Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1882-12-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

neat little sum of SIC, 0oO, 0OO.
A statue of John Brown is TO be erected
bv the State Of Kansas IN Washington
City.
A man in West Chester, Pa, won thir-
teen hats on the late elections. lie knew
how to bet.
Agnes Clark, four-year-oIc girl, per-
isbed in burning house at Pittston, Pa,
Tuesday last.
A rich and eccentric Californian has
maid seventeen different John Smiths III
the State three hundred dollars each TO
change their names.
Rumor has 1t that General G. L. Beau
regard is about to marry Mrs. Cornelius
Vanderbilt, the widow of the late Com
modore.
Jacob Worth, of Lime Valley, Pa, found
common water snake along Poquea
Greek, containing fifty-one small snakes,
eight or nine inches long, and all alive.
A Vermont man who has beer there
fourteen times says the meanest thing
about misfortune with 4 polecat is the
difficulty of keeping it secret.
The clothing of Mrs. Hetllin, Of Iiarri-
son County, w. Va, caught fire one day
last week while she was standing III front
of crate and she was burned to death.
Lynchburg, Va, is to have literary
paper called the Weekly Iisitor, Mrs. NJ.
III. Whitehead editor, and Thomas White
head, Jr., business manager.
Governor Hamilton of Maryland has
offered $500 reward for the arrest of the
murderers Of Mr. Russell, at Reisterstown.
| This makes the total reward offered 81 600.
The survivors of the Confederate Gem
eral John II. Morgan's command, num-
bering about 300. have joined permanent
organization and will hold Il reunion next
summer.
At LaneAboro, Mimi, last Saturday,
Christian johnson, after firing what he
/ supposed to be fatal shot at MS sweet
heart, blew his own brains out. The girl
was only slightly injured.
The Virginia State canvassing board
has thrown out the vote of Gloucester
! County, in the first ongressional district,
and gave the certificate of election to
Mavo, coali.ionist.
1t is understood that the work of filling
! -, of IL
! ington. the contract for which was given
! ou; some weeks since, will not be COM
menced before February next.
Lyman Guard, engineer of a portable
! hosting engine on Andrews wharf, Prov
idence. r. l., was caught by his overcoat
! in the hoist rope, and was drawn around
the winch, and he was fatally injured.
Vennor's prediction about the weather
is invariably true; so are DR.. Thomas
! friends when they say his Mayapple Bit
ters are the best and only sure cure for
dyspepsia and headache. Sold at all drug
stores.
The Canada Southern Railway is to
build new suspension bridge over Nj
agara river, quarter Of mile south Of
the old suspension bridge. The new
bridge is to be ready for traffic by Sep
TENDER |, 1888.
Two large bears, supposed to have es-
capped from party of gypsies, have been
seen in a district of Montgomery County,
Md, and have created a panic, especially
among school children. One OF the bears
had Il chain on.
Mr.. McMahon, of New York, a member
of the tariff commission, died suddenly in
that city last week. His death will not
embarrass the work of the commission, as
the deceased had completed the portion Of
| the work assigned him.
| The Hildebrant farm, 14S 1-2 acres, on
the Sharpsburg pike, Washington county,
Nd. has been sold to Cullen Barr at $50
per acre. The home farm Of the late John
Stoner, 20 acres, with Improvements, has
been sole. for 81 800 to Susan, Mary and
Daniel Stoner.
Two colored men were let down by ropes
| into the stack of the Sloss furnace, at Biz
/ mingham, Ala, for the purpose of remov-
ing "scaffold," and being overcome by
gas. fell to the molten ore below. Their
| bodies were recovered an hour afterwards,
charred to the bones.
At the commencement of Washington
and Lee University, at Lexington, Va,
in June next, the most interesting feature
! OF the programme viii! be the unwilling
/ of the recumbent statue Of General X. h.
Lee. Mr.. Jefferson Davis has been invited
to deliver the address.
A. NJ. Fulton and John P. Swartz,
brothers-in-law, residing near Mount
Penn Furnace, Berks County, Pa, quar-
relied Tuesday about some fowls, and Full
ton struck Swartz with his gun. The blow
produced conclusion of the brain and will
probably prove fatal.
Judge Monroe, Of New Orleans, has
decided that Oliver Bierne, Of Virginia,
shall become residuary legatee Of John
Burnsile's immense estate. Mr.. Burn
side, whose death occurred several months
ago, left several million dollars, most of
which will 60 to Mr.. Bierne, distant
relative.
A coal miner named Forsythe, living
near Elizabeth, Pa, took dynamite stick
home with him and threw it into the oven