Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1882-11-11
ITEMS OF INTER EST.

So, O63, 1903 taxes to the United States Gov
clnment.
II is estimated that the reduction in the
,ublic debt for the month Of October
is about ST., 250,OO0.
Triuity Lutheran Church Of Hagers-
+. vn have SOLD their parsonage to Mr.. A.
A. Lechlider for the sum of $4,000.
Near Tazewell, Ga, Charles Heard, a
hoy. tried to whip his grown sister. She
shot him in the abdomen and killed him
instantly.
The population of Waynesboro, Pa
las been increased from 800 in 1880 to
$500 in 1882, an average of 200 increase
per year.
The first car load of iron ore from the
New River Valley, Va, was shipped last
week, consigned to the Pennsylvania
steel Company, Harr isburg, Pa.
The fly is seriously damaging the early
sown wheat in Floyd county, va 'oNi'
fields are so injured that the owners 'a'A
of sowing them down in rye.
rho S,oeI works at Cumberland, Nd,
which have been idle for several years.
h.ro been leased by party from Pitts
burg and will be put in operation.
NEGRO man named Willis Hall has
L,en committed to the county Jail OF Nor
folk for beating his son to death with
stick. The boy vas ABOUT - years old.
Sixty thousand people witnessed the
Grand parade at Richmond, Va, on the
eve of the opening of the Virginia State
Fair. The display far surpassed all SIM
liar events.
When real shrewd Virginia farmer
wants big tree chopped down ana cut
nm he tells the neighbors that there Is 4
coon in it, and they'll have it down in ten
minutes.
Five children of different families living
ut Houston, Texas, picked and ate locust
beans while rambling in the woods. All
were taken violently sick, and died in a
few hours.
\ band OF masked men took four colored
prisoners, charged with robbery and at
tempted murder, from the Jail at Vienna,
La, and riddled two of them with bullets
The other two escaped.
4 late postal law says: Norman, woman
or child will be allowed to receive anoth-
ar,s mail. outside of their own families,
without written order sent by the par
ties wishing mail.
4. G. Soteldo, who has been on trial in
Washington on the charge OF killing his
brother. 4. NJ. SOteldn, at the time the
latter was shot in the Republican printing
office was acquitted last Friday.
Wilmington, Del, has granted right of
WAY through itS streets for the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroads new line between
Baltimore and Philadelphia, which will
be finished prior 20 March l, 1854.
The pop of a pistol disturbed tie con-
pregation in church at Gloucester, Mass.
Little Johnny Dow had brought his faith
cr's revolver as Il plaything with which
to BASS away the long hour of worship.
The superintendent Of schools of Mo-
mongolia County is making an effort 10
have each district institute pledge itself
ca mace i'm the schools the county paper
during the term for the use of the pupils.
Charles Smith, Is years old. has been
Jo n
penitentiary for six years for an outrage
Gus assault on Edith Hall, a Simpe-mndet.
girl. His accomplice got three years IN
the county Jail.
Colonel B. w. Byrne, the first demo-
cratic superintendent of free schools I'D
this State, was elected to the State Senate
from the Kanawha district, receiving ma
;orities in every county in the district
over his competitor.
At Sharon. Ohio, on Monday night last,
Henry Hcisel was awakened by men in his
room. lie grappled with them, and was
overpowered and killed. His wife was
intimidated into silence, and the murderer
got away with $50.
4 spurious silver dollar, covered with
pure silver and with II natural ring, Is III
circulation. 1t is believed some German
and Italian counterfeiters, who recently
arrived in New York, arc manufacturing
them in Buffalo.
A queen bee lays in the height OF the
season from 1000 TO 5000 eggs i'll twenty
four hours. The man who will discover
how to graft queen bee on hen Will
make money enough in six mohths to buy
out whole continent.
james f. Anderson, the notorious Lou
isiana liar in the Tildem and Hayes cam
paign of 1876, was shot last Friday in
Eureka, Nevada, by G.. X. Reek, republic
can candidate for superintendent Of public
instruction. He has since died.
Some men have hard luck. Mr.. George
S. Peters, of Iowa, got struck on mill
liner, paid his wife $500 for divorce, and
had been free only two weeks when Mrs.
Peters fell heir to 5000, 900, and the mil
liner robbed him of 81 500 and skipped.
Miss Marie Neffe, aged eighteen, went
into the woods near Chippewa Falls, Wis
censin, to gather tamarack gum. Not
returning. one hundred people searched
and found a portion of her body. She
had been devourcd by bears after terri
BILE struggle.
No agricultural implement has been so
cordially received by the farmers as the
Whipple Spring Tooth Wheel Harrow.