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South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-09-25

FALL RIVER, MASS, Sept. 10 Granite
Mill No. /, 10 this place, was burned this
morning just after the operatives had COM
menced work. 1t is said there was fear
full loss Of life.
The Granite Mn Total Loss.
New YORK, Sept. ia dispatch from
Fall River, timed 1915 NJ, says: The
fire is principally confined to the Granite
Mill, which is O total loss The property
is insured for 100000. The fire ia still
burning, but is under control. The hands
went to work az usual, when shortly after
wards tbo fro burst forth with lightning
quIckness, cutting of the fire alarm and
gress from the building, which contained
some seven hundred men, women aud chill.
dron. Many persisted in the flames 9th =
ors jumped from the upper windows ard
were killed Instantly. The cries Of the wo =
men and children are hes.t-reDding 1t is
impossible to got the number killed
Inter- from Me Scene ofHe fire.
FALL RIVER, Sept. 10 .-Granite Mill
No was burned this morning. The loss
is a half million Most all Of tho opera
tiyes ir the spoolog room in thefft story
were panic stricken, and jumped from toe
windows or were suffocated. About 80
persons were killed and injured and the
dying number as many more.
T0enty Fire Charrcd Bodies.
INovGDENCE, Sept. 10.-Tbe Journal
has received q dispatch from Fall River,
saying some % bIaokened and charred dead
bodies buve thus far been recovered from
the ruins Of the Granite mill Many Of them
are recognizable. James Turner is among
the killed. The body Of Ellen jane Hun
ter was identified by fragment of her dress
/ The head was burned of.
The loss of life 20 far IS heard from il
p. The loss on property amounts to $500,
! 600. The walls of the mill were standing
st noon The engines were playing and
clouds Of smoke rising. The killed and
wounded thus far foot Up CO.
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South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-09-25

GS-wE are authorized to announce Col. Tho.
MAS (. McCooLE, Of Mineral, as a candidate 10
this District for seat in the next State Senate.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-09-25
BETHEL ACADEMY.

the largest male boarding school in Va prc
pares youths for business or for Va. Universities
by which IL is endorsed affords facilities for
learning Practieat SuVeying Book Heeping ant
IeiegTdphy, and has an introductory course OF
Idw. lts students are offered Prize Scholarship,
in the Univ. Of Va, the Washington and Lee
Univ, and the Va. Mil Institute Ss7 80 for
Board AND TUiTIoN for half session of 20 weeks.
No E1frds. For Catalogue &c, address Priuci-
pals. Bethel Academy L O., Fauquier Co. Va.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-09-25

ETA FUGITIVE from justice from West
Virginia, for whom a reward Of 300 is Of
fered, was recognized on the Fair Ground
on Saturday, but eluded arcs. by leaping
the fence and running away as soon ss be
observed movement to arrest him. A
young man named Dean Of Msrtinsburg,
who gave him revolver with which to To-.
fend himself, was arrested, but was dis
charged after hOariDg. - Winchester
Times, Sept. %.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-09-25
Potomac Seminary.

LNXERCISES will be RESUMED on MONDAY,
H. It'll SEPTEMBER. For terms of board
add tuition apply to Principal.
JOHN WILSON, NJ. d,
ROmney, Aug. IS, IG7i TnacPal.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-09-25

The extent to which snuff dipping is in
dulged 10 10 tho United States may be judg>
ed from the fact that one New York firm
last year sold 10000 pounds Of snuff, oil
Of which was Of the kind used for dipping,
besides more than 10000 pounds Of tho
regular mixtures for the ld-fasbioned SNUFF
fers, to say nothing Of tho large amounts
manufactured in the other cities.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-09-25
T0entN ~ Charrcd Bodie

Remember that personal appearances arc Of
ten deeeiving Many pale, thin young lady
will eat more tomatoes and beef than an editor.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-09-25
commissioners Sale
OF VALUABLE
REAL ESTATE.

