Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-11-21
H~EIGHBoRlHG NEWS.
From the Nhepherdsto,cn Register.

From the Shepherdst0ira Register.
A red-breasted game rooster, with
horns two inches long, resembling COW
horns, and without spurs, passed
through this place last week OH its
way from Moody, Texas, to a dime
Museum in Philadelphia.
Farmers says that they have never
seen a better prospect for wheat than
there is at this time. The fields look as
if every grain planted has come up,
and presented a beautiful appearance.
All signs point toa big crop next year,
although harvest Is a long way offyet.
A war has been inaugurated among
the butchers in Shepherdstown. One
of them has put the price of meat
down to eight and ten cents a pound,
and the others will have to follow suit.
Live stock is said to be very cheap, so
we don't suppose financial ruin will
result from the lowered prices
In removing an old stone pavement
in front of the property of Mrs. III. F.
Hebb, at Sharpsburg, a solid gold
band ring was found, on the inside of
which was inscribed, "To My Wife
1882" An old spanish quarter of
the same date was found, the inscrip-
ton of which was, "Carolus Ill. His
paniole Rex"
A QUAINT FUNERAL.-An officer of
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad sends
to the Oakland Democrat the follow
ing account of a quaint funeral which
he recently witnessed at Harper's
Ferry. He says: There has been
an accident on the Shenandoah Valley
road, pretty much the same sort of
one that we read of every day or So
engineer and fireman killed-rest of
the people only shaken up Any
how, the engineer, poor fellow! had
lived at Sandy Hook and was to be
buried at Harper's Ferry, and, of
course. everybody in the two places
attended the funeral. Now,as it hap
pened, there vas a hearse and about
three shaky vehicles to be had, and
these would not accommodate more
than one-fifth of the people there.
The procession was to pass along the
narrow defile between the Potomac
where ii brawls over the rocks and
the mountains that rise so grandly up
into the heights. There is room here
for the country road, the railroad and
the canal. 1t didn't take long for
means of transportation to be found.
The services at the house being over,
the hearse and the wagons were used
to carry the remains and the pail
bearers and immediate family. Right
along side on the railroad track a shift
ting engine and two gondola cars were
placed and on the canal below.a canal
boat drawn by three mules was in po-
sition. So that when the procession
started the enine and boat fell into
line or rather kept up abreast at the
slow funeral pace all the way from
the Hook to the Ferry. As / said, to
see an engine and a canal boat in a
funeral procession was odd, certainly,
but do you know l was very much
impressed by it, and / never shall
forget the dignity with which the en-
gineer controlled the throttle of his
iron horse or how silent and solemn
the driver of the canal boat was. You
know tow-path drivers are very sell
dom in that condition, either"
PERsoNAL.-Mr. Charles j. Miller,
Sol of Mr.. John Miller, of this vicini-
ty, left last Monday for Omaha, Ne
braska, where he will be engaged in
the coming winter. Mr.. Miller is one
of the best young men in this commu-
nifty, and the firm that has secured his
services may well congratulate itself.