Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1883-06-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A man has invented chair that can be
adjusted to 800 different positions. 1t is
designed for boy to sit in when he goes
to church.
Joseph Boscr, of Carlisle, Pa, bought
tract of land near the town of Pierre, Da.
kota, year ago for $1,000. Recently he
sold it for $4,000.
John Parvey, an cmployc Of the Elec-
trio Light Company at Kansas City, Mo-,
while repairing line, was killed by a
shock, the current being turned on with
out warning.
D. Jcffries, Of Clarksvillc, Va, reterates,
what has heretofore been stated in other
forms, that there was TO demand for the
surrender of Gen. Lees sword ut Apo
mattox, and that no tender of it was
offered.
In the circuit court at Hagerstown on
Monday last, John McCusker, convicted
of the manslaughter Of his uncle, was
sentenced to five years in the penitentiary.
Tobias +. Hudson, convicted Of horse
stealing, was sentenced to thirteen years
in the pepitentiary.
A girl left baby on wealthy family's
doorstep in Bloomington, ILL.,, and leapod
into the river. She was easily rescued,
and fund of several hundred dollars
raised, when it was discovered that she
had borrowed the baby and that her at
tempted suicide was pretence.
James Barrett, an employee of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad, was run over and
instantly killed at Grafton Sunday. He
was leaning against the steps of car,
looking ut passing train, when the car
started, throwing him across the rails.
|. lie was fifty years old, and leaves large
family.
An ARRAY occurred at Richmond, Va,
Sunday, between DR.. w. Il. Crutchfeld
and l.. f. Mason, in which the former was
stabbed four times. The physicians say
he cannot live. The difficulty was the re-
suit of an old feud. DR.. Crutchficld is p
years old, and single. Mason is married
man, about forty years old.
A oolored youth, John ii. Alexander,
has been admitted to the Military Acad-
envy at West Point. He is native of Vir-
ginia, but his parents went to Ohio after
lao Ill Of ha 4
the test of examination and came out with
flying cOlors, being well up in grammar
and standing 9S in arithmetic
Judge Hoadly was last week nominated
for Governor by the Democratic conven-
ton assembled ut Columbus, Ohio, on the
second ballot, and J. G.. Warwick was
nominated for the Lieutenant-Geve
snip by reclamation. Judge Hoadly was
formerly Il Republican, but lett that party
soon after the close of the war and became
IN acknowledged leader in the Democratic
party in Ohio. He is an able man and one
Of the best speakers in the State.
Mccormick, the famous reaper man,
who was born in Rockbridge county, Va,
recently asked friend living there to seek
out and find the cradle IN which he was
rocked when he was baby, and to pur-
chase it regardless Of cost \ furniture
dealer in Staunton got on the track of il,
and she party owning it readily agreed
to swap it for new one, which was fur
nished, and the old relic promptly ship
ped to Mr.. Mccormick in Chicago.
On Wednesday of last week Mr.. Ham,
ilton Wales, while helping to make hay
On his fathers farm near Harmony, Fred
erick County, Nd, was struck by Pitch
fork which fell from the top OF loaded
wagon. 1t struck him upon the head,
one prong entering above the ear and
penetrating the skull. Another prong
struck the back part Of his head, but
made only scalp wound. Trepanning
was resOrted TO, but the young man died
on Sunday.