South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1885-04-17
South 3ranel. Jntellisenter,
RoMNEY, FRIDAY, Aprill7, 1885.
The New York Sun of wednesday

tI0atueul PISSCriUtu W MS pnyelclauS
and the drugs they administer are not
made known to the public, but his
gradual progress shows that their
course is judicious, aud that, however
desperate the disease, recovery is by
no means impossible. Should his
rostor. ton really be accomplished,
the people OF this country will well
come the fact with profound graft.
tude TO Providence, and with high
appreciation Of the medical skill which
proves itself adequate to result 60
unexpected and so gratifying. AT
the same time they will not fail to
condemn the sensational prognoslics
with which Messrs. Douglas ard
Shrady have loaded up their medical
bulletins, foretelling the danger of
Gen. Grants speedy death, when no
such danger existed, and heighteniug
their descriptions y ith a superabun
dance OF pathological details quite
necessary for the public informa.
ton, brt which might impress the
ignorant with wonderful eense of
the professional knowledge possessed
by these physicians
Bishop A. w. Wilson. Of the NJ.
L. Church South, arrived at his home
in Baltimore, from Hot Springs. Ar
kansas, recently, improved in health,
and assisted in the Easter services at
Trinity Church on Madison avenue.
According to the Medical Record,
five PEI cent. Of all cancers are situa-
ted upon the tongue The average
duration of life in cancer of the tongue
Is. without operation, stated to be ten
and hat months with. operation
sixteen months. In some cas- es-af.
ter operatlon-patients have lived
from two to five, aud even ten years.
Statistics show that ninety five
children, under the age of II years,
committed suicide in tile United
States last year
The United States Patent Office ia
now the only part of the Government
that Is self-sustalning. Regularly ev-
cry year il turns into the treasury
$4,000 to $4,000, aud in this way
has paid over $4,000, 900. counting the
interest.
1t is estimated that the base bali
clubs OF this country will coat the PEG
pie 900 900 this year.
There is salt lake in Hidalgo
county, Texas, which is one mile in
length, five miles in circumference,
and from three to four feet deep. The
bed consists Of crystals Of pure salt.
SOUTHERN SYAPATuY.-It General
Grant could read the southern express
Lions of sympathy and admiration he
would die, as no other conqueror ever
has, i'll the conviction that the foes of
his battle days are the friends Of his
old age. a Columbia, S. G., paper
says cditorially:
while the old soldier lies gasping
in his last struggle with the foe
who overcOmes all, the south torgets
many things. She remembers only
Grant the generous, Grant the victor
at Appomnttox"
To crown all, Grant has received q
letter of sympathy and regard from
Jefferson Davis. In ii the latter says
that if the pray ers of the south could
avail, General Grant would conquer
death as he had conquered his foes
twenty years ago. There is some
thing wonderfully touching in this act
of the old confederate president. -
Perhaps the thought that in a few
years all who fought in that terrible
struggle will lave passed from this
life TO one where the bitterness of hu-
man passions shall have TO place, has
come like q benedictloh 10 the conn
ny, and as Grant lice dying the north
aud south together join hands around
his bedside and weep over the woary,
lighting war which so long destroyed
their fraternity
1t 10 claimed that the high license
law has closed 1000 Illinois saloons,
aud saved the taxpayers $4,000 600
: year
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