South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-04-16
South 9santh 9ntelliseaeer.
RoMNEY, FRIDAY, APRIL ie, 1875.
WWe are informed by the Clerk

any one 10 Slt In MS stead, there Is III
tie or no probability OF having term
of the Circuit Court this Spring at the
usual time. A special term may be had
later in the Spring, if SO, notice will be
given through this paper.
Winchester Presbytery will meet
in Martinsburg on Wednesday next, the
2ist instant.
1--WE are pleased to observe that
the newspapers in Western Tennessee
and Northern Alabama report the wheat
as promising more than the average
crop.
Ia The Presiding Elder OF the Moore.
field district, Methodist T.. Church. South.
Rev. z. Ii. Whisner, has taken up his
residence in Cumberland.
~ State Auditor f. A. Bennett. ESQ.
viii please accept our thanks for copy
OF his report for the fiscal years ending
September 80, 1879, and Sept. 80, 1874.
~ We are under obligations to Jas.
Wick, Esq, of Rochester, New York. for
packages of Garden Seeds. also for his
promptness. We recommend him as an
Horticulturist of taste and liberality-
past experience proves TO us that he un-
derstands his business, and we wish him
still greater success and increased pa.
tronage. We also call attention to adj.
vertisement of his "Floral Guide"
XIII is stated that heavy increase
OF the death rate among adults marked
the winter Of 1913
1--WE return thanks to our lady. friend
OF Philadelphia for her communication
signed Penn in to-day's paper. We
hope we may have the pleasure of hear
ing from her again.
CATTLE FOR SALE.-Read the adver.
tisement Mr.. Robert T. Moorehead. of.
fering Cattle for sale-elever head. OF
course, Mr.. NJ, will sell them on rea.
sonable terms.
10 The Odd Fellows throughout the
country will celebrate the firtv-seventh
anniversary of the establishment of the
order in the United States, on Monday.
the Goth day of April.
John c. Woodson, ESQ, of Harri,
soaburg well known by many of our
readers, we regret to state, is danger
ously i'll.
~ The Tannery Of Mcssrs. Hoyt &
Co., at Paw Paw, Morgan county, we
learn from the NercUH,is now turning out
about six hundred sides of leather per
week. i is used. that paper is inform.
ed, exclusively for tho manufacture of
betting AMI gearing.
y Ne are in l35tcd to Hon. !. Il.
Dodge Statislician, for copy ornonth-
IS report Of the Department OF hEricul-
ture, for February and March, 1879.
NorAEIEs PCDLIc.-Tae late Legs
ia;ara this State passed AZ act con-
ferring on Notaries Public new powers,
IS follows: 4 Notary under the rcgula-
tons prescribed 10y law msy take, with
II his county. Acknowledgement of
deeds and other writings. and tie priyy
examination Of married women respect
ing the same. He also shall be q con
seryator Of the Peace within his county
and rs such conscryator shall exercise
'Il the powers conferred by law upon
Justices of the Peace.
FAT SHEEP FOR SALE.-Mr. John J.
lnskccp, on the Branch. few miles be-
low this place, has 81 head of fat Sheep
for sale. See advertisement.
Hoo SToLEN.-We are informed that
Mr.. VIM. +. Davis, of this place, had
stolen from his pen. on the night of the
18th inst, a fine Shoat, which. we are
told, was in very fine order. We under.
stand that several others have lost hogs
in the same way during the past two
months
TIE LITTLE MvnpEH TRrAL.-The mr..
gument in the case of Lycurgus Little.
charged with the murder Of his brother
Clinton. in Clarke county Va, which
las been on trial in the Circuit Court
81 Winchester, judge Turner presiding,
for two weeks was brought to a close on
Yesterday week, the sth inst. the iurv
rendering the following verdict: eve.
the jury, find the prisoner guilty Of muir.
der i'm the second degree. and fix lis
torn OF imprisonment ir tbe pcuitcutia-
Eat five vcars" This &, ,hc second
trial Of tho case, tho former sentence
having been fourteen years in the peni-
fnlt'a~V from Which an auucaI was ta.