South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1878-03-01


bia College. N. y, has addressed let
ter to the Hon. Alexander IL. Stephens,
in which he says:
III want TO thank you with all NV heart
FOR your very beautiful. judicious and
patriotic address on tile occasion OF the
presentation and reception OF the Car
penter picture OF Lincoln. 1t is i'm deed
u marvellous thing how. after her trials.
the South still continues TO maintain
her noble pre- eminence in statesmansh ship
and in moral dignity; and still more
marvellous perhaps, that one who has
been SO conspicuous i'm the councils OF
the nation before the war. and also dur
ing the progress of that painful struggle
had been identified with equal promin-
ence with the southern cause, should
continue after all to command equally,
North and South, a homage, u respect
and q confidence which is awarded by
the people to hardly any other. II is a
beautiful and noble tribute to the
character always consistently distinguish.
ell for unseltish devotion to principle
and to p tone OF sentiment 50 far ele-
vatcd above the base and mean passions
which disfgure so much of our public
life, as TO be almost without a parallel.
, The second address to which / have
referred is in perfect harmony with this
character, and II has been read with
deep qualification by millions of your
countrymcn.
lT Gcseral john A. Suffer, the disc
cover of gold in California has been in
terviewcd by Washington reporter.
who found him a man very stout, though
only little over five feet high, and
very gray but active and social. lie
t went, he says, TO California in 1888 as
n farmer Some years afterwards he
built mill, IN the race OF which his
wheelwright. an intelligent man named
Marshall, discovered some gold that
hat been washed by the stream. Mar
shall ut once conveyed tue news TO his
| employer. The men couldn't keep the
/ secret, and one of them went TO n store
keeper named Smith and offered to pay
for a bottle of brandy in gold to be got
from the mill stream. Then the news
= spread. and tie General WAS ruined
lie could hire nobody to save his inn
mcnse wheat crop, into which the pros
, pecting parties turned their cattle. No
4. enc would dig gold for him. and finally
, . he lost his land TO the American Gov
eminent ON n flaw in his Mexican title.
lie has for thirteen years past been
trying to get some compensation fot 1t
irop the Government.
CS Hon. Z. w. Taylor first comp
troller Of the United States treasury,
} was stricken with paralysis OH the morn.
ng OF the Dist while ut his desk in IL e
: Treasury building at Washington, aud
. was immediately taken To his LONE,
where he died in about two hours. MI.
:, Taylor was appointed first comptroller
II by President Lincoln, and during the
= administration OF Mr.. Chase AS Secretary
Of the Treasury.
II SUCCESSFUL. SURGICAL OPERATIoN.-
k On "Wednesday morning. DIR. w. +.
t. Fundcnhcrg, OF Cumberland. assisted
; by Drs. Watson, Enfield and Gump, re-
L moved the left eye Of Mr.. Herbert Shoe
d maker. of Clcarville, the sight of which
n was lost some years ego. but which ne
IT yer gave him any trouble until recently,
c when, from some cause or other, il be
e came inflamed. necessitating the rcmov'
;. al of the bad eye in or Ter 10 save the
2. remaining one. The operation was q
= successful one in ell its details. \
II artificial eye will he inserted in few
: weeks. MI Shoemaker returned home
, on Thursday AMI will he able to 90 to
q work AT once. DR.. Fundenberg makes
Z diseases OF the eye ard ear a specially,
and stands very high in his profession.
e All his operations thus Ear have been
is cmincntly successful. In the present
il case he was ably assisted 10y the physi-
d." clans above named BedfoTd G.,setLe.
a BEAUTIFUL WORK or ART.-Pco-
pie must and will have pictures: M
house or room is considered furnished
1t without them, yet many Of the pictures
4 that halg on our walls are those OF IL II .
I. l,no@n faces, or landscape views that
y have rounl place th9re, not because
. of the lessons they teach, but because
l. people must AMI will have pictures.
D. Prot. Davis OF WIliamSport Common.
cial College. has recently executed q
y pen and ink Drawing entitled. The
Is Bible Outweighs all other books which
b rs q work of art will he an ornament to
either sitting room, parlor. library OF
u Counting house, while the lessons II
g. teaches make it worth many times the
ic cost OF the picture. Size OF pictures
JDyo4 iuphnq p-i,c ctO1 A~o,t,