South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-09-02

Baltimore market on the 30,b ult.-
Steamboat lots sold at 40(asl Al, and
sail cargoes At l 459sl IS for Long
berry and I S7(9sl 43 for FuItx, clos
ing at 81 40snnd 81 so as the outside,
heiag about cents below the top ix :.
,nres obtained at the opening.
Southern corn. white. sqli At rs cents
anil prime yellow at II cents.
Tue Roape county Bulletin very sen
sibly says that "a person 10 no, quail
fed to teach until they become a cub
scriber to their county paper" There
is'as much necessity for general in for.
nation on the part OF the teachers "a
there is for thorough acquaintance with
the branches required TO be taught, and
this Information can best be acquired
from newspapers. One or the best
teacilcrsin the county said to us the o.
Their day: "On tue first day OF school |
can easily select the children that come
from farmers that read newspapers. bv
their superior intelligence" and oxam-
ners of teachers will give the same ,es
timony. IL is just as necessary that
teachers should keep UP with the
time" rs that the members of any other
profession should. and they can only do
SO by reading the Messen-
ger.
"A THAR. FOR SHEEP-KfiLINe Doas.-
The LyncEburg Eryiaian describes an
ingenious trap devised by Virginia
farmer to capture sheep killing dogs
Having suffered severely from the dep
rotations of dogs upon his shecp-fod,
he built around number Of sheep that
dogs had killed an Enclosure of rails
twelve feet high and about ten feet
square at the ground, the sides Of the
trap sioping inward until an opening
WAS left about five feet square. Any
dog could easily climb such slipping
fence and enter the pen. but No, even
.algreyhound could jump out OF it. In
three nights the farmer captured forty
six dogs, including fifteen or twenty
that had never been aeen before in tina,
neighborliood.
We acknowledge the receipt Of q
complimentary Invitation to attend The
Fourth Annual Fair. which will he hel,
TT Martinsburg, September 18th, Iith.
18Th and l6 h Whoever has ANYTHING
worth exhibiting and thnt he sells. or
whoever wants To test the speed Of his
horse, will find the Martinshurg Fair
an excellent medium th, rotor. and
whoever would spend day in pleasant
sight seeing or interesting an anus
Ing entertainments, will do well to at
tend.
Five hundred young Englishmen.
nearly. all unmarried, have settled
near lie Mars, Iowa.
Charles Burch. living III Augusta
county, Va, accidentally shot himself
on Saturday last, intiicting injuries
that viii probably prove fatal.
Some ten days ago Rev A. G. Hop
kins went ON preaching visitation,
by order Of his Presbytcry. to Grant
and Hardy counties. His many
friends will regret to learn that he
has been taken down with Erysipelas.
affecting seriously his eyes. Latest
reports announce him better, with
prospect of an early return to his
home He has been we'll cared for
ar stle bone, in Mooreticld. OF one
of5ou Former anil most char ming
CharleStown women Mrs. Thomas
MasIip. -Charlestown Free Press,
Aug. q. l
PERSONALS. Mrs. G. w. Daley OF
Keyser, With her mother, Mrs. Garris n
Of Baltimore, who have bren visiting
Doctor K. w. Dailey's returned home
on Mondqy Last.
Mrs. Robert T.. Moorehesd and chill
dren, With Miss Blanche Diefrsndsrfcr,
bid alieu to her father and friends on
SATURDAY last anil after spen.1inO "a few