Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1882-11-18
,reNS OF INTEREST.

\ farmer of Adams county, d. i"iH'N
an l,shels of beetS on an acre ana
,,If of ground. He uses them for feeding
stock.
4 bar of gold was recently cast IN
Nevada CITY. Cal, which weighed 4'o
mounds, and is said to be the largest ever
east ia this country.
Georgia wants to trade 400, ooG bushels
ot sweet potatocs for plug tobacco and
rhrr comforts Of life. She never hau
.,,h crons rs this season has turDed out.
Tn the South he peanut crop is worth
- ooo. 600 each year. In Virginia forty
1m.bcl. are raised 10 the acre, in Tennessee
.ixty. and the demand is constantly IN
Creasing.
ON sunday caur-year-old colored chiid
nviur in Frederick City, Md, was 1a'ai's
burned by having its clothing TAKE nv
while playing at stove d"r'"s '">
.curr of its parents.
The celebrated John Randolph s"'u ,H,''
,,.a ION q n]ock swan, AID Wh''c
bIsckhird. but he never sa" p'V-e, Can,
ri politician who would not pay
dowI. TO feather his nest
.,i,ro,d is to be built from Roanoke,
-, r. the iron mines and other mineral
.,.,o.i,s ON the lands recently purchaser
,ur Samuel Colt, of Hartford, conn.
.r,.. ,o.d will be ten miles in length
uor.r.boes made of three thicknesSes
., ,,rcrn rawhide compressed in steel
non, are used to some extent III EhSlahu'
,rnc, weigh about 4 quarter rs much as
nm iron shoe, and are said to wear longer
Tho Grand Lodge of Good Templars OF
VIRGINIA will meet in annual session 1T
>r.rr.,ton. commencing Tuesday night,
Eav.mber 18th. This temperance organ
;,,.ion numbers 5000 members i'll the
State.
RI. late Mrs. Sarah L. Atkinson, OF
Nrmphis, Tenn, made the theoioS'cai
I,.,,r,ment of Vanderbilt University her
rr,iduary legatec. The institution VIII
nrohgbly receive more than Sl2o,ooO from
her estate.
William McLaup, late sheriff of Monroe
County, W. Va, was killrG last week near
Fort spring Station, on the Chesapeake
ohio Railroad, by 4 rock from railroad
blast falling on lis head He insured his
It,. inst one week before for 1000.
The PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company
having discovered that ears lose in weight
hy u,r. aud that consequently that the
cor,pany loses in freight charges to that
,x,,nt an order has been issued 20 have
III ears rewcighcd and ncwli stamped.
4 horrible case of suicide took place on
the Derby railroad track rear New lialeh'
Conn, the other day Henry llagemah'
alderman tailor, threw himself in front OF
the locomotive of tI.e passenger lralh'anu
WA. torn to pieces, -four ears passing over
linn.
An engine and passenger car fell
through I. trc>tle- work 10 feet high on the
bradford, Eldrcd and Cuba Railroad, near
tliu. y. y, OH Saturday night. The
engineer was killed and the fireman
seriously injured, but none of the paSsen-
gers were hurt.
over 500 deaths from diphtneria have
occurred in Pitt>ylvania County, Va,
s,ncc july last. 1t is now breaking out
alrc>h ami Selling adults. One woman
When struggling from the membrane
Jumped out OF bed and died with her arms
around the doctors neck.
The construction OF / POO miles of rail-
road track is reported during the month
Of ScptcmGer-a total for the nine months
of the present year of 500 miles. The
total construction for the entire year l.
estimated at 10 800 miles, an amount Tar
greater than ever built in one season.
Recently two children of Nelson Wig
Gins, living in Kenneth township, Chester
County, IA, died with diphtheria. Ddr-
iny their illness pet cat WAS allowed III
their room, with which they played fire.
uuentlv. \ few days after the death of
the children the cat died also, with every
symptom Of diphtheria.
4 Philadelphia woman, who called her
self an electrOpathic physician ana was
noted IL Il quack, seems TO have believed
i'm herself. for she treated herself Tor
hurt which she hal received by falling
down stairs, refusing to have regular
practitioner called in, and died through
her own unskilltulneSs.
The Key ser Tribune states that 1t was 4
Wheeling gentleman, and not the i. " u.
Railroad Company, that presented Miss
Jennie Smith with lot of ground at
Mountain Lake Park, under proviSO that
she shall erect 4 cottage on 1t; aud now
>he Il. II o. employees arc trying to raise
funds for that purpose by dollar SubScrip-
ions.
Frank Clifford and George Bates, who
were confined in the Jail ut Montpelier,
Vermont, for the attempted burglary of
1hc Norfolk Savings Bank, picked the lock
90 their tier OF cells sometime on Saturday
afternoon, removed block OF granite
from the ceiling made their way into the
attic, cut passage through brick wall,
and escaped.
Capt. j. l.. Skinner, now of Sacramento,
Cal, has just had returned to hima sword
which was taken from him when he WAS
captured by the Confederates at the battle
of Drary'S Bluff, in 1861. The sword was
returned by Virginia lady, who wrote