Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-11-07
N~EIGHBoRlNG NEWS.
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The sight of the beautiful grow.
ing wheat makes glad the heart of the
farmer.
The young man who desires to gel
up with the sun should not stay up toe
late with the daughter.
A marriage license was issued in
Washington last Monday to Frank E.
Miller, of Mathews county, Va, and
Nina L. Herbert, Of Berkeley county,
w. Va.
Mrs. Charles Hardy, aged "a years,
of Winchester, Va, who died last
week, was the mother of eighteen
children, and was the representative
of five generations.
The Grand Lodge of West Virgin
la, |. 0. 0. F., met in annual session
at Grafton on Tuesday. The feature
OF the day was the unwilling and dedi-
cation of the monument erected to
the memory of the late grand secre-
tary, Thomas G. Steele.
Mr.. j. Henry Bowers, a former resi-
dent of this county, was recently APP
pointed postmaster at Chico, Califor-
mia. A paragraph from Washington
on Wednesday lasts says: "Consid-
cradle excitement prevails at Chico,
CAL, over the discovery that the late
appointment of a postmaster of that
city vas obtained through a fraudu-
lent petition sent to Washington"
The shipments of coal from Cum
berland by the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal last week amounted to 12,173
tons. The shipments for the year
amounted to 293,113 tons, an increase
of p, 1908 tons, as compared with last
year.
COMING HOME.-Messrs. Davis
Billmyer and Rowland Hill, who left
Shepherdstown a couple of months
ago for the purpose of making their
fortunes in the West, and who located
in Dallas, Texas, are expected home
this week. Both young men have
been i'll of a fever peculiar to that To-
cality, and as that climate did not
agree with them they concluded to
come home. Their experience in the
great West has not been a very pleas
ant one.
MONEY SToLEN.-Saturday even
ing last Mr.. John d. Staley, while
changing some money for a customer,
laid twenty-five dollars in bills on the
desk in his mill. He forgot to put it
in his ~pocket-book, and soon after
ward went to the house to get hissup-
per. When he returned he thought
OF the money, but upon making search
for it, it was not to be found. Some
one had entered the mill and stolen
it. He has his suspicious in regard to
the thief.
WHERE DID IT Go?-Some time
ago Mr.. Thos. w. Leggett built a
large cistern on the farm of Mr.. Geo.
Hammond, deceased, near Kearneys-
vile, and of course he made it in a
substantial style. One side of the els
tern was solid rock, and the other side
and bottom were made of brick, as u.s.
ual. The cistern was about two-thirds
full of water, but when some one went
to draw water a few days ago there
was none there. An examination
was made, and it was found that
there was no cistern there either. The
bottom had dropped out and togeth-
er with the brick wall had totally dis
appeared, leaving a yawning hole
where it had been. No one can &C.
count for the occurrence, but it is
thought that under the cistern was a
cave or a sink-hole. Judge Rodgers
thinks some one has stolen the cistern,
but we don't think SO, for the thiei
would have taken the hole too. We
shall watch III exchanges from China,
and if they report the discovery of an
American cistern we will let our read
ers know of it.
Hundreds of letters from those using
Ayers Hair Vigor attest its value as q
restorer of gray hair to its natural color.
AS a stimulent and tonic, preventing and
often curing badness, and cleansing and