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South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-01-06
PUBLISHING NEW LAWS.
AMATEUR.

SomtImonths siuce We called atten-
ton TO the importance OF publishing
oil new laws enacted by the legislature
Mt each ressiop. 1t is abou. the only
way to familiarzc the public with them.
Our esteemed contemporary, the Con-
nellsville Courier. saya on the same
subject All INSTRUMENTATION agree
that the essential property OF law is
that it be duly prescribed; that it be
made known to The people who are to
obey il. Blackstone says it ia incum-
bent uponsthe legislator TO promulgaIe
the Law in the most public manner, and
not like Caljgula, the cruel Rouan En-.
peror, who wrote tue m in very small
characters and hung them on high pill
lars the more cffeciuAlly 10 ensnare the
people
Aud yet The hundreds OF new laws
passed by the legislature at lis every
session LeEc to ali practical intents aud
purposes promulgated not snlike those
OF Caligun. It is long after the legis-
lature he's adj0urned. often bali year,
before the laws arc fually printed, and
even then they have but limited cir
culation, being confined To lGwysrs and
Justices. The masses must Of necesei-
ty remain in ignorance OF the lcgisle-
tive prohibitions, aud in many cases it
seems hard that the stern maxim or the
law, that ignorance excuses no man,
should DO applied. Especially is this
true of those penal acts known as mala
i'prohibita, or wrongs not evil in them
selves mate oTenses by legal prohibit
ton. Here does The hardship Of pun
ishing an unwilling offender. who hRs
bad no reason to suspect the existence
Of the Law from public Information be-
came painfully APPARENT organtown
New Dominion.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-01-06
COMM NICATIO.N.

The WHITE DEER.-The notice in
the last "Intelligencer," respecting q
peculiar White Deer is worthy of more
consideration, than has been given to
it, in that brief notice. There are those
who desire TO know more respecting it.,
and also. as. to how Mr. Brady came in
possession OF it, For the satisfaction
of some. ! may say, that Mr.. Brady is
just the man whom / would expect to
come in possession Of IL. lie has all
the pride of the hunters Of these West
Virginia mountains and is one of the
most successful. This white deer nt-
tracted his attention. aud that OF his
"cabin-gang," more than -four years a
60, while they were, as usual, on their
winters hunting expedition, equipped
for s.stay, onfMr. Brady's noted hunt
ing grounds, amid the peaks Of what is
called "Dig Mountain" S. w. of Rom
ney, and often times have they been on
the track of this deer. but not until
last Saturday, the 18th ult., did they
succeed in capturing him. Yet, Mr.
Brady, with all his accorded honor, must
yield the Palm of Victory to the young
est member Of their "Hunting Club"
W. RUSSELL PANCAKE, who proved him
self true marksman, with his WIN
chester Repeater" making five Shots
ell dead ones and at long range. The
writer OF this communication enjoyed
the pleasure OF seeing the curiosity
Visiting hunters from abroad have found
q welcome at this cabin, and enjoyed
the feast of wild game, cooked probably
on their rustic forks, while they were
INDUCING in jokes pertaining to the
hunters JOY. One may imagine tue
scenes around tue blazing fircs Of tLeir
camp. May they be enjoyed again, by
our "hunters Of West Virginia. and
visiting hunters from abroad, Is the
wsh OF friend,
AMATEUR.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-01-06

by dealing more kindly aud just
than you once did TO me-
The man turned an inquiring an 4
puzzled look upon the speaker.
we have met before, Mr.. Burc b.
ard. Twenty years ago. lad OF six
teen. / entered your Office in search
OF employment. Do you remember
what YOU said 10 meS'
That flushed and conscious face
was the only answer TO this query, nor
was any other needed.
DO you remember what l said to
you at our second and last interview
There was no verbal response to
this either and Judge Reed continued
In gentler tone.
God forbid that l should add a
feathers weight TO the sorrow that is
yours to-day, or fail to ascribo the
praise to Him to whom all belongs /:
but thanks to His goodness and the
teachings of the best of mothers, /
have lived it down.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-01-06

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South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-01-06
WHAT'S TIE HARM?

