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South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-03-12
INSURANCE BENEFITS.

Any person buying a lot on Me oLcre
terms and making one payment, # they
should DIE, ne ,eM CANCEL ALL CLAIMS
and GIVE legal hc6s clear td7e, thus be
coming noIE INSURANCE CoMpAxY,
WITHOUT COST TO rnE 1YsuRtD.
THIS eW cf;y5 people Of limited means
an oppo,fWHiy TO Guy home, AID thus
become Independent IF cEactiUg and eroy-
Jttom landlords. WY pay heary rents
for poor tsRemeHts, tehe', The sJpie n,oncy
wW buy you home IN desirable l,coli
~ n gou hagem't Me money nor, tie
sacrifice Of a eiyat or t,co or gItss IF
beer a doy 'cW make yorr payments. No
arouse 10 be ,cihiou q home Of your o,cn
Hhdt Jeuer iReesimeat Ior any person, old
or yo,tng, man or ,oomaR, H,an 10 JDy ons
# heSs lots on tie ADORE terms?
Tile i0cdtjoH and natural surroundiBgs
If ReDCr Ciy, e6oydibg such uaUsuoi IA
citHics Jor m0"uJacfwiBg- cheap Codi,
large Quantities ot' timber and jyoa--he
otfiet Of ne richest farming section Of w.
Va, igkich far years has shipped more
produce han any oAer poiut OF lie line
ri NE rodd--Gre 50 advantageous and
,Si1ioW rjcai hs:
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-03-12

w Mr.. G.. G. Tompkins. who has just
been appointed u. S. Marshal Of Colo
RADIO. is q cousin of President Grant. and
resides at Charleston, Kanawha county,
this State.
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- Large hoop earring are coming
rapidly into fashion.
IS! 4 sure way to sop woman's
mouta-llis3 l..
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statement of the Distribution win he rub
iEned aud forwardee TO ticket holders, aud all
gifts will be promptly paid after the distribution.
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10 Says q traveller: I'VE noticed in
the smoking car q youth of some eight
or nine years, apparently smoking. his
pipe with the ease of veteran. Its n
bad habit, my boy, for you to smoke
we modestly suggested. "Sopapa says"
said the youth 'but he does it, and so
do l."
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40. 7e7 Grsnd Cash Gifts, amounting TO 5000. 900
p Prizes in Real Estate, amounting to 10000
4ols9 Gifts, amounting 10 $3.50, 600
Please address us for circulars giving reSsreu-
cSs aud full particulars
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~" V"7 I"II"T PST tUFJ IVT Huy huMDtr Q
Copies above Five.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-08-27

Az AFfAIG WrTn An ELErHAST.-A letter
from Wyandotte to Missouri paper tells
this hratal story Tuesday the entire popu-
Iaticn. except blind woman and Rouse,
went over to see Queens great show and
have a nice time. One granger sold the two
bushels of corn be had received from the re-
lief board for, $50, and enjoyed the saw
dusty arena far more than he would the
planting of the same. A young ladv from
across the jersey took he ieler and an
opera-glass, the former to buy her lemonade
and peanuts. and the latter to sho " that she
had one and to enable her to see the perform
anees. But as soon as the exercises began
she saw enough with the naked eye to con-
vince her that glass was unnecessary, 50
she laid it in her lap, whence it was absorb
ed by one Of the iakirs and now beams darkly
from some pawn shop, without doubt The
Young lady says she thought the perform
ances real romantic until she stopped to see
the elephant. She wore one ofthose pockets
behind III which, besides her handkerchief,
she had deposited an apple, handful of pea
nuts, a quarter Of pound of gum drops, a
little bottle OF ammonia, and some other
TITLES. one anu ner swain, after aumlrlng
the complexion of the huge beast, turned
their backs upon him to watch the monkeys
and the living kangaroo, and gaze into each
Others eyes; to d. this the better they
leaned back against the rope which enclosed
the stately monarch of the South, who saw
the apple protruding from the pocket of the
unconscious fairone He hesitated mo-
ment, and was lost to all Sc nse of honor or
self-respect, for with shulfling movement he
emulated the example of on common mother,
plreked and ate the fruit, but instead of
clothing himself in fg leaf returned to the
pocket and scooped out the gum drops and
peanuts, with sly look at his nephew, who
was looking on with anxiety at the proceed
ing. But in the last mouthful the majestic
beast took in the ammonia-tottle By mistake,
the cork came out and about an ounce of the
hartshorn ran down the throat of the greedy
beast. This beverage is said to have re-
viving and stimulating influence, and in this
case it proved its power, for more revived
elephant was never seen on earth. With a
wild yell he grabbed the protuberance be-
hind the lady which had been the cause of
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ATTRIBUTED t. JOHN C. FREMONT

Lines written on recrossia. the Rocky Mountain
! winter after many years
Long years ago | wandered here,
In the midsummer OF the year
Lilies summer to;
score Of h0rssmen here we rode.
