Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-11-07
GENERAL NEWS.


Strikes are assuming alarming
proportions throughout France.
The President has set apart No
vember rs as a day of national.
Thanksgiving and prayer.
Thomas Perrich, a lunatic, fred
the county building at Ortonville,
Mimi. Monday, and persisted in the
flames.
CUMBERLAND, October 30.-Mr.
Geo, B. Kuhn, the brother OF Mr.. A.
J. Kuhn, of the st. Nicholas Hotel,
was drowned in the Chesapeake and
Ohio canal at Oldtown, twenty
miles east of Cumberland.
The latest scoundrel on his travels
is a fellow collecting old silverware,
promising to "make it as good as
new,v and return it in a few days to
the owner. But of course he always
forgets to come back.-Hagerstow a
Neaos.
LYNCHBURG, VA, October 3D.
On account Of heavy washouts on
the railroads connecting here, this
city is almost isolated from the out
er world. No Northern mails have
been received here for three days.
Business is suffering in consequence.
MI. James Hodges was Monday
inaugurated mayor Of Baltimore in
the presence of a large number OF
people, in the First Branch chamber
Of the City Council. General Lat
robe made a valedictory address,
and Mayor Hodges delivered a sal
utatOry.
The funeral Of General Mcclellan
was unattended with any military
pomp or ceremony. After services
in New York city, the remains were
taken to Toronto, and inferred in the
family lot in the cemetery, Monday.
Rev. w. U. Murkland, of Baltimore,
oficiated at the grave.
Mrs. Frances Campbell. who lives
on one of the mountains Of the Blue
Ridge, in Rappahannock county, has
twelve stands Of bees. which we're
very thriving and productive; but a
distillery has been started in the
neighborhood, and since that time
the bees fly over there and get very
drunk, and are nov of but little ac.
count.
MOBILE, ALA, October 30.-Bish.
op O'Sullivan the newly appointed
bishop of Mobile, arrived here this
afternoon, and was welcomed by a
large delegation of clergy and laity
of the diocese. An address of well
come was made, and the Bishops
reply was very felicitous. The in.
s~tallation will take place Sunday in
the cathedral. The services will be
conducted by Bishop Jannsens OF
Natchez.
In Canada Sunday is observed
more strictly than in any other part
of the world, unless 1t be Scotland
ortae North of Ireland. There are
no Sunday street cars MOI Sunday
papers; even in such a large city as
Toronto. Sunday steamboat excur.
sions have been attempted but prov
ed a failure. Recently an effort was
made to open a large theatre in To.
ronto for an alleged Sunday moral
entertainment. But the "moral en-.
tertainment" was enjoined and the
theatre has to keep its doors closed
The project of a shipcanal between
Chesapeake and Delaware Bays
has been revived, with strong pros
poets OF success. A company has
been formed, and commissioners have
been appointed to appraise the lands
along the proposed route, which runs
from the mouth of Sassafras River
in Chesapeake Bay to Listens Point
on the Delaware, a distance ofseven'
teen miles. Such a canal would
bring Baltimore and New York 225
miles nearer by water than they are
now. The benefit to domestic COM
merce of this waterway ought to be
very great.
LYNCHBURG, VA, October 30
Last night the northern bound pas
senger train on a branch of the Rich
mond and Allegheny Railroad, which
connects with train from this city at
Balcony Falls, Rockbridge county,
upon reaching the trestle-work at the
South river, was precipitated through
the trestle into the river, which was
much swollen by recent heavy rains.
The engine and tender were precipi-
tated into the river, and Conductor
Whitaker of Richmond, Engineer
John Williams, of Lexington, and
Fireman Richard Tyree, Of this city,
were killed.
HARRIsoNBURG, VA, October 80
The most terrific rainstorm known
in the Valley for years began here
yesterday and continued until past
midnight. More water fell in eigh-
teen hours than has fallen alto
gether in the two years previous.
High water prevails everywhere, and
washouts in the Valley branch ofthe
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad have
delayed all trains. The mountains
west of this place were covered with
snow this morning.
HAGERSTOWN, October 30.-The