South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1885-05-22
South Sranth Sntellioeneer.
RouNEY. FRIDAY. NAY %. 1853.


Gen. Graut's cancer Il reported tc
be making very marked progress.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee. OF Virginia
has been appointed By the Presiden
as member of the National Board
OF Visitors to the United States Mill
tary Academy of West Point.
Deputy U. s. Marshal Haegert,
arrested John ID. Lee. a naive oil
Hardy county, near Guysville, Ohio
last week. 1t is said Lee ism old
offender against the revenue lave
and Tor seven years past he has sue
ceeded in sluding tho officers and
keeping out of the hands of tie law
lie 10 now in Jail in Clarksburg await.
ing trial.
Two SOUTHERN GiRLs.-The Green.
vile 6. c. News says: Robt. Yer
gin, \ one-armed cx-Confedcrate sol-
der, OF Dial's township. Laurens, has
u daughter of whom he can be very
proud. She has for several winters
acted az engineer. running her faith
er's engine TO gin cotton. using her
books even while at tn, engine for
self-lmprovsment. BY her self-appli
cation. energy and industry she has
made money enough to educate he.-
self. first teaching. then attending
acLool. She is Row in the graduating
class OF the Columbia Female Col
lege, has Leen elected to write her
class valedictory address. and holds
the position Of first honor in her class
Miss Yergin lie now IL years OF age,
handsome and intellectual. he bid.
fair to run bright and useful career
in lad,s proper sphere. Aiiss Ma
r, Yergin's younger sister, Mise Ii
lab, IA years of age, now runs her ia
Tiers engine, aud promises to follow
in her elder sisters footsteps.
Taper Slipptrs.-Paper slippers are
the latest form in which paper 10 in
'Ioducsd in new inventions. An
EnS lishnan, the Scientific American
remarks, has patented system of
manufacturing slippers, sandals and
other coverings for the feet out OF
paper. Paper pulp. or papier mache,
10 employed for the upper, which is
moulded to the desired form AN d
size, and sole is provided made of
paper or pasteboard, leather board,
or other suitable paper material,
which 10 united TO the upper by
means OF cement, glue or other adj
hesive material. The upper il
creased, embossed, or perforated a,
the iustep and sides, which renders
them somewhat pliab!e, and prevents
their cracking while in u.e.
A portable electric lamp, carrying
electricity to Lac. twelve hours, has
been pi oduced.
Two thousand varieties Of apple
.rees are now cultivated.
1t is said that frui, tree. are 90
heavily laden in places on the Pacific
coast that hundreds Of laborers are
Kept employed thinning out the fruit.
A Kansas mnn found q dead hog.
which he threw into his hog yard, to
save the trouble of burial. The re-
suit was that thirty -four Of bis other
hogs died from eating tie diseased
meat.
There are more than $500 lady
physicians in the United States.
Do aot regard friend as som.
persons do pair of rubbers. to he
carslsssly thrown aside when not IN
use. 1t may be bad walking again
some day. Friends are good things
to keep.
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The best country, 80 far as salary
10 concerned, for ministers woaId an.
pear To be Australia. Itisstated that
the smallest salary a pastor Of the
Presbyterian Church is permitted to
receive 10 81 500.
There are over thirty Mormon