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South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-07-23

a Bitter ToNGUE.-It is strange
but true that some people delight in
saying bitter things to their ncighbors.
You arc never safe with them. When
you have done your best 20 please,
and arc feeling very kindly and pleas
antly, ont they will pop some under
hand stab, which you alone can under
stand--a sheer which is masked, bu,
which Is too we'll made 20 be misunder
stood II may be At Your person, Of
your mental feeling, Your foolish habit
Of thought on Some little secret opiu-
ion confessed in moment Of genuine
confidence. Ii matters not how sa-
cred il may be TO You. hc will have
his light at IL; and, since the wish Is
to make you suffer, hc is oil TIC hap
pier the nearer he touches your heart.
How much unhappiness do such mean
9tfooR- clrso t-r"or hc1rtoi mon
and women.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-07-23

WHY?-Will somebody please in
form Us why a young lady who mod
estiy shrimlls from sitting on the front
stoop with young mans arm encir-
cling her waist, will whirl around a
brilliantly lighted ball room for hours
at time and let fellow hug her to
his hearts content II huggiug is a
legitimate occupation upon general
principles, 1t certaiuly can be indulg-
ed in with Just al much propricty up
on the sofa OF 6 crowded sitting room
a. upon the loor OF q crowded ball
room. What Is it that popularizes
lis particular Indulgence while waltz
ing upon the floor, that cannot with
equal propr.e.y be applied while ait
ting 81 some acciudod corner Of tie
same buildiug2 We pause Tor a re.
ply.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-07-23

KILLED ny LIGHrNING.-The Win.
chc=tcr Eovs snys that on the 18th inst.
q lad, aged about - years, son of Mr..
Ihos. Collins, wac struck by lightning at
the house &C Mr.. Andrew Clark, near
Pacebuvg. IN That county. Mr.. Clark's
daughter w. also stunned by the same
stroke. They were both standing in the
door during u storm. The house was
uniniurea.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-07-23

A scvere wind, hail, thuudcr and light
lightning storm prevailed at Keyscr and
Piednon&, on the 10Th inst. Windows
were broken and treas beaten down by
hnil, aud : car blown along the railroad
track. At Kcyscr house was struck by
!ightnine. No sorious damage.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-07-23
ALL IND0RsK TT.

The Recorder, Americus, Ga, gays
Clerks, Senators. Representatives Doc.
.ors, Lawyers, Citizens, in public and
private life, arc testifying by the thou.
ssnds, and over their own signatures
that remedy has been found for
Brights Disease OF the Kidneys and
for Diabetes; these are respectively
known a. WaTner's Safe Kidney and
Liver Cure and Warmers Safe Diabetes
Cure May Z, 1ssO-3n.
Father, said a roguish boy, Il hope
you won't buy any more gunpowdor
tea for mother Why not because
every time she drinks it she blows US
up.'
Prof Green, distinguished pallcs.
thic physician, wrote TO the medical Re.
cord TO tho effect that after all other
means hsd failed, he sent for the Kid
uey euro ,Safc Kidney and Liver Cure)
and 10 his astOnisbment cured a acrious
case OF BrighCs Disease by administer
inc It, and atterWstis found IL equally
beneficial in other cases.--Aay Z, 1850
jim.
Ysl- 1,llc-r !aviB4 a. led ~. y. -
'eo -.rle y 1rr. HAYES. the BuGalo Coz.
rer l1hs hip FL. p First Fr4udulor
President
lt may - fashionablo for young 700.
men ~ O. INTO a rotroa' lcsore marriage
bot thc.f fathers aro generally called 1p-
on ioF at advance.
Fects arc stubborn things. some ~
men arc facts
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-07-23

Al enthusiastic Hancock and English
ratification meeting vas held on Satur.
day last i; Berkeley Syringe. A dis
patch 70 tho Wheeling Register announ.
ces that tho meeting was addressed by
able Speakers. among them Hon. Il. +.
Martin, who delivered AL able and elo-
quont address. II was the grandest
meeting ever held 10 Morgan county,
you may rest assured that old iIorgan'
gill give the ticket a largo and hand :
sore iaRjority.'
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-07-23

Hear how 2 judge decides in Hun
gary Some time ago a man died
bankrupt, and though he did not
leave bis widow single penny, he
be9neatncd her very ,arse unpaid
OIL at . LEGAL public house. His cred
itor did honor 10 his memory by
bringing 81 action against his widow
for the Payment Of her husbands
drinking account. She proved that
she WAS absolutely pcnniIcsc, but tho
Judge condemned ler TO pay the bill
with costs, on the ground that by her
evidently capricious and impractica-
bic temper she had driven her late
husband to tie public honso, in order
to find there the comfort and peace
which were denied him ct home.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-07-23

