Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1880-05-29
Editorial BreyitieS.

A narrow gauge railroad from Graf
ton to Beverly, West Virginia, fifty
miles, is projected A company has
beea formed, and some Of the stock has
beea taken.
Mr.. VIM. J. Bell, of Norfolk, Va,
..rmerly of the firm Of Rouss, Bell ~
Co, of New York, died suddenly
whilst on a business visit to the latter
city, q few days ago. Mr.. Bell married
a Miss Keenan,, of Winchester, and his
remains were taken there tor interment.
The General Conference of the NJ. K.
Church, in session at Cincinnati. after
discussing the report of the committee
on the Episcopacy recommending the
election of a negro Bishop, by the dc.
cisive vote OF 220 to 1919 refused to DO
il. Thus the colored brother was
shelyed efectually.
And now the report is that Senator
Gordon is to be counsel for railroad
line from St. Louis to Atlanta, with
salary of $4,000 year.
The absence of rain is being felt
throughout the Eastern States. The
drouth has assumed wide dimensions
and developed an intensity that is CIV
ing great uueasiness.
On Saturday A. NJ. Dixon, on trial in
Greensburg, Pa, for the murder OF
Alex. Chisholm, was convicted OF vol
untsry manslaughter. In ejecting de
ceased from his hotel the prisoner
struck and Knocked him down. In the
fall his skull was fatally fractured
Right after the court received the YER
dict one of the jurors became mildly
insane
In a railroad accident on the South
Pacific Coast Railroad, near Santa
Cruz, California, on Sunday night
thirteen persons were killed and over
forty injured. Two open cars of an ex-
cursion train jumped the track while
going through tunnel, and many OF
the elected passengers were found be-
meath the wheels of the cars following
the displaced gondolas.
A whole churchfull ofwomen were al
most dying with envy the other day, at
bridgeport, Conn. One of the female
members came in with two hats on her
head, having forgotten that she had
but one On, aud donned another. The
rest thought it was the lates: fashion,
and were mad as hops because they had
bought theirs.
A San Antonio paper says a man
killed twenty years ago was recently
discovered while blowing a garden:
This is the most extraordinary old
granger on record.
An editor who thinks he knows all
about farming says, IN speaking about
strawberries, the best way to raise
them is with spoon.
Six hundred barrels of whiskey were
lost by the sinking of the steamer Ara
bian in the Missouri river twenty-five
years ago. All attempts to raise it
failed. but now the course of the river
has changed, and the wtiskey, which
now lies forty feet under the sand Is to
be dug for.
The Kansas extension OF the 81. Lou
is aud San Francisco railroad was com.
peted Saturday night TO Wichita, 5o9
miles from St. Louis, where it connects
with the Wichita branch of the Atehl-
son, Topeka and Santa Fe road. This
opens new line to Southern Kansas,
Colorado aud New Mexico. This ex-
tension will be pushed on to Dodge
City, Kansas, and perhaps to Colorado.
Early last Friday morning the house
OF Abraham RICHTER, in Harrison coun-
ty, W. Va, was discovered to be on
fire. The inmates, including Mrs. Koss
the mother OF Mrs. RICHTER, who had
attained the age OF 100 years in April,
succeeded in escaping from the burning
building, but Mrs. RICHTER persisted in
returning for some vsluables and per-
lshed in the flames.