The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-12-08

"Trip WAS gwen III tne N6tCS al Une
time. The young lady is living with
the family of Mr.. Richard NJ. Sprigg,
this city UDa6. Nelcs.
The Williamsport Pilot says that
during the late flood John Watson,
ofthat place, caught from the river a
lot of lumber a barrel of coal-Oil, a
sofa and baby carriage. The Pilot
says that the banks of the Potomac
are strewed with corn, and thinks
that "possuns, coons and muskrats
will wax fat this winter"
THE FLOOD IN WEST VIRGINIA.
We have mentioned that the
Moorefield valley, Hardy county,
West Virginia, was devastated by
the flood, and that fears were enter
tanned that there would not he food
for the cattle this winter. Recent
accounts confirm these reports and
make the case even worse than stat
ed. A correspondent of the Wheel
ing Register, writing from Moore
field, says:
The South Branch was higher by
five feet than it eyer has been before
within the memory of any one now
living. The whole valley from one
mountain to the other was covered
with water f. ON three to fifteen feet
deep. All the corn on the Brance in
this county and Hampshire has been
swept away. 1t is estimated that
10000 shocks have gone from this
county alone. Many Of the largest
farmers on the Branch in this county
have not a single shock of corn left.
They are compelled to start their
cattle and hogs to market at once, on
account of having no corn to feed
them with. All the fencing has also
been swept away, and is a very
serious loss. There is not one farmer
on the Branch who has not nearly
lost his whole years work. | do not
think the loss will fall far below $780,
900 on the South Branch in this coun-
ty. The people in the Lost River
valley in this county have been near
ly swept away also.
Speaking of the flood in the South
Branch valley, the Romney H1teIH-
gencer says:
The South Branch continued rising
so rapidly that in .nany localities the
rise was from twenty to twenty-five
feet perpendicular water, on the level
bottoms. Scarcely shock ofcorn or
stack of hay remains: the whole val
ley is clean sweep, crops and fenc-
ing; entertainments all broken or
swept away; the fine bridge near
Romney is saved and uninjured but
only saved by the loss of the heavy
embankment on each side of the
river the long embankment on the
west side was swept away some
quarter of a mile down to the natural
level, and in some places ten eet be-
low, covering many acres of the
magnificent bottom of Mr.. William
Taylor from one to three feet in
gravel. The lDsses in this valley are
so great that it is difficult at this date
to even approximate theamount. All
the fat cattle and other stock of every
kind left on the hands of the farmers
at the beginning of winter are with
out food, probably not a sufficiency
of food left to winter the horses that
are used to till the ground, conse-
quently the cattle must be thrown
on the market, or seek a more favor
ed country for food. Inmany places
the lands are greatly damaged by
washing away the soil the Glebe
farm is reported greatly damaged :
and what is true of this valley, from
all the reports we have, is true of the
Cacapon and North river valleys
everywhere clean sweep.