South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-08-12

1851 Wis psace .tSuite
number oil persons have visited the Ice
Mountain during the last few weeks
gainesville is improving; Richard Green
has built large wayon.makers shop.
and ia now busy at his trade, building
and repairing wagons. Our enterpris-
ing merchants. Oslesbee & Bro, are do.
ing thriving business. They have
bought the Snapp property AMI have
added large ware-room TO their store.
ilockman. our postmaster, has gone into
the auction business. AMI makes things
lively. DR.. Taylor has been quite busy
Tor some time past, as there is considc-
rable sickness in the Little Canon re-
gion. NORMAN
The capitalists or the North and O,
England are at length turning their at
tention to the South for profitable in
vestments OF their funds. A we'll in :
formed correspondent of the New York
Herald, writing from Atlanta, Georgia,
Estates that there has been subscribed
in the North and in Europe during the
past eighteen months. the enormous
sum OF one hundred million dollars 70 r
investment in the South. This sum ia
To be spent south Of Richmond, Va, and
east OF the Mississippi. Much of this is
to be expended in improving and build.
ing railroads. Some, however, is to be.
or already has been. invested in facto =
ries, and some is TO be loaned to planters.
Two cotton factories have been estab.
lished at Augusta, Ga, one with a capt.
tai OF 81 coo, 900, the other with car j.
tai of $500, 900, two-thrGs OF which
came from the North. Numerous other
factories have been established in the
South, largely, by Northern capital
Ope English firm has already loaned
100000 to the cotton planters, and
another company with a capital of Sd
600, 900 is Offering to loan all who can
| give good security at n low rate Of in
teresi. This large expenditure OF no.
ney Iii the South will necessarily max
times lively in that section. Labor will
be in great demand. and cmigrants will
turn their faces toward the equa, Or
The South is the land Of promise for the
next lew years, and this decade will!
witness wonderful developments in tia,
region OF fertile coil and sunny cline.
The Southern States possess vast areas
that are yet untouched by the hand OF
man. A few people are sprinkled over
the country, while the climate, soil and
| productions invite a heavy population.
The Sonth has suffered much, and we
are glad to believe that its day OF pros.
perity is at hand. We notice in many
OF the Republican journals of the North
more kindly feeling towards 'Dixie's
laou' than heretofore"
A Newark IN. j church member
who says on Sunday that lie is too tire,i
TO stand up in church while the hymns
are sung, stood for an hour the other
day on Broad street To wait for a circus
TO come along. His ncighbors say that
lie dill not nDplain OF being weary on
hat occasion.
Burlimgt on HdUkeye: A man on
South I'LL calls his wife "Postnl Card
because she cells every body everything
she knows. Aul she calls him "Circu-
lar" because there's nothing in him
worth finding out.
Soc, mammal" exclaimed little
one, ne pus1. with archod spine and ell
evatei ru.ller, strutted around the tn.
BILE, See kitty's eat so much sho can't
shut her tail down.
A young lady is giving whis;ling en-
! tertanments in the oil regions. Any
thing to raise tho wind during the dull
season.
Samuel d. Gordon has retired from the
Gazette" Petersburg. Grant county, having
sold the paper to Nessrs william ". rRvis and
V. Douglass We with the oew firm success
We Sre waiting now for those persons who
intended to pay their subscription after harvest.
PERsoNALs-AUTuoR b. PU0H. Esq ID,
Of Petersburg, Grant county, called To
see us on Friday evening last. lie was
on lis way TO visit bis mother, at Capon
Bridge, in this county. Mr.. r. was
looking well and in good spirits.
Rev. EDWARD BOOKER, Of the 2nd
/ PresbJ terrain Church Of Staunton, Vir-
gaia, paid brief visit this week to his
sisters, Mrs. Rev George w. Finley
and Mrs Robert W. Daley, in this