Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-08-14

From the National Capital.

4 honored the memory of Andrw ] ohnson by
draping the building with mourning and sus-
4 pending business until the close of the day
designated for his funeral. .... The Assistant
/ (; Treasurer, at New York has been directed by
X the Secretary of the Treasury to sell gold
during the month of August as follows:
Il 81 500, 900 on the first and third Thursdays
each, and S1,0Q0,000 on the second and
fourth Thursdays each. Total, s5,OO0,OO0.
western Items.
If At Parsons, Kansas, nearly a whole block
N has been burned, with loss of $4,000; less
n than 800. insurance The building and
stock of the Sterling Organ Company, at
rs birmingham, New York, received damages
IN by FIRE to the extent of $4,000; insurance,
N $4,000.
~ Omaha has been damaged by a terrible
T storm of hail which struck the place a few
lll days ago. Plate glass five-eighths of an inch
Ia thick was shivered to atoms. The hail was
III of large size; some stones weighed pound
N and a half
n Southern Items.
I'LL The Louisiana Democratic Conservative
,k State Convention, which met at the Capital
Hon the Sd, unanimously nominated the Hen.
~ w. l.. Hemingway for State Treasurer. The
Is platform reported by the committee and
di adopted is mainly confined to State matters
81 .recognizes in the fullest extent the civil and
.htpolitical equality of all men, and asks the
II; aid and assistance of voters of all parties
IA ,of both races, in the establishment of good
HSgovernment. The color line was wholly
!yignored.... Election returns from fifty-one
.X.yoting precincts in Texas show small ma
III jority in favor of the Constitutional Con-
Invention. very light vote was polled.
w Crimes.
- A special disnatch from Carbonville, ILL.,,
f,says another assassination growing out of
the Ballinger-Russell feud in Williamson
A.county, ILL.,, was committed recently at
N Crainville. VIM. Spence, a merchant of
q that place, had retired tor the night in a
broom over his store. About ten o'clock he
Nswas aroused by two unknown men, who said
3ithey desired to make some purchases
"A Spence got up, went down stairs, and, while
Nputting on his shoes previous TO opening the
tsstore door, was fired on twice, both shots
taking effect in his abdomen, killing him.
A, John Phillips (colored) one of the muir
iderers OF Frank Williams, near Shawnee
" Village, Ark, and who escaped from the
Mmob which lynched his confederate, has
EAbeen arrested. He was found mortallv
kwounded...... Dwight +. Steere, of Putnam,
Conn.,, young man twenty-seven years of
Mage, was arrested in Worcester, Mass lately
fror the murder of Frederick White of
&,Spencer, Conn. He admits he stabbed his
Fivictim five times with a iackknife and
Erobbed the body of $31.
"a Ex-Treasurer Parker, of South Carolina,
:, against whom verdict of SIS, 900 was re-
9i,cently rendered in suit growing out of his
2tofiicial frauds and ENLIGHTENMENT, and who
Atwas in prison awaiting criminai prosecution
a.. similar Offenses, has escaped from
KtColumbia Jail ...... The banking house of the
,,SSiEast Albany Banking Company, in the viii
E,lage of Greenbush, n. y, was recently en-
Uttered by burglars and nearly $4,000 in cur
8fNreney obtained from the vault.
H. Disasters by Fire.
~ Lincoln advices state that the heavy rains
hin that section of the country and in the
;lnsoutheast have damaged property along the
"a, line of the Atkinson and Nebraska Rail
4 road exceeding one hundred thousand dol
\ lars.
II. A destructive fire occurred at Kennebunk
1rPort, Me-, burning the steam mill and shops
n at Wards ship-yard also a bark nearly
!Ieready to launch, belonging to Perkins &
IiCrawford. Loss, $50 600; insurance, 900.
MA fire in Long Island City destroyed l..
HID. Hibberd's lard oil mandatory. Loss,
FS75, 700; insurance, $4,000.
ip A fire in the slope of Bear Ridge Colliery,
Vat Mahonoy Plains, Pa, was extinguished
ifafter burning thirty-two hours. Loss on
fbbreaker, $4,000; insured for $4,000.
t,Several million feet OF lumber was destroyed
II by fire at the Georgian Bay Lumber Com
f'pany's mills, Port Severn, Ont, caused by
Ia be nf 1 (. IN
Tfully insured.
IL The loss by fire in Arbuckle 4 Brothers
Afpice mill, SO, IS, and 60 Front street. New
Y1ork, was $4,000. Fully insured.
~ Items In General.
r. Ex-President johnson died July 81,
,IVIt the residence of his daughter in Carter
'ftounty, Tennessee, OF a severe stroke of
bearalysis...... General George f. Pocket, of
isyNorio1K, VA, is dead $500 The liabilities of
Messrs. Mason, of Philadelphia, who re-
'fcently failed, are now reported 1T $1,000
q p00.".. William Henderson, u lumber mer-
e chant of Montreal, has made an assignment.
hH4iebilities, $4,000; assets, 100000.
JtArins & Bardwell Manufacturing Com
.i,pany, manufacturers of pocket-bookS,
'}etc., at Northampton, Massachusetts,, have
'Gailed. Liabilities $4,000 to 5000, Co...
itloninated Lafayette Lane for Congress. The
;yplatform of the Democratic Convention of
lf)regon covers State rights, payment of the
Il public debt resumption of specie payments,
.ftegislative control of fares and freights, de-
;rnands reform in all departments, bids for
i,.upp9yt of Patrons of Husbandry, opposes
nprotective tariff, paper money, national
nbankS, Chinese emigration, fraud and cor
ik.upton in office. The nominee for Congress
Ms son OF General Joe Lane, is a young
fhwyer of some ability, and a Democratic
/ politician of the most radical stripe.
August opened with great storms, and
treat damagein consequence TO crops, farms,
fbuildings and railroads, especially in Ohio
lnnd Indiana, though other States have suf-
th cred. The loss can not be computed and
he farmers are very despondent......B Bill Ro
FILTER made another unsuccessful attempt to
lftscape from the Jacksonville prison on the
ND of August, with two other convicts. They
Knocked down guard, and took his revOl-
liver from him, but he recovered in time to
Hive the alarm. In scuflle to obtain Rodi-
skier'S pistol, Guard Kennedy shot Rodifer
'hree times, but not fatally. They were all
P'ecured......Judge Norris counsel for Theo- !
ore TitOn, has served notice on Messrs |
'hearman and Sterling, attorneys of record !
Eor Henry Ward Beecher, to be-. prepared to /
,nswer IN new trial on the FIST Monday in !
i'eptember........Th Kentucky election |
Bsassed off quietly, and IA large vote was cast !
ks1cCreary (Dem.) was elected Governor by |
I handsome majority. The telegraph reports
fllains by Harlan, and Republican gains in
ti:he Legislature. Both parties made a brave
lght.
l. The loss in staves dressed headings, logs
nd barrels carried away by the floods from
ne vicinity of New Martnsville, West Vr-
goinia, will amount to over one hundred
Thousand dollars. The recent storms in
lrentral Illinois have done immense damage
d , crops. BRIDGES. and railroals The loss is