BE TEvE.-1hcre are persons whom
you can always believe, because YOU know
tbey have the habit Of telling the truth
They DO not color" story or enlarge a
bit Of revs IN order to make it sound
fine or -or:; srk-5le.
There nre persons Who you hardly
know whether to believe or not, because
they ''Ftretch" things SO. 4 trihjnS in
cideat grows in size. but not in quality,
by passing through tEeir mouth. They
t.ke p ANAL fact or slender bit Of news,
and pad Il vish added words, and paint
Il With high colorsd adiectiyea, until it
is largely unreal, and gives false inn
preston. And one does not like to lis
ten 70 toike when so much must be sal
loved fcr shr.uhese."
Cultivate The habit cf telling the truth
in little things As we'll as in great ones.
Pick your words wisely. and u7c only such
~ rightly mean what you wish to say.
Never sstretch"a story or a fact TO make
i: bigger OF funu,or. DO this aud peo.
pie gill Learn 20 trust you and respect
yo6. This viii bc better than having a
uamo for telling wonderful stories or
maliag fooiishly OF falsely funny" re-
marks. There are enough true funny
things happening in The rorld, and they
arc most cItcrf3iuinc when told exactly
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-07-23

Gen. aaYtr-nft, collector of customs
NJ sit'.delpLia, took formal possession
&c h;o oiIiec on the 18Th inst. An act.
ing post'naster for Philadelphia will be
appointed under the law By ex postmas-
ter Hartranit's sureties to serve until
Cen. Hartranft'5 s1ccessor is appointed.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-07-23

The barn .r ST.. Calvin p. Uc.e
iaur miles from C1arlc5t3Wn, ca t,e
i0l inst was de5tt aj by fire. a-
long Will farming Implement 79
IONS Of hoy, &c. to-, los about
partially Insured e ID r5t
known how the fire. originated. It's
not attributed 70 az inccud,ary, 10
NJ HIS not know % have ~ cae-
my -CharlostOwn Free Press
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-07-23

Pins are OF worry ancient invention, az
they were manufactured by the Egyp-
tians in The time OF tho Pharaohs. Ma
uy o. these useful articles were found in
tho tombo Of kings in The pyramids. -
Some Of them wero OF quite elaborate
manufacture, and must have been costly,
40 they had gold heads and were six 10
eight inChos 10 length.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-07-23

moliie de Jarnette. who was shot by
her brother in house of i'll repute in
Danville, Va, on the night of the 9Th
INST, died on the 18th. Her brother re.
raIns IN Jail awaitinr trial.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-07-23
Sau'h 8yansh gatellissneer
RoMNEY. FRIDAY. july %, 1880,

IL IS rumored that the Indians around
Deep Greek and Medical Lake, Washing
ton Territory, have murdered several
ian'illss IN that vicinity. and are aow on
the war path.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-07-23

4 Georgia woman told = census man
that she wa1 "not quite TO-" and subse-
quuj'y stated .A,t sac had buried four
husbands aGI aaj jus, maried the fifth.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-07-23

q tramp consented % do small job
81 digging post holes At Carson, New,
though labor was contrary to his GUS
torn IIo returned 20 his employers
house ID Ca hour, slIaw down his spade
and said be lad changed his mind lie
had found $3.50 worth Of gold bars which
some miner had buried.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-07-23

Persons may oui4row disease aud
become healthy ny proper attention to
tho laws of their Vhysica, constitutions
Ey moderate and daily exercise mon
may become streng in limb aud mus
clio
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-07-23
soCtL Branch Inteiligouoor.
E~ttiin-n Harper, editor.
Office Corner 1aia and Gravel Lane SIS
RoMTEY. WEST VmoINIA.
, r Z u " S

