Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-11-12
West Virginia Notes.
Mr.. Moody, the evangelist, is preach
ing In Wheeling this week.

| ing In wheeling tnls week.
The Riverside Iron Works of Wheeling
has donated one hundred kegs of steel
nails to the sufferers by the recent fire
at Salisbury, Md.
Oliver Beirne recently shipped from
Monroe county one hundred and fifty
head of fine cattle, which averaged six
teen hundred and forty-five pounds in
weight.
Monday night fire broke out in the
Lincoln county Jail from defective fiue,
and the building was nearly destroyed.
Two prisoners and all the effects OF the
jailer were secured. Loss 81 800, no in
surance.
Fire in the livery stables of Joseph
Butler and James Grazie-, at st. Glars
vile, Sunday night, destroyed both
stables, about twenty buggies and
twenty-five horses. Three residences
were also burned. Loss, $4,000.
A few days ago Albert Webster, IL
wealthy farmer in Ohio county, while
smoking, thoughtlessly put the lighted
end of his cigar in his mouth. His
tongue became very much swollen, and
blood. poisoning caused his death.
Last Saturday night near Parkersburg
one of the boilers of the steamer L. ID.
Dale bursted. A great panic was created
among the crew and passengers. One
of the hands jumped overheard and WAS
drowned. No one else was Injured.
The handsome residence of Hon. w.
A. Quarter, near Charleston, was de-
stroyed by fire last Sunday. A large
amount of household furniture and Ii
brary valued at several thousand dollars
were also destroyed. The fire was
caused by defective flue. Loss on
house, So 900; insurance, 81, 500.
A certificate Of incorporation has been
issued to the Cumberland, Mooreheld
and Southwestern Virginia Railroad
Company. The road is to be common
ced at Cumberland, Md, and thence by
the most practical route through the
counties of Mineral, Hampshire and
Hardy to Moorefeld, the county seat of
Hardy.
Ii. NJ. Jones, young man of Harri-
son county, has been arrested, charged
with attempting to poison Hammond
Griggs, wealthy citizen of Monongalia
county, by giving him apple brandy
drugged with strychnins. 1t is said that
Jones is engaged to the daughter of
Griggs, but that the old gentleman's
objections stand in the way of the mar
riage.
While Alexander Quinn, wealthy
farmer of Marshall county, was return
ing home one night last week on horse
back he was met by two men no called
on him for help. feigning distress.
When he alighted they caught him and
robbed him of $50, a gold watch and
chain, and some papers. They then
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beat him till he was senseless and left
him. He is. dangerously hurt and his
ASSISTANTS are unknown.
In cave near Pocahontas, on the New
River Division of the Norfolk & West
ern Railroad, just across the line from
Mcdowell county, IA petrified child was
found few days ago standing or lean.
ing against the side of the cave, the
head and face being plainly visible and
distinct. The top part of the head
shows the naked skull; this is where
the water was found dipping on the
body. The balance of the body is rock,
but the shape of u child is plain and dis
tinctivcly visible. The wonderful statue
is now in the possession of Capt. John
A Butchfield, conductor on the New
River division of the Norfolk and West
ern railroad, who lives at New River,
Pulaski county, Va, where it is stand
ing in one corner of his parlor. 1t stands
| erect, and seems to have died with its
hands tied behind and fastened to the
side of he cave. How it got in the
cave, and how long it had been there
no one knows.