DY virtue Of decree rendered in the Chan
D Gerry cause Of William French u.s. Benjamin
ID. StumP's heirs, &c, by the Circuit Court OF
Hampshire County, West Va, The undersigned
Special Commissioned, will sell at public auction
on the farm on Little Capon aud It's Draines. of
which John Stump died seized aud possessed.
On SATURDAY NE I'm of October, 1874,
THE ONE FIFTH OF THE SAID
FARM which was heretofore laid of and assign
ed by metes and bon nds, 10 the heirs Of Be6ia-
min D. Stump, dee together with the rever-
sion OF the portion Of said One-Fifth laid OF for
the Dover Of the widow Of benjamin D. Stump,
decd Also,
ONE UNDIVIDED FIFTH PART
Of all the other LANDS Of which John Stump
died seized and possessed, in the county ~
Hampshire, being the interest OF BENJAMIN u
Stump in the same
TERMS or SHE:
One third Of the purchase money ia Cash on
day OF sale, and the residue in two equal annual
payments to bear interest from day OF sale-the
purch iser to execute bond with approved sccu 4.
riiy for The deferred payments and the legal IL
lie 10 be retained As further security until the
whole Of the purchase money is paid
SAMUEL l.. FIOURNOY,
Specisl Commissioner.
September %, 1874.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-09-25

S6yTHE Ross ABDUCTION CASE 1t is
now iutimated, en- the authority Of the Ger.
mantown Telegraph and G rmaDtown cor.
respondent ofthO Reading (Pa.) Eagle, that
the long lost Charlie Ross was abducted, If
abducted is the word, by friends Of bis own
mother, who is said to be living in tho
West, having, it is alleged, been separated
from her husband and ever since anx ious to
have her children with her. 1t is suspect.
ed that this ia fully undc-stood by the ia
Their, who ID not realizs that his original
$500 reward for his stolen child was going
to make such fuss and bring about a
municipal offer Of 100000 Whether true
or not the story is given with circumstau-
tial FEASIBILITY.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-09-25

FOR the HOUSE OF DELEATEs,
Col. Alexander Monroe.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-09-25
a Terrible Disaster-MiIi Fire at
Fall RiVer-Fearful Loss of Life.

FALL RIVER, MASS, Sept 10 -Gruni,e
Mill No. !, 10 this place, was burned this
morning just after the operatives had COM
menced work. 1t is said there was fear
| full loss Of life.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-09-25
Public Sale.
The FARM.

formerly belonging 10 Johu Reid, Of which said
Reid died seized, subject 70 widows dover, cor
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1874-09-25
POSTPONED TO

Grand Total 20, 900 Gifts, all cash. $4,000 600
PRICE OF TICKETS.
The Placer herald., 1874-06-06
TUCkAllOE CATS.

Down in Tuckahoe, New Jersey, there is
a man named Simpson, who had fiat roof
on bis house covered with tin. The roof got
leaking badly, and it happened to occur to
Mr.. Simpson that it would be a good thing
to cover the whole surface with the material
out OF which concrete pavements are made,
" to make it all tight and nice, said Smp-
son. man was accordingly engaged, and
he covered the tin with concrete to the depth
of three or four inches
The curse of Tuckahoe is cats. In warm
weather millions of them assembled and hold
ratification meetings and rehearsals and gen
eral synods out in the back yards and on the
roofs. In Tuckahoe that summer the heat
was unusually intense, and Mr.. Simpson
Was exceedingly annoyed by the animated
discussions of the cats in his neighborbood.
The more he =" shooed" them and flung old
boots at them, the more they yelled. Night
after night it continued to grow more terrific,
and day after day Mrs. Simpson observed
that the mysterious catcrwauing continued
during all the hours of daylight. Simpson
hadn't boot jack, or blacking brush, or a
rolling PIN, or Il cologne bottle left TO throw
at them.
At last, one moonlight night, the outroar
got to be so outrageous that Simpson arose
from his bed and determined to know what
all this growing meant anyhow. 1t appear
ed to him that the noise came from the top
of the house. lie went up into the garret
and put his head out of the trap-door.
There he found one hundred and nnety-six
cats stuck fast kneedeep in the concrete,
W hich had been soitened by the teat Some
of them had been there four days. E., ,...o.
The minute they caught sight of Simpson,
the whole one hundred and ninety six
doubled up their spnes, rufiled their back
hair, snaked their tails, and gave one wild,
unearthly yowl, which shocked Simpsons
nerves so much that be dropped the trap
door and feel down the step-ladder on the
head of Mrs. Simpson, who was standing
below, dressed in a thing with frill on it,
and armed with palm leaf fan and bed
slat, determined to protect Simpson to the
death. 4
Mr.. Simpson has since sold the house to
man who makes sausages and fur tippets.
He keeps the concrete soft and sticky all the
year round by means of fires in the garret,
and it is whispered around Tpckahoe that
his actual gains average forty dollars night.
-1jor ddeIpr
The Placer herald., 1874-06-06
NUMBER ~