TWO DOLLARS AND FIFTY GENTS p.r
srrrm--or TWO DOLLARS Il pnd in advance
No paper will he discontinued, except at the
orion ofthe publisher until ell srrcarage. bs o
oeca gettlod.
TEHMs OF ADVERTISING
TIE rates of eavertisiug are, for sauaref,en
.na'l o. less osr DOLLAR arD FIYrY CsSrs Tor
irc' iuser;ions- larger ones IN ,,s sam. nro,or.
SON. Each Continuance 81 cents
quarterly. half yearly, ard yearly saver.isc.
monte Inserted AZ liberal redu ctoa on The above
tca-7 ndveJt.5ers discriminating durlss tho
" viii I g charged -eyriar rates.
'r',ti5cwoat 10 he considered Nv the Nor IN
yes, .a'e7s specified on ile rlanuscri,,s or PIC,
sios5ly agreed upou betvccn ~ psrties.
Ae,s'irolsoi nsFociaticrs, Communications Of
.u.'ci iatorest, Hnd notices or deaths exceed In 2
-7s ike will toe charged ars cessts rsr line
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-07-23
Grant or iiiden {

"a vi, consult togr own interest hv send.
NJ 70 ne To- circulate &C Zoe fo'.cw.ng
ih ''r,-y, e., ro'0re 5uyiug. Being myself a
.r tHcN farmer, WITH % years' experience in
s''e OF machinery, and making the lste.i
.|l-sv'mea'- IN 'h7tline specially, 7 oi!l guar
1a'r set,faciion. lor rates and libcrA, terms
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-07-23
&U VEYlMG-

s'fE rBdoF0i1nci ~er1 Repeatedly ~ form,
-.s'rents "f tf colrty o. iifmrsilire, ,tst
70 rfe"sredt" 30 S,Irv SI-il1 3, upon the
i''s. notice Ci.ce--ihc jus occupied By Dr..
U.s. ,rr'on Romre-, West Va.
''7-- p $50. 4. MONROE
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-07-23
a9ARpimC HOuSE.

- v tourinq bo"rd can he accommodai-
-. mf te-itelcs iu 2 desirable portion Of
70 ~ TIE week, month or year, with
cos rcous Terms r-asouabie
JAMES SHEET.
..micy My q, 1880
20 .''3 VOWS lr-roveJ Co,so, ct;,t
.'A ..lfoi'er. 'ns tcst 10 no market. At
b ECSSEHL,S BPO.
ere. Way . is-o
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-07-23

A REMEEY son Bowel COMrLAINrs.
--FOr dysenlery and all diseases re-
marks tho Cumberland Nscs. OF tho
bOWols, no remedy IL perhaps so effect.
nal as blackberry root. Ii is to be had
OF all the druggists In Eve cent packa.
ges. IL can be used Ia The form OF tea.
or the root can DO chewed With equal
effect. Genuine blackberry wine, made
from tho fruit, - All excellent remedy.
Both o; these have cured when other
remedies have failed. Itthors is pain
plaster Of balsam OF fr or cobaiba on
the p.. % the stomach snd small % tho
back ~ T8c0 mmended
-
To- mos; fatal grape shot comes from
tho boitte.
Since the introduction o. false teeth
the ra,io % good looking women has in.
creased sixty per cent
Aoft people are ike sggs--too full Of
themselves 20 hold anything else.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-07-23

To remove oil marks from wall paper
where inconsiderate people rest their
heads, take pipe clay or fullers' earth.
and make into a paste about az thick as
ice-crearn, with cold water; lay IL on the
stain gently without rubbing It in leave
it on all night. II will DO Try by morn.
ing. when u can be brushed of, and.
unless an old stain, the grease spot viii
have disappeared. II old. renew tho
application.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-07-23

For applying to wouh4S made by re.
moving large limbs in pruning fruit
trees. nothing is better than gum abel.
lac, dissolved i'll alcohol 70 the cons;s.eu.
cy Of paint.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-07-23

q correspondent OF picE's MoatL!y
says that QUO spoonful OF coarse pow
cered saitpetor TO pail OF water will
destroy potato bugs, squash bugs and
other insects. For roses it is unsupass.
ed. For maggots lthat work at The
roots Of squash vines, pour about Din.
of the liquid at the roots OF each vine as
soon a. tho pests indicate them selves.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-07-23

To MAKE SYRUP--Mix two pounds
Of sugar with d pint Of cold water
Bring n a boil, and cook rapidly for
ten or fifteen minutes without stirring
Remove tho saucepan from ths stove fn
cold surface SO as to stop TIE boiling
suddenly, then skim, and strain while
still very hot, through u flannel BAG
which has been wrung out % hot water.
DO not make large quantity Of svrup
at a time. and keep u closely covered -
II made too thick or left exposed to the
air Il will crystalize.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1880-07-23

a heaping teaspoonful OF sulphur.
added once week to the feed Of a COW.
Will Keep 1t free from vermiu. The Same
quantity is recommended for every ten
fowls for similar purpose.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-20
Infected Water,

