South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-05-28


scientist OF high standing in this conn.
try contributes An extended article 70
the New York Tribuae upon Paris Cr.sn
as an insscticide, and tn eW.c,. =.
liants and Soils. and. through them ON
Man. After careful investigation Of
tho subject he concludes that there :. No
present or future danger from judiciou.
use OF the mineral-whether in liquid or
powder. and recommends It's application
as likely to prove . great blessing 70
the country. Evil consequences only
come to the abuse Of it. The Green ss
used IN its diluted form, he saws could
not well collect in sufficient quantities
to be directly deleterious to man in the
field in any imaginable way, while its
injury through the plants is out Of the
question.
In order to kill potato bugs, take
a table spoonful Of Paris Green and dis.
solve it in one gallon of water and
sprinkle the PLANTS with the solution with
common watering pot. Paris Green
being deadly poison the bugs die. it is
asserted, as 81 on as they eat the leaves
upon which it has fallen. Fowls will
not eat the dead hugs.
AUCTION l--Attension is called 10 the
advertisement elsewhere OF an auction
sale of Dry-goods, Notions, &C.. during
the coming week, in the store room two
doors north of The Post Office. This
being n part of ar immense Bankrupt
Stock Is said to ctnsist of q general as
sortment Of Staph and Fancy goods.
embracing some gods of superior quail.
ty-all of which the gentlemen in
charge assure us, will be sold at any sa-
crifice, as the Object is not to make q
profit but to run tlthe goods regardless
OF cost or value. Dur people may find
this rare chance to supply themselves
with many things very cheaply, which
they sometimes find it difficult to get
at any Srice except in the Cities. Pre-
pare forthe Auction.
PoTATa BUGs WANTED.-We under
stand n gentleman doing business on
Nam streeGsi in IIarrisonburg, has been
offering twenty-five cents per hundred
for the real, sgenuine Colorado potato
bug. We lcSn that some industrious
little fellow intown went into the bust.
ness one day this week and soon gath
cred about 600. Industrious and ener.
getic boys who want to be employed in
this new busnesshave now a splendid
opening as we learn Il G bug exists in
large quantities in, the vicinity of the
Railroad Depot,-Reg.
If our friend Of the Register will favor
us with the name, &C.. of the gentleman
engaged in this new enterprise, we will
have forwarded {. o. d. ten thousand
more or less.
from he Spirit of Jeferspn, May Is.
The ARREST OF C. b. Rouss.-Below
will be found communication to us
from {. Is. RousS which explains itself
we are pleaSx that MIR. r. is thus able
TO refute the SSnderous charges made
against his ia ,knarhe. and checrfully
give his commah ication q place in our
columns. His host of friends here in
his native county were 10th to believe
in the trath OF such report a. that re-
Gently pablished and they will now be
equally gratided at its denial;
New York, May 9Th 1875.
To the Editor Spirit Of JEFFERSON:
SIR Il was much surprised to see in
your paper n republication of mali
cious calumpy from Northern paper.
1t was mean and wicked attempt of
few unprincipled characters to black
mail me in the hope of forcing me to
pay another mans debts Twenty years
of my business career Law before the
public, and the road though hard. and
rough has been straight
Respectfully and truly.
G. b. RoUs5.
A KIDNAPPED Boy RESTORED The
Raleigh ~. c. Sentinel states that about
eleven years ago the federal army car.
ricd off from that city Edward Aston.
aged eleven years. the son ofATrs. Emf.
ly Aston The family mourned him as
dead, and nothing was heard or known
Of his fate till twelve months after.
when he wrote 20 his uncle from Vcrmil.
ion, in Edgar county. Illinois. lie has
hal rough time working in the field n
while, next in = blacksmith shop, Their
in carriage shop, and from there he
joined tho United States array As n
soldier he fought the indians two years
on the Yellow Stone river. and from
there he WAS ordered 10 Shreveport i'm
the Louisiana troubles. whore lie was
discharged from the atmy through the
influence OF friends, and returned to-
Raleigh n few days since Aston now
weighs 100 pounds, is p years Of age.
and is every inch n man.
~ The colored murderer who WINS
hanged i'm New Orleans the other dav