Thursday, July 20, 1899
A good deal of prospecting has been done on Cheat Mountain near Clover Lick this year for silver, and word comes that the mine is really discovered at last. The prospector has found an old shaft on the mountainside and other evidences of the mine being worked at some prehistoric time. The legend goes that near this point, Moses Moore, who was captured by the Indians, was left under guard and the main body of Indians went away, were gone several hours and returned with metal out of which they made bullets… It is said that where the discovery was made, there are numerous chippings of flint showing where the Indians had worked.
The Governor Takes a Hatfield
Dock Ellis and Elias Hatfield met with Winchesters, indulged in a cussing match, fired one round, with the result that Ellis fell dead and Hatfield walked across the line into Kentucky to find congenial company. His friends wired to Governor Atkinson that he would surrender to him in person. The governor went to Mingo county and stopped over-night at a Hatfield’s and there was a reunion the next morning of the Hatfields. “Devil Anse” was there, and he and the Governor shot at a mark. Then Elias, who is Devil Anse’s son, came in and said all he wanted was protection. That is what the governor believes in, and the young man was placed in jail. Such ready killers ought not to be at large anyway.
DISTURBING RELIGIOUS WORSHIP
In Bedford, Virginia, Evangelist C. B. Strouse was holding a revival meeting in a tent when an old grey-haired sinner came charging in on a fine horse and announced that he wanted to be sanctified and that his horse wanted religion, too. It was Captain A. L. Minter, 75 years old, a member of the house of delegates of Virginia. He was fined $25 and committed to jail for 15 days.
EELS
The waters of this section are practically destitute of eels, which are so common east of the main Alleghany. A few have been taken in the Greenbrier, but there are many persons living here who have never seen an eel. This dearth of eels is probably due to the fact that we live at least a thousand miles from the sea as the water flows. Eels do not spawn in fresh water. The female eel descends to the sea and lays a setting of nine or ten million eggs. When the young eels are three or four inches long, they begin the ascent of streams, in which they obtain their full growth, descending to the sea to reproduce their young…
An advantage eels have over other fish is their ability to travel overland. They can live a long time out of water in damp grass, and naturalists have proved beyond doubt that eels make long journeys to leave waters which are obnoxious to them…
WATERING STOCK
We had often wondered vaguely if the watering of stock in Wall Street was in any way connected with the watering of stock on a farm, and now, Henry Clews says that Daniel Drew so termed the manipulation of stocks from the practice of watering stock on the farm.
Mr. Clews says that the drover feeds the cattle large quantities of salt to create an abnormal thirst so that they will appear fatter and bigger on the market. He means that if they are driven on the scales immediately they will weigh forty or fifty pounds more to the head than before.
DIED
Mrs. Harriet Brown departed this life last Saturday morning, and her remains were placed in the Brownsburg graveyard Sunday. She was near 90 years old. She has been a devout Christian for a number of years. Two sons and three daughters survive her. A large number of her white and colored friends assembled at the grave to pay their last respects. She was one of the first settlers here and her husband donated this graveyard for the benefit of the community. This place was named Brownsburg in memory of these two deceased friends.
