Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-02-19
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has been created Cardinal, in place of
the late Cardinal McClosky.
They punish people queerly in China.
For robbing pedlar, gentleman was
lately put into mortar and fred against
n stone wall.
w. C. Elan, editor of the Richmond
Wing, it is stated has accepted posi-
ton on the Baltimore American, at
50, 900 year.
The building and furnishing of the
house that Mr.. T. A. Edison is to occupy
at Llewellyn Park, n. j., will, it is said,
cost over s45O,OO0.
James Owens, Of Fauquier county,
Va, was caught-by tree which he was
engaged in telling and received injuries
which caused his death.
A breach of-promise case has been
brought in the Indiana courts in which
it is announced that 2S5 love-letters will
be read. 1t is said tina: the judge has
sent in his resignation.
Congressman and Senator-elect Daniel
of Virginia, had 4 fall on the ice at
Washington the other day, the force OF
hich was borne almost entirely by the
stump of his lost leg. He says it hurt
worse than amputation.
John B. Cough, the renowned tenn
perance advocate, was attacked with
stroke of apoplexy in Philadelphia Mon
day while delivering a lecture at the
Franklin Presbyterian Church. DR..
Burns pronounced his condition as Sc
rious.
James Ehle, his wife, father and three
children and Mrs. Kinney persisted
Monday morning by the burning of the
Ehle residence in Greenbush, Sheboy-
gan county, Wis. A hired man alone
escaped, and he is thought to have fired
the house.
John p. Mullaly's livery stable, in St.
Louis, was burned Thursday morning.
The employees, who were trying to get 20
horses out Of the burning stables, were
mistaken for thieves by the police and
dubbed into inSensi6ilty. The result
was that 90 horses were burned to
death, causing a loss of 1000.
Miss George Aldridge, of MartOon,
H., while alone in the house of her
father, DR.. Aldridse, was seized by
unknown men, her hands and feet
weighted down, and hanged up TO die.
She was accidentally discovered by her
brother in time TO save her life. 1t is
thought spite against her father was the
motive.
The great Mccormick Reaper Works
at Chicago closed down Tuesday and |
/ 400 employees have begun to undergo |
Il siege of enforced idleLess. The threat
of certain employees to precipitate a
strike unless the nom union men work
ing in the molding department were |
dismissed, appears to be the cause of
the suspension.
John Carroll, the porter at the Col
onnade Hotel in Philadelphia, who died
recently, left fortune of 500, 900, inclu-
ding thirty or forty houses. About four
years ago he inherited $50, 900 from an
uncle, who made his money in Oil City. !
This windfall made no difference in his |
life, but he continued to act as porter,
and made prudent investment Of his
savings.
The flood in Port Deposit, Nd, Sat-
urday night was the worst ever known
in that town, and the damage is estima-
ted at about $4,000. Water and ice
swept through the town, and many hou-
ses were carried away. There were manly
narrow escapes from drowning, and
many people were obliged to cut holes
through the roofs Of their houses to es-
cape. No lives were lost.
P.J. Fravel, one of the Oldest general
merchants of Woodstock, Shenandoah
county, Va, has made an assignment;
liabilities unknown. n. w. Shutter.
general merchant of Newmarket, the
same county. has also failed. His liza
blities are SIG, 900, of which $1,000 is to
Baltimore creditors and $4,000 to home
creditors. He compromised with the
Baltimore men at fifty cents on the dol
lar, cash.
Mrs. Lucy G. Boyd, the talented
writer Of good verses for Southern pa
pers, committed suicide by cutting her
throat in ST. Louis on Friday evening.
She left letter accusing her husband OF
drunkenness and neglect, and died, as
she expresses it, because she preferred
"being in Gods hands to her own" The
couple had been married only since last
November, having eloped because of
parental opposition.
Mr.. w. B. Glover, an enterprising
farmer of Augusta county, Va, has
demonstrated what sixty acres of land
can be made to yield when ihtelligently
managed. Mr.. Glover raised last year
252 bushels of clover seed, which he
sold for 1925 per bushel, or SLABS. At
the same time he made 81 tons of clover
hay, which he sold at $l3 ton, or
81 ,l3l, giving a grand total of 81 $50, all
the product of only sixty acres of land.
This is good zeal better than going
West.
Very ReEaarl<ab BILE Recov
Mr.. Geo. V. Willing, of Manchester,
Mich, writes; My wife has been al