Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-04-25
HEIGHBoRIHc NEWS.
From tie sShepherdstoacn Reoister. /

From the Ssepherdstoacn Register
Mr.. B. s. Pendleton has bought the
old Harper property, on the Main
street, occupied at present by Messrs.
Jas. E. Barnhart and d. T.. Rentch,
paying for it 81 800. Mr.. PendIeton
will obtain possession hext April.
Sixteen coIored persons, ten women
and six men, were immersed in the
Patapsco river Sunday afternoon at
Ferry Bar. Rev. A. w. Adams, OF
Winchester, Va, and Rev. Ell. E.
Keys, of Martinsburg, w. Va, were
officiating ministers. The water was
cold and bleak northwest wind pre-
vailed. Several of the persons bap-
tized got happy and shouted in the
water.-B Baltimore Sun.
Mr.. Archibald Ensminger, level
walker on the canal upon the division
which includes this place, has occu-
pied this position continuously for
eleven years with credit to himself
and employers. During this time,
by approximate computation, it is
found that this gentleman has walked
&C, 900 miles. His term of walking is
nine months, and of course the daily
walk of eighteen miles must be ac-
complisEed without regard to the con-
dition of the weather. Mr.. Ensming-
er is about sixty years Ofage.- VII
Transport Transcript.
PARALYZED.-Mr. David Avis, a
welEknOWn resident of this county,
living near Billmyer's Mill. was found
insensible at his home last Saturday
morning. MIR. Avis was a cooper
and a shingle-maker by trade, and
lived alone. He was accidentally
discovered lying on the floor by some
one who happened to go to the house,
and it was ascertained that he had
been stricken with paralysis. He
fingered until Sunday night, when he
died. 1t is astrange coincidence that
his death occurred on the day he was
SO years old.
RAILROAD MATTERs.-A dispatch
from Lynchburg, Va, says that on
Friday Judge Blair, of the Roanoke
County Court, granted an order to the
Shenandoah Valley Railroad to bor-
row $500, 900 to pay off interest, wages
and the floating debt. This road,
which few days since went into the
hands of a receiver, is generally be-
lieved in Virginia to be about to fall
into the hands of the Baltimore and
Ohio, which would use it in line
for Southern connection. In Balti-
more not much reliance is placed
in this belief, as the Baltimore and
Ohio through its own Valley Railroad
now reaches Lexington, and could
readily extend it to Roanoke or Salem.
A dispatch from Philadelphia on
Tuesday says: "The officers of the
Shenandoah Valley Railroad positive
ly deny the statement that the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company is
to buy that property. They say
that in order to acquire the property
the Baltimore & Ohio would have to
purchase S3,000,000, of the Shenan-
doah Valley first mortgage bonds,
and that it already has line down the
Shenandoah Valley from Harrison
burg to lexington
A DESIRABLE CHANGE.-TheH Han
mis- Distilling Company of Martins
burg, will remove the hog-pens from
their distillery in that place. and are
now building great number of pens
at Flagg's Meadows, about a mile
east of Martinsburg, where the swine
will be kept in the future. An i'm
mense tank will be built on wheels,
and every day the swill from the dis
tillery will be hauled down the rail-
road to the pens. Four thousand hogs
will be kept in this place. We con-
graduate the citizens of Martinsburg
on the removal of this establishment
from their midst, and hope the breezes
will not blow down this way.
Rev. j. G. Bowman, of Hanover,
Pa, was in town this week visiting
his former friends.
Miss Fannie Grow, of this place, is
visiting friends in Martinsburg.
LoCATED.-Dr. n. M. Hendricks,
as will be seen by his card in another
column, has decided to locate at Kear-
neysville, this county, and engage in
the practice of his profession. DIR.
Hendricks recently graduated in Bal
timore.