room, and presently collided with the cat.
When the tom cat first became aware of the
presence of the dog, he sprang up warmly
and embraced the dogs head with affection
1t was one of those passionate greetings
where a cat is SO fond of dog as to fix ali
its claws into the dog s with sort Of "I'lt
never-leave-you" air entirely unmistakable
in its motive. As soon as the dog became
aware that it had cat clinging to its eyelids,
it shook his head once or twice to collect its
IDEAS and made a grab for the cat Closing
ito teeth over the felinss left bind leg, it took
off about four inches and swallowed it imme-
diatcly. The cat now began to bounce
about the room. The dog gave chase and
soon secures. another lee of the cat, then be-
gan hercs sf6gsie between the bSS yellow
tom cat and the rapacious mastiff. They
rushed about the apartment bouncing over,
everything and overturning everything. In
the course Of few minutes the dog had SO
thoroughly mastcated the cat as to leave
nothing but the heard and tail lying under
the bed and blood everywhere. Then the
dog went down stairs and began to fricb and
frolic upon the grass fat After a while the
lady of the house went up stairs and saw the
pools of blood lying upon the floor and the
tables, chairs, and crockery overturned.
Supposing that brutal murder had been
committed, she Immediately tainted upon the
floor. In a few minutes her husband came
up and seeing his wife lying on the floor sur
rounded by pools of blood naturally supposed
that some horrible deed Of violence had been
committed, and rushing to her side raised her
up in his arms. A young hopeful Of the
family next came in and comprehending tho
state of affairs at glance, rushed madly
into he street, and began to gestcuae and
vociferate for the police. Soon the neighbors
were made aware that horrible murder had
been committed, and the neighborhood was
in an uproar. Two policemen forced their
way into the house, and found the couple
sitting on a bed, convulsed with laughter.
After a little time for explanation the head
and tail Of the cat were produced and every
thing satisfactorily explained to the police
and the crowd of neghbors who thronged to
the spot Later in the afternoon Coroner
Rice called in his buggy, but was informed
that his services were not wanted.
The Placer herald., 1874-06-06
BILL AND THE WIDOW.

"Wife," said Ed. Wilbur one morning as
he sat stirring his coffee with one hand and
holding a plum cake on bis knee with the
other and looked across the table into the
bright eyes of bis little wife, "would not it
be good joke to get bachelor Bill Smiley
to take widow Watson to Barnum's show
next week p
"You can do it, Ed; he won't ask her;
he's so awful shy. Why, he came by here
the other morning when was hanging out
the clothes, and he looked over the fence
and spoke, but when | shook out a night
gown he blush, d like girl and went away"
81 think | can manage it," said Ed. ;
"but I'll have to lie just little. But then
it wouldn't be much harm under the crcum-
stances, for | know she likes him, and he
don't dislike her; but just as you say, he's
so shy. I'll just 60 over to bis place to bor-
row some bags of him, and if | don't bag
him before come back, don't kiss me for "a
week, Nelly"
So saying, Ed. started, and while he is
moving the fields, we will take a look at
Bill. Smiley. He was rather a goodl look
ing fellow, though his hair and whiskers
showed some gray hairs, and he had got in
set of artificial teeth. But every one said
he was good soul, and so he was. He
bad as good a hundred acre farm as any in
Norwich, with a new bouse and everything
comfortable, and if he wanted wife, many
girl would have jumped at the chance like
rooster on a grasshopper. But Bill was
SO bashfnl-always was-and when Susan
Berry bottle, who he was SO sweet on, though
be never said "boo" to her, got married to
old Watson, be just drawed in his head like
mud turtle into his shell, and there was
no getting him out again, though it had been
noticed that since Susan had become a wild
ow he had paid more attention to his clothes,
and had been very regular in attendance at
the church the fair widow attended.
But here comes Ed. Wilbur
"Good morning. Mr., Smiley"
"Good morning, Mr.. Wilbur, what's the
news your way?" -,
"Oh, nothing particular, that know OF,
said Ed, "only Barnum's show. that every,
body is talking about, and everybody and
bis girl is going too | was over to old
Sockrider's last night, and see his son
Gus. has got a new buggy, and was scrub
bing his harness, and he's got that white
face colt of bis as slick AS Il seal. under
stand he thinks of taking Widow Watson
to the show. He's been hanging around
there a good deal of late, but Id just IKE
to cut him out, l wonli. Susan is nice
little woman, and deserves better man
than that young pup Of fellow, though
would not blame her much, either, II sue
The Placer herald., 1874-06-06
A DEED OF BLOOD.

