South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-01-06
Ssuth 3raufh 5ntslligenfer.
RoMNEY. FRIDAY, JAN. 6, 1882.

"'o ooibcu 10 pay 10 tue
church one-tenth of all they raise, or
make, or earn.-.. The qualities we pos
sess never make us so ridiculous as
those we pretend to have. "A South
ern journal says this years rice crop in
The Gulf States will reach one hundred
aud hfty million bushels. tits predict
ed that the rice industry will soon rival
That OF sugar.growing in Louisiana.
The income OF the Indian school at Car
Isle. Pa, this year will exceed the OK.
penses nearly 5000. The mackerel
buries itself in mud during the winter.
--.Muskrats are late in building their
houses this year. Old settlers say this
means open Winter. There ere $50
butter and cheese factories in Iowa.
LIT is,sad to know that the bigger
the bonnet or. hat the more fashionable
it is. And it's the Same way with some
kinds OF vices. Some years ago Miss
LIBBIE MINKLER Of Rochelle, ILL.,, lost
both arms by falling in from, of q reap
er. To-day she lie earning a good liv.
ing by oil painting, holding the brush
in her teeth. = Vermont, with short
season. and not particularly productive
soil. rases twice as many bushels Of
corn TO tho acre rs does Tennessee.
where the soil and climate are peculiar
" well adapted 70 the production of
| corn "A matchmaker opened O shop
81 Lebigh. Iowa, and repaired watches
at such astonishing|y cheap rates that
over hundred we're soon on his bench.
Then he packed them in his trunk and
trnv.i cd on I'VE carry all our neigh
bors' crimes in the light and throw all
our own over our shoulder. .Astonish.
ing fertility is claimed for the soil OF
Colorado. vegetable gardener, who
owns twenty acres OF land near Canon
City, 10 reported by tho Denver Journal
TO have raised eighty thousand heads Of
cabbage of the largest size upon his
small tract he shipped the greater
part OF this crop TO Kansas CITY, and
estimates HE sprofts at over ten thou
sGnd dollars. There are in West vir-
/ ginia. by the census OF 1850. 6l8457
people, against 442,014 in 1870. OF
the present population 3l4,495 are
males and S05,962 females, 600,19 ma
tives Of the United States and S.265
Foreigners, 592,537 whites and 1886
| colored. 5 Chinese au1 20 Indians
The richest person to day upon the Sand.
wich Islands is CLAUS SPRECKLEs of
Honolulu. A few years ego lie was
laughed at when he purchased Ten thou :
sand acres Of land for ten cents an acre,
sc tue track vas at the foot of an ex-
. tinCt volcano, and covered with O crust
on the surface Ike n 1agstone walk
! He broke up this crust, mixed the dust
with a small quantity Of vegetable
mould, thoroughly irrigated the soil
thus formed. and planted suGar-caDe.
To-day he isa millionaire. . The young
lsdy students atthe Presbyterian Col
lege in Ottawa, Canada, learned few
days ago that poor woman, who oh
tanned living for herself and children
by washing, was laid up by sickness, and
the next morning they went TO her
house, did the washing and ironing Tor
her, and sent tho clothes home truly
noble oct on the part Of the young la
dies. Every man has in his own life
follies enough in his own mind trouble
enough; in his own fortunes evil G.
nough, without being curious after the
affairs Of others SIR lIUMPuREY DA,
w is credited with the beautiful say
ing: "Life is made up, not of great
sacrifices and duties, bat OF little thugs
in which smiles and kindness and small
obligations, given babituaIly, ore what
win and prvserge the heart and secure
comfort" "a girl who has felon on
her finger and q fellow on her hand has
as much as sue can attend %. -Four
hundred persons we're drowned b. the
bursting Of dam near Algiers, Africa.
Gen. Joseph l.. Johnston denies tho
] hJ'iJ NO1' loutCl w hiE -Chdi > lhB In
President jefferson Davis with making
way with two million dollars OF Confcd-
crate treasure Motto Of man Who
( doesn't pay bis debts: "Novcr give
/ up" ....All men must admire a frank
open honesty OF purpose, though few
arc ready to possess it themselves. 60.
A horse.doctor at Sturgeon, Mo-, drives
a span Of elk5..-.A Philadelphia paper
has n report that one Of Colonel Inger-
soils daughters ha1 become a Presby-
terrain -. Eptnph FOR tho man who LEFT
without paying bis board bill "GOno,
bat not forgotten" mo principle Is
more noble, as there 10 none more holy,
Lhon that Of 8 true obedience .....