The mountain world is gloTies showed,
All fair 20 view.
These scenes in glowing colors drest,
Mirr1red the life within my breast,
It's world of hope;
The whispering woods and fra grant bsceze
That stirred the grass in verdant seas,
On oii.owy slope
And slistsnins seras in suniit sky,
Md snowy clouds pulled mountain high,
We're JOYS 10 me.
Ny path was DER ths prairie wid'.
Ur he!e On grandsr mountain side
To eao=e, all Zee.
The rose that waved IN morning. air
And spread its deVv fra zrencs there
In careless bloom.
Gave to ny heart It's ruddiest hue.
Ger NY glad life it. coiors threw
And sweet perfume.
n oS chan -ed the scenes and changed the eyes
Tina, here once looked on glowing skies.
Where summer smiled;
These riyen trees and " nd-soent plain
No. show the winters dread domain,
lis Jury wild.
The rocks rise black from torn-paeked snow,
AL checked the rivers pleasant dow,
Vanished the bloom
These dreamy wastes a. iruzrn plains
Rehec. my hosom's life a-aIn,
Now lonesome gloon
TINS buoy lat hopes and busy lie
Have end1,. al ia hateful str.tr
And tnw4rtce aim.
Tae worlds rude contact killed the rose,
- moTe its radlaEt color shows
False rOads to fame.
b BiekwaF1. amid the twilight GLOW
Some 4lnz.rln-, spots yet uri -htly show
On hard rutls Won,
Where stiil some grand peak mark the way
Touched by the u-ht "- parting day
AID meilori 5 sun.
But ne-e thick clouds the m0uatain hide,
The GIm horizon, bleak and wi1e.
No pathway shows,
And risin-- gusts, and darkeuing sky.
Te o: that night that con eth,n nigh
The brlei day close.
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said. with fine, sarcastic smile: " Yes.
this is very affecting but We must bring
ourselves back to earth with stern realities.
All such stories are fables, and no greater
fable is there than this one published of the
poor Empress of Mexico. 1t is pious ia
bic, however, created by her friends in Or
der to throw around her last days an air Of
decorous dignity that does not exist. Their
loving care for her memory induces them to
send forth this beautiful romance of an
imaginary daily life, led by q beautiful.
sternly sorrowful and refined woman. |
wish it were true, but unhappily the reality
is as revolving as the nance is attractive.
The Empress, instead of being better in
health. is worse, and her death. it is be-
lieved, is close at hand. For some time her
insanity has taken the most british form
She never leaves her bed. and has all the
habits of an animal. The poor Queen of
Belgium has been unable for two years to
bear the disgusting sight of the unhappy
Carlotta, bat now, as she cannot last many
months, the Queen goes constantly to her.
