South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-08-01
Fish Raising for Market.

At HALFWAY. q station between hu-
burn and Syracuse. y. Y. are the iS.ry
nsn ponus, where brook trout, salmon
trout anu California trout are raised for
marker. The water in the ponds Is
pumped rom clear mountain streams.
All the eggs are packed in moss. The
hsh arc fed upon the lights or lungs OF
animals, "a this kind Of meat does not
sink to the bottom, and tLese trout feed
from the Surface. When fool is thrown
to them they show as n uch eagerness
as lock OF chickens, rushing pell-mell
over each other, throwing the water mp
IN little sprays and flinging it about I'M
III one who objects to being showered
steps back. Minnows and small brook
trout are also thrown to them, which are
taken down, Jonah.like, at one swallow.
The large tish are Kept apart from the
small ones, even of the same kind, else
they will continually illustrate the old
adage. The big fish feed upon the little
| ones.
! During the recent dry weather in Ma.
natee county, Fla. the lower Miaka lake
| dried nh all to one hole. The hole was
deep e was the only resort OF the ca tie
for water. The whole was fui! OF slli-
! gators, anil as the stoclmen feared dep
relations on the cattle.a number OF them
went there one day and killed 723 al.
( ligators from six to fourteen feet in
length.
James Palmer went into IN undertake.
err shop ut Riverton, Va. and got mea-
sured for u coffin. which nc said was for
! . man exactly his size. Have it ready
this afternoon he sail, 'for the corpse
will he ready by that time Then he
went ID q railroad track near by, Law
down on it, and let the train run over
him.
His Own ExEcUTroNER.-A remark.
able case OF lynching occurred at Cbey-
eune. Wyoming. on the 18th ult. A
man named Dug Reel. obnoxious par
ticularly TO the citizens, was taken from
the Jail. Then, with unusual courtesy.
the lynchers allowed Reed to select the
method of death most agreeable to him
and when he stated he would prefer TO
be hanged. they went still further and
allowed him 20 be his own exccutioncr.
lie took 4 rope in his hand, climbed
telegraph pole, fastened one end around
the top, and formed moose Mt the 9th
er end. Then he made his last dying
speech, which WAS short, being M more
than Goodbye, boys and, jumping off,
was launched into eternity. Some coron.
er's jury might find this TO be a case OF
suicide; hut. TO some extent, the crowd
at the foot Of the pole must be consider.
ell as aiding and abetting.
f, Freeman. the Pocassett Mass aa-
ventist, who murdered his daughter un.
der fanatical delusion that God would
restore her to life. and who ia still in
jail mt Barnsta0le. refuses to take any
legal advice. and says. should the State
furnish him counsel. he will not permit
him TO smooth over the facts 20 make a
good defense. He continues to assume
that he was justified of God in slaugh-
tering his child. His wife, who shortly
after her arrest seemed to see the enor-
nifty of the deed, has again fallen I'M
der the old delusion. and thinks her
husband did perfectly right in sacriflc.
ing the child. They both talk rational
ly upon every other subject.
France ia becoming good market for
American horses. a cable dispatch to
tho New York Herald says thirty-two
horses which arrived at lIavre in good
condition were accepted for the French
cavalary, and soil for from two hundred
and twenty dollars TO two hundred and
six'y-fve dollars, which are remarkably
good prices. Good cavalry horses could
be put on shipboatl here for about one
hundred and twenty-five dollars in I'M .
limited quantity, and as France cannot
draw either from Germany or Russia her
neol for animals is great enough to es-
tnblish IN important trade.
William A. Simpson exhibited on
change yesterday morning some sam
pie stalks OF the new Centennial Black.
bearded wheat grown on the country
place Of Hamilton Easter, Esq, Balti-
more county, which wore quite a Curl
osity. The stalks were fully six feet
high, and the yield, it Is estimated, will
be fully sixty bushels To the acre. The
wheat is for seei.-Ldb. san, JuIy PC.
\ TAsTEFULLY PLANNED SUIcIDE.-
Mrs. Elizabeth Schnell. wife OF Wheel
ing. saloon keeper. committed suicide
on Saturday morning last. induced Their.
to, II il supposed, Ivy quarrel with her
husband. She made all her preparations
with the greatest care II was found
that she had frat attired herself In clean
Undertaking over which she wore a
Cnc night dress. Then, after carefully
dressing herself as noted. she had got
into tie bed and arranged the bed-cloth.
ing the coverlet had been neatly turn.
ci over tn her waist and tucked In on
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