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

i uENEnAL NLWo.
/ Wheat harvesting is proceeding
briskly around Danville, Va. The
crop is a splendid one, both as to
quality and yield.
Col. Chas. Cole, editor and pro.
prietor of the Maryland Union, died
at his residence in Frederick OH Sat
urday morning last, i'll the sixty-first
year of his age.
! C. G. Fulton, editor of the Bait
more american, is going tospend the
summer in European travel, and
will publish a series of his charming
letters in the paper.
Captain Paul Boyton, who has
swum more than $4,000 miles, is re-
ported officially by the Life Saving
Service to have saved seventy
persons from drowning in American
waters.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin
thinks that marriage is a case OF tie
fuss fever. Yes, and year after
ward it becomes yell-off fever, and
subsequently, when divorce is APP
piled for, 1t is tie-void.
Fourteen car loads of new wheat,
from Southwestern Missouri, were
received at st. Louis Thursday
week. Samples of flour from new
Texas and Tennessee wheat were
shown OH Change.
Bella Hubbard, a wealthy resident
of Detroit, has presented that city
with life-size statues of Marquette,
La Sale, Cadillac and Father Rich
ard, to be placed in outer inches OF
the City Hall.
The announcement is made by
MI. John w. Garrett, the president
of the Baltimore 4 Ohio Railroad
Company, that another Atlantic Ca
bic will be laid to Europe to connect
with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
telegraph system.
A part of field of wheat on Gov.
Hamilton's " Belleviewn farm, near
Hagerstown, was cut on the 10Th
inst. as an experiment. The remain
der will be allowed to stand until
fairly ripe, and the yield and quail
ty Of the wheat from the two cut
tngs will be compared.
"What lunatic asylum is that ~
asked stranger, pointing to a
building from which the most hor-
rible sounds were issuing. "Why,
my dear sir" was the reply, that is
not lunatic asylum. That is a
female seminary. This is the mu.
sic practice our."-Philadelphia
Ne,cs.
New dresses for summer are en-
tirely Of one material, as the com
bination of two fabrics has become
suggestive Of an old dress furnished
up with new stuff, and therefore
without that freshness so desirable
in summer toilets. If an old silk
dress is used at all it is as foun-
dation skirt and waist lining; it is
not visible outwardly, as it would
detract from the style of the most
expensive costume.
The Shenandoah Valley Railroad,
which extends from Hagerstown,
Nd, to Roanoke, Va, distance of
239 miles. having been completed,
ballasted and IL oroughly equipped,
was formerly opened for passenger
travel and freight traffic Monday
and in conjunction with the railroad
system OF which it is a part will con
stitute a through route between the
Northeast and Southwest, over
which passenger trains will be run
twice day, either way.
The death of Elk Governor William
Dennison, of Ohio, which occurred on
June 18th, at his home, in Columbus,
removes another of the prominent
figures of the now nearly forgotten
days of the rebellion. He was one
Of the founders of the Republican
party, and during it's early days al
ways stood high i'll its councils, and
held the important position Of Gov
ernor Of Ohio at the breaking out of
the war. He was one of the famous
group of war Governors, which in
Guided Andrew Curtin and Morton.
Rev. DR.. j. A. Brown, for many
years at the head of Penn. College,
Gettysburg, died at Lancaster,
Monday. DR.. Brown edited the Lu-
Meram Quarterly Recie,c from 1871
to 1879, and in this appeared most
of his literary work. He was one
,, of the ablest writer's in his church,
and as controversial;st had few
equals. The degree of Doctor of
Divinity was conferred upon him
by Pennsylvania College, and Doc
tor of Laws by Wooster University,
Ohio.
Three thousand miners have been
thrown out OF employment by the
fire started in the Diamond coal
mine, near Wilkesbarre, by a man
carrying an exposed lamp. The
nine is connected with the Empire
and Hellenback, and all three will
be involved in the fire unless they
can be drowned out. Half dozen
mountain creeks have been turned
from their courses and are now pour
ing water into the burning gangway.
1t will take twenty days for the
water to rise to a level with the fire,
and when that is accomplished the
pumping out will consume all the
rest OF the summer.
The Wheeling Register has dis
patched one Of its editorial corps
through the New England States,
instructed To visit all sections of