South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1876-01-28

Roads. in this County. on the
from -Slancsyiile to South Branch
/. with Mr.. James II. Barr as Post
easter.
l7yOnr thanks are due Hon. Henry
G. Davis for copies of the Compression.
al Record.
tVCorn sold the other day nj pub.
lie sale in Rockingham county. Va, at
IS cents hushel.
E9-It is said that one drop OF the es.
tancs OF bitter almonds will communi.
cafe Al agreeable taste and smell to an
oance of Castor Oil. and will not at all
affect its medical action. Persons taxi
ng this medicine should order it to be
thus favored.
t-FrThe Executive Committee OF the
Eirginia Historical Society, at recent
meeting. received, we learn from one
of our exchanges, very interesting re-
port from their secretary. r. A. Brook,
ESQ, on the colonial seals OF Virginia.
lie also reported that Andrew w. Ker.
cheval. Esq. of Romney. W. Va, was
preparing for publication very valuable
Ms. material relating to the life of Col.
Jas. wood, Governor of Virginia, he.
ing hie private correspondence with
Washington, jefferson, and others. The
committee unanimously expressed their
,ratiHcsti on ct this, and their desire TO
encourage the growth of biographical
terature Of Virginia 1t was also
stated that Hon. p. Johnson Barbour
would prepare for the Society memoirs
pr James, Philip r.. and John s. Bar
bout probably during the winter.
Ia new industry that OF drying
5ss. has been set on foot ut Passau. on
ae Danube, and the Prussian military
authorities are about TO give the product
trial for soldiers rations The Lon
On Ns1cS says several German chem.
sta are very sanguine as to the success
the experiment. and they pronounce
nred egga 70 have lost none of their
alnahle properties by tn, gradual eva
o7ation OF the water contained by them
7 their original state.
/ y For seversl weeks pas: services
ave been held in The PRESBYTERIAN
hurch. night and day. and we are pleas.
20 cay, deep interest is manifested
pom the suljsct OF religion. A goodly
lm6sr fpcrscns have made profess
ion'of faith in Christ. whilst others are
sS SJf@ tbs the Rssg Of f. great BEies The
paiously labo7ing in his Masters vine
rrd. sud the Lord OF the harvest he's
.i;ed his people.
IYJohn a. IRVINE. OF Grcenbrier
ounty, this State, ia, rife which was
sci by his ancestors al Lexington, the
=, hattl. OF the revolution. Iis sill
sea it in deer hunting.
20 ! stock train ran OF the track
Saturday night last. near Charles
own smashing hslfA-dozen cars, and
Hing some forty)or fifty cattle and
ag9. a hrokep(raiI was the cause of
he accident
5-l'he Msrtinsburg Lidepetd en, say.
Al several ryeaclds in the (Cumber-
and Valley are perfectly gr@n, and
. rye is six inche, high, and ! grow.
ike in springtime,
RABBITS THaEg FEET LoNo.-h spe-
cs Of white rabbits, as.large rs fox
,ouad in Garrett comfy. Tide rab
i', tlc Cumberland Alieg mild says
ne very rare, however. and ext mely
ag aud it's only occasionally q 1t one
of them is captured. Last weed one
vas shot near Grautsvlle, and 4 nt to
w. Welgy, or this city. who for1rded
10 the Smithsonian Institute AZ ash
ton. to be stuffed and placed a ex-
,,ion 81 the Centennial. This tbbit
ensured three feet in length ann hr-
y inches high TIA ears we're .sven
los long. Color, perfectly whaf.
10 VIC arc informed that one Oh the
st outrageous and vile acts was per
.'-sled 90 springfield, in this couaty,
rev nights ago, by some Thief or
.syes, vAo entered the Methodist T..
.aroh and cut and Il e tho Bible
''aefll~. icft the cusl on on which
s .e bible rests IT, tstto.s, frank the wine
q. there FOR holy purposes, and broke
.e Gscautcr. broke the lamps, and out
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