South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-01-13

ROMNEY. FRIDAY, JAN. 10, 1882.

hiaoo INTO paper. me expenses OF
the GuITEAC trial TO the government arc
now set down OF three hundred thou
SAM dollars. Never abuse one who
was once your bosom friend. >. Pater.
son. N. j.. built Eve hundred lccomo-
lives. last year, and now has orders for
two years ahead. :. "A contemporary
says: After all isn't it better TO be a
Democratic blunderer than Republic
can plundcrer. The small pox hos
disappeared from Winchester. Such is
our information. Glad to hear it
Richmond, Va, now has 675 manufac-
turing establishments, employing H..
64S operatives. During the past year
the gross product OF these amounted to
1872. 500, 1856, an increase over 1880, OF
$500. 864.. Subscribe for your coun-
ty paper-the "South Branch Intelli-
gencer"-only so a year. :. 1t 10 said
that experience. and IL so, this informa.
ton is worth the price OF our paper for
one year, has demonstrated that salt
sown broadcast when wheat lie well up
and stooling will prevent rust. II is
also credited with the effect OF greatly
stifening tho straw....A child four
years Of age. an inmate OF the Home for
tue Friendless, in Detroit. Michigan, is
sold to be n groat-grest grandson OF
Gen. Winfield Scott The real secret
of the trouble between General Joe
Johnson and Mr.. Jefferson Davis is
said TO be au oil quarrel between their
wives. "A congregation is often sold
Ivy the choir. True!. Nothing in
THIS world yields larger and quicker
returns on the amount invested than
poking wasp with your finger to soc
If he feels we'll. Try it, if you are so
disposed Chambersburg. Pa, SpIR-
1T: We are glad to hear it announced
once more that President ARTHUR is in
earnest in his intention TO prosecute the
Stsr-route robbers. It's nice 10 hear
good thing, even If it isn't true -.
When is O girl like a music hook p
When she is full Of airs IA bill to
reduce letter postage TO one cent has
been Introduced in Congress. A home
for curing intemperats women has been
started in Chicago. Most any place
"hete she could take off her corsets
would seem . place to ease q tight wo-
man- ~ am getting just what de-
serve" was the last remark of RICHARD
JENNINGS. a Nevada murderer before
bcing hanged by mob. GUITEAu, can
make the same exclamation, when the
rope Is placed around his neck Life
is divided into three terms-that which
was, which is, and which will be- Let
us learn from the past to profit by the
present, and from the present TO live
better for the future "A farmer OF
experience in wool growing says that
there Is more money in growing wool
at even twenty cents per pound than In
loaning money at 40 per cent. interest.
10 this SOFA fow days age, JAS. Isoa
died In Madison county, KY, having
attained tho age of 102 yeare. During
the war OF 1912 he passed his time in a
cave in the mountains, making saltpe.
ire for the manufacture of gunpowder
for the American army .Woman's
| rights-Husbnnds. . Tue statement OF
the public debt issued January 3rd,
shows decrease during tue month of
December OF sI2,703, 623.5e; cash in
the Treasury $253.s77, 9sO76; gold Ger.
tificstes, SIS, 1873. $50; silver certificates,
S6S,675,2SO; certificates OF deposi out.
standing, ss,59O.OOO; refunding certia-
Gates. $s75, 250 legal tenders, outstand-
ing, S546,6S1, ole; fractional currency
outstanding, S7.O75,92o.92. Decrease
since June 80, 1880. SIS. l07 ,O04.80.
tits stated that OH the margin Of u
pond near Toronto frog seized
snakes tail. Tue snake wisgled, but
went down backward till his head dis
appeared. The frogs capacious jaws
then closed with a slap. and digestion
set in. The habit OF carrying their
dead away from the nests is universal
among ell species Of ants. -. IL is re-
corded OF Goethe that be could write
German. French, Italian and Latin be-
fore he was eight years old. How can
We think OF appearing At that tribunal
without being able 70 give ready an
swers 10 the questions which shall then
be put TO US about the poor and the
afflicted, the hungry anil the naked, the
sick and the imprisoned =. .Indepen-
dence is the grandest thing in this
world, next to comfortable competen-
&C The hiobeat spped made in can