South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-06-18

ner is about twenty-five years old. This
attempt happening SO soon after the O.
denton outrage and the subsequent lynch
ing of Simms, has created profound
sensation here. Sheriff Carr fears an
other demonstration by lynchers. and
States Attorneys Revell has ordered
him to use the whole body of the coun-
ty as posse to prevent another exhi-
bition of lynch law.-Bdltino,e San.
A correspondent ofthe Independ-
ent. under the head of Greenbrier conn
ty. "reminiscences, says: Most of the
settlers lived in cabins built of round
logs, clnp-board roofs, and hewed slab
floors, and some no floors but mother
earth. The wild beast of the forest
roame1 about at pleasure-the bear,
wolf, panther and deer being as plenti-
full rs sheep at the present day.
Wild turkeys were as plentiful rs
tame ones are now; catamounts, Wild
cats and foxes were in abundance, and
the smaller game was innumerable.-
The deer and bear afforded meat for the
settlers, and the deer skins, when dress
ell, furnished clothing. l have seen
men dressed in deer skin pants, hunting
shirts, and moccasins. and, in one in.
stance, females also. 1t was common
for n good hunter to kill fifty deer. be-
sides number of bears and turkeys
The hams of the deer were cut of, salt
ed, and sold Mt fifty cents pair, and
skins brought 12l cents per pound, when
dried. Bears, when fat, were sailed for
bacon, which was considered very
great luxury. Bear skins sold very rea-
Oily for from one to five dollars, owing
to size.
~ The Hastings Court of Richmond
was occupied on Thursday of last week
in the trial of Davis Beauregard Hudson,
the little boy, aged II years, who stab
bed and killed large boy, named Geo.
Hillman, recently. The jury, after an
absence of only three minutes returned
and rendered verdict of not guilty,
whereupol Hudson was discharged.
VIRGINIA MIDLAND RAILRoAD.-En-
gineers are locating an experimental
line to connect the two links of the Vir- |
ginia Midland road with the view of a.
voiding shipments over the Chesapeake |
and Ohio road. One line starts from
Orange Court House, the ctlrer from Ra-
pid Ann station, and both terminate at |
Charlottesville. The Alexandria &c
zette states that the Philadelphia and |
Reading road, which has acquired by
purchase mineral lands on the new road,
is to assist i'll constitution.
A BLACK FIEND-Ywo You've La
DIES OUTRAGED.-ATLANT GA, June |
10.-A negro was arrested to-day for !
committing rape upon two white girls |
in De Kalb county. They are sisters,
and their name is Johnson; aged re-
spectiyely twenty and twenty-three |
years. The negro worked upon an adj |
joining place, and came to the house |
early in the night when nobody was ut |
home but the two sisters and their little |
brother, who tried, unsuccessfuliy, to |
kill the negro with an axe.
The negro locked the doors, and threa- |
tened the lives of the girls with pistol |
committed the double crime, and took to |
the woods. Before morning medical as !
sistance was rendered the girls. Jor. /
dan Jones, the negro, was arrested, and !
carried back to the scene of his crime J
for Identification.
To a correspondent Of the Kingwood |
J0usRd says: On one Of Our ridges is
rock called the Stem Rock At the |
ground it is about thirty feet in circum-
ference, is forty feet high, and is nearly !
the shape of n stem glass. With a field
glass on the top OF this rock, person /
can sec into Maryland, Virginia, Penn |
sylvania and Ohio Wouln't that be
good place to rest the ark Of our State |
Government u little while till the Court
decides where to plant the thing2
Ia The Greeubrier Independent SAYS
Mr.. +. a. Boyd, who lives near Rocky
Point, in Monroe county, n short time
since, cut and hauled TO the steam saw
mill st the point, yellow poplar tree
which turned ont nine Thousand five
hundred feet OF plank The tree prOdu-
ced ten logs which were ten feet in
length. The top log, or the log nearest
the top Of the tree, measured three feet
in diameter, in the yellow. The lumber
from this one tree was sufficient 20 e.
rect n comfortable and good sized dwell
ling-house, for which purpose il was us
cd. There are quantities Of trees Of the
same kind on the same lands. but the
trouble is that many them are larger
than the one mentioned. and consequent
ly troublesome to haul