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South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-12-05

tire ten commandments. and be thanked
Col that We had resisted ,he devil
aud he had fed. Ard continued Mr..
Beecher, with characteristic audacity:
The present condition Of politics is
another subject fSr thanksgiving. The
dangers that threatened q: the time OF
the seating Of Mr.. Hayes have passed,
and haze icfi no scar. Had the claim
ant been as bold as he Is cunning he
might have stepped in and seized the
presidential chair with unlawful hands
He was no Cromwell He was no Ma
poleon even. Let his tomb be inscrib.
ed: His timidity was greater tEan
his ambitioh his economy than his op.
portunities."
1t will be seen from this that the Sh..
ly fault which Mr.. Beecher has to hrd
with Mr.. Tildcu 10 that he did not re.
sort to C~sarism in order to establish
himself IN the presidential chair, TO
which he was elected by majority of
the popular aud Of the electoral vote.
As to the electoral fraud itself. Mr..
Beecher says that the poison then intro
duced into the national body has been
fully neutralized " two circumstances,
viz:
"Hne was the wise and tranquil course
o. the administration, grounded on the
restoration OF business without violence,
until the focks are now feeding in green
pastures, by still waters, knee deep in
clover. The other was the conviction
that the contestant Was singularly I'M
fitted for the leadership of such a ma
ton rs ours. For the settlement of
this great difficulty it is hard TO tell
whether We should be most thankful to
MIR. Hayes or MIR. Tilden."
This, if it means ANYTHING at all. i'm.
Plies singular obliquity in MIR. Beech
er's moral sense. The wronC.doinr in
Louisiana and Florida by which Mr.
Hayes was seated in place of Mr.. Til.
den is assumed to be condoned by Mr.
Hayes wise and tranquil course. The
contestant whom a majority of the peo-
pie decided to be the more fit of the two
candidates is decided by Mr.. Beecher
To be singularly unfit, and therefore
deserved TO be cheated out of his seat
and finally, what Mr.. Tilden has done
III 1879 is assumed TO justify the frauds
perpetrated upon him in 1877. This is
Nir. Beecher's mode of extracting tina ks.
giving morality out of our national no,
litics. Bdtto. Snr.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-12-05
A STORY FOR CHILDREN.
Food snoush TO Keep one Reading and Think.
ing for q Whole Hour.

When Mr.. Johd Nise; or this city.
was lost in his balloon, CALLED The
Pathfinder" several weeks ago. the
newspapers printed many accounts Of
trips made into the sir-some by brave
men and some by foolish ones. a la.ly
who lives in the town of Centralia, i'm
tue State OF Illinois, said nothing until
all the rest were through talking -
Then, one day last week, she told the
editor OF tue ST. Louis Republican 10
look in the No. OF the Republican that
was printed on the 2lst OF September.
1853. The editor looked and found an
account OF how two little children teok
trip in q balloon all by themselves.
On that day an aeronaut. or sailor
oil the air named Brooks, filed his
air-shlp with gas on the farm OF q Mr..
Harvey, who lived near Centralia. He
expected TO sail up in the Afternoons. A.
bout noontime MIR. Harvey put his two
children into the basket OF the balloon
just to please them, and not thinking
Tor moment Of any danger. The bal.
loon was tied tc tree by ropes. All at
once gust of wind broke the ropes.
and the balloon shot up into the sky
with nobody but the two children in the
basket. MIR Harvey was wild with grief
and shouted aloud, They're lost. they're
lost ! All the neighbors ran to see the
balloon drifting off to the north and
more than mile high. One of the
children was n girl-Nettie, eight years
oId-anh the other was her little brother
willie, four years. Both cried when they
found themselves Leaving tie s.oun,,
and going on very. very strange Jour
ney indeed. Nettie looked over the
edge Of the basket AMI saw her father
wringing his hands away below. Soon
the people looked 10 her smaller than
babies and the houses like to, houses.
She and Willie were going up, up, up
all the time. Il expect we are going TO
Heaven. Willie said Nettie. Willie
thought it was very cold in Heaven, then
Tor the higher they went the collier il
grew. Nettie wrapped Willie in her a
prom and held his hand in her lap until
he erie himself fast asleep. Then Net.
tie folded her hands and waited. She
said: Il think we must be near the
gate now. She meant the gate of Heaven
that she had heard about in Sunday
School But Nettie fell asleep too
When sue awoke she found that some
strange man was lifting her from the
basket. The strange man was farmer
IN Northern Illinois. who had seen a bal.
lopn drifting low down across the field
The rope was dragging, and so he caught
it & landed the children safely. The bal.
loon had foated all night. Nettie's and
Willie's fatiiet soon learned that they
had been fotind. and took them home
two days afterward. Nette is now n
woman. and the very same one who told
the Hepubiicdn to look back in its hes
for the story PHILADELPHIA Times.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-12-05

