South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-08-08
VARIOUS MArrRns.


John T. Seely, three years ago q horse
farrier il Goshen, New Work, look DIR.
Greeley's advice and vent west. lie
engaged IN tase restaurant and hotel bus
mess there. asd then specialized in min
Ing stocks and In working mines. lie
came back 70 Goshen on visit on Mon /.
day the 18th ult.. worth over s.. O00. QUO,
having mado in the three years Of his
absence an average of nearly $4,000
per day.
Wonderful scoounts Are given OF the
precociousness OF C$rlie Fuller. aged
~. son OF Bangor Sx-postmaster. The
boy is lightning calculator surpass-
ing all predecessors being able to do
the most surprising things in mental
arithmetic. lie remembers all that he
reads, too, and can recite chapter after
chapter OF Scripture. as we'll as entire
pages OF dictionary. lie takes no plea.
sure in anything except mental oxer-
else.
Our fishermen have taken advantage
of the recent rise in the river and have
captured . great many fine bass. The
mode Of capturing them is TO rnn a boat
rapidly along near the shore. the isL no
doubt thinking they are peuned iump
for the deeper water but land in tho
boat.-Wo' ydntopn New Dom inion.
At Wardhuy. in Norway, the day lasts
from the 2lst OF May TO the 22nd OF .Ju.
ly. without interruption; and at Spitz.
bergen the longest day is three months
ami q half.
But the longest day Of all. though
one never seen by = civilized person, is
that at the two Poles. where the day
lasts for six months, and is succeeded
by night equally as long.
Charles II. Silly tramped into Read.
ing. Pa, a few days ago, hungry, ragged
and 'lisconsolate. A year before. he
had made the people Of that city stare
at bis ways of squandering $50 900 that
had been loft to him. On the latter
visit, he begged q meal at tue hotel in
which he had once occupied tho finest
apartments, and slept in barn where
he had previously kept his horses.
German named Lepis, tramp. was
committed TO tho Charlestown Jail. on
the goth ult., for an attempt at outrage
on the person Of Miss Susannah Tavlor.
OF Baltimore. near Summit Point, JEFF
ferson county, w. Va. Miss Taylor was
the guest Of Mr. John G. McCluc, and
before he corld accomplish his purpose
she locked him up securely in close,
into which he had retreated at the first
alarm. @a
At one country store alone, at Grove
Hill. Page county. Va. the proprietor
has purchased so far this season eight
thousand pounds OF dried cherries. In
two days alone country store in War
rem county. Va. bought one thousand
pounds Of dried cherries.
AMERICAN BEEr ron EURoPH.-Tbe
shipments from New York SATURDAY. in.
cluded S5l head Of live cattle, 427 tons
dressed beef. and ass carcasscs of
beef. No less than i've hundred head
OF cattle have been shipped from that
port by one firm since June Is, besides
40 many carcasscs OF sheep. Three
fourLhs OF all the cattle shipped from
New York are sold alive. snd nearly all
go to British ports.
A disease akin to the cholera ia pre-
vaiiing at Centre Point. Linn CO., Iowa.
Twenty persons have died from it in
the past two weeks. and n like number
have been Frustrated. 1t is also raging
in Walker, little town seven miles from
Centre Point. several deaths having oc.
Cured there. An order for forty collins
was received at Dubuqo on Tuesday Of
last week. from the Centre Point under.
takers. The physicians ut the latter
place are worn out, and the residents
are fleeing from the place. The mayor
OF Centre Point, however, sends out tho
following dispatch: The report sent
abroad Of our having cholera Mt this point
is entirely false. We have a number OF
cases OF dysentery, proving fatal only
among children OF first and second sum
mcrs.'
FoRGoT TO LOOK INTo THE Bed
The adage above quoted is somewhat
antique. but is still full of meaning
and wholesome advice. A few weeks
ago MISS Chapman who was visiting
Mr.. Robert Atkinson's. near Oronoko,
had little scare that happily did not
provo serious. She was retiring for
the night. and, after blowing out her
light, she got into bed. Her hand came
in contact with something that moved
Miss Chapman sprsng out of bed and
screamed loud enough to- wake up the
whole township. The family OF Mr..
Atkinson responded TO the energetic call
for aid, lamp was procured, the bed
examined, and snake four and one.h.lf
feet long WAS found coiled up in the
heets.--R0ches,er. MINI. I'ost.
The State debt question was supposed
To have bcen settled by the last legisla.
ture Of Virginia, bat there are number
OF malsOntentg in the old Dominion tgho