On the 10th of January, 1879, there
was sudden outbreak of typhoid fever
at Caterham, Eng, and on the goth
similar outbreak at Redhill, town
eight miles distant. There were forty
nine cases of this fever within fort
night; and by the end of February, in
both places there were three hundred
and five, of which fourteen were fatal.
The patients were scattered over awide
area, and were confined to no particular
class. The localities had previously
been remarkably free from disease. The
Government Board of Health instituted
a thorough investigation into the cause
of this outbreak. All ordinary causes
sewage, milk-supply and personal in
fection, etc.-had to be set aside, since,
in all these particulars, the families
had little in common. 1t was, however,
at length found that most of the persons
affected had their water-supply from
the mains of the Caterham Water
works; that others who were attacked
spent the days at the houses where this
water was used, and drank of il; that
at the Caterham Lunatic Asylum, with
two thousand inmates, and at the
Caterham Barracks, with five hundred
soldiers, both of which had a different
water supply, not case occurred; nor
a case at Reigate, which belongs TO the
same sanitary district with Redhill, but
is supplied with water from different
source, 1t was plain that the Caterham
Water-works were somehow the cause
of the epidemic. But that it should be
so, was a mystery. At length it was
found that one of the workmen em-
ployed in establishing an underground
connection between the existing wells
and new bore, had been suffering
from a mild form of enteric (typhoid)
fever. The exorements of this patient
had been allowed TO pass into the water,
and were thence distributed through the
company's water-system.
The facts here given indicate that the
cause of the many cases OF typhoid fevel
in the towns mentioned, was the poison
germs in the water that had been pol
luted by this workman. They convey a
lesson to every householder, and to ev-
cry person who has the care of typhoid
patient. - YOUTHS Companion.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-20

OUT of a five-minute call a woman
will gatherinspiration for a good hour s
speech when she gets home. She will
tell her husband-who is SO interested,
you know-that Mrs. Stuckup has new
furniture the second time within three
years if I'm not mistaken and lace cur
tains with lambrequins and her black
silk dress made over and her hair done
up in new way higher than she used
to wear it not becoming bit and her
little girl s got her hair banged and all
dressed in white and is going to Miss
Giddigurrs school in the fall and her
cook s gone off mad and she says she's
almost tired to death and is going to
Swampscott next week and Miss Flirt
is going to have Young SpoUdlington
after all and Mis- Smiths going to give
her pair of bouquet holders she says
they're good enough for her she got
them cheap up to Ragshop's and Mis-
Ferguson's got boy lots of hair on its
head and looks thPe months old every
body says and Steve Beaker s awful
dissipated they say and that Lovewell
girl s father g ordered him out of the
house and she s been taking on awful
and declares she will have him and the
Sigginses have moved out of town and
the Browns have lost everything and
Mis- Smith s bought whole piece of
cotton cloth and -" BY this time the
husband is asleep or has fled. A man
could never make so much out of weeks
visit. All he would remember would
be that Brown IS got mighty pretty
wife, or keeps good cigars, or some
other equally inconsequential NATTER
Boston Transcript.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-20
summer Pnstnrn for SWIM.

Summer feeding Of swine needs TO be
better considered by no inconsiderable
number of those who make this branch
Of live stock husbandry n prominent
feature Of their farm economy. IL Is
more than probable, however, that the
| subject is receiving more attention now
than at any time previously, for, by i'm
quiry and otherwise, we are satisfied
that moro swine are being grass-fed
than heretofore, in the corn-belt,"
which, 1t is scarcely necessary to say, is
also great pork-produoing section Of
the Western States. The almost con-
slant use of corn the year round and in
considerable quantities during the sum
mer, has been pursued possibly not be-
cause it was thought TO be the best
course, but mainly because it was looked
upon as advisable to utilize the corn.
There is every reason to believe that
the use of less corn and a larger use of
grass in swine-feeding will materially
lessen the chances of and the tendency
to disease among swine. We need not
stop to discuss this question now; it is
an opinion held by the best authorities
and verified by experience and we pre-
sumo no intelligent man doubts it.
The forage plants especially desirable
for hog pasture are timothy, red clover,
blue grass and orchard grass. A MKT
ure. mot of these particularly but of
other sorts), is desirable and when we
have learned by suitable tests what are
especially adapted to climate, soil and
to each other, we shall have made an
important advance in this direction
Timothy is the main reliance at present
and blue grass is exceedingly valuable.
The objection to orchard grass is its
habit of forming tussocks at the base of
the stalk. 1t is a very valuable grass
however, with very marked habit of
rapid growth when cut or eaten off.
Red clover is indispensable to nearly
every farm and makes capital hog past
ure. In woodland pasture it may be
supplemented with the white variety,
which is better adapted to shade
Prairie Farmer.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-20

