Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1882-11-25
,C.us OF INTEREST.

rho New Orleans Times Democrat says
che South will pay the West $lOO, OOo,oOo
less tits year for food than in 1881
lanes A. Cowardin, founderand senior
editor of the Richmond Dispatch, died on
Tuesday last, in the I'D year of his age.
Asa.OOO ,OOO mortgage has been recorded
in West Virginia by Il Philadelphia trust
company on lands in the rich oannei coal
formation.
A South Carolina paper, referring TO
the disappearance of man, says he mad
on his working clothes anG an overdose of
liquor
Diphtheria is prevalent in Frostburg,
Md. in its worst form. Many of the mer-
chants are sending their families away
from the place.
Last week flames destroyed cabin In
Lunnenburg County, Va, occupied by a
colorcd family. every member oil which
was burned 10 death.
Mr.. John b. Cough, the temperance
lecturer, who is in his siXty-siXth year.
writes to friend that he Is TOO leeDi' ~
lecture this winter.
fire broke ont on Monday in coal
,,,;,o re,r Harrisburg, Pa, throwing ou'
If employment fifteen hundred men ana
,,ovs All efforts to check the fire were
uuavailing
Griffin, Georgia, has the largest peaeh
orchard in the South, containing oo,OOO
trees and covering most of GOO acres. On
the same fam are 4 900 grated apple trees
and 5000 pear trees.
Tuesday morning last, near The Plains,
Fououicr County, Va, Alpheus Wines
tied the halter of mule to his arm; the
,pu,e became frightened and dragged the
man for nearly mile, killing him.
Josiah b. Smith, n fisherman, living
N Santa Anna. Cal, murdered his four
teen-vear-olG son by cutting his throat.
Vie and his wife are insane on religious
subjects. and claim that the Lord COM
manded the sacrifice.
The report of the Chief of the Secret
Service will show that counterfeiting has
fallen off in the last year, and is confined
chiefly TO coin couuterfeiting. Fewer
counterfeit notes have been manufactured
than ever before.
Thomas Loeman, of Boston, thirteen
years of age, a cash boy, with his sister
and brothers, has by the death OF their
uncle. Michael Loeman, broker in Mel
bourne. Australia fallen heir to bis entire
fortune, amounting to about two million
dollars.
Mr.. W. w. Corcoran, of Washington,
will endeavor 10 have the remains OF John
Howard PAYNE, the auther OF Home,
Sweet Home" brought from TuniS by
United States naval vessel, and, failing in
this, will have them brought over at ms
own expense.
Daniel Run'ncr, hermit for many years
in CunIru township, six miles from Read
ing. Pa. was found dead Monday III his
cabin. Portions of his flesh had been
eaten away by rats. Rufiner was eighty
three years old, and was heavily insured
in ''wildcat" companies.
A man named Rudolph felled tree
upOn his little seyen-year-old son, near
Winterburn, Clearlicld County, Pa, the
other day, killing him instantly. The
father, in his excitement to get his son
out of the way of the falling tree, came
near meeting similar fate.
Dallas, Texas, is said to be built over
graveyard of mastodonS, and for five or
six years past excavations for buildings
have not failed to bring up their bones. \
large number of these mastodon remains
were unearlhed sholt time age, and some
of the bones were of enormous size.
4 difficulty occurred on an excursion
train near weldon, y. c., last Saturday,
between an unknown white passenger
and colorcd man named Johnson, during
which the latter was shot through the
bowels and killed. The murderer jumped
from The train and made his escape.
4 most extraordinary piece of fishing
was done by Mr.. Joe Lindsey, of Clarke
County, Va, last week. A duck had, UNI
observed by him, dived and swallowed his
minnow, and he had the surprise as we'll
rs the pleasure of landing in his boat and
capturing a live duck thus singularly
taken.
Mrs. Melville, wife Of Engineer Mel
7 10,
leased from the hospital for the insane at
Norristown, Pa, and has returned to her
home ut Sharon Hill, near Philadelphia.
When committed to the hospital she was
suffering from the effects of alcoholic
preparations.
Certificates are in course of preparation
for the issuing of the stock by Baltimore
City in aid of the Western Maryland Rail-
road. The certificates will be ornamented
with picture of High Rock at Penmar.
OF the 1854 900 of stock authorized, 1917 900
is 10 be issued now, and the balance in
installments.
Frightful havoc was caused by the eX-
plosion of the main boiler in the Forest
CITY iron works at Cleveland, Ohio, last
week. The building was wrecked COM
pletely, four men were instantly killed,
one or two more received fatal injuries,
and several others were badly hurt. One
man standing 200 yards away from the
building was struck by piece OF dying
iron and cut completely in two.
According to the articles of agreement
signed by John J.. Sullivan and james