Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1882-05-06

GENERAL NEWS.


All the shops and iron works at
JoRnstoWn, Pa, are to be lighted by
electricity.
Robert C. McCplloh, prominent
citizen Of Frostburg, Nd, died Sat
urday, aged Is years.
The rowing match on the Thames
Monday between Hanlan and Trick
ct resulted in an easy victory for the
Canadian.
Owing to the failure of two bish-
ops of the colored M. e. Church to
come to Baltimore, the proposed
union of the colored NJ. E. Church
with the African NJ. E. Church has
been postponed.
At the gate of the cemetery at
Avignon, in France, the parents Of
a child certified to have died of
Group insisted ON having the coffin
opened to take last look. The
child was found breathing.
Rev. DR.. s. S. Rossell, one of the
most distinguished ministers of the
M. Il. Church, died at his sons resi-
dence, near Rectortown, Fauquier
county, Virginia, last Thursday morn
ing, in the 10th year of his age.
FIVE hundred White Mountain
Apaches are reported to have brok-
EN- out from the San Carlos rcserva-
ton in Arizona, and to be heading
for the ella river. Several addition
al murders are reported, and the In
dians are running off stock and
burning ranches.
Mr.. Frederick D. Reslier, of
Hagerstown, died ON Saturday from
injuries received the previous day by
falling from the upper part of a new
barn OH the farm of Mr.. Israel Reiff,
of Clearspring, the frame of which
he was assisting to raise. A wife
and one child are left to mourn his
sudden death.
Right Rev. N. A. Gallaher, d. D.,
of Columbus, Ohio, was consecrated
Bishop of Galveston, Texas, Sunday,
one Archbishop, six Bishops and one
hundred priests participating in the
ceremonies. The sermon was preach
ed by Bishop Watterson, Of Colum
bus, Ohio, upon "The Church Ever
Ancient and Ever New"
John L. Morgan had spent all his
ready money i'll dissipation at Erie.
Pa, and wanted more. He cause.
a letter to be sen: 70 his parents de-
failing his death, and asking for a
remittance to ship the remains. The
mourning mother soon arrived with
an undertaken and a casket. She
was nearly insane from grief. The
scapegrace fed.
Colonel 4. w. Higginson thinks
that the places of Longfellow and
Emerson will be filled almost before
the world comes to regard them as
dead. In 1918 Sidney Smith wrote !:
"There does not appear to be in
America at this moment one man of
any considerable talents" and yet
at that moment Emerson was pre-
pairing to write his first prize essay,
"On the Character of Socrates" in
Harvard College.
The male chorus choirs of nine
Episcopal Churches in Philadelphia
held q festival in the Epiphany
Church on Monday evening, and
about two hundred choristers, in sur
plices, took part in tie professional
hymns, and the psalms and eanricles
were sung in Gregorian tones with
great effect. The i" Magnificent was
given with great feeling and power
by the large body of voices.
Mr.. Peter B. Borst, well-known
citizen of Luray, Page county, Va,
died suddenly on Monday week. He
had been States Attorney Of
Page county, and a member of the
Legislature; he was also member
of the Virginia convention of 1851,
and voted for the ordinance of Sc
cession passed by that body. Since
the war Mr.. Borst has been con-
nected with number of railroad
enterprises, and was the first presi-
dent Of the Shenandoah Valley rail
road.
Rev. VIM. f. Collifiower, a we'll
known clergyman of the German Re
formed Church, died suddenly at his
residence, in Frederick, Nd, Sunday
afternoon. He was aged about 66
years. During his ministerial career
he had pastoral charges at Wood
stock, Virginia; Manchester, Carroll
County; Jefferson and the Glade,
Frederick Nd; Bloomingfield and
New Oxford, Pa. He was held in
high esteem by his brethren in the
ministry. He was at one time secre
tary of the Maryland Chassis.
At Lexington, Ga, in the rear of
the home of the late Governor Gil
mer, is a huge boulder standing by
itself on the edge of a stream. Up
on this boulder is placed another
rock, weighing about twenty tons.
1t rests upon pinnacle not two feet
square, so even is it balanced that
the slightest touch will cause it to
rock, and yet a hundred horses
could not pull it from its socket.
There it has stood for ages subject
to wind and storm unmOved, q silent
monument of the power Of the Crea-
tor.
The total eclipse of the sun which
is to occur on the 18th Of May will
not be visible in the United States,
but it will be seen to great advan.
tage near the Red Sea and the Pen
insula of Sinai, as well as in Persia.
After an interval of eighteen years
and eleven days this eclipse will re-
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