A CHARACTERISTIC 'SERh5N.'-Mr.
Henry Ward Beecber contributed to
the gayety of the occasion on Thanks.
giving Day by rendering from Plymouth
pulpit q sermon filed with jokes, which
filed his auditory with laughter. In She
course of the address the congregation
gathered pretty much ali that Mr. d.
knows about politics, and certainly thew
had the sauce in advance Of theirturkevs.
The music. we are told, was 80 exquisite
that 1t barely escaped a round of an
plause tue pastoral table was decora.
ted with Gala lilies. purple orchids, au-
tumn leaves and trailing vines. and the
venerable orator was buoyant and ev-
hilarating "a an Indian summer morn.
ing. lie talked about pretty much
everything in Heaven and on earth. with
an occasional reference to those neither
regions which lie processes lie does not
believe in. The Puritans had given nm
fast day, he said, but, en- reUaache. all
the country keeps Thanksgiving Day
We had much to be thankful ror-our
soil had yielded 81, 800, 900, 900 in a sin
Gle season. Surely the sun is the grand
mint and exchequer Of nations. Mr..
Beecher said; "the rain-drops have al
most coined themselves into dollars -
Tue mention o. dollars ,and Mr.. Beech.
or always likes TO talk Of dollars re-
minded the orator Of tie greenback
heresy and the silver dollar folly, and
he drew comic picture Of the hoary
innocents' vino sold themselves TO i'm
moral financial schemes, nov sitting at
home in ashes. with long periods OF
private meditation vouchsafed TO them. ,
Honesty Said Mr.. Beecher, has had
more to 90 With prosperity than the CT.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-12-05
South Branch Intelligencer.
william Harper, Editor.
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South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-12-05

Irclani seems to DC in most un d.
happy condition as regards landlords
and tenants. The agitation which has
so largely show itself in public meet.
ings and collective demonstrations is
now exhibited moro and more in pri-
vate threats and terrorism, The ring
leaders 20 about at night, masked,
reatening death to tenants who pay
more rent than a certain specified pei
centage so that, according TO late re-
ports, il IS evident that before long it
will he as dangerous FOR tenant to
pay his rent as for q landlord 10 coll
lect it. Instead Of attempting TO con.
quer the savages OF AighAnistan and
Iululand. II would seem as If the Bril-
fish government might advantageously
direct IFS energies to the just, peaceful
and happy solution Of q home problem
OF great difficulty and manifest import
ance The land system in Ireland
needs reOrLanizing for the benefit OF
both land owners and land renters.
II matters not what man attempts
on the Farm, the workshop, &c, TO be
successful he must attend carefully and
constantly TO business.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-12-05

Machinery which spins seed cotton
into thread has been invented in tue
South. and it is in operation in West
chester,S. c. 1t is attracting general at
ten,ion in that section. and promises to
add very largely to the industry and
material wealth Of the cotton-o rowing
States. The machinery is cheap & simple,
anh can he operated at very little cost.
IL is so arranged that it separates the
seed from the cotton and spins the latter
into thread that readily sells in New
York at sixteen and half cents per
pound. This, It is claimed. adds 100
per cent. TO the profit OF tue planter, rs
it caves him the expense OF ginning AMI
bnling and OF bagging and tics. Small
factories OF this kind are being erected
in Georgia and South Carolina, and the
papers OF those States say that within n
year hundreds Of them will be in opera
to-. through out the Stale.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-12-05

