South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-09-26
LEEsBURo, Va. Sept. 10.

LEEsBuRo, Va. Sept. 10.
1t becomes our painful duty to re-
cord one of the most lamentable acci~
dents that has occurred in our commu :
nifty for number Of years. 1t has
cast general gloom upon society, and
should serve to admonish US Of the
frailty of human life. On Tuesday
last, the Rev. Christopher Frye, a
well known and highly esteemed minis
ter of the Methodist Episcopal Caurch,
undertook to manage the horses attach.
to a threshiug machine then engaged on
his premises, adjacent to town, in get
ting out a small quantity Of grain
While thus employed, one Of his fee.
slipped from off the revolving turrent
upon which he sat, and on which
there is barely room for person to
sit, when melancholy to relate, his leg,
became en.angied in the machinery &
literally crushed to pieces. Mr.. F.
was disengaged as speedily as possible,
and conveyed to his house, but, being
advanced in years, his strength was
not sufficient to endure the pain he
suffered, and he expired in few hours.
He has no children, but has left fond
and afectionate wife to mourn her sud-
den bereavement.-G Genius of Liberty.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
We understand that the several sur
nsds ST s ss qanA hf!Hssq lbs
been reported to the President and
Directors, and that they have been re-
ferred to Com miltee Of the Board for
examination, with the expectation that
some one of the routes will be finally
adopted very early in October. II
may therefore be anticipated that ano-
Their letting Of contracts will be made
about the first of November.
When this part Of the line, and the
remaining small portion between it and
the Cacapon, shall be put under con-
tract, we may begin to count the
months within which our most sanguine
expectations will be realized with re-
gard to this important work.-Ndt. Int
/ Michigan Fiies.-We were shown
last week two large flies brought BY a
gentleman from Michigan, which sur
pass any thing of the kind we have ev'
er seen. One is common black field
! fly, and it measures an inch and quar-.
ter in length, and two inches and q
half across the wings. It is provided
with a horny beak or bill one fourth
Of an inch in length, Of sufficient
strength and hardness to penetrate the
skin Of any animal; and we are assur-
j ed by the gentleman in whose possess.
ion we saw them, that they use il to
the great annoyance of the cattle and
horses in the territory.
The other is what is called the Ran
ger, by those who are acquainted with
its periodical deyastations among the
horses and oxen, of the northwest por-
ton of Michigan. Its body is nearly
one-third larger than that of the black
| fly above described, and Of grey CO
lor. Its bill is within fraction of hall
an inch 10 length, and across the back,
from the tip of leach wing, it measures
two inches and three-fourths. 1t prob.
ably derives its name from its particu-
lar habit of moving about from one
part Of the country to the other, alight-
ing in its course, and gorgiog itself
with the blood Of every animal tina,
should come in its way. We under
stand the flies are to be deposited at the
| American Museum at New York, as
objects of curiosity. Mount Morris
| Spectator. -
| Fecundity of a Saaks.-Mr. San.
uel Msise, son Of Jacob Meise, Esq,
Of Bern township, Bsrks county, killed
a garter snake, on the 2lst ultimo, on
the land OF Daniel Loos, in said town
ship, of uncommon thickness, measur-
ing q feet ia length. Having opened
the same out Of curiosity, he took from
her eighty living young, measuring
/ throughout six inches ia length. He
! has preserved the same ia glass yes