South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-11-04
Ssnth 1raueh 5ntslliaenfer.
RoMNEY. FRIDAY, NOV. 4. 1881.
BpEvIriEs.-The Pennsylvania Rail.


time. 1t is claimed that it will make
ninety miles to the hour. Gold eau
buy pretty nearly everything in this
world except that which man wants
most-viz.: happiness. -. Which is
the greater duty-to love our neighbor,
or to SO behave that our neighbor will
love us ?.-..Ncw York city has thus
far contributed Sll5.3 TO the Michigan
sufferers. No denuncia.ion is SO elo-
quent as the final influence Of good
example. with q pow erful lobby. the
distiiling interest will make an effort. to
have Congress- reduce the whisky tax TO
90 cents per gallon. :. The discomfort
cd man finds no easy chair, :. The most
delicate, the most sensible of all pl eas-
ures. consists in promoting the pleas
urcs Of others. Secretary WINDOW
was elected to the United States Senate
on the 10Th ult. by tho Minnesota lie
gislature. lie who can plant courage
in human heart is the best physician
The President has appointed HEN
RY Ii. GARNETT, OF New York, a color.
ed preacher, minister TO Liberia.
There are ss many wretched rich men,
IN proportion, as there are wretched
/ poor men,. Moro than $4,000, 600 of
( fractional paper currency is still out
standing although Congress provided
Give yesrs ago Cor the redemption and
/ destruction of sll thst CURRENCY. 1t is
/ probable that very little OF this currency
will ever be returned for redemption.
IA constable volunteered to watch a
store which was 10 be robbed, ut New
/ Sharon. Ia. He slept az his post, aud
Tue burglars took away his money, pis-
tolls and clothes. leaving him covered
with molasses.. The Burmese have
their good points, after all. When a
medicine msn isiis TO cure patient
they bury him alive. ..Consjdcriue
inst kind words cost nothing. what n
poor stock Of them is in the domestic
market. The roaming Evan geIist,
Randall, who has Travelled all over the
country painting, texts on fences, is nov
In thc Asylum al Weston. -. Mr. Lahm.
OF Lincoln county, this State, killed If
" squirrels one day last week. : d. The
grave OF General BradlOclS, defeated
near Pittsburgh, in 1895, Is few miles
cast Of Uniontovn, Fsyette county, Pa,
on the Old nsiional pike. There is no
monument or stone to mark .Ac-
cordlng To the last census the outlay for
building and repairing farm fences dur
Ing 1879 in eleven Southern and South
western States aggregated sl3.565. 746,
--.Of 800 wild pigeons shipped from
-. Louis to Canton, OHIO, recently, ior
a shooting match, 225 died on the way
from poor care and close packing, and
the rest were TOO weak to- stand. The
fellow who wrote, on, Ask Me not a.
gain muat have been full. The old
gentleman is snoring tho snore Of the
Virtuous in his easy chair. Ills youth
Gul grandson rushcs 10 his mother. 'Ol
ma, grandpa is in tie parlor-s leoping
right out loud 80. The weight of n cssk
OF water pulled out the teeth of The
Man with the Iron Jaw while he was
performing at tie Indiana State Fail
and fell on his breast, crushing him IL
death..-..An Old Indian fighter say.
the best music ho knows Of TO sooth,
tie savage breast is the whistle Of &
well directed ride ball.....A posta
clerk named Van Horne, running between
Harrisburg, Pa and Pittsburgh, was ar
rested on the 2Gth ult., charged will
robbing the mails. 80. The largest can
non ever cast in this country was turned
out 1T the Scott works 81 Reading, Pa.
on Monday Of last week. IL weigh,
e $4,000 pounds, carries a three foo, bal
ten miles with velocity Of 5000 fee
per second, and yet they call it poke
canuon..-- .Frugaliiy is founded on the
b piinciple that all riches have limits. -.
, IL Isly women mourn in white, snC
e men in brown. In Ethiopia gray is uscC
and in Egypt yollowish.brown, like Z
dcod Leaf. Jones calls his wiie's hair
dresser Ler swilch-tender..... Unbe.
coming forwardness oftcner proceed,
from ignorance than impuloncc.....Ir
Gle last forty years ono hundred ant
twenty missionaries on the west coast
OF Africa have fallen victims 10 the CHI
msJe. but Che converts TO Christianity
on the field now number thirty thousand
& o. more. and thirty-three missionary so.
ccuss arc to-day working in Africa.
Five thousand ot The inhabitants oil
Paris earn living hy Catching rats, and
selling ,hcir skins % The glove makers