This is the sad truth. -
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to Miss McVickers was blow to the sent-
mentalist. "Perhaps he doesn't love her, :"
| urged to would-be Juliet. "Yes, he
does" she said sadly "I'm sure he does,
Tor If he didn't he couldn't stand her act
ing,
One of the homes is Mme Bonaparte, as
she proudly styles herself, the repudiated
wife of Jerome Bonaparte, who found his
Westphalian crown game hardly worth
the candle. She was beautiful and aristo-
cratic, one of the old Patterson family-he
nameless exile, and the marriage was Bit
terly opposed by her family. Husband and
wife were separated at the imperious command
OF Napoleon in less than year, and Jerome
never saw his son, who bore his name never
theless, and handed it down to his son, who
has the unmistakable Bonaparte face.
The old madame is very inirm and feeble
now. She boards on St. Paul's street,
little lane honeycombed with lawyers Offices,
and seldom shows herself. When she does,
all strangers see is little weazened, bewig-
ged, wrinkled old woman leaning on a SER
wants arm, but able to straighten up and re-
turn with dignity the salutation ofa passing
friend.
Christopher Hughes, whom John Quincy
Adams considered the best diplomatic in the
American service, was a native of Baltimore
lie was minister at Stockholm, Copenhagen
aud the Hague, and his fine address, appear
ance and wit made him a social hero where
ever he went. His father was shoemaker,
and before his own fortunes were made he
wcoed Gen. Smiths daughter The match
was forbidden by Gen. Smith, whose father
was wagner, but the lovers eloped and
were married at Fort MclIenrv. the com
manding officer friend of Hughes, direct
ing the senetnels to prevent any interruption.
The first subsequent meeting between Smith
and his s0n-in-law was at banquet. The
old gentlemen refused to recognize Hughes
took the slight lightly and when called on for
a toast, arose, and, with significant bow to
Gen. Smith, gave "Whip-craeks and heel
taps. 1t was nice way 10 immOrtalize the
family pedigree. Hughes was an inyeterate
punster, and. like great many wits, made
enemies as often as friends. Winfield Scott
never f0rgave him for calling him Marshall
Turenne, in allusion to the ''hasty plate of
soup" Hughes had a distinguished snub
once from no less parsonage than the Iron
Duke. After an introduction he met him
several times in London without bein. vouch
saied a recognition. At last he walked bold
ly up to him one day at Almaek's and said
in his easy, dstognaire way. MY dear duke,
You don't recognize me" '.Yes sir, do,
said his grace, promptly; "you are Mr..
Hughes OF Baltimore, - and passed On. 1t
almost killed Hughes.
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VOL. XIX. NEW SERIES. VOL. xxi

going on. There are Two barrels of water,
from which the deacons replenish their pitch
ers from time to time. The COMMITMENTS
seem to take good drink Of water, instead
ola sip only; indeed, saw no one take less
than several swallows. That accounts for
the necessity of two barrels Oh but such
a congregation Of hard countenances They
are hard-work looking people, Drowned by
exposure to the air, and dressed in clothes
and bonnets that they brought with them
when they came out as pioneers"
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baltimore.
ITS LADIES AND CELEBRITIFs-JOE JEFFERSON |
AND THE BooTHs-MADAME BoNAPARTE-A
DIPLOMAT AND HIS MARRIAGE.
From the New York World.


Apart from monuments. Baltimore is the
city of handsome women . the homely ones
are drowned young. You can tell New
Yorker by her dress, Philadelphian by her
manners, a Bostonian by her conversation,
Washingtonian by her dancing, but Balti-
more girl you tell by her face. Rounder of
figure than the slim New nglanders. brun-
cites as to eyes and hair. with lilies and roses
for complexion, these pretty creatures make
their city famous for its attraetiyeness. Nor
is their beauty their sole dover; probably
there are no more delightful people in the
United States than these Baltimoreans.