The San Francisco Stock Report is respon-
sable for this:
We frequently hear the expression "doe
eat dog, but it is quite seldom that dog
takes upon himself the responsibility of mas
ticatng cat Such performance, how
ever, happened recently near the corner Of
Webster and McAllister street. 1t appears
that about week ago, a gentleman who
considered no family complete without dog
went to the Pound and purchased biz
mastiff thereby saving him the ignominy oil
being run through the sausage machine.
The family had such nice time with the
dog that they concluded to cap the climax by
purchasing cat. AS cats cannot be pur-
chased everywhere the head of the ia niy
his sister-n-law and the boys were dispatch
to scour the neighborhood for cat. AT last
one of the six year old brought in tom cat,
which had been given him by well-dlsposed
neighbor, who labored under the idea that
the cat would return at its own convenience.
Accordingly, the cat who showed dispo-
siton to resist restra mt, WIS put in an upper
room. In course of time the mastiff prowing
about the house, nosed his way into the
The Placer herald., 1874-06-06
A SEARCH.
BY GEO. F. L. HoTH.

How long yet, my God ere find it?
Or is all this searching in vain?
When, tell me, ye stars in the heavens,
o, when shall find it again!
I've counted them over and over,
Zen doubling its actual loss;
But yes, it is gone-and forever.
And l am here signing, " alas. y
Whether walking the fields or the cities,
My eyes are staring about,
And it takes all the strength of my manhood
To keep me from crying right out.
fear I am growing demented-
feel it, my mind will get crazed-
Oh, that oblivion were granted,
This loss from my mem'ry crazed.
But no, l shal! never recover
This loss goes too near to my heart,
Yes, it beats, and it throbs in its prison,
That often awake with start,
1t is horrid to think of the dangers
To which it may have been exposed,
Quite often l may have been near it,
Not knowing where it is inclosed.
You stare, and you wonder, l see it,
And well you may stare, my good friends,
Forgive, if you don't comprehend me;
You will, ere my narrative ends.
You see, was built like old Adam,
AS he had, should have thirteen ribs,
You know, he had when created,
That is, if the story aint fibs.
But one, while he sleeping, was taken,
For when he opened his eyes,
He missed it, but never regretted
For it stood there all bushes and righs.
Yes, there stood his rib-dressed in sweetness
To glorious woman, transformed;
And he :? Well guess though he missed it
He thought himself blessed, and not harmed.
But now, as for me, I am minus
A rib, as was great-grandpa Ad.
But it never returned yet as woman
And vainly I've searched this whole globe,
So you see, we been robbed or defrauded
Out of that what is really my right.
All, that but once saw and knew it,
My heart but I'd cling to it tight.
But how or where shall find it?
This truant deserter of mine,
I fear has been impounded
And forms some other ones shrine.
Now friends, that you know of my sorrow,
If your hearts should with sympathy swell
And you hear ought Of the deserter,
Pray let me hear it as well,
For my heart keeps beating
And think it belongs near the heart
And its humping is wearing the other,
Till fear, those remaining will part,
But If the lost one returneth
1t will patch up and strengthen my heart,
And l promise it shall find in my bosom
Forgiveness, welcome, and rest
The Placer herald., 1874-06-06

