Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1883-10-20
ITEMS OF INTER EST.

An elder of the monogamic branch Of
the Mormons, or Latter-Day Saints, has
been preaching recently in Wayne county,
this State.
Colonel John G.. Crockett, of Summers
county, this State, has in his possession
violin which he claims and says he can
prove to be two hundred and twenty years
old.
General Malone says he will beat Gen.
eral Wickham in his district if it takes
$50, 900 to do it, and General Wickham says
lie can't do it, ifhe spends 500, 900. Money
must be plentiful.
At Denver, Col, Saturday, VIM. llar-
rison shot and killed his lG-year-old wife
and then killed himself. The cause is
said to have been jealousy and intcrfer-
ence in domestic affairs by his mothcr-in-
law.
A negro was appointed special police
man in Sumter, ;. c., and proceeded to
business at once. Before night he had
half the prominent citizens of the town in
Jail, and an Indignation meeting had to be
held before he would take 4 rest.
The negroes of Virginia have issued an
address to their race prOclaiminS their
opposition to Malone and his methods and
recommending their support of the
straight Republican ticket for members of
the Legislature at the coming election.
The PAGER tombstone, who paced Il mile
last week in 2.l0, heating al former rec
ords ut trotting or pacing, has been sold
for s25, 900 to Commodore y. w. Kittson,
of st. Paul, the owner of Little Brown
jug, the next fastest PAGER, whose record
is 2.llaI.
Martin Kroch, Charles SchrOchow and
Henry Carson were killed at Castalia,
Ohio, Saturday, while trying to drive
across a railroad track ahead of an In
diana, Bloomington and Western train.
The locomotive pretty nearly always beats
i'm such races.
There are $4,000 Democratic voters in
the State of West Virginia. These are
scattered over the 81 counties of the State.
OF the 81 counties AZ gave Democratic
majorities for Governor Jackson ut the
last State election, and "A counties gave
Democratic majorities for members of the
legislature.
William Wilson, son of a prominent Cit
izen of Lewis county, W. Va, went hunt
ing Saturday, and freed a coon on the
farm of a man named Warner. The latter
objected to the hunter choppins the tree
down, and in Il quarrel that ensued Will
son struck Warner Il blow with 4 club,
killing him.
The wife of Henry Beckman, Il farmer,
two miles from Deer Park, killed herself
with blue vitriol, or blue stone, of which
she ate two handfuls on last Thursday
afternoon. Her sister saw her take the
poison, but could not prevent it. Mrs.
Beckman was 45 years of age. 1t is be-
lievcd she was insane.
a letter, upon which Confederate
two-ccnt stamp was affixed, passed through
the mails at Richmond without being de-
tected by the post-otlicc authorities. The
stamp bears some resemblance to the new
one of the same denomination just issued
BY the government in color, but not in the
style of workmanship.
Two of the worst criminals in New
York, John Irving and Jack Walsh, met
in 4 saloon in that place Monday night,
and shot each other dead without word.
They had long been enemies. There is
general rejoicing in police circles, as the
two nell were burglars and hishwaymen
of the most notorious character.
A serious row occurred the other night
at Princeton, n. j., between the students
and some of the townspeeple. A crowd
was listening to the singing of 4 patent
medicine peddler when an egg WAS thrown
and struck townsman OH the head. The
students and citizens then became engaged
i'm free fight, in which the students were
worsted. A freshman named McLaren
was pursued and ran into church for
safety. He was then thrown down into
a pew and had his collar-bone dislOcated.
Finally Proctor Goldie got the students
inside the campus and order was restored.