They are model hosts and neighbors; their
society men are much superior to their
neighboring contemporaries the old folks
are rich and generous and the young ones
handsome and lively. Baltimore is rich,
and, as antiquity runs in America, an old
city There is an air of elegant repOse about
her, and she cliugs to her old-fashionedness
with a proud tenacity Sooner than give up
to the new-tanged notions Of wooden pave
ments, she will rattle over her abominable
cobble-stoncs till every aristocratic bone in
her obstinate old body be out of joint. She
is full of tradition and legend. On her
Holiday Street Theatre stage the ''Star
Spangled Banner" was first sung, in October,
1914. Joe jefferson and his, father before
him, and the Booths, are Baltlmoreans and
Edgar Poe is buried there. Perhaps on ae-
count of his birthplace the citizens bore old
Booths's whims with unparalleled good hu-
NOR. They tell of his keeping an audience
waiting an hour one evening, "Richard Ill >"
being announced, and the house filled, to
hear his masterpiece. Booth was off on a
spree, and the desparing manager. after ran
sacking the neighborhood rum-holes, finally
found him. and to shame him, as he supposed,
sent him reeling before the curtain. The
faces of his admirers sobered him little !;
he looked up with his heavy, drunken eyes ::
"Well," said he, ''you're very kind to wait
so long, and if you'll only a wait a little
longer I'll give you HI of a Richard ~
Which he did faithfully in fact he always
played better when he was drunk. Till
within the last few years pawnbroker's S
shop stood on Baltimore street, where the
old reprobate actually pawned himself one
night for a glass of whiskev, and sat in the
window with ticket around his neck till
friend redeemed him. Handsome Edwin
Booth finds no warmer reception anywhere
than here. In the days OF his widowerhood
the attentions thrust on him were really ''too
numerous to MENTION" and his engagement
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MoauoS WoR,Hr-A letter from a VS.
itor to Salt Lake to the Troy Times gives
brief sketch of the Mormon style cf worship.
The writer says The principle object 10
see here is the Tabernacle, or house Of wor-
ship. This Is an oblong building which
seats $4,000 people. 1t has wide gallery.
extending around the entire structure. ex-
cept at one end, where the organ stands 1t
Is 81 feet in height, and larger than many
Of the houses in the city. Ii Is richly orna-
mcnte1 with carvings in some dark wood.
Ii requires four men to blow the bellows.
There are twenty entrances 10 this taberna-
Gle. We attended services there this after
nooa At two o'clock. There were about D.
O00 people present. The services lasted two
hours and 4 quarter. The choir i composed
ui 100 men and women. The men sit upon
one side Of the tabernacle. the women upon
the other. The Sacrament Of the Lords :
Supper l. celebrated every Sunday it con-
Sists OF bread and water. All partake OF it
who have been baptise1. 1t is served by ten
men during the preaching of the sermon.
They have but one service a week in the
Tabernacle and that Is on SUNDAY at two
O'Clock p. Nj. Tie Sundav-school, and other
church services are held in the ward churches
--twenty-one in all. The sermon this morn
ing was given hy Elder Taylor. one of the
twelve Apostle of the Church. Il lasted
one hour and twenty minutes, and vet did
not see a noiding head in the audience
The service Is similar to ours. or about the
same. 1t i opened By a hymn, thena pray
er is made by one Of the elders, then hymn,
then the sermon. The sermon is an extern
porized lecture; no text Is taken, although
the Bible "a large copy rests upon the desk (;
the Book Of Morm0ns Is also upon the desk.
The minister neither read from the Bible nor
the Book Of Mormon. Daring the sermon,
or at the commencement of the sermon, eight
deaeons prepare the breai-that is, break it
and put into the silver basket; when it is
ready the minister pauses a moment, and
one OF the elders descends from his seat and
blesses it. After the bread has been ia ken
around, which requires some time, then the
deaeons pour the water from the silver pitch
ers into large silver cups When that is
ready there is another pause in the sermon,
another elder comes down and blesses the
water, and that is served The ceremon
ecu pies nearly all of the time the sermon
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his disaster. The young man with great
presence of mind shouted "shoo," and the
gentlemanly clerk of the elephant, with a
long rod, persuaded the beast to let up.
