South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1871-10-06
Gleanings by Late Mails.

6'V' "0io uoth staOOeu IN the neck by the
negro and died instantly.
THE FUTURE VALUE OF TIMBER-It
is impossible to predict the extreme prices
TO which timber may advance before the
present generation passes away. We have
before US statement from an English pa
per OF the prices realized for thirty oak trees
sold at auction in Burghley Park, as fol.
lows: One tree brought $500, another
S3lO, third 1924; the whole thirty bro't
"a, 300, averaging $3.50 each. These must
have been large trees, but smaller trees are
proportionately valuable There is but lit
Tie doubt that within century or less tim
Der will be as scarce in America as it is now
IN Europe, and it is not probable that n
sufhclent substitute will ever be found to
occupy its place in the industries of man
kind. Therefore plant trees, and plant the
right sort, especially those most required
in building.
On the 9th ult., at Nashville, Ten
nessee, Col. ID. NJ. NELSON, son of Judge
L. A. r. Nelson, of the Supreme Court,
shot and killed Gen. j. II. CLANToN, of
Alabama, In personal rencontre.
/ -Washingtou's servants having DEPART
ed this life, the servants of Andrew Jack
son have now begun to die off in various
| Western towns
"A negro preacher at Georgia camp
meeting lectured his hearers on the evils
OF incompetence with such effect that large
| portion of his congregation brought their
whisky bottles up to the pulpit and hand.
ed them over to the eloquent exhorter. It
is not pleasant to add that when the hour
I H.
was found incapable for duty.
The Washington Patriot says that
''Tom Upside-down is the name of claim
ant against the United States, in whose ia
vor warrant was drawn at the Treasury
Department recently"
The late Edward Everett's sister and
John G. Breckinridge's cousin are said to
be living as sisters of charity in New Or
! leans
BIG Owl -GILMoRE GRANT, Ccclored)
a few days since killed an Owl on Mrs. Gea-
! ~ 3 farm, which measured about five feet
from tip to tip Weston Democrat.
BY means Of simple and ingenious
process beautiful description of artificial
ivory is now produced from india rubber
The last monthly report of the Agri.
cultural Department gives an account of
remarkable wool clip in California 1t is
/ gravely stated, and no joke is intended, that
the Department has sample of wool from
fleece that weighed seventy-eight and a
half pounds, and that the first fleece taken
from the same sheep when sixteen months
old, weighed forty.two and three. fourths
I pounds. There is good deal of anxiety at
the Agricultural Department to know more
about sheep of California, and the Lew chief
clerk of the Department, who is said to be
responsible for the statement, will doubt
less have some fu.her report on the subject
next month.
! 1t is said that a clerk in the Interior
/ Department in Washington, was removed
from office recently, because he was an
"Ex-Confederate" No lapse of time no
change Of faith, can ward off the stroke
of fate. Alter. Gd..
A SuEEPIsH TRANsAoTIoN.-Ab outsix-
teen years ago, JACK Cross, a white man
living IN the lower part Of Loudoun, was
arrested, tried and convicted of stealing
/ twenty-one sheep, and sentenced to the pen
itentiary for five years. After serving out
his time, he returned to this county, and
was shortly thereafter arrested and convic
ted Of stealing another lot Of sheep, we do
not know how maryland again returned
to the ponitentiary for ten years. Releas-
ed a second time from his imprisonment, ne
returned to this county a few months ago.
and on Monday was lodged 10 the Jail here
charged with having recently stolen twenty.
one sheep from Mr.. B G.. CARTER. The
old man is not far from 60 years Of age. 49,
LccsJurg Mirror, Sept 26.
BRIEF-The following head lines from
an Indiana paper tell tho story so we'll that
We shall refrain from inhcting the context
"a Preacher in Trouble-He Burics
Wife, Engages Himself to Two Ladies'.
Marrios Another, Gets a Divorce, is Sued
for Breach Of Promise, Is Tried by an Ec.
cIcsiastical Court and Suspended, All in
Five Months--The Case of Rev. G Brock
at Upton"
/ Curious -Itis certainly a curious chem.
zeal fact that the substance required to form
common table salt arc both Of them poison
Gus chlorine and sodium. No ono can
use either Of these articles separately with
safety, aud yet combine them, aud they
form a substance necessary 70 health, aud
one found upon every table
Mrs. IDA NORTH has been appointed
State Librarian Of Iowa
The Grand Jury has found IN indict.
meut Of murder against the men who killed
an unknown woman near Baltimore, last
summer
Madam Schwartz, The Swedish author.
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