South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-12-23
Santh 1rsaeh gatellissueer.
RoMNEY. FRIDAY, DEC. %. 1881.

S ~S~SP~oN suc presidency OIL q bank
IN New York. at salary of $4,000.
....Dare to do right; fear to do wrong.
....Our vices arc like our nails. Even
rs We cut them they grow again :. Re-
port is quick traveller. but .an. unsafe
guide... The negro man, charged with
burning the barn of Gen. G. S. MEEn
was tried in the county court OF Shenan.
doah county last week and acquitted. .. :.
There is pear tree in Everett. Bedfo
county, Pa, which has borne two crops
OF fruit each year for three sncce ssive
years. and this year third crop has
appeared. =. Honest labor bears love-
ly face -. Cumberland Times Chick
ems are selling at i0@l2 cents per
pound; turkeys 1908; rabbits, Is
cents; eggs, 35@40 cents; butter. IS
cents. and apples 60@75 cents. The
same paper states that Diphtheria is
beginning TO spread through tue city.
----A memory is the granary of the
mind and OF experience. 80. WASHING
TON WILSON, living at East Railway, N.
j., attempted to drive large boar a
few days ago, when the brute turned on
him. mangling him so severely that he
died Of lockjaw.--.A happy heart
makes!a happy visage. Do you think
it is because OF the great improvement
in spring beds and mattresses that PEG.
pie lie so easily ?. Miss REBRCcA
Bates died at Scituate, Mass. on the
18th inst, sged SO years. Mas Bates
and her cousin Abbie we're the heroiues
Of the British scare in 1912, when the
two girls, hidden behind rocks on the
beach, with fife and drum sounded the
roll-call and put 10 fight several boat
loads Of troops from q British man of.
| VAT who were about to make landing
Miss Bates's cousin, Abbie. is still liv-
| ing, and il 80 years old - No, child
grass widow is not necessarily green
Tho discovery of what is true and
tue practice OF what is good are tie two
most important objects Of life :. There
is no other article OF Ameriosn produc.
ton that is subjected TO such Tyranny
or manipulation in tho way Of taxation
as American tobacco. The tobacco
crop OF the United States brings about
$50, ooO,o 900 only to its producers, while
the several governments OF Europe, aud
our own, derive about 100000, 900 Of
revenue from it annually - He re-
ceiyes benefit who bestows one on n
worthy person -. No man can GO into
bad company without suffering for it.
The honely old proverb has it very
tersely: "a man can't bite tho bottom
out OF a frying pan without shutting
his nose..-.A lady in Kinds county,
Miss, who has managed her husbands
farm Outing his absence the pas. year.
has not only paid all expenses but lift
ed heavy mortgage on the place.
Society says one thing, and nature sage
another An American cheese bore
away the prize OF q silver medal at the
great cattle and dairy show at Birming-
ham, England. 1t was ono of the lar
gest ever made, weighing three-fourths
OF a ton, and came from Iowa. c. God
thoughts are not lost, though they are
not practiced - So many boys in Bal
timore lave been fatally injured through
the handling Of the Toy pistol that
city ordinance has been passed making
u unlawful TO sell the article within tie
city limits....A good example is per-
petual precept. Nv. L. STEBBINs, n
well-known citizen Of Ashland, died last
week. 49,. When is a horse like busis
ness man ia trouble ? When he breaks.
The morality of domestic life is the
very corner stone ofcivilization . The
man who easily and quickly forgets
good turn is just the man to avoid do
ing one IL he possibly can Thou
sands of fish are said TO have been
thrown out Of the sos by an earthquake
near Galway. Ireland. 1t was John
son who said. 1.-THE dimiDutive chains
OF habit ore seldom heavy enough TO be
felt until they are too strong 30 DO bro.
ken" -. Mr.. 6covILLE, Guiteau's at
torney. lectured on the case in Wash
iDgton on the night OF the l4th inst.
and took up q collection for the benefit
Of bis client The skirts of fasbiona.
Die women clear the ground by two in,
ches. At tho monthly meeting of the
Baltimore aud Ohio railroad directors
in Baltimore on Wednesday Of last
week, Mr.. JonE W. GARRETT vas cleo
ted President for the oath time. -.
Martinsburg Independent: Over eleven
hundred bushels Of spples werc shipped
from hers TO points in Pennsylvania,
this week. Last season the shipments
we're from Pennsylvania TO this point.