Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1883-10-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Captain Mayne Reid. the well-known
novelist. died at his residence in London
on Sunday evening after short illness.
He was sixty-fve years of age.
Large sums are occasionally paid for
young aud handsome Chinese women, but
the average quotations in the San Fran
cisco market range from 81 800 head.
A Minnesota man offered J. L. Case
$50 zoe for the wonderful trotter Jay-Eye-
See, but Mr.. Case refused the offer, with
the remark that nothing under 100000
would tempt him to sell.
During an oyster supper in Methodist
Church at Bayville, Long Island, the other
night, gang of roughs entered the place,
and a fight ensued, during which the con-
gregation escaped panic-stricken.
Ninety thousand dollars worth Of prop
erty was destroyed by fire in the business
portion Of Annapolis, Nd, early Monday
morning. During the progress OF the
fire a Young man named Charles JcgS
entered a burning house to rescue his
aged aunt, but he lost his life in the vain
attempt, both of them perishing.
Mr.. John Dadsman, of Frederick, Md,
has in his possession the rope with which
Markly, the murderer of the Newey fam
lily, of Harbaugh's Valley, was hung in
June, 1882. Mr.. Dadisman purchased IL
ut the sale Of Mr.. John Bender, several
months since. Ii is ninety feet in length,
and is said to be in an excellent state Of
preservation.
Va, recently. Miss Emily Pembroke
Jones, young lady attending school and
boarding with her grandfather, arose in
her asleep, walked out of her chamber,
and reaching stairway, fell down the
steps. When discovered her neck was
broken and life extinct. She was IL years
of age, and beautiful aud accomplished.
A train on the Glens Falls branch of
the Delaware aud Hudson Railroad went
through the bridge over the Glens Falls
feeder TO the Champlain Canal, Monday.
The engine crossed the bridge, but the
baggage aud passenger cars went down
into the water and were totally wrecked.
Three persons were killed, and every per-
son on the train was injured except q
newsboy.
At Fiemingsburg, KY, Saturday night,
Charles Mccartney was attacked on the
street by James Il. Fcnnell and Frank l..
Thompson, who were aggrieved by pub
LEGATIONS in McCarthy's newspaper. They
used stones as weapons. Mccartney drew
his revolver aud shot them both. Fennell
died the next morning, and it is thought
that Thompson is MORALLY wounded.
Mccartney has been arrested.
The Rev. NJ. Il. Rogers, \ colored Bap-
fist clergyman, of Louisiana, having occa-
sion to perform some ministerial functions
ut the upper end Of his parish, boarded
freight train at New Iberia before day
light Saturday morning, intending to take
a free ride. He made himself fast to the
end of the car with rope, but he lost his
grip and fell and was dragged long dis
tance before his dead body was found.
A young man named Charles E. Kuhn,
committed suicide at the Central Hotel,
Front Royal, Va, Wednesday night Of
last week, by cutting his throat with II
razor. a jury Of inquest rendered ver-
dict that deceased was suffering from
alteration of mind at the time OF the act,
induced by pecuniary trouble. Kuhn was
to have been married Thursday morning
to a young lady of Front Royal, having
procured license therefor Wednesday.
Nervous, dyspeptic individuals, whose
distress Of mind and body make life mis-
cradle, IL your sufferiugs have been pro-
longed and Increased by the use of bitters
and pretended cures of kidney and liver
diseases, throw all such nostrums aside
and find health, strength and vigor in that
simple remedy known as DIR. Guysott's
Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla. 1t purifes
the blood, strengthens the urinary and di-
gestive organs, and infuses new life into
all parts Of the body. No other remedy
equals it. Have your druggist get it for
you.