South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1871-09-29
Gleanings by Late Mails.

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sand dollars
Five thousand fine specimens of thor
oughbred swine were on exhibition at the
llliEois Swine Breeders Exhibition at
Chicago, on Tuesday, goth inst
In SAMUEL PENNocK's orchard. in
Chester county, Pa, is a little apple tree,
called the Lancaster pippin, which has pro-
duccd three crops OF apples this season
The first crop has been taken off, of the Sc
coud there are 30 apples now on the tree,
aud the third crop is about the size of
grapes.
Tho losses 10y the recent fire at Viz
ginia City, Nevada, will probably reach
100000. The assurances amounted to
S35O,OOO. Five entire blocks in the cen
tire Of the business part of the city were
burned
-DR. CHARLES II. OnR, of Cumber
lind, has been honored by the Masonic Fra
ternity by being elected Grand King Of
w. ) Royal Arch Chapter, being the
third highest Office of that order in the Uni
/ ted States.
An old woman of Koshkononc, Wis
consin, who lost goose two years ago
/ through the vindictiveness of an amateur
sportsman, has commenced suit for DANA
/ ges in the sum of $50. She calculates that
! if the slain fowl had lived, and mul,iplied
in accordance with natural laws, the sale
of the flesh aud feathers of its descendants
would have brought her the designated sum
In greenbacks.
"A very peculiar instance of the pro-
/ longation of life without nutrition has lust
come to light in the neighborhood OF Pres
/ ton, 10 England. The case is that of n
woman named ANN RIDING, thirty-three
years OF age, who, for three years, has been
/ lying bedridden, and who has not eaten or
drunk IN one year aud four months as much
/ as would sutlce to sustain an infant sin
gle day For three years she has been
gradually sinking. She is conscious, but
very weak; gets little sleep, aud cannot
! bear lighted candle in her room at bed
time. II Is supposed that she is suffering
from abdominal atrophy, although the doc
tors confess that they do not understand
the case.
The lands of II rrrison county, deIin-
quent for taxes will be sold by the sheriff.
at the Court House, on the FIRST of October
This offers a fine chance for land sharks as
the only publication that has been made Of
the list is the posting of n written copy at
he Court House door, where possibly ono
citizen of the county in five hundred will
see II. Laws which permit land sales TO
take place with such insufficient notice to
the public are disgrace to the State -
jFhceliog Int.
"A tourist visited a farmer in Wood
ford county, Kentucky, lately, and innuir
ed, well how are the crops in your neigh
borhool :? He shook his head rather
gloomily, and then said Il an Altered
we are ruined the corn has overshot itself
and has three or four ears 10 the stalk
They aren foot long, and stani out straight
enough for coon 10 sit on The cr0p s.
going to be go biz that you can't got TWEEN
~ cents a bushel, and expect to burn IL
next winter in place Of camel coal !; and
he couldn't have looked worse II be had
lost a horse-race.
The carrying off Of children by Gyp-
sizes sounds more like romantic story thau
sober fact. Still we learn from the Hi
nois papers that w. II. Leib, Of Quincy.
has lost bis son Freddie, child 10 CSC
years, 10 that way, and offers s 900 for
information which will lead to the rr,9v-
cry Of tho boy, who has been missing Since
last June
James Nicely, living near Ripley. o
hio, died recently, leaving a fortune in
money supposed to amount 10 $4,000
but ~ no one knows where the o. gentle .
man kept his treasure, the heirs are left
che task Of buntingi up. They have gone
90 work vigorously, with pick aud shovel.
and have dug the farm on which Nicely
lived from centre TO circumference on
bis dca'h-b bed Nicely refused to tell bis chill .
dren where he had secreted the money
"A Welshman named Williams. who
had been accustomed to quarry work, while
passing along road in Monson, Maine, OBJ
served some slate rock that had been thrown
from o collar. lie saw at once that it was
valuable, and in company with another inan
Traced the vein along The surface The
ownor of the rocky land, supposiDg 10 20 be
worthless, sold these men fourteen acres Of
90 Tor SO. An excavation exposed good
slate az slight depth, and IN fgw weeks
The explorers transferred ,hcir purchases 90
New York company for SIG 900.
Eleven strawberries 70 tbc pound Is
The kind Of fruit Berlin gardener raised
last season
DR. john G. Holbrook, Of Charleston.
=. G., and ono Of tho most distinguished
Of American naturalists, died. near Boston.
Massachusetts, on the 8th instant, aged ~
years.
Rev. a. d. Williams, D. ID the latc eff
cIcnt State SUPERINTENDENT Of free erhn,Is