Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1882-05-27

a Vermont girl corresponded with a
stranger in California, made marriage
engagement, and went across the CONT
nent TO get, as she supposed, young ana
wealthy husband. She found instead
gray and ugly crank, whose sole property
was ieally hut in lonely canon. His
neigEbors offered to pay her way back
home, but she declined it, and has mar
red him. Goodness gracious! She must
have been 'hard up"
a mortgage for 81 600, 900 has been re-
corded in Augusta county, Va, for the
extension of the Valley Branch Of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from Staun-
ton to Lexington, Va, where a Junction
will be effected with the Richmond and
Allegheny Railroad.
KingwCod district, Preston county, W.
Va, on Saturday, by Il vote Of 212 to l26,
voted a subscription of $25 600 TO aid in
the construction of u narrow-gaugc rail
road from Tunnelton, on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad to kingwOod, which IS
the county seat of Preston county. n
vote will be taken on the Goth of June
whether or not Grafton district will SUBJ
scribe $40 600 to the building of the mar
row-gauge railroad from Grafton, Taylor
county, to Phillippi, Barbour county, the
object of this road being to have line
of road from Pittsblrg via MorgantOwn,
Grafton, Phillippi and Beverly south.
On Sunday afternoon, at Staunton, Va,
Mrs. Nick Gregory died Of small poX and
uterine hemorrhagc. On Sunday night,
at twelve O'Clock her body was carried to
the cemetery and buried. Every possible
prccaution was taken to prevent the posi-
biity Of the infection spreading. The
two mon who bore the body to its last
resting place, changed their clothing
whilst in the graveyard, and burned
everything, even to the shovel, that had
come in direct or indirect contact with
the coffin.
President Mayer, of The Consolidation
Coal Company, had an interview with
five miners Of his company at Cumbcr-
land, and notified them chat the 60 days
as per contract with the railroad cOmpa-
mics having expired, unless the miners
accepted the operators terms by Friday,
May %, other labor, amply protected by
police, would be Introduced. The COnsol-
idation Company is sustained by other
companies. The miners made no reply,
except To say they would communicate
the matter 10 the other miners.
Bishop Paine, who is 90 years old, in
asking the Methodist Conference at
Nashville to relieve him from further
active service, declared that sixty-fye
years of ministry had not shaken his
perfect belief in the truthfulness OF the
Christian doctrine Of salvation. The
modern form of scientific skepticism
had not raised the shadow Of doubt in
his mind.
Rev Dr. William p. Harrison, who
has been elected book editor by the
General Conference Of the NJ. f.
Church South, is member of the Bal
timore Conference, and is now sta
toned at Winchester, Va. He is one
of the alternate delegates to the confer
ence. Dr. Harrison is a native of
Georgia, and was for several years pas
tor of Mt. Vernon VI. Z. Church South
in Washington city, during which timo
he was also chaplain of the United
States House of Representatives. The
new duties devolved on HIM will doubt
less necessitate bis removal to Nashville,
Tenn.
Owing to the terrible drouth Of
last year, the farmers in some portions
of The county of Amherst did not make
corn enough to furnish bread until the
crops Of this year would come in, and it
has been the result OF real suffering in
some instances, Many farmers who
are generally well-to do and are regular
taxpayers, were found to DO entirely
destitute OF this important commodity.
To relieve the wants OF those who were
thus without corn and the ability to
purchase it, the Board of Supervisors
have bought it in quantity and dlstrib
uted it where most needed in limited
quantities, taking the bond Of the farm
err to pay for It out of the crops Of this