Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1885-04-24
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a hillside.
= Prof. 6rurge n: 6asteii, OF 9a'kehPs
Business College, Jersey City, N. D.,
lost his way in a-swampy meadow near
the city, aud sinking into the mud, was
smOthered. to-
Rev. j. i. Booker, pastor OF the Sec
ond Presbyterian Church, staunton,
has accepted call to the copastorate OF
the First Presbyterian Church. Charles
ton, w. Va.
In Raleigh. n. c., last week, a colored
bow picked upa rough, uncut diamond
in the suburbs of the city. Ii has been
sent North TO be cut, aud will be worth
from 81, 200 to $4,000.
Green Rowscr, aged sixteen years
w,s stabbed To deatlCin - saloon row AZ
Dallas. Texas. Five other boys nearly
cut him in pieces. There are threats Of
lynching his murderers.
A wave eight feet high caused by a
waterspout rushed down the Rio Grahde
river sunday, carrying away portion
Of the Mexican National Railroad bridge
at Laredo. and doing other great dam
age.
lanes III. Bell, of Harold, OAK, WAS
taken out of Jail at Pierre, OAK, by a
mob and hanged to the flagstaff OF the
courthouse. lie WAS charged with the
MURDER of Fores. G Small, Il lawyer, on
December last.
An old carpet was taken up from
room in San Francisco the otEer day
and burned. The ashes of the carpet
Welded more than 2,4O0 in gold-dust.
The room from which it WAS taken was
iu the United States mint.
Congressman Reagan, Of Texas, has
received by express tie $500 watch sto-
len from him at Washington on inaugu-
ration day. He lost $500 in money at
the same time, but the detectives have
not vet recovered that portion OF the
plumber.
"Granny" Galloway and her two
granddaughter, aged and ten years,
who lived near Point Pleasant, w. Va,
were found dead in their cabin last
Thursday. The bodies were greatly
emaciated, and il is thought they died
of hunger and cold.
The two seal brown horses purchased
by President Cleveland for carriage use
will reach Washington in few days
and be placed in the White House STA
bles. The two horses were purchased
in Poughkeepsie, n. Y, for $4,000 and
are said to be beauties in the equine line.
A. Norris, a wealthy Londoner, sec
rotary aud managing director of the
Victoria Furnace Company, Goshen,
Va. the Hawks Nest Coal Company,
w. Va, and the Mount Carbon colliery,
w. Va, was run over by atrain at Mt.
Carbon Friday, and received injuries
from which he died the next day.
A cable dispatch received in LeXing-
ton, Ky, states that Mrs. Henrietta
Morgan, of that city, mother ofthe Com
federate General John Morgan, who
was killed In Greenville, Tenn, during
the late war, has inherited 81 900, 900 by
the death of her niece, the Baroness de
Fannemberg, at Cannes, France, April
II.
In Chicago, Saturday, WIN. llass,
young butcher, shot and instantly killed
his sweetheart, Annie Neibert, aged
10. He then fired at and missed an
aunt of the girl end attempted suicide
by firing two shots ut himself. He will
recover. The girl would not marry
him AMI her relations opposed the
match.
Near Plainfield, n. } ,, Saturday night.
the aged wife of Alexander Kenney,
New York stonecu;ter, who owned
small farm in New jersey, was killed by
a farm hand named William Jones who
then hung himself. The man was re-
gardcd us weak-minded, and Mr.. Ken
ney's daughter, for whom he had con-
ceiyed an attachment, had been sent
away from home to escape annoyance
from him.
Mr.. Burchard, the director of the
mint, in his annual report on the pro-
auctions of gold and silver in the Uni
ted States for the calendar year of 1884,
estimates the production of the country
to have been: Gold $50, SOC, 900; silver,
computed at the silver dollar coinage
rate, $4S, 500, 600; total, SIS, GOO, 900. This
shows an increase over the yield of the
previous year Of about $500, 900 gold and
81 400, 600 silver.
Another example of what the bad SAN
itaIy condition of 4 house will bring,
and one which should he born in mind.
was given in Milford, Mass, within
week or two, where four children died
from diphtheria, while the life of the
fifth aud last child was. saved by being
removed to another tenement. The SAN
itary arrangements of the children's
home was afterwards found to be bad in
the extreme.
The South CASTOR Gas Coal Company,
of Paramount, Marion county, West
Virginia, was organized Monday in the
office of Hon. Henry G. Davis, in Balti-
more. Senator Davis was elected chair
man, and Hon. James Morrow, DR.,
acted AS secretary. BS-laws were adopt
ed, and the following directors were
elactel. Hon. j n. Camden, Hon. Jas.