Whats the harm of a game of
cards 2 said john Latimer 10 Robert
Stanton, who had suddenly come up
on him and his friends, as they were
gathered around q card-table. we
don't have any stakes. We don't
play for money, or cigars, or drinks.
We are only Willing away little
time and having little pleasant ex.
cltement. Now where's the harm 2
Well said Robert, perhaps there
Is not much harm in the mere act of
playing, as you are playing Just now.
But, am afraid of the beginning of
such things. Card.playing is like
drinking. At frat, it seems innocent
enough; but at the last, it ruins every
tinng. For my part, therefore,
choose the safe side. am very sure,
II | know nothing about cards, there
will be no possibility OF my becoming
Il gambler
BY the way he continued, 'let me
tell YOU what | lately saw in the Phila-
delphia Timea. That paper saws:
There is mansin Washington who
is.now a.comInon gambler, but who,
IN other years, bore splendid name.
lie was graduate Of Harvard col.
lcge, and was selected, at the close of
the war, to the United States Senate.
from one ofthc Southern States. He
served in this and other Offices with
great distinction. After his term in
the Senate, he was appointed Assis-
tant Secretary of the Treasury. Here
his fall began. He became too fond
OF wine and cards, and finally lost his
Office and landed in jail.
After getting out of Jail, he was,
for time, wretchedly poor. lie rail-
he'd little, and got appointed to n
twelve-hundred dollar clerIship. His
friends thought he might recover him
self in this position. But he did not.
lie had terrible passion for gamb-
ling. and under the baleful influence
OF this, ne lost his clcrkship and his
money job. Now he goes about, bor-
rowing dollar or two, whenever he
can, which he takes into the lowest
gaming places and plays with, until
It IS gone. If be has no money, he
SITS by and keeps the score for tho
low wretches who frequent these bells
on earth. lie once bad charming
family Of boys and girls; but he
knows not where they are now
4 tell you what, boys, said Robert,
warming UP, there is harm in any
thing which produces results like
those. Ii you want to incur such
risks, you may. BHt | will not. In
my judgment. the best thing to do
with a pack Of cards IL, to pack them
into the fire.'-Our Young People.
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South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-01-06

Boys and Their Mother.-Some
one has written beautifully to the boya
IN the following manner. Here is a
whole sermon in a few sentences.
OF all the love affairs IN the world.
none can surpass the true love Of the
big boy for his mother. It ia pure
love and noble, honorable in the
highest degree TO both. / do not
mean merely dutiful affection. |
mean r. love that makes boy gallant
and courteous 20 his mother. saying to
every body plainly that he ig fairly in
lOvo with her. Next 10 the love of n
husband nothing 40 crowns a woman
life with honor "a this second love.
this devotion Of z son 10 her. And
/ never yet knew boy turn out bad
who began by falling in love with his
mother Any man may fall in love
with q frash-faced girl, and the man
who JIG gallant with tho girl may cru.
ely neglect the worn and weary
wife. But the boy who is a lover OF
bis mother IN her middle-ago is true
knight, who will love his wife in the
scre-iealed autumn az he did in the
dalsicd spring-time.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-01-06

The Wooden Dish Factory is an OK
tensive industry st Indianapolis, Ind.
Not many years ago persons would have
laughed AZ the idea OF wooden dishes,
but they have become a necessity. They
arc cut from tho sycamore or the gum
tree by tue most ingenious machinery /;
which will cut and trim 200, 900 dishes
a day-other machinery shapes aud
fastcus the cups together. Fifteen Of
these are employed, each OF which can
turn out 10000 daily. Tho wood il
steamed, 50 as to be readily WORKED and
moulded.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-01-06

A Womb OF GoOD.-One of the
most popular medicines now before tho
American public, is Hop Bitsers. You
see 10 everywhere. People take Is With
good effect. Il builds them up. II Is
not S. pleasant 70 the taste as some
other B'iters, IS IL is not = whiskey
drink. 10 is more like tho old-fashion.
ed bonesct tea, that has done world
OF good. II you don't feel just right.
try Hop Bitters.-Nuada N,gs.
Subscribe Tor ;ho "IntolIigeocer"
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Court EiractorY. for 1881.

C.rs1it Court TO- Hampshire county FIRST
Tu-sis7 10 March, 4th Tuesday 10 May and 3rd
4. sslsy in September.
Comfy Court the Isl Tuesdays in January
Apn rui October, aud tue last Tuesday 10 July.
Circuit Courts.
Hardy 3ri Tuesday in March and 5th Tues
dky Fro Nay. aud st Tuesday ia October.
Mineral let Tuesday ia May and September
agt s.u Tuesday IN November
Graat ist fueslAy in April and June, and
ga cacsisT 70 October.
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csl e. WeGne51ay in November.
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Mrs. Smith, Of Long Island, WAS
sick unto death. The only caro- of
her dying hours was her ak children
and Mr.. Smith That they might be
well cared for after her death she dc.
manded that her husband marry her
sister. To satisfy the dying lady he
consented. With womsn's pervcrsi-
~ Mrs. Smith then insisted that the
marriage should take place before her
death In that spirit Of self-sacrifco
and compliance with duty that dis
tiuguished the gallant Captain Reeve.
the Bah Ballad hero, Mr. Smith did
"a he was bid, and the ceremony was
performed, whcroupon Mrs. Smith
Immediately got better. It ia plain
that Mr. Smith will have to go to Jail
or 20 Utah.
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a.I -n eSrs i-acs OF ~ years active practice,
.r..1 10 "bich he was = surgeon in the Uni
Res .fmy. yH.e, nest 70 Mr.. Gilkeson 9
1'1 Sept. %, 1851 en-.
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The strength Of an elephant isreck.
oned at that Of forty-scycE men.
St. Landry democrat., 1882-07-29
MISCELLANEOUS.

