South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-09-10
Odds and Ends.

SuutCu Oh Jesus Nurf8b Oh tue Latt6r
Day Saints, died ON the ist inst, In Salt
Lake city. ~. 80. ~
As We go to press We learn OF the
death or an old. well.known and highly
esteemed citizen OF this county. James
Gather, Esq, whose death occurred on
Wednesday. He was an upright gentle.
man and a useful citizen, and represen.
ted Frederick county many years ago
in the LegisIature.-W Winchester Ne,cs,
September s. sale 20
-Four children OF Mr.. Walter. in As.
cension parish, Louisiana, were poison
ed recently by eating French iozcnges,
and died in few hours.
The San Francisco Board OF Pro.
vision Packers advises the farmers Of
California to fattcn hogs with their wheat,
as 81 100000 gold was sent from that
city last year to buy Eastern pork and
lard. est
Mr.. BEEcIrER AND PIE HAY FEVER.
Rev. Henry Ward Bcecher attended
the annual meeting OF the United States
Hay Fever Associations, at Bethlehem,
n. H.. last week. Mr.. Beechcr spoke at
considerable length on the subject Of
the hay fever, and related many facts Of
his own experience in connection with
this disease. lie gave it as his opinion
that the hay fever was disease Of de-.
pressed nervous action, and that what
ever raised a persons nervous tone rails
ed him above the assault of this disease.
So far as remedy for it, aside from the
atmospheric remedies, is concerned, the
only inference that can be fairly drawn
from the accumulated experience ofper-
sons afflicted with this malady seems to
be that it assumes infinite forms, and
that no remedy for il has been discovered
A HUMOROUS TRAMP-A tramp stop.
ped Mt the Widow HIS, in Brookfeld,
Mass, n few days since, and asked for
food. She replied she had none Mr..
Tramp went across the road to n neigh
boris and asked IL they were aware the
woman living on the other side was starv-
ing. He then requested the loan Of n
fishing rod lying close by, which was
granted. With it he went to q pond n
short distance Off, ffshed for several
hours, pcatching a good string, returned
to Widow H., and made her o present
Of them.
In Norway, the longest day lasts
three months. The man who six months
ago promised to call in day or two
and settle bis little bin must have gone
to Norway on visit.
"A man sleeping in barn in Colo
RADIO, woke up in the night and put his
hand into box to get more hay for a
| pillow. Uttering a cry of pain, he n
woke n companion, saying that he had
run his hand against something which
gave him great pain. A light was OBJ
tanned. when large rattlesnake was
found in the box. The snake-y7as i'm
mcdiately killed, and the old remedy,
whiskey, was Immediately sent for, four
bottles of which he drank lie soon NJ
ter rnurmured the name of his wife and
lapsed into n comatose state, which con
tiuued until he died that evening. tits
a question whether death was the result
Of the bite or of the whiskey?
Gen. Bradley Il. johnson, formerly
of Frederick, Nd, has, in response to q
call of over / 900 conservatives OF Rich.
mond, Va, announced himself as can.
didate for the State Senate for their
district.
Six men were hanged last Friday
at Little Rock, Arkansas, for murder
1t is to- be hoped that this wholesale
hanging will curtail the bowie.knife and
revolver business in that section.
Peru will pay off her debt with GU
ano-scent for cent.
There are forty-two churches in
Troy, n. Y, and yet there are more cock
fights there on Sunday than in any 9th
er city in the State.
On Wednesday night OF last week
the teller Of bank in Louisville, KY,
robbed its vault Of 100000 and said I've
had been chloroformed and dragged
/ from bis bed by three men, who forced
him 70 give UP his keys. Subsequently
he confessed that he put up the job him
self and the money was recovered.
| NEW DISCOVERIES OF MICA.-The dis
covery OF large bodies of sheet mica in
certain parts Of Colorado has attracted
considerable attention TO this new
branch Of mining industry. The uses
to which mica are now put are almost
numberless; first, in sheets for head.
lights in vessels, fronts in stoves, and in
other places where IL is exposed 10 &c.
we're heat, or other agencies that would
destroy glass; second, it is pulyerized,
and used largely in the manufacture Of
bronze, paints, and coatings for reflect
ing surfaces, such as locomotive heal
lights, refectOrs, and mirrors.
There are tventy-tbree miles length
Of pneumatic tubes now in operation in
London, used for sending telegraph mes.
sages.
The Curthbcrt (Ga) Aoped tells Of
negro who refused to work In digging
cei.ar at nifty cents a day, saying it
was 100 little. At night he was caught
stealing corn, and sentenced 20 the
Changing for twelve months. lie is
nov hauling Off the dirt from the cellar
which he refused 20 dig at fifty cents a
day, and he don't get the fifty cents.
The Waco CFexas) ESaminer says q
child Of MIR. Massey. of Granbury. fell
upon n large rattlesnake last Sunday
while DlaYinO In the vard The arak =