.
A RErohTED New REMEDY * Con
sUIPTIoN.-A DIR. NJ. NJ. Griffith. of
Bradford, Pa. reports that he hai at.
tended some astonishing results by the
administration of crude petroleum to
consumptives. In twenty-five cases of
well-tharked tuberculosis he claims that
twenty are cured, so far AS any outward
signs of disease are concerned. and the
rest have been materially benefited. none
having been under treatment for more
than four months. The nausea attend
Jag the use of ordinary petroleum led
Dr.. Griffith 20 use the semi. solid oil that
forms on the casing and tubing of wells.
This is made into pills of three to five
grains each, by Incorporating any inert
vegetable meter, and administered in
doses of one pill each from three to five
times day. The first effect, he says,
is the disappearance of the cough, night
swcats are relieved, appetite improves
and weight is rapidly gained But there
have been so many cure. alls for pulmon-
airy diseases which have utterly failed,
that ii is likely the medical faculty will
hasten slowly before they consent to
recognize DIR. Griffiths renedy as the
long sought panacea. Yet there can he
no doubt that there have BEEN many oily
AMI fatty substances that have given re.
lief to consumptives, at least aiding to
sustain them for varying periods, accord,
ing to the constitution OF ffcrent pa.
tients. - PuI. Sun.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-12-05

General Crook, the noted Indian
fighter. in his annual report to the de.
partment. says: During the twenty
seven years Of my experience with the
Indian question l have never known u
band OF Indians to make peace with
our government and then break it, or
leave their reservation without some
ground ~ complaint; but until .heir
complaints are examined and adjusted
they will cortAis'y give annoyance and
trouble
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-12-05
South 9raneA 5ntellisenrer.
RoMNEY, FRIDAY, DEC. S. 1879

The new French cable, which con-
meets Bresi. France, with North B,st-
ham, Massachusetts,, is said to be supe-
r'or to any now in use. It's central
wire OF copper Is surrounded by ten 9th
er copper wires. thds insuring its use in
all states of the weather. The company
engaged in this enterprise. the success
OF which will secure lower rates for Gu
Diagrams, is composed OF both French
anu American stockholders.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-12-05

Scissors. which are still made in Shelf.
leld. England. by tedious hand pro
cess, are made at ono stroke Of die
IN Connecticut. Hence Shelf I'D is
sending large quantities or steel blanks
to this country to DO struck off, re-.
packed and returned TO England,
where they ore finished AMI come to us
again for sale "a Sheffield ware.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-12-05

dtSosR Nrrs.-Rnb one pound OF
lard into one quart Of N. q. molssses:
add QUE ounce of soda ard one pint of
water. one ounce of ginger. and one tea.
spoonful of black pepper, -four enough
to make dough. Roll into balls the
size OF hickory.nat and bake in n
hot oven.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-12-05

To RKsroRE Scum MILx.-A table,,
spoonful of soda OF carbonate of magne.
STA stirred into gallon OF sour milk will
sweeten To its natural flavor.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-12-05

EsSRNoE OF CRLKRY.-Soak one ounce
OF celery Feed in one gill of brandy for
thirty days, and it is ready for use. One
dfep Of this esseuce has the strength or
whole stalk of green Celery. q. v.
in "Staunton Spectator.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-12-05

1t IS said that hogs may be kent from
the measles. trichinosis. &c. by m4i,g
handful Of good wood ashes with thciy
food twice a week. ''''''
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-12-05

a cont % gum copal varnish applied
20 'he Soies OF boots d shoes, and repeat.
cd as u dries until the pores are filled
and the surface shines like polished ma.
hcgany. vail make the sole waterproof
and It lasts three times longer. SIT
tifc American.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-12-05

SWEDISH JEtLY.-Cover a knuckle OF
veal with water, add a small onion and
a carrot. and let II boil until the meat
10 ready to fall Off the bone Take the
meat aud hash it fine aud return il. to
the liquor after IL " strained, and Give
another boil until il jellies. Add
salt, pepper, the juice and rind OF n
lemon cut hnc, then pour into fo'm.
Put 1t In cold place. 1t makes n nice
dlsh Tor lunch or tea. If the kuuckle
OF veal Is large use three quarts, and
lei it boil slowly three or four hours.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-12-05

axe the topmost ear of corn for seed
ana select It from those stalks which
uear the greatest number Of ears
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-12-05