AT meeting Of the Ohio Republi car
Association in Washington. D. c., the other
night, letter from Mrs. Garfield, offering
to sell the family residence, at the corner Of
Thirteenth and streets, was read. She set
forth that she preferred to have the place
fall into the hands of such an association,
which would cherish it for the memories
connected with it, rather than let it 60 to
some private party who might alter 1t. She
said that Gen. Garfield had told her once
that 1t was worth SIS, 900, but she would take
$4,000 for it.. Real estate dealers value the
property at $4,000.
THE glove-fight between Wilson and
Sullivan in New York City on the 18th
lasted fifteen minutes, and was witnessed by
an immense throng. Wilson won the money.
EMILIANo DANIEL and Aleio Zespe-
da, with fifty followers, surprised the town
OF Tomala, Las Chiapas, on the 18th, and
after stubborn fight released all the pris-
oners in the Jail, who were armed and
pressed into the ranks. Captain Guzman,
with eighty Mexican soldiers, charged the
reyolutionists and put them to flight.
St. Landry democrat., 1882-07-29
CONDENSED TELEGRANS.

The report on the river and har.
Dor bill recommending concurrence in all the
items except those relating to the Potomac
fats, the Hennepn and the Chesapeake ca
mails, and the Mississippi appropriation, was
adopted in the Senate, on the 2lst, and a
new conference committee was appointed to
dispose of the rejected items. The House
passed the bill to modify the postal money
order system.
THE Acknowledgement of New York
opened the argument in the courts in be-
| half Of a mandamus against the Central and
Erie roads to compel them to promptly
transmit freight. Roscoe Conkling, appearing
for the railways, claimed that the papers in
the case did not show that the people of the
State had been injured by the blackade.
BRADLAUGH, the English reformer,
and three other defendants connected with
the publication Of the Free Thinker were
committed for trial on a charge of publish
ing blasphemous libels the other day. Brad
laugh YVES subsequently admitted to bail in
f10O.
MAJOR CHAFFEE, who has been fol-
lowing the renegade Indians from San Car
los surprised them near Fort Verde, Ari-
IONA, the other day, killing twenty six and
capturing all their equipage and thirty-two
horses. Lieutenants Morgan and Converse,
Of the Third Cavalry, were wounded, and
one enlisted man was killed.
WILLIAM MILLER, Overseer of the
Poor-farm at Woodstock, Conn.,, was killed
by an aged pauper named Parsons the other
day.
J.B. HALL, member of the Ohio Leg
islature from Hamilton County, and Presi-
dent of the Home Insurance Company, CO.
lumbus, and H. FL. Henderson, Secretary,
have been arrested on warrant, sworn out
by the State Superintendent of Insurance,
charging them with perjury.
SIX boys have been arrested in Brock
ton, Mass, for stealing from business men
by searching their letters at the post office.
The decision in the case of Gen. New
ton M. Curtis, ex-Treasury Agent, convict
ed in the United States Circuit Court, New
York, for collecting money from office
holders for political purposes, has been at
frmed by the court in banc.
THE Department of Agriculture an
nounces that an Office for the collection of
European crop statistics will be established
in London, under recent appropriation by
Congress.
j. F. WALSH was hanged in Brook
Ign, N. Y, July 81, for the murder of Bar
bara Groenthal.
ALEXANDER KIER, who superintend-
II IL.
Creek bridge, near Long Branch, N. j., the
scene of the recent disaster, has been COM
mitted to Jail on a charge of manslaughter.
St. Landry democrat., 1882-07-29
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

The Texas Democrats have nominal
ed John ireland for Governor. They demand
hard money, a tariff for revenue only, thor
ough reform Of the civil service, free vote
and fair count, and free ships. They are op-
posed to class legislation, GENERALIZATION, and
national banks.
w. D. WAsHBURN has been renom-
mated for Congress by the Republicans Of
the Fourth Minnesota District.
DE FREYc1NET, in opening the debate
in the French Chamber Of Deputies on the
Egyptian question, expressed the belief
that armed Intervention had become i'm
perative by the massacre of French sub
jects in Alexandria. The English alliance,
he said, had never been shaken. The Suez
Canal can not cease to be free, even If
France must be one Of the powers to pro-
tect it. Gambetta censured the Cabinet for
accepting Turkish Intervention without
guarantees against collision with the
Egyptians, but declared that he would vote
for the grant
St. Landry democrat., 1882-07-29
IT seems that Oscar Goodwin. cashier

