South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-06-03

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WLLlAMspoRr, May 81.
The Hon. GEORGE G. WASHINGTON
President of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal Company, with the Secretary,
and several of the Directors, arrived in
this place on Tuesday evening, and
proceeded on their tour of examination
on Wednesday. We understand that
they found the Canal in excellent Or
der from Georgetown to this place; and
passed on their way considerable a.
mount Of descending trade. The En-
gineers speak with confidence of the
work at Cacapon non under contract,
being finished by the next spring; as
the deficiency Of Mechanics required
has been obviated by the interruption
of some of the public works, in conse-
quence of the pressure Of the times and
the arrangement of the currency, thus
thrown out of employment, many val
liable hands who are compelled to seek
employment elsewhere. We have ev-
cry reason to believe that this import
ant and truly national work will be
prosecuted to completion, with all prac-
ticable despatch, consistent with du-
rable, faithful and permanent mode of
construction. 70 secure this portant
result, every part of the work has the
close inspection & supervision of some
one connected with the corps Of Engi-
neers, and so we'll is this department
organized, that it is almost impossible
to deceive them by attempts to slight
work, or deviate from the specifca-
tions.-BaD7eer.
Conflict with Catamount.-The
Lakeville (Ohio) Journal gives the fol-
lowing case of maternal courage as a
recent occurrence. A number of Cat
amounts had come over the Michigan
boundary and caused great terror a.
mong the farmers. One of them en-
tered the window of Mr.. Israel Haw-
kins, which had been left open, while
his wife was engaged in an adjoining
room and had crept to the cradle,
where babe, six months old, was slee-
ping, before he was discovered. The
mother, on perceiving him, seized a
broad axe which laid upon the hearth,
and commenced an attack. The first
blow stunned without injuring the
beast. He recovered, sprung upon the
woman, and throwing her down, tore
her LETT arm severely. She contriyed
to raise herself upon her knees with
the animal clinging to her, and struck a
second blow. The edge of the axe
penetrated the skull, and laid the mon
ster dead upon the floor. Her hus-
band came home shortly after, and
found her lying PROSTATE and exhaust
ed, with the Catamount stretched at
her feet, and her two eldest children
weeping over her.. The woman was
considerably injured, but the account
states that she is recovering rapidly.
Her arm and side were badly torn, but
she received no dangerous wound.
Suicides, accidents, Src.---Last Sum-
day was fruitful of accidents and sui
cides in Vicksburg. One man, in pres
ence of large number ofpersons, de-
liberately laid down his hat on the deck
of flat boat, and took running jump
into the river; he rose, but as soon as
he found himself on the surface Of the
water, he Owed again, and was seen
no more. All efforts to save him were
vain. Another deliberately shot him
self with a pistol, on one of the flat
boats at the landing. A third, from
Pittsburg, with load of coal, was in
simultaneously killed by the recoil of a
rope, by which he was endeavoring to
land his boat. A boy named Ander.
son, an apprentice to the tailoring bus
mess, was experimenting with pound
of gunpowder which he had buried in
the earth. In his efforts to ignite it, the
whole exploded, mangling his head &
face in the most shocking manner.
Eicks6urg Sentinel.