South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-08-27
Odds and Ends.

line discovery OF plot in Wash
ington and Jefferson counties. Ga. on
the part OF the negroes TO massacre the
white citizens. has led 10 the calling out
or the military and the arrest of so al
legged conspirators.
English gardeners now gladly pay
81 each for toads They find them the
best and cheapest destroyers of the in
scots which mlest their plants.
The Chicago bed-bugs reveled i'm
the fresh young blood of ten bridal par
ties nj a single hotel there the other
night.
The Wichita E,gtc says that every
corn stalk in tho Arkansas Valley lis
filed with ears from the ground up, and
has gourd full of shelled corn grow
ing on top"
The Columbus JoufHul. describing
an Ohio politician says: 'lIe is an hon.
est man by profession, and he earns his
bread 10y tho sweat OF his jaw"
1t has been decided that the inaue-
ural ceremonies attending the statue OF
Stonewall Jackson, be held i'm Richmond,
on Tuesday, the 26th ofOctober. that
being the first day of the holding of the
State Fair.
The Cincinnati Price Current pub.
fishes crop reports from nearly $50 couu-
ties in tic West, showing full average
acreage of wheat in Ohio and Indiana,
large losses by rain and the quality very
inferior; in Illinois the crop is below
the average, condition largely bad and
quality interiors in Iowa acreage rs
usual, yield large quality inferior Mis-
souri,, crop considerably short and ma
terially damaged Kentucky, yield aver
age but badly damaged; Michigan fair
and Wisconsin good. Oats largely de-
stroyed and damaged in Ohio Kentucky,
Indiana and Illinois and parts of Mis-
souri,. The corn crop promises to be
unusually large. Cattle and hogs are
generally in better condition than last
year, and in many places are feeding on
the damaged grain.
An AwrUL DREAM.-The late Rev.
DIR. Bethunc was among the invited
speakers at n y. Y. dinner. The speaking
OF the evening was of the usual kind,
dilating with fondness for the native
soil, and somewhat extravagaut in its
statements of the number of those who.
although denizens of tho native soil,
had found their way into all the earth
so that New England drovers might he
/ found on the slopes of the Andes, Il Con
necticut clock.peddlers on the steppcs
of Tartary. When the Doctor was call
ed out, near the close of the festivities.
lIe began by saying THAT the speech.
es OF the gentlemen who addressed them
might be divided into two classes--thc
! first of which dwelt upon the love of
! New Englanders for their native soil,
and the second of which enumerated the
multitude Of them who had run off and
/ left il. How this was TO be reconciled
! he could not say, unless il might be on
the theory Of a story he had heard about
two Scotchmen, who came to this coun-
| try some years ago. At breakfast one
morning, n few weeks after their arrival.
one OF them wore strangely troubled
look The other noticing it, asked him.
Andrew, mon, what's the matter wi We
| this morning." II had fearful dream
in the NIGHT" "What did you dream,
mon?" Il dinna like TO tell did We
dream We saw the dell, mon?" mo il
was far waur than that" Did We dream
your mither was dcad?' mo it was fnr
. ''N' ti'tH 'l'"ts w tii. WIFI NW VIC
dream, mon?" why / dreamed / was
hame again" Your readers will easily
conjecture that this au1acity Of humor
brought down the house. with thunders
Of applause.-Dr. Smith, IN National
Boptia
" you have nothing, and your girl has nothing,
Don be 10 haste to wed
Fer nothing nud nothing make nothing,
ola fta
Mr.. JOS. i. Lickliter Of Stanton.
has been appointed Steward Of the Rich.
mond hospital for the insane at the Col.
lege lnirmary in Richmond.
baltimore, Aug. 1S.-Graham Bros
/ & Co.. wholesale grocery and commits.
sion merchants, No. 2S6 West Pratt
street and - South Howard street. sus.
2 pended yesterday their liabilities are
stated 90 be $4,000 the assets. princi.
pally IN Baltimore county property are
deemed sufficient 10 cover that amount
tbe firm have asked for an extension 49,
Their creditors are New York and Bal.
timore parties.
I RryEraTS0 TmNG4.--The Kansas
/ Farmer says the Question now to be
heard on ali sides u.s. "Whcre can we
get stock 20 feed our corn TOP" The
horses that have gone through the sea
sons work on grass food are IN better
condition than they were last year on
grain.
On Tuesday afternoon Of last week.
q shooting affair trauspircd ut Kecfer's
driving park. near Martinsburg. w. Va.
in which Thomas Collins, the proprietor
Of the park was shot a difficulty oc.
CURED between Collins and one Of his
employees. named Rusler. which result
cd IN the latter scizing a shotgun and
discharging the contents At Collins ut n
distance OF twenty PAGES the shot TAX
ing effect in his throat, producing an ug-
ly and perhaps fatal wound.
AT rccent sale Of Texas lands ] 4.
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