Victor Hugo in bis new story, "Ninety-
Three" vividy recalls the period of mad
initiation in France-the reign of terror and
Of the assignats. Everybody, he says,
gambled in them; and later "the people gave
chase to them (the jobbers) as they did to
the thieves, whom the royalists styled act
i've citizens And gold louis (of the value
of 20 silver franc) was worth 8, $50 francs.
A course in hackney coach cost 900 francs.
After days use of a carriage this aort of
dialogue might be heard: 'Coachman, how
much do owe you? six thousand francs.
A green-grocer woman sold 20, 900 francs
worth of vegetables day. A beggar said !,
Help me in the name Of charity; I lack
23O francs to finish paying for my shoes. "
Carlyle says that on the 1st of February,
1896, at the Bourse, in Paris, the gold louis
of 20 francs in silver cost 5 $3.50 francs in
assignats. The end is known; universal
ruin, and national bankruptcy.
The Placer herald., 1874-06-06

BEEcHER says People ask me why don't
attend to my business of preaching the
gospel, and not go off talking about politics.
etc. Well, the reason is this. | am a free
man in free country. | ask nobody fer
my rights; take them. am perfectly
willing that God should tax me for virtue;
but the devil shan't tax me for vice with
out hearing of it. When men have become
so religious they can't touch the ground
they ought to go up; and one of the great
evils of society is a religious man whose
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The Placer herald., 1874-06-06

A man has been fined ten dollars for at
tempting to assist divine worship in the Sec
oud Advent Church at New Britain, Conn.
a few sundays ago, with jewsharp, though
he defended his action by quotations from
the Bible
The New York herald., 1874-09-06
A DIVORCE CASE.

Rcoecca s. Totten has brought suit against
Richard rotten for divorce, and yesterday there
was presented to Judge DonOhue IN Supreme
Court, Chambers, petition for amony and cOun-
sci fee. The complaint and petition merely set up
a marriage and abandonment, without giving any
statement OF the form Of marriage which, how
ever, her counsel stated was of the Brinckey pat
tern. The defendant denied any marriage and
averred that she was hired as a servant in his
house at $40 month, and after some months was
PAID OF to her satisfaction, and after brle1 alb
sence again returned on the same terms. She
was retained alter the term lOr which she was
hired &C her own request, and went with him to
has mother's at Bound BROOK, n. ]: While there
he found her one night in his bed, and ordered
her to quit the house, Tor which she entered
complaint, giving ner name as Rebecca L. Throck-
morton. Motion was made by her counsel Mr..
Peter Mitchell, for leave to put In answering
papers to establish the marriage, and to explain
the papers on the other side, which Judge DOno-
hue refused, holding that the allegation as to
there having been marriage was fully met In the
present case, and that sucn new aflidavIts might
be used In another motion Tor aimony.
The New York herald., 1874-09-06
THE TENTH DISTRICT JUDGEsHIP

An action, it will be remembered was COM
menced some time ago to oust Judge Flanagan
from the Office OF Justice OF the Tenth District
Court In this city, to which he was elected at the
last November election. Though the suit was
brought by the Attorney General and is In the ma
ture OF a quo warranto proceeding, the real party
ansttuting the proceedings is James r. Angel, his
competitor for the position. The original COM
plant SIMPLY set forth irregularities the cleo
tion; that 1t was premature and that 1T was car
rled on under the forms prescribed for Westchester
county instead OF under the laws relating to New
YORK county, A motion was made yesterday In
supreme Court, Chambers, before Judge DCnOhue,
founded mainly on The afiidaviJ OF one VldetO, to
amend the complaint by alleging actual fraud in the
election. 1t appears from the papers read on the
motion that Judge Flanagan received majority
OF all the votes cast and that the Board of County
Canvassers awarded to him q certificate OF cleo
SION, and that he has since performed the du-
ties OF his 0fhce and drawn his salary, although
meanwhile first having to sue ana obtain judg-
ment before the Comptroller would pay him. The
singularity about this proceeding now Is that MIR.
Angel, the deieated candidate, not only claims
tnat Judge Flanagan was elected a year in ad-
vance, but claims Still further that II the Court
should decide against hiIn, that then he should
have leave TO set up fraud on the ground OF re-
peating. Judge Flanagan Indignantly denies that
any repeating was carried on on his part, but al
leges tnat Angel did have repeaters voting for
him, and thus reduced his (Flanagan's) majority.
For the people +. e. Saiomon appeared, and for de-
tendant john B. Haskin and Judge Flanagan IN
person. Judge Donohue took the papers, reserv-
tng his decision.