South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-12-08
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and pay for your county paper 80.
new born Abbevilie county Is. G..
babe has four arms and four legs
The man who thinks himself grea
gun is always big bore ..... Our goot
deeds rarely cause much gossip among
our neighbors, but our evil ones LEAP
Immediately into-notoriety Thirty
two thousand dollars worth of dia
monds shipped from Paris to New
York have been mysteriously stolen
In transit With some men the pen
| nys mightier than the sword, sure
nough Eggs and oysters contain
fourteen per cent. of flesh forming,
material --Ifyou should have Just wha,
you really deserve-no more, no less
would you be as happy as you are
now?------B BY reducing the morphia
doses and taking bromide ofpotassiunl
In increasing doses, the opium habit
may be safely discontinued j.. d. Leisure
Is sweet 10 those who have earned it
but burdensome to those who get it
for nothing MIR. Valentine Ruck
er, OF Amherst county Va, has sold
his crop OF apples to a northern gen.
tleman for four thousand dollars, the
Latter to bear expenses Of gathering.
49, Vanderbilt holds fifty-tive mill
ions of government bonds, the interest
Wherein is two million u year. His
railroad and real estate investments
render as big returns. The 10.
Gusts have appeared in Mexico, aud
at last accounts were covering, like a
thick black cloud, six miles in
width and many in length, the right
banks Of the Alvarado River, moving
northwest. The ground over which
they pass is left desert. ........ Gen
eral Butler is sixty.four years of age.
.-----Dr. Atkinson has resigned the
presidency of Hampton Sidney Col
lege, on account of bad health, and
the Trustees will elect his successor
inApril neXt----Governor-elect Grant
of Colorado, is native Of Alabama
and but thirty years of age. The
population of Wheeling according to
census just complete is 80, lS5----
Miss May Perry of Cumberland, has
presented to Emanuel Episcopal
Church i'll that city handsome com
munion table as memorial of her
mother Il think the goose has
the advantage of YOU said the land
lady to an ineXpert boarder. who was
carving. Guess he has, mum in
age was the quick retort ----It is
as hard to do good business without
advertising az it is for Il cross-eyed
man TO borrow n shot gun---In
some parts of South America the ba-
mana skin is converted into n material
of which ladies' dresses arc made
This is probably the kind that the la.
dy slips on easily ......A man in Con
yers, Ga, claims to be the boss swap.
per. Ten years ago he bought *.
ct knife. for which he paid 81 He
snapped this for pistol; he snapped
the pistol for shotgun, the gun for
a COW, the COW for horse, and sold
the horse for $500. lie invested the
$500 for the first five years, and drew
out $4,000. He has had the s. 600
out at interest for five years at 10 per
cent, and he now has the result Of
his knife trade-S3, 900 Charles
III. Reed, late counsel for Guteau.
wants five thousand dollars for servi
ces rendered in behalf OF his client
1t is q manly act 10 forsake an er-
ror. ........ The largest product for one
day ever manufactured by any -four
mill in the world was turned out by
the PillsbuTy A. mill at Minneapolis,
MinE last week 5,107 barrels -
The New Orleans Times Democrat
says the South will pay the West
ono hundred million dollars less this
year for food than in 1881 - Cover
nor Hamilton of Maryland has offer
cd five hundred dollars reward for
the arrest of the murderers of Mr..
Russell at RelsterstOwn. This makes
the total rev. ard offered one thousand
dollars rich and eccentric
Californian has paid seventeen differ.
ent John Smiths in the State three
hundred dollars each to change their
names ..... This year is one of note
as an anniversary. 1T is the 20Oth
year since PENIS landing. the 150th
since George Washingion's birth, the
100th since the treaty OF peace With
England preliminary 10 recognition
of American Independence, and the
Tooth anniversary Of the first Mctho.
dist conference A country doc.
tor. being asked what was the best
way TO cure q ham remarked that he
fore answering that question hcshouId
want 20 know what allied the ham
1t is estimated that the tOothpic< tOed
boots have added at least. one million
cOrn5 to the corn crop of the country.
...."...The Capitation Tax Of one dol
lar head was abolished ut the recent
election in Virginia by vote of 1OS. :
$40 TO G7,7jI Both parties claim
that flo aLpltfiou tvitl lao Of ,Ir,,t