Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1882-06-24

sTATE NEWS

STATE NEWS. @
Joseph Morrow, one Of the Oldest
citizens Of jefferson County, w. Va,
died Thursday last.
One of the assessors Of Harrison
County returns eleven hundred dogs
in the district.
"Stone CoaE' is tho name Of .
post-office recently established in
jackson County.
Trout are said to be scarce this
year in the mountain streams, but
bait, line and fishermen are plenty.
A part Of a human skeleton, an
old horse pistol and largo sheath
knife were dug out of the ground
by a man working on the road just
below Moundsville, few days ago.
Senators Davis and Camden have
bought the 1000 acres of mineral
and timber land belonging to the
estate of the late Senator Carpenter
in Nicholas and Webster counties.
Two lambs of the flock Of Mr.. Geo.
Cockrell, on the farm of James NJ.
Brown, ESQ.,, near town were slaugh-
tered in the field by thieves-thc
meat carried away and the pelts
left.-Free Press.
A terrible accident occurred on
the Clarksburg Il Weston railroad
Thursday of last week. A defective
trestling caused train to be thrown
down an embankment, and 4 per.
sons were killed and 20 seriously in
jured.
The Berkeley Jeffersonian wants
an appropriation from Uncle Sam to
repair the pike from Webster to
Beverly, that the government wore
out during the war. Wouldn't this
be undemocratic, and an infractlon
of States rights f-1ribune.
Lieut.. Danenhower does not ex-
pect to complete the report of his
Arctic experience, called for by the
Secretary Of the Navy, before the LIST
of September. He will spend the
summer at Cacapon Springs, w. Va,
and will 60 there next week.
The Vote on the subscription to
the Grafton & Greenbrier railroad
was carried Tuesday by large ma
(, iiuur ;;..yr. Seven hundred and sixty
three votes were cast out Of ] 600
enumerated in the district. The
vote stood $40 for subscription, to
1877 against, 100 majority over the
required hree-fifths. There was gen.
eral rejoicing in town at night over
the result achieved. On the 9th a
vote will be taken on a subscription
for the extension of the West Va.
Pittsburg and Southern road from
MorgantOwn to Grafton.
The State Teachers Association,
which meets at KingwOOd the 18th,
18th and 18th Of July, promises to
be one of unusual interest. A num-
Der Of important subjects have al
ready been selected, aud prominent
teachers and superintendent will
prepare papers on them. DR. J. G.
Reeves, Secretary of the w. Va.
Medical Society win read paper
on School Hygiene, and Hon. John
Blair Hoge, M. G. from the I'd Con
gressional District, will discuss the
subject of National Aid to Free
Schools.
Harry Bokey, fourteen-yearold
son of Charles Bokey, a stone mason
residing near Irondale Furnace, this
county, committed suicide last Tues
day evening by hanging. When found
he was lying under tree, about
two hundred yards from his fathers
residence, with a piece of bark
around his neck, one end Of which
he had evidently tied around limb,
which afterwards slipped loose, al
lowing the body to drop to the
ground. No cause is assigned for
the act. The Grafton Sentinel says :
at seems that his parents required
him to do some work in the garden
to which he objected, and when they
insisted instead Of obeying them he
went into the woods, procured piece
of tough bark and hanged himself
to a tree where he was not discover
ed until life was extinct.-Prcston
Journal.
Considerable excitement was
caused here last Thursday by the re-
port that George Price, little
grandson of Rev. +. Price, had
made an attempt upon the life of
his grandfather. 1t seems that for
some act of disobedience he had
been corrected-with q broom stick
which SO enraged him that he So
cured his fathers pistol, seven
shooter, and fired three shots at the
old gentleman, fortunately none of
which took effect. He was arrested
and still is in jail awaiting the ac-
ton or the grand jury. The little
fellow claims that he did not try to
hit Mr.. Price or he could have done
SO. He is of very tender years, last
Saturday being his thirteenth birth
day, and probably does not realize
the enormity of his crime.-Ne,c Do
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