South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1879-08-15

No. II. Accommodation, ..4.O3 Il. NJ.
No. 10 & No. =. Express Trains. daily.
No. Al. Freight & Pass niger daily to Martin,
burg. All the other tr ,ins daily cxrep, Su nd.y
j. NJ. WEllAGE. AGENT.
Clinton Lodge No. 81, A. F.s A, 81. meet,
Q" the 2rd Friday in eoch 'non,h.
The proceedings OF our County Court
viii be given in our next number.
The Lutheran Synod OF Virginia will
hol' its Ff.ieth Convention in Wood.
stock. Va, August 9th.
\ new postofiicc has been established
at Hunting Ground, Pcnd!eton county.
OH the route from Franklin 70 Mount
Freedom, with Jacob Spenangle as post
master.
Ninety acres of wheat on the farm of
Colonel John I. Gibson, near Charles
town, theSpirit of Jefferson understands.
yielded 300 bushcls-an average of 80
bushels per acre.
Our old friend Col G.. 7. BAuBEE,
formerly Of Hardy county, now residing
ia Eridgewater, Rockingham county,
Va, we observe, is candidate to repre-.
sent that county in the House of Dele
gates Of that State.
'IuE III 7. ('AIfI,r IN,
ing is being rapidly renewed to give place
to a new large store house to be erected
hy the RUSSELL Bros. The new build
iay Is TO he fash with the front fence of
the Court house yard, to run lack into
the space occupied by the old house, and
to extend across its whole front. This
viii be quite an improvement to our Main
Street
The Records of the period are lost and
Tradition seemed to point to the year
1877 rs The time of the erection OF this
Courthouse, but brick was found in
the wall hearing the date l1g2 1t is
therefore, probable, that although the
first steps towards the erection Of the
old Court house were taken in 1857, it
was not completed till 1922 or later. In
those primitive days they were slow in
their progress in erection of brick houses
II Is said thl: Perez Drew, a we'll known
merchant, tayern-keepcr, Sc, of that pc
nod, who was of Spanish birth, was the
contractor for the building.
SUPPOSED IHcEND1ARY FfRE On
Saturday night last, tho s team 1hrcsh-
ing Machine, belonging to Mr.. SAxFonp
WHIP, was set at the stack-yard of Mr..
AHRAM JOHNSON, on Pattorson's Greek
Mineral county, preparatory for thrash
nag ON Monday. During that night
some unknown villain set fire to the Ma a..
chine standing between two ricks of
wheat, and the whole was burned. The
loss in wheat is some four or five hum
drcd bushels. We hope the villain who
Fcrpetratci this cowlrdly act will be
found and punished accordingly.
The Weston & CLlrksburt Railroad
will he completed and opened for bust
ness from the Baltimore and Ohio Rail.
road, AZ Clarksburg to Weston, on the
lst day Of September. Tho length of
this new roul il about y miles, through
% fine section. This Is the first narrow
s,usc railroad complctcl in this State.
a revival OF religion is ia progress in
ihc Methodist Episcopal Ch0rch in
Moorefcld The meetings commenced
on the 3lst nit, and were still kept up
NJ our last Information We have not
learned tic number Of actual CONVEX.
sions, hut ohso,Yc by tie Examiuer OF
that place, that UP to Wednesday night.
tho 9Th inst. there had been about so,
mostly young people, who profcsscd n
change of heart, and had been received
into the church. The pastor -Rcv.
Iiaddaway vas SISTED by Revs. Vandi.
yer. Smith, Marl, @ood and Poricriicld.
at ,hc meeting on Sabbath last. it is
reported there were about sixty con-
scr ons. May the good work contiuuc.
our readers who have daughters 90 cdu-
cate, and WHO desire for them really
Grstclass school, will DO well to send to
Rev I. G. Pcrshing. ID D., Pittsburgh,
Pa, for catalogue OF the Pittsburgh
Female Cottage It has elegant build.
ings. nine departments. twenty. three
tcachcrs and offers rare advantages
.n Music, Drawing. Painting, Klocution,
Modern Languages. &c. The charges
arc very moderate. Fall term opens
September }rd.