Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1882-09-23
CENERAL NEWS.


The deaths in Baltimore last week
were III and births 1877. The small
pox deaths were Ia.
The Russian Emperor was to start
for Moscow Tuesday night. The
railroad line was guarded by 10000
troops.
A panther six feet in length was
recently killed in Buchanan county,
Va. 1t has for a long time been a
terror to the neighborhood.
A census bulletin classifying the
population of the United States by
nativity shows, natives white and
colored) 43, 475,S SOL, and foreign born
6,679, 1913.
A woman has been shot by pro.
cess server near Ghenties, county
Donegal, while resisting the seizure
of her cattle. The process server
has been arrested.
Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll's lee
lures are being translated and circu-
lated by Buddhist priests in Japan
to counterfeit the teachings Of the
Christian missionaries.
| Rev. Hugh M. Brown, colored, the
newly appointed United States min
lister to Liberia, arrived at New York
from Germany, and proceeded di-
rect to Washington.
The steamer Asia, of the Northern
Transit Line, which left Cnlling-
wood, Ont, for Sault Ste. Marie,
last week, was lost in storm on
Thursday. There were about 100
persons on board, and as far is
known only two survive.
Engineer Melville while in New
York paid visit to Public School
No. 3, where he was formerly a. pu-
pll. He was received by Mr.. Sulli-
van, the present principal who was
an assistant when Melville was a pu-
pill. He made an address to the
children, advising them to work hard
at their studies if they expected to
accomplish anything in the future.
While three boys were rowing on
the Schuylkill river, at Reading Pa,
Sunday evening, some one threw a
lighted cigar into the water, which
was thickly covered with benzine
from the gas works. The boys were
almost instantly enveloped in flames
and jumped overheard. All of them
escaped drowning, but were severely
burned. One OF them may lose his
eyesight.
Major Phipps, the defaulting SUI
perintendent of the Philadelphia
Almshouse, was arrested at the Do
minion Hotel, Hamilton, Ont, Mon
day night. 0y two city detectives and
Percival Il. Bell, one of Pnkerton's
detectives. They have been two
weeks in the city, and passed as J. ID.
Thompson and wife. Phipps has en-
gagged counsel, and will resist extra
dition proceedings. Phlpps has been
indicted for forgery in Philadelphia.
The mania for marriage assurances
in the west has developed into as
great a nuisance as the graveyard
assurances were in Pennsylvania a
year or two ago. The investors take
out policies on lady whom they
know is engaged to be married and
think the wedding will not take place
within five months. This done with
out her knowledge or permission,
and if she happens to change her
mind and elope with some other fell
low, or gets married before the five
months expire, the insurer loses all
that he has paid. No policy is paid
except five months after it is taken
out.
Egbert G.. Vincent, of Waterville,
Me-, who is visiting friends in Brook
lyn, N. Y, after strolling along the
bay shore on Saturday afternoon,
lay down and fell asleep in an invit-
ing spot shaded by a pear tree, near
the Delaplaine House, in Twenty
ninth Street. A goat came along,
and shifting about, discovered the
edge of aroll of greenbacks, amount
to $175,protruding from vest peck
ct. He selected q bit of one bill,
aud finding it dclicacy compared
with a circus poster, deity insinua-
ted his tongue into the pocket and
pulled out the whole amount, scat
tering the greenbacks on the grass.
He chewed up 800 in the time a.
man takes a Coney Island plate
Of seft-shell crabs, and the money
seemed to satisfy his hunger in the
same ratio. Still he was more leis-
urely in deyouring the remainder,
for, having lunched off S25 more, he
stood gazing dreamily across the
waters of Gowanus bay to the hazy
hills of Staten Island a long time be-
fore he licked up an additional S35'
as dessert. When Mr.. Vincent
awoke he was just in time to rescue
the remaining S15. The goat utter
ed a meeking bleat, fixed . fish eye
on the stranger from Maine, and
then gamboled off down the slope.
MIR. Vincent searched In vain for the
rest of his money.
1t is seldom that evangelist or mis-
sionary has such good pecuniary
luck as that which recently gladden.
ed the heart and overloaded the
pocket Of the Rev. Mr.. Barnardo, a
gentleman who has for years been
working among the most degraded
ontcasts of London. He was short
OF money for his missionary work
and knew not where supplies were
to come from. A lady called upon
him and expressed her sympathy
for him and his cause, and to show
that in her case sympathy was not
all words, handed him a Bank Of
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