cannot, though at the head Of the solid
Confederate States, safely ignore the
Nationality Of the Union in the presence
of the American people.
His reference TO the reformation of
the civil-service is, in plain English, n
declaration that, IL all the elective offices
be filled with Democrats, those elected
will find Democrats to fill all the ap-
pointive places.
The reference to "fraud violence
Whether IL has reference to the whole
sale election frauds recently exposed in
New York City, or to the brutal vio-
lence which for several years has denied
to large bodies of citizens the right and
privilege of voting at either State or
National elections, will doubtless be ex-
planned hereafter. As he writes this
letter with full knowledge that in five
large and populous States large por-
tion of the people--in some States a
large majority-dare not 90 to the polls
to vote for fear OF violence, and that in
the few places where they do vote their
votes are not counted or returned, the
country, while agreeing with General
Hancock, that the bayonet is not be-
coming instrument for collecting votes.
will insist that the duty of the National
Government is to secure, at whatever
cost and with whatever instruments
may be necessary, to every citizen in
the broad land the right and the oppor-
tunity to vote, and to have his vote fair
ly counted and returned at every cleo
tion for National officers.
He Gpo1 lap1avafspv, that ,1a,N,I
he will perform his duty to the best of
his ability, according to his own con-
victions of law and the Constitution,
will, of course, be accepted by his
Southern followers as q grand saving
clause. In New Orleans he violated
and disregarded the law because his
convictions were opposed to the law,
and eventually, when compelled to obey
the law against his own convictions, he
asked to be relieved from the duty OF
executing the law.
The letter of General Hancock is not
candid; it is evasive and obscure. I'm
der the pretense of being an outspoken
and frank declaration of principles, no
principles are avowed, but between the
lines may be discovered the odor if not
the form of the most malignant of all
the devices of disuniOn, strife and civil
war, the demon Of State supremacy.
Chicago Tribune.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-20
The Expenses of the Democratic War.

Toward the close of the late session
of Congress the Senate passed a resolu-
ton directing the Secretary of the
Treasury to communicate TO that body
the amount Of money expended by the
United States for all purposes. necessa-
rily growing out of the war of the re-
bellion. The response to this resolu-
ton has just been printed. 1t shows
that the gross expenditure from July l.,
1861, TO June 80, 1879, inclusive, was
SB,o44, ,67l ,43l. Expenditures other
than for war during the same time were
1854, GAL 1922 leaving the expenditure
growing out of the war SO, lS9, ,929, ,908
AT the end of this time the entire debt
was reduced to Sl,996, 4l4,905 When
the total debt, less cash in the Treasury,
was highest (in August, 1861 it was
So, 1855, 43l, ,67l, or S7S,25 per capita
AT the end OF this time it was $40. AZ
per capita, a little more than half what
II was in 1860, The interest per capita
in 1865 was $4. 20; In 1879 it was Sl.69,
not one-third what 1t was per capita in
1865. Thus 1t win be seen that the
ratio of reduction of interest has been
considerably greater than the ratio of
reduction of the debt. The first year
of the war the total debt, less cash in
the Treasury, was S87, us, ,660; in 1862
1t was S505, 1919, ,752; in 1868 It was 81, :
III, $3.50, 737; in 1864 II was 81, 100, 452,-
277; In 1865, as stated, 1t was highest
From this on il has steadily diminished
at an average rate of S6S, 900, 600 year
ly. The rate of reduction per capita
was S2,70, During the first years after
the war this rate was much greater than
during recent years, for the last year II
was only one-fourth what it was during
the second year after the war - WASH
iRgion Dispatch 10 the Chicago Times. .
=aa -s-=--s
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-08-20
rwausau CwIs.l Central WISCONSIN.

We love everything that's old. Old friends,
old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
And the famous author might have added
old medicines, because of their known worth.
In late communication, Mr. Eustace sauer,
Medina, Mo-, thus speaks of an Old German
Household Remedy: prize Hamburg Drops
very highly. 1 had suffered for seven years
with severe disease of the liver. vainly
expended great deal of money upon physi-
clans and for medicines. l concluded to use
Hamburg Drops. The trial was crowned with
the highest success, as am to-day healthier
than have been for years.