1T seems that Oscar Goodwin, cashier
of the Logansport Qnd.) Bank, who disap.
peared some time ago, taking with him his
bond, and tearing from the records all ref
erence to it, is a defaulter to the amount o.
80, 900, the whole sum being in account Of
the Merchants National Bank of Chicago.
WHILE confirmation services were in
progress in the Kentucky Penitentiary the
other day number of convicts in the hemp
house were secreting hammers, saws, files,
and other instruments likely to be of SER
vice in effecting their escape The timely
arrival of guard spoiled the plot
The list of victims of the toy pistol in
the vicinity Of Boston since July has swo-
len to forty. and Cincinnati reports six
deaths within a few days from the same
cause.
In Buenos Ayres, during services in
memory OF Garibaldi, a curtain in a public
hall took fire, producing stampede A
wall toppled over on the assemblage, and
twenty bodies have been taken from the
ruins.
AT Millville, Mass, the other day,
Joseph Garbwree had fight of twenty
minutes duration with a black snake
twelve feet in length, and received ten
bites.
Miss GREYsON, of Erie, Pa, who for
many years had been confined to her bed
with spinal disease, recently made arrange
ments for simultaneous prayer in her be-
half, and at the hour fixed sprang up heal
ed. 1t happened, however, that no PRAYER
meeting was held.
MEXICO was agitated by an earth
quake the other day. The shock was par
tlcularlv trying in the capital, where the
people went on their knees in the streets
and the greatest CONSERVATION prevailed.
The engine of gravel train plunged
into the river at Niles, Mich, on the 18th,
The driver and tiremen were seriously in
jured.
A NUMBER of men broke into the
house Of Noah Parks, a colored preacher, in
Winston County, Miss, July 10, dragged
him out OF bed put rope round his neck,
and strung him up to tree. Friends cut
him down and resuscitated him the moment
the lynchers left. The reverend gentleman
was suspected OF stealing corn.
Col. PHILIpoN, accused of participa-
ton i'll Nihlistic conspiracy at st. Peters
burg, has been exiled to Siberia.
Mr.. A. FoRCAs, the Vicksburg
(Miss.) store keeper who invented the burg
lar sensation the other day, is not only
charged with numbering his wife and burn
ing his store and dwelling, but testimony is
being accumulated to prove that he is also
guilty Of THE assassination Of negro dray-
man several months since.
LANCASTER, Pa, and vicinity was
swept by storm on the 10Th. Many per-
sons were Injured and much property de-
'troyed. Boston, Mass, was flooded by
1eavy rains on the same dav.
A GREAT fire ragged in Smyrna, Asia
Minor, on the 10Th. Fourteen hundred |
houses were destroyed ard 5000 people are |
homeless.
OFFICERS of the steamer John Will
ION. sunk in the Atchafalayi4 River the 9TH
r night, report the loss of Eseen lives.
St. Landry democrat., 1882-07-29

ALEXANDRIA, July 49,
A correspondent has opened communication
with the camp of Arab Pasha, which, his
informant says, consists of little over 5000
men, who are intensely disconnected and
surrounded by starving women and chill
dren. Recruits Of the lowest class are
still being cnticed by Arab, with promises
of unlimited plumber. His force is held to-
gether by the assertion that the English will
kill all returning to the city. Arab and Toulba
Pashas have utterly lost prestige by their
gross cowardice during the bnmbardment.
The arti!lerymen We're kept to their guns on
the 18th by infantry posted under cover
Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-01-26
AUSTRALASIA.

The Australia, Captain Cargill, arrived
at San Francisco yesterday morning, after
quick trip from Sydney and Auckland
via Honolulu. Among the passengers is
Sir Henry Parkes. Sir Henry represents
all the Australian colonies on mission tc
obtain from the United States concession
in regard to colonial WOOL He will also
probably consult with the Pacific Mail
Company relative to the renewal of the
postal contract with New South Wales and
New Zealand.
The news from the colonies is not i'm.
por.ant. The elections are over in New
Zealand, and the Hall government is ahead.
Sir George Grey won his election in Auck.
land by small majority. Several Of the
old political leaders have been relegated to
private life. The entire colony is prosper
GUS. Sir a. Gordon, Governor of New
ZEALAND, is about to resign, to the great
satisfaction of everyone.
The Victorian Parliament was prorogued
December oath.
The Victorian team defeated New South
Wales at an intercolonial cricket match,
winning easily. The English eleven de-
feated Victorian eleven at Melbourne.
A snt thun ier-storm and hurricane
passed over Central Australia in December.
A 500, 900 fire is reported from Forbes,
New South Wales. Smallpox still pre-.
walls in Sydney and suburbs.
Ministerial changes have taken place in
Queensland. consequent upon the elevation
of Sir A. Palmer to the Presidency of the
Legislative Council.