South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-06-25
TIVE were blessed with splendid

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showers Of rain on Tuesday last. East
/ Of this place, some Eve or six miles. we
learn. the fall Of rain was unusually hea-
Wy, more 80 than for some years past.
1Our friend, His Excellency, Gov.
John j. Jacob, arrived in this place on
Monday afternoon last. and left on yes
terday. The Governor is looking well
and is and has been lately engaged in
the useful and necessary examination
and personal inspection Of our State In
stitutions. This is all right and highly
commendable. and in some sense pro.
tective Of those Institutions from cor.
ruption and abuse. He spent portion
of Tuesday last at the ID. & ID. & b. In.
stitution in this place and was well
pleased, we understand, with the man.
ner in which it is conducted.
EVWe were absent from orr most
when our last number was put to press,
attending the meeting Of the West Vir-
ginia Press Association, which met in
PIEDMONT on Thursday of last week.
We reached home on Monday last, and
on the following day finding the matter
on hand for the present issue being OF
more Importance than an account which
we had prepared or the doings Of the
Convention, we are compelled to lay it
aside, which We do the more readily in
nsmuch as we intend to publish the Off
cial proceedings rs soon rs furnished by
the Secretary of the Association.
RAT EATEN.-Dr. j. NJ. Snyder was
summoned to a singular case, few
nights ago. A negro woman, in this
place, named Florence Hardy, had left
her twin infants, few months old, abed
and asleep. While absent from her
home, it appears that rats got upon the
bed and frightfully mutilated one of the
children, consumed two fingers ola hand
and laying bare to the bone an arm to
the elbow. A neighbor aroused by the
cries Of the little victim, fastened to its
rescue; but, we learn that the poor lit
tie babe is in n most precarious situation.
The other child was unhurt, and found
asleep.
TV The quantity of land in Hardy
County, exclusive OF town lots, rs we
learn from the Moorefeld Adcertiser. is
393,231 acres, and the average value of
same about 1882. The aggregate val.
Tie of lands, lots and buildings in the
County, is $l,775.655.54. The new as
sessment is greater than the last one by
Sl12,561.44. The County levy of Hardy
Co., for this year is 80 cents on 500.
EVWo are indebted to III. s. Carr.
Esq, OF Moorefeld, member OF the
Board of Regents OF the West Virginia
University, representing this, the 18th
Judicial Circuit. for pamphlet copy Of
the catalogue OF said Institution for
1S74-75. The board consists of nine
membcrs-one from each Judicial Cir
cult OF the State. Their next meeting
will be held in Martinsburg on Wednes.
day the 18th Of August.
tVMr. c. w. Reed, OF winchester.
We learn from the Times, who met with
serious accident last week, is recover.
ing. Mr.. r.. was timing a roof in Hamp.
shire county, and the scaffold on which
he was standing. gave way, precipitat.
ing him to the ground \ distance of
twenty feet. He received very painful
Injuries about the hips, but no bones
were broken.
II'In our present issue, please oh.
serve advertisement OF his desirable resi-.
dence and furniture, land, choice and
desirable,) for sale, by our friend Prof.
Howard III. Johnson, on the FIRST day of
August Court.
IVIt appears that new and dan.
gerous counterfeit fifty cent script of the
series Of 1873 has made its appearance.
The general outline is we'll calculated TO
deceive. The number and letter is
slightly wider and heavier than that M.
on tho genuine ones, while in the lower
left-hand corner the date 1901 looks
more like $50 with a short perpendicu.
lar dash.
Strawberries arc selling for three
cents quart Mt Norfolk, Va In Rom.
ney they bring rs cents quart.
" Two houses were DESTROYED by
fire ut Mount Savage, Md, on Thursday
Of last week, one belonging to the Con.
soIidated Company and the other occu.
pied by Mrs. Jackson, who lost con.
siderable quantity OF her furniture.
tV'Military companies are being or.
ganized in various counties in this State
tVr Book Agents, read DIR. r. V. Pierce's
advertisement in another column.