Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1883-09-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A factory for manufacturing molasses
out of sugar cane, has been opened 1T
Front Royal, Va, with capacity ol
] 800 gallons per day.
Mr.. Garrett, of Pine county, Ga, was
recently struck by lightning, but not hurt,
the electricity merely taking all the HAIR
from his head, which WAS lief: perfectly
bald.
A-steam engine attached to thresh ing
machine exploded in grain field near
Frankfort, Oak, Saturday, instantly KILL
ing four men and seriously injuring five
others.
The heirs of PAMELA Harrison, the most
Of whom are in Bedford county, Pa, have
started movement to get possession OF
COO acres of land upon which Frederick
City, Md, is built.
4 man boarded a tram at Ogden, Utah,
Sunday night, and covering two tralnmen
and eight passengers with his revolver,
robbed them of their watches and money
ana made MS escape.
Hon. J. c. 5. Blackburn, OF Kentucky,
announces that he is not candidate for
the Speakership of the House OF Repre-
sentatives, but that he is candidate Tor
United States Senator.
While w. W. Jarvis, wife and child
were driving near Weston, W. Va, a lew
days ago. the horse became frightened and
threw them out. Mrs. Jarvis vas thrown
on her head and killed.
Rev. James Ayres, of Marion county,
this State, died on Sunday last OF erysipe-
las caused by the sting of bee. lie was
stung on the forehead and his suflerlngs
until death were very great.
T.. J. Cunning, q well-known Wash
inpton faro-dcalcr, was found dead in his
room last saturday. \ fellow-gambIer
said that for the last year Dunning had
! taken lG0 drinks every twenty-tour hours.
An old man Of Machias, y. Y, died re-
Gently of q very peculiar illness. Two
weeks before he died, it is said, his bones
! began to break First his arm broke, then
two or three of his ribs, and then his leSs.
lie was 96 years old.
'sFancy," General Stonewall Jackson's
old war-horse, has been sent to the IT.
ginia Military Institute, where he Will be
properly cared for the remainder OF his
DAYS. Notwithstanding the advanced age
of the old hero, he looks we'll.
AtHyde Park, VT, few days ago, Ed
ward w. Sumner accidentally shot Sigbert
Rogers through the heart with pistol,
the latter dying instantly. They were
both Young men of about IS, and were
warmly attached to each other.
a gigantic irrigating canal is being
made in Fresno county, California, to
water thirty millions of acres of hitherto
dry and worthless desert. 1t will. be 100
feet wide ut bottom and ) feet deep. The
water is drawn from Kings river.
While playing with matches on Satur-
day Richard and Cyrus Richards, aged
| six and four years, set fire to their father
barn and wagon-housc IT'S Corentryyille,
Pa. Both buildings were destroyed, and
little Cyrus persisted in The flames.
A flock of sheep was passing along one
of the streets of Malone, y. Y, recently,
when one of the leading bucks jumped
through the window of Il millinery store.
The rest of the flock soon followed, and IL
did not take long to change the styles i'll
ladies hats.
John Connolly, one Of the watchmen al
the treasury building, i'll Washington,
committed suicide Saturday night by
blowing out his brains with Colts revolt
YER in one Of the cool vaults. He had a
wife and six children. lie WAS soldier
in the late war.
Owen Dorsey and VIM. G.. Abel were
killed Sunday morning by collision of
freight trains on the Western Maryland
Railroad near Highland Park station.
Dorsey was Frederick county droycr
and Abel a brakeman OIL the road. A
coroner's jury censurel the employees OF
! the road for the accident. At-.t- j.. . q