Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-11-05

The public statement issued Monday
shows the reduction Of the public debt
during October to be $13, POI ,6l9 so:
total cash in treasury, s451 ,0eS, 03S-l9
VIM. Irwin of Rolandville, Nd, visit
ing in Lancaster, Pa, blew the gas out
on retiring Saturday night, and wai
found dead next morning. He was the
father of ten children.
The new Congressional Library it is
expected will be finished by the year
1892. 1t will be the tittest monument
to the great event of that year-the four
hundredth anniversary of the discovery
of America.
A new wrinkle in the shape Of an
"engage ment calendar" is out. Chicago
girls are going 10 use them for keeping
memoranda of the different fellows they
got engaged TO, when they popped. when
the thing was declared of and all that.
An Egyptian papyrus, ~ feet long,
containing all the chapters of the "Book
of the Dead" has just been received and
enrolled at the Sage Library, in New
Brunswick, n. j. Experts pronounce
il 70 have been written 3 900 years ago.
Twenty years ago woman borrowed
$40 Of Alderman Hartman OF Pittsburg.
and failed to pay it. The other evening
she attended church, heard sermon on
the subject of doing as one would be
done by, and the next day surprised
the Alderman by paying the debt with
interest in full.
II. 5. Beattie, surveyor of the port OF
New York, was shot at his desk in the
Custom house by eX.Inspector Berial,
whom the Surveyor had discharged for
taking two dollars from an immigrant
girl, and seriously wounded. The would
be assassin was arrested.
One boy in Springfield, Mass, is so
bright that he has got into the news
papers. The brightness consisted In
asking his school teacher how Tar
procession of Presidents of the United
States would reach if they were placed
in Il row. When size gave it up he an
swered: "From Washington TO Cleve-
land"
Mexico is a most prolific country. A
Greaser who died the other day was fol-
lowed to the grave by eighty-seven liv-
ing children. Thirteen others had pre-
coded him to the silent land. Families
as large as this are perhaps uncommon,
but it is said it is not unusual for
Mexican to be the father of forty or fifty
children.
Fire in Chicago Sunday morning in
the Knight & Leonard six-story build
ing, on East Madison street, damaged
that and adjoining property TO the
amount of $3.50, 900. While six of the
insurance patrol were in the Knight q
Leonard building, the roof fell in, killing
several of the men and badly injuring
several others.
By a collision of the Baltimore and
Ohio west-bOund fast freight and an east
bound freight at Blackhand Ohio Friday
afternoon, two engines and twenty
seven cars, with their contents, were
totally Destroyed. a tramp was seri-
ously injured and the track blockadcd.
The loss to the railroad is about 500, 900.
A misunderstanding of orders caused
the collision.
Near Wichita, Ktnsas, Sunday, Lee
Moiser was riding in Il farm wagon with
Richard Loller and II. f. Amer, when
suddenly he placed double-barreled
shot gun ut Lollcr's back ard fired,
killing him instantly. The murderer,
who is not over 10 years Of age. cOnlesscs
to the crime, and alleges that lie Has
hired to do the deed by Loller's young
wife and her former husband.