KENTUCKY PoTAToEs.7Raw pota-
toes peeled. sliced very thin; pu' IN
pudding dish and covered with milk
add pepper and salt and teaspoouiul OF
honr, wet; bake till nicely Drowned
do not put them in water after they are
sliced.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-12-05

a bushe of hard wood ashes suspend.
ed IN sack i'll n cistern Of one hundred
barrels capacity will purify bffeHsve
water with entire satisfaction.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-12-05

DR.. HosLins plants twice as many
trees III his orchards as he intends to
remain, calculating that The interme.
date trees will twice pay for themselves
before they seriously interfere with the
others, and have to DO removed.-Ru-
raj Now Yorker.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-12-05

A correspondent of the Rural New
Yorker writes: Tell your readers 10
put one pint of salt and one pint of soft
soap, CT ought to be farmers soap) to
ten gallons OF water, and use it on cur
rants and gooseberries. I'll warrant
them full crop Put plenty of ashes
coal or wood-around the roots ID in
crease the size of the berries"
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1879-07-13
EDITOR AND POET.

Twas a man wrapped in an ample clolk.
Poetic ia his ruein.
Tba. went into the offi:e cf
A Engli.h magazine.
He gave uutO the editor
A paper closely writ:
4 would unto your ju ig-neu'. s:r.
A poem submit
Pray read it carefully .nl lay
Whatc'yr you thinx OF IL
Slowly the editor read it through;
On bis brow Al angry flush
There came, rs be soliloquiZsd
About "hogwash, ,"'rct" ard "slu.h "
And he gave back the manuscript
Unto the bard. and said
That ballad i. the very wors.
That he hat ever resd.
4. II / such tr.sI "a tha; should dare
Pint Ia my magazine.
Then men would call me q three p Y
An! they would b. right. ween.
so, .irrsh, take thee tout saw hon sc.
Thereto - buckstw god
Thy poesy IS n. <
Thy line Is sawirg wood
When that the post heard these words
lie gan 10 fame aud jdget,
Aud he said unto the editor,
Thou art bowling idiet
Read DER that ballad again. sirrah.
Read DER th.t ballad again,
Aud then your candid opinion give
My nsme Is Alfred Ten"
The heaven yon say cried the eli,or,
A.tpDishcd then he said,
That poem Is the finest thing
That | have ever read
at shall appear this very month,
And. kueeiing OH the grouud,
He gave the Laureate check
For 81 600.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1879-07-13

WHAT is dandy A thing in pant
aloou., With body and two arms; q
head without brains. and cigar stuck
in = hole in his face; tight boots; Il
cane q scented, white handkerchief; .
standing collar; two brooches and .
snowy ring on his little finger.
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1879-07-13
ORIENTAL HOTEL
TEMPERANCE HOUSE,

y. LOUIS, Proprietor.
SECOND STREET, SEATTLE, W. L.
This Hotel is newly built. hsrd-fnished, and
elegantly furnished rooms in suits or single.
MEALS, y Cent?: LODGINGS, . CENTS
Board and Lodging ty the WEEK very reasonable.
This house is conducted on frst-elass princi-
plies. and every attention will lie paid to patrons
Baggage conveyed 70 and from .he House free
OF charge.
CHINANEs ENPloYEp
The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1879-07-13
The Hon. J N Smith. in Ogle,horpe

The Hon. J N Smith. ln Oglethorpe
county. Georgia. has farm of 10. 900
acres, 1000 ot which are in cultivation,
aai do, not own field thu. is no,
richer than when he bough. il. On
100 acres be will make 1900 70 1900
bushels OF wheat Directly after tie
war be had a good education but 10
morey. and 10 secure the necessary
fund.- was forccl 10 resort n a travel
ing traffic. II Was during one OF his
rounds .hs, be was tsun,ed by 8 large
and wealthy plAuter with rs meai4I
occupation. Choking down his lndi.-
nation, he simply replied Col. -.
you will y't 1--we 10 see me use as large
a farm as u own for a calf pasture"
And within five short years his predic-
ti1n wss verified. He threw into a calf
ra.'ure more acres than the Old gentle
man who insulted him could number in
his entire possession.
1t /. probable that the next Methodist
Geaeral Conference will elect several
new Bishops The colored Methoii,'s
Of Baltimore hold that one Of these
nes Bi-hops should be culored man,
a.i they have said So" right oat loud
in meeting Their argument i. tba.
the SOC. COO coIorei members Of the
church are fairly entitled to repre-
sentative eva the Episcopal Board As
matter ot course, DR.. Gil5er, Haven
will second their demand with ali his
irhnence bat perh ps some Of the
white brethren will hardly relish the
prospect Of seeing black Bishop in the
chair at Conference. ani receiving their
appointments at his hands.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-09-11
w. J. HENRY, Chairman.

