Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1884-10-10
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who has been stumping in West Virginia
for the Democratic ticket has returned TO
his home in Hagerstown i'll, from over
work.
Charles Willard, brakeman on the
Shenandoah Valley Railroad, living at
Hagerstown, Nd, and unmarried, was
thrown from a train Wednesday near
Luray and killed.
Col. r. p. Chew and Hon. D. B. Lucas,
candidates for the Legislature, Geo. w.
Feidt, candidate for State Senator, and
Mr.. Forrest w. Brown, candidate for
Prosecuting Attorney, were in town this
week.
Mrs. Ellen Little met with an accident
on Tuesday night which might have
proved fatal. In attempting to descend
a very long stairway she made a misstep
and fell to the bottom, cutting her head
badly and inflicting several very serious
bruises.
We may look for an extraordinarily
severe winter if there is any virtue in the
old Indian hornet sign. All the nests we
have heard of this year are built OF the
ground. When they are suspended from
trees and high up it is sign of a mild
winter. OLD prognosticators say that they
have never known the sign to fail.
The Republican mass meeting at Island
Park on Wednesday was attended by
about 1000 people. The speakers were
Messrs. +. NJ. Darby, l.. Z. McComas, II.
Clay Nall aud Francis Brengle, of Mary
land; John w. Mason, of West Virginia :;
James McCauley, a Virginia elector; Gov.
Shannon, of Montana, and Mr.. Taliafcrro,
colOred.
A great Democratic meeting was held
in MartinSburg last Saturday. Senator
Bayard, Of Delaware, eX-Gov. Whyte, of
Maryland, and Hon. VIM. L. Wilson adj
dressed the large crowd during the after
noon and evening. Hon. Henry G. Davis
presided. At night there was Il torch
light proccSsion, and an immense throng
of people gathered to Lear the splendid
speeches that were made.
\ few days ago two freight trains were
run from Roanoke, Va, to New York
city, against time, one via the Norfolk
and Western Road and its connections,
through Baltimore, and the other via the
Shenandoah Valley Road and its connec-
tons, through IIagerstown. The Shcn-
andoah Valley train accomplished the
distance in five hours and forty minutes
less time than the Norfolk and Western
train.
The will of John W. Garrett makes his
sons administrators of an estate valued at
$4,000, 600. The poor of Baltimore are
to receive 5000 per annum forever, and
the sons during their lives IRE to dSburse
50, 900 each year for benevolent or educa-
tional purposes. The trustees are to hold
for twenty years the family interest of
thirty thousand shares in the Baltimore
and Ohio road, and control it for the COM
mcrcial benefit of the city.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has given notice to the Baltimore and
Ohio Company that on aud after Sunday
next, October 18th, no more Baltimore
and Ohio passenger trains will he allowed
to run between Baltimore and New York.
This is spite work in revenge for the
L,,il Ii l,t-t lao Rtlt Of
line from Baltimore to Philadelphia. 1t
is said that it will have tendency TO in
crease the travel over the Shenandoah
VALLEY Railroad, as passengers from the
South for Philadelphia aud New York
will use this road, as it is Il through route.
Drowned i'm the CannI.-A special
dispatch from Cumberland, Nd, to the
Baltimore Americdn, dated October 9TH,
says: a most distressing drowning acct
dent occurred about 80 this evening
about three miles east of this city, on the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. William p.
Campbell, druggist, aged about twenty
eight; George Gilpin, son of Col. Chas.
Gilpin, and Daniel 10y, 4 painter-all
about the same age-left Cumberland
about o'clock this afternoon in skiff
anu went fishing, intending to return
home about O'Clock. Seeing an empty
canal boat coming up, they tried TO get
alongside OF it, so rs TO tie their skifl and
ride home on the boat, but padded too
fast, and got just in fIons of the boat,
which struck the skiff and turned it over.
All three tried to climb up OH the canal
boat, but 10y, who could not swim, fell
in the water nearly UP to his neck and
called to Gilpin, who could swim, to save
him. Gilpin, with the aid of boatman,
pulled 10y up, and then went to Camp
bells assistance. Campbell was about
eight feet from the side of the boat. hold
ing up apparently by two i>hing-rods.
Poles were pushed out from the boat, but
Campbell failed to grab them, and the
tow-path boy belonging 10 the canal boat
following held fishing-rod out, which
Campbell caught hold of, but the rod came
apart, and Campbell was drowned in ten
feet of water. When the body was found,
about $50 o'clock Tonight, the fishing
hook was found caught in his clothes.
Campbell was married about eighteen
months ago 20 Miss Duke, of Charlestown,
w. Va. He was Il son of the late Sheriff
Campbell, of that place, who hung John
Brown in 1850, but was raised here by
Campbell & Bro, druggists, aud succeed
cd that firm after the death of j.. n.
Campbell three years ago under the name
of " p Cnmnhell & Co Cnmnhells