to the limbs, so that per
son may see completely through them.
WHY He OUGHT TO HAVE Pm
sfoN.-The son of Michigan pensioner
writes TO Col ID. G.. Cox, Pension A gent.
giving detailed account of the death
of the pensioner, his father, aged eighty
four, and his mother, aged seventv.nine.
with an account OF their nine children,
and then proceeds: II have wife and
twenty children, four twins, then ono,
then boy and q girl then four girls at
one time, then two girls, then boy and
n girl-twenty in all. Married in 1851.
am poor man, my wife brought six
children in ten months. We have been
big shoe Show 70 the nabors." Ills
"nabors" thinks the Pension Agent can
continue 70 pay him the pension for.
merry drawn by his father. and perhaps
build house for him. He thinks he
deserves a pension for bringing so many
persons in the world, quite az much as
others for taking less number ont Of
the world.-OhiO Stefe J0Vypd.
This is the season Of the year. says
the Detroit Free Press. VIXEN the farmer
tells his son John that if he will sort over
ten bushels Of potatoes. feed the stock.
repair that fence. and re5hpgle the corn
crib, he may have the rest Of the day 90
60 rabbit hunting.
The Fitch diamonds still remain I'm
the custody Of the New York custom
house collector. The value il now as
sorted 70 be only from $4,000 10 S7O,-
600. gold. instead of from $500. 900 10
100000 rs supposed on their FIRST arri.
val. The duty ON them is about ST. 800.
1t is related Of Count Won Mo,tke
that when q simple colonel he astonish.
cd the members of his mess by REGULAR.
ly taking ten FreGrich-d'ors out Of has
pocket AZ the beginning OF dinner and
laying them beside lie plate REGULAR
ly after dinner ne rcpocketed the gold.
buttoned up his coat. and disappeared.
Some one asked him tho meaning ofthi8
strange behavior. well" he said. Il
have noticed that from tho time enter.
cd this regiment the conversation NJ 10.
hie has always turned ON women, or
cards, or hOrse-racing, and had deter.
mined 10 make n present Of The ten pic.
ccs Of gold "a the first man who should
start sensible subject Noone has yot
earned them"
"A rich. but parsimonious old gen.
tleman. on being taken totask for his un.
charitahleness, said True don't give
much, bat IL you only knew how &c hurts