Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1882-07-22
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GENERAL NEWS.

Mrs. r, W. Emerson has sttbscl1o.
cd s1OO for the relief Of John Browns
| widow. -
One hundred and seventy eight
persons were recently killed in a
railroad accident in Russia.
Forty-three deaths from yellow
fever occurred in Havana during the
week ended Friday.
Michael Davitt, who sailed for
Europe on Saturday, collected about
$2O, 900 for the Land League during
| the visit.
Francis Scott Key is to have q
900, 900 monument in San Franalsco.
Money was left for the purpose by
the late James Lick.
! A disabled crow was discovered on
the ground at Midway, Mass, and
closer observation disclosed that 1t
was held fast by mud turtle.
| Farm laborers are said to be
scarce IN Montana, that $40 and 500
a month is in vain offered for them.
Farmers are forced to let their cows
browse about on the meadows with
full udders, because they cannot get
help enough to milk them.
The Irish harvesters that have
crossed the channel to work on the
English crops number $4,000. The
weather in Ireland has been so tenn
pestuous that there is very little hope
Of there being any grain crop to save
there.
Intelligence received from various
counties throughout Virginia repre-
sent the harvesting about over. The
yield of wheat is the largest and
best the State has been blessed with
in many years. New grain is now
coming into market. The best
quality sells at 81 IS per bushel.
The fact that, by attaching a tel
ephone to the submarine cable, per-
sons at Malta were enabled to hear
the bombardment of Alexandria,
which is distant in a straight line
about a. thousand miles, is much
more wonderful, if true, than any
thing else that has resulted from the
operations against Arab Pasha.
A notable wedding is to take place
this month in Baden Baden, the con-
tracing parties being a genuine Ger
man Baron and a wealthy young
lady from Philadelphia. BY this
marriage, Miss Maggie Price exchan-
ges very plain and pretty name for
that of the Baroness Wucheren Won
Huldenfeld.
A duel occurred in Lunenberg
county, Va, on Friday afternoon,
between Joseph Addison, a young
Baltimorean, and David Garland, Of
Va. Addison was wounded in the
groin and died on Sunday. Gar
land, who received q ball in the
wrist, has been arrested. The
trouble was about young lady.
Fourteen hundred houses have
been destroyed by fire in Smyrna
and six. thousand persons rendered
homeless. Smyrna is one of the
ancient cities. 1t was destroyed by
an earthquake in 178 A. G. and re.
built by Marcus Aurelius. $4,000
persons were buried under the ruins
of an earthquake IN 1776.
The enormous eighty ton guns,
with four of which the English man.
ofwar InJlcrible is provided, hurl a
projectile the size of an ordinary bar
rel distance of four miles. When
the projectilc gets to it's destination
it explodes with terrible effect. A
shot from an eighty ton gun will go
through twenty five inches of
wrought iron at mile range.
Mrs. Lincoln, the widow of the
deceased President, died at Spring
field, Illinois, Sunday night. She
has been in failing health ever since
the tragic death of her husband, and
at one time was supposed to have
partially lost her reason. She
spent a good deal of time at various
European health resorts, but of
late has been living with her rela-
tives in Illinois.
Mrs. LincOln'S maiden name was
Mary Todd. She became the wife
of the young lawyer Of Springfield
by private marriage in Springfield on
the 4th of December, 1912, when he
was about to enter upon his political
career. The eighteen years of their
marriage life passed here were very
happy. Mr.. Lincoln was fond Of
his home and the wife was devoted
to her husband and to her children,
Robert the Secretary of War, and
" Tadd," whose death was such a
severe blow at the White House.
When, on the 18th of May, 1860,
news came of DIR. Lincoln's nomina-
ton as the Republican candidate
for the Presidency, he said to those
around him: "Well, gentlemen,
there's little woman down at our
house wko would like to hear this;
I'll go down and tell her," Mrs.
Lincoln was much excited and elat-
ed when told of the nomination, and
throughout the campaign that fol-
lowed she constantly aided aud CON-
forted the coming President.
STATE NEWS.
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