Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1884-05-03
ITEMS OF INTER EST.

A copper mine at the base of the Blue
Ridge, near the source of the Rappahan-
mock river, in Fauquier county, Va, has
been opened recently, and is yielding very
valuable ore and virgin copper.
Mrs. Meem, widow of John G. Meem,
deceased, once Il leading merchant OF
Lynchburg and owner Of the most celc-
brated farm in the Valley OF Virginia,
died in Abingdon, Va, recently.
At New Orleans George Taylor, colored,
aged II years, who was convicted Of mall
slaughter in having caused the death of
Henry Lorcll by knife wound, was SELL
fenced to ten years Imprisonment at hard
labor.
A Louisville judge has decided that a
Mother Hubbard dress is an improper
dress to be worn on the street, and the
Louisville police have been ordered to
arrest every woman who appears Oh the
street in one.
A Grand Bazaar for the benefit Of the
| Home for disabled ex-Confcderate soldiers
to be established in Richmond, Va, will
be held in the ArmOry Hall, in that city,
OH the l4th day Of May, to continue dur
Ing the month.
Alfred Chadwick yoked his wife to
plow with steer, for which Judge Jen-
nison, of Detroit, gave her divorce. He
insisted that he only followed the general
usage among the market gardeners of
western Canada.
At Phillipsburg, n. j., Saturday MORN
ing, Mrs. Amelia Barnet, % years Of age,
while temporarily insane, cut the throats
of her two children, one two years old,
and the other five months old, and then
cut her own throat.
The Baltimore Sun says that Laura
Thomas, colored resident OF that city,
gave birth last week to her 27th child.
She is only 43 years Of age, was married
twice, and was 10 years OF age when her
first child was born.
There was n terrible explosion in Ha-
vana, Cuba, on Tuesday last, a powder
magazine being blown up. There were in
the magazine ut the time 4 detachment Of
twenty soldiers and an artillery officer.
Many persons outside were killed.
There was a terrible cyclone in Mont
gOmery and Greene counties, Ohio, on
Sunday. Houses ard barns were blown
away and much stock killed. Many lives
were lost, and the district over which the
cyclone passed presents IN awful scene Of
desOlation.
The First Army Corps will start from
Washington early OH the morning Of May
18th. That day will be spent ut Fred
ericksburgs, the 10th at Charlottesville
and the 18th at the battlefield of the Will
derness. The President has been invited
to become one Of the party.
DIR. B. Ghrett, of Altoona, Pa, prom
inent physician, died Sunday evening Of
spine disease. When the announcement
of his death was made Miss Harvey, aged
90, his sister-in-law, who had been an in
valid and member of the doctors family,
fell OIL her face and died in = few minutes.
Isaac jacobson, tramp carPct-cleaner,
deliberately shot and killed George Bcdell,
the proprietor of 4 carpct-cleaning estab-
lishmeut in Chicago, Tuesday morning.
The alleged reason for the killing is that
the latter refused to pay jacobson Il dollar
which the murderer claimed Bcdcll owed
him.
Jonas Rawhs, aged 60, Of Hamilton, n.
! c., had an invalid wife to whom lie was
much attached. For years he had prayed
that when she died he might die at the
same instant. He was on farm recently
when messenger brought the news that
his wife was dying. lie hurried to her
bedside and knelt as If to pray. The next
instant he was dead.
Monday night, while temporarily insane,
the wife of Hon. Robert b. Carnahan, of
Pittsburg, Pa, eluded the vigilance Of her
watchers and escaped from her home.
While wandering about in the darkness
she stepped over the edge Of the rocky
blufr, almost 100 feet high, overlooking
the Allegheny river, near Brilliant Sta
ton, and was dashed to death below.
Contracts have been made by the Nor
folk and Western Railroad Company with
the owners of coal lands in the Flat Top
soft coal region of Virginia, whereby they
! agree to develop their properties at once,
anG give their entire tonnage to the rail-
road company. 1t is expected that in a
/ short time this business will reach 900
tons day. This tonnage, it is said, will
he doubled as soon as the mines of the
Southwest Virginia improvement Com
peny at POcahontas shall be reopened,
which will probably occur within month.
A man named William G. ibson and three
companions bought bucket of apple
brandy at one of the mountain distilleries
| in Scott county, Va, and while in the
midst Of their spree got into dispute as
to who lad contributed the most of the
purchase money. Gibson was killed in
the battle, and the other roysterers piled
rails over his dead body, and tried to hide
their crime by cremation, but were only
partly successful. The murdercrs were
arrested, and were in imminent peril of
being lynched before reaching the Jail at
Estileville Courthouse.