Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-03-05

and potatoes. See ad.
Contractors will please notice tina
the Road Surveyors of White Sulphu
and Irish Corner districts advertise TO
bids for the construction of a foot
bridge over Howard s creek at Caldwell
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Hlilsboro. Pocahontas County. Items
The snow in the Black mountain
north of here is two feet deep. Here
in the valley we are having soft weather
and our streets are so muddy that pc
destrians can hardly travel them.
During the recent cold snap Alpheus
Tharpe, of Hills creek, had his hands
feet and ears frozen. His right foot
was frozen so as to render amputatior
necessary. Drs. Larue and McClintic
performed the operation on the 9th
and although his condition is precari.
Gus they think he will recover. He had
been at work in the log camps in Web.
ster county, and while returning thro'
the mountains to his home on Hills
creek he lost his way in the Cranberry
country eight miles north of here
Those well acquainted with that coun-
try can realize how difficult it would
be for one who had lost his bearings to
get out of it's bewildering depths. Its
pine and laurel covered mountains are
high, its hollows deep and dark and it's
solitude awful. Mr.. Tharpe, while
wandering about, accidentally fell IN
some water and got wet, which, with
the thermometer at zero, so chilled him
that he could scarcely go, but he kept
going hoping to fluid some familiar
mark or path that would lead him to
food and shelter. But with the shades
of night falling about him, and the
cold biting wind roaring dismally thro'
the pines, he realized that he must
spend the night in that wild mountain
Gus country where the foot of man
scarcely eyer treads. Giving himself
up to the ineyitable he proceeded as
best his numbed condition would allow
to start fire with some matches he
With great difficulty he managed to
make some fire which gave pain instead
Of comfort to his already frozen limbs.
He spent the night there but cannot re-
member how. The next morning he
had the good fortune to strike trail
leading to the house of one Henry
Lane, which IN ahalf dazed way he fol-
lowed to the honse and there sank down
with his hands and feet so badly frozen
that he could use them no longer. One
of his ears had swelled to such q ten
sion it bursted. Mr.. Lane took him
in and kindly cared for him until be
was removed to his home on Hills
creek.
The remains of Mr.. Samuel Hodge,
who was one of the unfortunate vic
tins of the boiler explosion near Frank
ford on the Goth ultimo, arrived at his
home near Lobelia Saturday night and
were inferred on Sunday. Miss Maud
Eskridge and Mrs. Josephine Clark
left for Frankfort last Saturday to at
tend the sad funeral obsequies of Mr.
Clownie Kershner and Mr.. Sam u Live.
say, also victims OF the explosion. The
awful occurrencehas cast a gloom over
this entire community. No casualty
has ever happened so near us of such a
destructive, appalling, and heart-rend.
ing character. 1t sickens us to think
of 1t. To the bereaved ones upon
whom the hand Of affection has SC
heavily fallen the heartfelt sympathy
of this neighbOrhood is extended
May God in his goodness strengthen
and comfort them.
Mr.. G. w. Workman, whose leg was
mashed by a log at Boggs's Camp, or
Beaver creek, week before last, viii
have to undergo amputation of the
limb in order to save his life.
The Rev. Geo. Underwood, of Prot
estant faith, has just closed a very in
teresting meeting near Buckeye. -
There were 20 accessions to the church
Mr.. DeKalb Kinnison and Miss Evs
Gum were married recently near Mil
Point, by DR.. d. s. Sydenstricker OF
this place.
Mr.. Ellis McCarty has rented F. w
Harper's farm, Mr.. Harper having
gone to Webster county to do a job Of
logging which will probably take hin
three years to complete.
We have read the account of We Edi
tors trip to the sunny South, ant
found it very interesting as we'll as in
structive. The things and places de
picted in such pleasing and graph,
style has made us long for. visit t,
that country.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. E.,I.'Holt
boy. JENKINS.