South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-09-26


On Wednesday next the sale of ALEX
.SpEa WHITE, Esq. on Cspou River, in
Hardy county, takes place. Any one de-
sriog to purchase a very valuable Form
would do we'll to attend this sale. See ad.
cer,iscment in another column.
The Legislature Of this State will con-
,spe 10 Charleston on the Goth of October.
The Moorefeld Adcertiser states that
scue and fever prevail to a considerable
extern. 10 that vicinity at the present time.
FIVE prisoners escaped from the Jail
at Cumberland, Allegauy county, on the
l9,b inst. JOIN STEPHENS, alias STApE,
ofGauett county, committed for larceny !;
ALICE GORDON, colored, for larceny GUST
GosNELL aud HENRY, boy, for stealing /;
WILLIAM CRUISE, charged with ASSAULT
aud attempt to kill JAMES L. Brown. A
liberal reward is offered for the arrest nd
return Of the above named convic,s.
THE free school in this place opens on
Wednesday, the first day of October.
-Tr is said that the Rev. SAMUEL RE-
OYSTER, D. D., late President of the Mary
and Agricultural College, has succeeded
Rev DR.. Finley on tho Moore6eld Circuit,
q, oor,u,ence Catcher lar
THE report Of the Agricultural De-
partment for August and part of September
has been made up and shows that the W beat
crop Of the entire country will reach two
huUdred and fifty millions bushels. The
oo,ton crop yield is estimated at four mil.
lion bales and the report as to it is gene
rally favorable.
Ma. SAMUEL VI. IALLEn informs the
ri,or of the Cumberland Nc,cs "that til c
grapes deposited by him, md which were a.
warded the premium. at the Fair were grown
by JOSEPH G. MCCARTHY, Esq at his vino
yard, at New Creek. The grapes were OF
the Concord variety and of superior quality
"Mr. MCCARTHY has found from his cx-
frrcuco in grnpe-growipg that the quality
sni 'iza Of the berry is improved by bury
iog bones about the roots, thereby supply
lag q deficiency in their soil"
The Richmond Enquirer hits the nail
m the head when it says: "Wben you
writo f1r the papers avoid Latin and Greek
The people who read were not all educated
at the University.
An exchange says: "a new year OF
'Ue paper began a month ago, and many
subscriptions begin with it. For some rea-
sons ihc income is less ct this season than
ooy olheT, hut the expenses are as great as
At any other time. 1t is, therefore, with p
feeling sense" Gas the thing is sometimes
czpEesscd) hat those who Gnd the time has
come for thcm to do n handsome act for
themselves, are reminded that if not at
ended to promptly they may forget it 0
long time"
-PREssED bricks with enamcled faces
d.. any desired color, with surface that
r,n be cleaned like gloss aud is impervous
p water or acids, arc being manufactured
10 Pittsburgh.
\ IL
ROAD died recently in Atlanta. The alta
Chez Of the road made provision for his bu.
r'IeEpeuaes furnishing among other things
suit q black broqdcoth in which to dress
tho corpse. lis wife objected to having
those iiac clothes buried in the ground and
brought cut some Of her husbands old ap.
partl, 10 which he was buried. The next
SABBATH the bereaved wife's brother wore
'be clothes as furnished by the dead man.
c,nPauons TO church.
Il steam tbrcsher, a few day: ago, up.
90 'ho farm Of cur old friend, JOHN A
THOMSON, in Jefferson county, threshec
.ai 70 bushels Of wheat beginning jus
lore sunrise and quitting before sunset
Ii- work
TREASURER SPINNER emphatically de-
mes bat any counterfeit has been made o.
'a' plate Of the new fifty cent note. Tb,
supposed origin Of tho existence Of bogus
'.'a ar'sss from The fact that in the seryt
@. a md II Of the new issue the cop O.