Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1882-12-16
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thor. died in England last week.
A new born Abbevilie county IS. ca
babe has four arms aud four legs.
pew IN DR.. John Halls church III
New York sold the other day tor $4,000.
The police of Chicago one night last
week raided gambling house and bagged
l25 persons.
Jumbo is at Bridgeport, Coma, for the
winter; he eats three hundred POUNDS Ut
hay day.
Ed. Mcdonald, of Keyser, w. Va, made
atrip to New York OH Il bycicle, lie rode
from Kcvser TO New York in 80 hours.
ooh LORD" prayed aa Ohio minister,
"thou hast seen by the morning papers
how the Sabbath WAS desccrated yester-
day"
DIR. Gleason says that working the jaws
prevents the nose from bleeding. THIS
then, explains why womcn's noses rarely
bleed.
An unknown tramp, in jumping from
train of cars at Point OF Rocks, NIL Oh
Friday last abou. noon. had one OF '''S
legs broken.
Mr. C,orc. A. Younger, aged 50 years.
and Mrs. Eliza y. WILLS, aged % years.
both of Calvert County, Nd, were mar
ried last week.
Mrs. Dora Wendell, heart-broken ut the
recent death of her husband and chi!d'
shot herself fatally at Chicago Monday
on her 10th birthday.
Surrey Williams whipped his SIXTEEN
vear-old daughter until she fell 10 '"e
ground insensible, near Shady Dale. JAS
per County, Georgia. She died within Il"
hoRr.
che naint sfiop GHd cas- shed OF the
Richmond and Danviile Railroad Com
many. on the south side of James river,
onsosite Richmond, was burned Friday
night. Loss $4,000.
Alta Mexican wedding feast last week
at Saballo, near Los Vegas, \. NJ, Fran
cisco Notan, drunken guest, shot and
killed two brothers named Rovall, and
then went home and cut OF his wite's
ears.
Some of the immense and costly paint
incs in the rotunda of the Capitol at
Washington were seriously damaged by
the fair lately held there. Two e. them
were scorched and one had holepunched
in 1t.
The Georgia Legislature has declined
Senator Joseph +. Browns donation OF
$4,000 20 the State University, because of
che conditions of the gift, some of which
were considered by the legislators uncon-
stituiional.
Monday highs the house Of Singleton
James, on plantation near StoekblidSe,
Ala, took fire, and Thomas knight and
two children were burned to death. Knight
was lying drunk in the house when the
fire occurred.
Gen. X. VI. Gano, of Kentucky, has re-
Gently made $4,000 by a trade in Texas
lands. lie was with the Confederate Gen
aral Morgan during the late war, and is /
now III earnest and effective minister Of
the Christian Church.
Granny" Davis, OF Rahcrislalc, Hun
iingion County, Pa, died recently, aged
Jos years, from injuries received by 4
fall. She was married 'dree times, the
lat venture of this Kind being celebrated
b.. ,rr, Of ,,inpt,- y-n1rs
Joseph Carln, while drunk, got on an
engine ut East Syracuse, y. y, on Sat"r-
day night, and ran the engine eastward
until he met Il wcstward-bound locomo-
tive. The engines coll;ded and were both
bally damaged. No one was hurt.
In the suit of James f. Molloy, Il citizen
OF EdgeIield, South Carolina, against JAS.
Gordon Bennett for libel on him pub
lished in the New York Herald, the jury,
in the United States Circuit Court, fOunda
verdict of $40, 900 damages for the plain
tiff
The people of Middletown and that sec
tion of Frederick County, Md, are NOV
ing for ii railroad from Middlrtown 20
Frederick, and another through their VAL
ley connecting the Western Maryland
with the Baltimore and Ohio AZ Knox
willie.
A telegram has been received at San
Antonio, Texas, 10 the effect that the new
iron and steel bridge on the Mexican Pa
ciic extension had fallen while over
hundred workmen were engaged OH it. 1t
Is said that seven were killed and many
wounded.
The l6Sth course of stones was put i'll
place on the Washington monument on
Monday last, which raises it to Il height
21f inches greater than that of the high
est point of the figure of the Goddess Of
Liberty on the Capitol. The shaft is now
$50 feet inches high.
William c. Frazier, school teacher in
Ohio, during all attempt to discipline
his pupils Monday became involved in a
general fight, in the course of which he
stabbed and killed John Hayes, aged 20
years, and severely cut Charles Luce.
Frazier gave himselfup and is now in jail.
Stephen Trip, Of Massachusetts, has
been arrested, charged with robbing Troy
and Boston railroad cars of freight, with
wrecking trains and with obtain ng re-
wards from the company for removing
distractions which We're placed Oh the
track by himself. Nothing mean about
him.