But the fun was over for the day for these
souls, who walked home with but single
thought about wild animals. The big ele-
phant has learned lesson in morals which
will probably induce him to let other peo-
ple's pockets alone, though nobody dares to
carry bottle of ammonia within range of his
~
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la Sylphide.
BY SAMUEL WARD.

From the french o. Beranger.
Ignorant, at times, is Reason,
And her torch not always clear,
She denies, iiir S, lphs.-what treason .
Iha; your people fill the air
Her huge R.is pushed aside.
o-e bright glimpse beyond 10 stea',
Once Sylphide described;
WOW, 10 none but Sylphs / kneel
Born and nurtured amid roses,
Children OF the morning breeze,
Your untold metempsychOses
Charm us in all things that please.
With breath our tears you dry,
You the rainbOw's hues reveal,
Yours the azure Of the sky.
Al to none but Sylphs knoll.
l my Sylphi5e's race OWNED.
when, upon the ball-ro0m's floor.
she, untrammellec as the wind,
Won more hearts the less she wore;
L9osened b0w-not, tangled hair.
DID but beauties fresh reveal:
Flirest she among the fair
o. the Sylphs, 10 WHOM | kneel
All, in her, what grace engender
All your iIncies sweet and new
tpoilt she isl can't defend her
But the darling's spoilt by you
IN her lalsUid moments, even,
Meath her lids see Cupid steal.
open them--aDd earth i heave1l
N1w to nore bat sylphs ! keel
Yet her sp0rtiye, childlike laughter
Hides a. bright a mother vii
: the dreams we follow after
And the aims we never hit.
NYw q careless spark she tn-s,
Nuw her tones the heart unseEl
You that lend her all your wings,
Sy.phs 10 You alone knesli
Brilliant meteor, alas
che hd. vanished. undesc-ied
SGai J once more see her pass
Or does some Sylph call her bride
no. She rules as rules the bee
some my steriCus commonwcal
2 her hidden palace me
GaIce. o SyliAs, TO whom ! kneel
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The a,,oW.ar IS Il parody IN poe's Ray
ca:
uacc In Aar1.t. wet AMI Jrearv. sat tbi.
writer. weak and weary. pondcrinr o 'er a
memorandum book of items used bef,re-
book Of ecrawi;nr head notes. rather items
taking dars 10 gather. in lot and sultry
weather (a-in- up much time and leatherj.
plnlereI We these items DER. While we
clnn'd them slowly rocking tthrough our
m.ad queer ideas docking). came a quick and
nervous MISUNDERSTANDING az the sane
tum door. sure that must DE Jinks. '' we
maitercI-" "Jink- tlat's knocking at our
dlor Jiuk~. tic everlasting bore All.
well 30 We remind Us. in the wall, which
then confined rs. the exchanges" Law be-
Us. and beio.e as. and around us,all DER the
door. Thinks we. ".Jinks wants To borrow
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Tnc AhsurIity of -.

E JOHN FAUl.
j. sail gers a..l, tlr the poets e. tell.
ft WY Ul tir r Song adurnlu-,
e.. m.. .kul IS vl1 r.usc, t0 manipulate COW,
Al Five O'Clock -u the morning.
And u. 600 n yaIu- mowers who tundlc ou. lH. -
The charms u. their ,,Iaw-beds scurun--
re.ore I.e1k o. Gay, "a make love AMI hay.
Al we r'clrc. .u the mornlu-
Bus. hetWo .U ia a:i yyu, &c j. all ultrle-
believe Ha- word tnel utter
q. uu ml sul1Id al ye does the ln-e7 90 Gy0
Bring bgauN-ur even bring butter
the pnIr. sleepy cows, j. told % arouse,
Would DO s'. uslluis, ~ horn-.nEs
Bat tfc sweet country .rls, would tlcy show taeIi
curis.