WHAT BECOMES OF Our BODIES
With a very near approach to truth, the
human family inhabiting the earth has
been estimated at zoe, 900, 900; the annu-
al loss by death is 1s,0O0,0O0. Now, the
weight of the animal matter of this I'M
mense body cast into the grave is no less
than 634, 1000 tons, and by its decompo-
sition produces 9,0O0,0OO,O0O cubic feet
of gaseous matter. The vegetable pro-
ductions of the earth clear away from the
atmosphere the gases thus generated, de-
decomposing and assimilating them for
their own increase. This cycle of cham
ages has been going on ever since man be-
came an occupicr of the earth. He feeds
on the lower animals and OH the seeds OF
plants, which in due time become a part
of himself. The lower animals feed upon
the herbs and grasses, which in their turn,
become the animal, then, by its death,
again pass into the atmosphere and are
ready once more to be assimilated by
plants, the earthly or bony substance
alone remaining where it is deposited,
and not even there unless sufficiently
deep in the soil to be out of insorbent
reach of the roots and plants and trees.
1t is not at all difficult to prove that the
elements of which the living bodies of
the present generation are composed
have passed through millions of muta.
tions, and formed parts of all kinds of
animal and vegetable bodies, and conse.
quently it may be said that fractions of
the elements of our ancestors form por-
tions of ourselves.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-09-11

THE HUMAN MANUFACToRY.-Am man
man cat and drink heartily all day, and
sit and lounge about, doing nothing, in
one sense of the word but his body must
keep hard at work all the time, or he will
die: Suppose the stomach refused to
work within ten minutes after hearty
dinner, the man would die in convul-
sions in few hours of cholera, or cramp-
collie would rack and wreck him. Sup
pose the pores of the skin-meaning
thereby the glandular apparatus with
which they are connected should go on
"strike," he would in an hour be burning
mp with fever, or oppression would weigh
down the system, and soon become In
supportable. Suppose the liver became
muiish, appetite would be annihilated,
food would be loathed, torturing pains
would invade the small of the back, and
the head would ache to bursting. Sup
pose the kidneys shut up shop, and dan
gers more imminent, sufferings more un-
bearable, and death more certain, would
be the speedy and inevitable result. If
the little workshops of the eye should
close, in an hour he could not shut nor
open them without physical force, and
in another hour he would be blind or if
those of the tongue should close, it would
become dry as bone and stiff as steel.
To keep such a complication Of machinery
in working order for a lifetime, is a
miracle of wisdom; but to work them
by the pleasures of eating and drinking
is a miracle of benefcence.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-09-11
ST. GEORGE.

!, A Doctor STUMpED.-Dr. John Will
son, of Milton, was called to see an old
lady several miles in the country. The
old woman showed him her tongue and
then q sore on her finger that she got
picking blackberries, then she brought in
crock of buttermilk and finally sat down
to enumerating all her ailments and how
she felt at times. She had the "budges"
every night, felt like kicking out her feet
to make the blood in her legs circulate /;
but kicking would do no good, and some
times one of her toes would feel dead,
end then again her tongue would get
right cold. DR.. Wilson heard it all with
commendable patience. He had cut off
many leg in Lees army, but this case
rather had him.
Doctor" continued the old lady, after
getting good breath, 81 sorter believe my
skeerts is affected"
"Your what, madam ?" .
"My skeerts. The skirts of my liver,
you know"
"Ah, yes madam, maybe So" He ad-
ministered bread pills and rode home re-
fecting on the fact that the liver had
skirts.-Reidsuile Times.