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

this place will picnic at Island Park,
Harper's Ferry, on the Sth of August.
Free Press.
Ten thousand acres of land in the
James River Valley have been pur-
chased by the Hungarian Colonization
Society for settlement by Hungarians
and twenty-five families have already
gone forward to locate.
Southern wheat in large quantities
is now passing through this place via
the Shenandoah Valley and Western
Maryland Railroads to the Baltimore
markets. Eleven car loads passed
through in one day last week.-Ha-
gerstoltm Herald.
The Frederick Riflemen, the Linga-
more Guards and Emmittsburg Bor-
der Guards, will participate in the en-
campment to be held at Cumberland on
the Goth and 9th inst. Capt. James
McSherry, of the Frederick Rifiemen,
will be in command of one battalion,
as Col. Douglas will not be present.
Mr.. Charles L. Small, a tobacco
merchant, of Boonsboro', and native
of Berkeley County, has been appoint
ed a Justice of the Peace for the Sixth
Election District, vice Mr.. John Muir
dock, whose appointment was not con-
firmed by the Senate.
A young horse belonging to Mr..
Raleigh Domer, of Keedysville, walk
ed across the bridge on the Washing
ton County Railroad near that place
one day last week. The bridge, which
is over the Antietam, is thirty one
feet in height.
Cattle are dying in Grant County,
w. Va, from disease called "Big
gall" A gentleman living near May
vile lost a valuable COW and steer from
this disease last week. They were
sick about ten days, neither eat nor
drink, are swollen under the jaw and
TANKS. Some of the sheep are SINH
larly attacked. Piedmont Observer.
Information has been received at
Frederick that marriage license had
been granted in the District Of Column
bia to Emile Burgy and Eliza Waters,
of Philadelphia, which cuused rip
pie of excitement, both parties being
Well-known. Mons. Emile Burgy is
Frenchman about thirty-five years
old, of good appearance and fine
education, and during the past year
has been professor of music in the
Frederick Female Seminary. Eliza
| Walters is bright mulatto ofabout 20,
and has been domestic in some of
the leading families of that town.
Last winter the girl was employed
at the seminary, where the Intimacy
gave rise to scandal.
SUPERIOR WHEAT.-Mr. VIM. M.
| Blackford, one of the best and most
successful farmers OF the Sharpsburg
District has sent to the Hagerstown
Meas Office a specimen of Russian
Black Beard' wheat grown on his
farm and harvested June 9th. The
! length of the stock is feet II inches,
having a beard head averaging 81
inches long and about half an inch
square. The boards are about inches
long and black in color, especially at
the base. The straw is q beautiful
bright color, very strong and firm, and
without JOINT, at least two feet from
the head. An average sized head
yielded 81 grains, plump almost. round
and of a beautiful color.
In this place on ,tiie morning of the
18th inst, az Ine residence of her son.
ln-law: Inilip Pendleton, in the 95th
yea of her age, Mrs. Ann Mason Tut
widow of the late Charles P. Tut, o.
Loudoun County, Virginia.
Mrs. Tut was the only daughter Of
Richard Chichester, younger son o.
a distinguished family Of that name
in England, WhoGame to this country
shortly after the sevolution, and mar
ried the daughter # Thompson Mason
who was the broSaer of Mason of Gun
ston.
Mrs. Tut leaves three daughters
her only son, theslate Charles P. Tut
of Philadelphia, and two eldest daugh-
tiers, having died some years since, one
the wife of the late Prof. Bonnycas
tie, of the University of Virginia
and the other the wife of the late Isaiah
Colston, who died in this place a few
years ago. Mrs. Tut has been for e
years, and up to the time other death
a member Of the Episcopal Church
and distinguished for her piety and
gentleness. Unselfish devotion fol
her children was marked feature il
her character. She leaves bereaved
family and many sorrowing friends
Morgan Mercury.
SUICIDE AT SHARPsBURG.- Mon
day morning, Mrs. Mary Bender, wife
of Charles Bender, and daughter o.
Mr.. John Highbarger, of Sharpsburg
aged about q years, committed sui
eide at her residence in that place by
deliberately swallowing from $50 tC
300 grains of Paris green. She exc.
cuted the rash act about $3.50 O'Clock in
the morning and Immediately there.
after went to her husband and told him
of what she had done. He in turn told
her father, Mr.. Highbarger, of his
wife's determination to destroy hel
life, and DIR. A. A. Biggs was sum-
moned who administered powerful
antidotes in the hope of removing the
poison from her stomach. The poison,
however, had taken an effectual hold
upon her system and at o'clock in
the evening she died. Deceased was
a second wife of Mr.. Bender, having
been married to him about two years.
One child was born to the couple and
it is still living. There are various
rumors afloat as to the motive that
prompted the deceased to destroy her
life but they are principally of an i'm
aginary origin. We are assured how
ever, that the cause does not extend
beyond the affairs of the family and
that no traces of criminal completely
can be attributed to. the sad ending.
The sympathies Of the community are
with the bereaved family in the hour
Of their sore distress, Register.
FREAK OF A BLIND HoRsE.-Mr.
Jacob Munday, who delivers goods
for Mr.. E. w. Snyder, the. grocer, on
Friday evening last drove up to the
| Newcomer House and allowed the
horse Ia blind one) which he was driv-
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