A. Eve oc-. e. ~ the ulru.n-
o. may not De 81 ~ .l5 tie mEu 10 She song
or The mHa1-.i aualUus t. settle.
lH kneel lu wet grass, and pop, hut, llls
What be popped down on ueitic
I.r Low coull he see what Was under hls knee.
% Loo spite 10. uf friendly warning.
ll. scent uut of bed and bis use auI his heal.
At i.,t u'c'ocE ia the morning
o. .- al .erl W. D.. sucl stories % tell
but . were l-4 q. all turlgru--n-,
And @ lover -.iIu.l drop. in tie clover, 20 pop.
A. vs O'Clock IN TIE morning.
lil ltel A.u. ynu see, Ia say "PieIse cali al
Tires.
ilG.t. ] J turn un ltn W ia sclrr.a-
% a'c come Asr. yu1 rat, w-tA c1uuniruui Ike
that.
a; F.,eo'..asz ia the morning
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1t is stated upon what appears to be un-
impeachable authority. that the insect now
threatening the Northwestern crops is not
the Acridium Spectus, as We feared. but
simply the Gryllus Veridissimus. As every
reader knows, the Acridium Spectus will
eat up field of corn and forget all about it,
while the Gryllus Veridissmus is splitting on
his hands to begin.-Courier-J Journal.
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The Governor Of Tennessee appointed as
Andrew Johnson's successor in the United
States Senate d. NJ. Key, of Chattanooga, an
individual who has not figured much in
politics, but is described as "a man of As. Of
decided talent, difhient, retiring, and very
popular in his own section" As the next
Tennessee Legislature does not meet till
year from next January. Mr.. Key has at
least an eighteen months lease Of the place.
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"lf you dare to play marbles for keeps
again" said Mr. Hurtlescamp to his eldest
boy, III whip you within an inch of Jour
life.' And then Mr.. Hurtlescamp went on
Change, and lifted up his voice at the call
board, and raised his hand and shook it 10
the air and got red in the face a. he cried /:
"Sixty seven sixty for fifty thou
sand cash or July Put up or shut up
Sixty-seven cents bushel, cash -
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ConfessiO Amantis.
BY WILLIAM ELLERY CLAIMING.

! still can suffer pain;
strive and hope in vain;
My wounds may not all heal,
ror time tAeir depth reveal.
SO reamed ], Of a summer day,
A. II tae oak s ccOl shade lay,
And thought that shining, llsbtsOms YER
"eni r;ppims, ripping On forever
That should bend with pain,
should sing and love in vain;
That l should fret and pine,
And hopeless thought divine.
! want true aud simple heart,
ThG. asks no pleasure in a part,
But seeks the whole. and finds the soul,
A heart AZ rest IN sure control.
i shall accept sll may have.
ur hne or .ou!, or rich or brave.
accept that measure in Hes cup,
And touch tkc rim and raise IL up.
some drop Of Times strange glass Il holds,
go much endu-ence II enfolcs
Or base or small, or broadly meant,
| cannot spoil Gods element.
Dion OF CGsar drained no NOE
Not Solon, nor a PlatO's lore;
so much had they the power TO do
So much hadst tnou and equAls. top
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Doncan Sherman It Co. offer their credit
ors thirty-three and third per ssn. ZEN. .,s ?,
,hs;r claims, in installments-ii tney i', are
willing to settle on such terms insy mses s,, !.
nrobably be glad to get even 50 MUM
that.
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NUMBER 9.
Our New York Letter.
NEW YORK, August Is, 1875.

THE GREAT FAILURE-xoRRIssY-Po AND
BUSINESS HOSPITAL BARGEs - WOMEN 5