Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-11-04

DYNAMITE, Fuse, etc, for sale by
Watkins, Caldwell & Rinehart, Cad.
well w. Va.
MIR. IL. f. MYLEs, ut Failing Spring,
has received a fine line of seasonable
Dry Goods, etc. His ad. will tell the
story.
Mrs. Mary Terrell will pleasantly en-
terrain boarders during the Circuit
Court. Residence, northeast corner of
IewiSOurg.
REV. G. w. PARKER, formerly of
Monroe county, has accepted a call to
the passionate of the Baptist Church at
RonCevertc.
Miss NELLIE MAE BURDETT, daugh-
ter Of Capt. :. G. Burdett, of Charles
ton, was married in that city, OH the
9th nit. to Mr.. Frank Gilliland.
1 HE President has issued the usual
proclamation designating Thursday,
the 25th inst, as day of thanksgiving
and prayer. The Governor fixes the
same day.
Tie ladies of the Lewisburg NJ. f.
Church, South, will give an OYSTER Sup
per at Mrs. PullIam's dining room to-
morrow night. For benefit of Station
Parsonage.
TIE best cattle which have left Mon
roe county this fall were As head sold
recently for export by Messrs. b. c..
Young and II. A. Boyd, which averaged
1925 pounds in weight.
CYRUS +. NEEL sold his home place.
near Gap Mills, Monroe county, con-
sisting of about 234 acres, to Mr.. Peck
Caldwell, of Craig county, Va, on the
22nd ult. Price paid, $50 per acre.
AT Trinity Church, Huntington, on
the 10th inst, Miss Lucy Sehon, the
beautiful and attractive daughter of
Hon. Edmund Sehon, will be married
to Mr.. John M. McCoach, of the same
city.
ALLEN E. NELSON died ut Ona,
Cabell county, this State, on the 9TH of
October, in the send year of his age
The deceased was Il native of Monroe
county, and the oldest brother of DR..
j. l.. Nelson, of Lewisburg.
IT is said that owing to the drought
many of the farmers in the State are
thinking OF Resolving their wheat fields.
The opinion is among them that the six
weeks drought has destroyed large
percentage of the seed wheat.
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WHILE watching the forest fires,
which ragged through Raleigh county
Z this week, Miss Flora Adkins, aged 20,
of Beckley, that county, found herself
walled in by flames. Her cries for help
aroused the nelghbOrhood, but no aid
could be rendered her, and she burned
to death before the eyes of her friends
and relatives. The girl was daughter
OF Judge VIM. Adkins.
Z Col. b. +. Harlow Will accept thanks
for copy of the Acts of the last Leg
1slature, and also for a copy of the re-
port of the Special Joint Committee on
Constitutional amendments. The report
prepared 10y chairman r +. Fast is
quite voluminous document, present
ing exiting Constitutional provisions
and amendments proposed in parallel
colums.
OUR readers will find in the letter of
our llillsboro correspondent an account
OF very curious and unusual case of
malformation, which has excited much
interest in that community. Some of
the doctors heIe say it is case of alb
sorption. There were twins in the
womb, they say. One died and was alb
sorbed by the other, leaving a portion
OF the leg, which grew and resulted as
described by our correspondent.
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TIE Greenbrier Circuit Court will
convene next Monday, the 9Th INST
MANY Of our subscribers In the county
are behind with their subscriptions to
che INDEPENDENT, as they will see by
glancing ut the dates on the margin of
their papers. We beg that you will call
during the term and settle. If you do
not come to Court send what you owe
by some friend or neighbor. We need
the mony, and you should remem Der
the scrlptural injunction Pay that
thou owest.
PHIL RENICK, just back from Poca.
hontas county, tells us that the wild
turkeys up there are as thick as leaves
In the valley of Valambrosa. They are
Rocking in from the woods to feed in
the corn fields adjacent to the hills and
mountains, and in some places, notably
about Edray, bave destroyed acres
Men, he says, are paying big prices fol
hands to husk out their corn 80 as tC
save it from the rayages Of the hungry
birds. The same complaint comes from
come parts of Greenbrier.
Judge Brake Dead.
ii. w. Brazie, Judge of the Crimina
Court of Fayette county, died at tn,
Sheltering Arms Hospital at Paint
Greek, last Sunday morning, at Il
o'clock. Last Thursday one of Judg,
Brazie q legs was amputated and since
that time he had been gradually sinking
s until the sad end came. The amputa
ton was rendered necessary by a dis
cased condition of the bones of the foot
from which the Judge had suffered fol
some time. Judge Brazie was nativ,
of New York and n nephew Of the LAT.