Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-05-07
Yves. virginia Notes.

Grafton, Warrington anu SISTERS
vile went against license, while Fair
mont and Huntington voted in favor of
t.
Richard CAVITY, resident Of Mineral
county, got drunk last week and laid
down on the railroad track at Keyser.
The cars ran over him and killed him.
Thomas True, who last week killed
man in Doddrdge county for sheltering
his wife, was shot dead a few days af-
terwarG by a posse of men who endeav-
ored to arrest him.
During the recent freshet large log
was taken out at Piedmont that had been
six years in coming down the stream.
Ii made big load for four horses and
cut between 700 and 500 feet of hemloek
lumber.
At Huntersvile last Saturday night.
while Miss Belle Bartlett was lying ON
lounge near an open window in the
parlor of her fathers residence, re-
iected lover fired two shots at her, one
ball passing through her shoulder, max
ing dangerous and probably fatal
wound. There is deep indignation over
the dastardly deed.
Forest fires are raging in the mount
aims surrounding Oceana to an extent
never before known, and an immense
amount of damage has been done. Hum
dreds of thousands of feet Of valuable
lumber have been consumed and many
farmers have been driven from their
homes. On many of the mountains the
fire extends in solid sheet from base
to summit, and the effect at night is in
describably grand.
All Of the miners in the New River
district, extending from Kanawha Falls
to Ouinnimont, distance of thirty
miles, with the exception of the Ions
dale Iron. and Coal Company, which
does not employ union men, struck Sat-
urday. None in the Kanawha Valley
struck, as was anticipated, except those
of the Black Band Iron and Coal Com
pany. The number of mines thus closed
is nineteen, employing. on an average,
125 men each.
The Pittsburg and Preston County
Railroad, which is said to be controlled
by the Pennsylvania Railroad Compa-
nv, intends to push fhe building of its
road this summer. The line is to be
continuation Of the southwest branch
from Fairchance southwark, across the
Baltimore and Ohio track at Rowles-
burg, extending through Preston coun-
ty, w. Va, to point not yet decided
on-perhaps connection with the
Shenandoah Valley.
The people everywhere have smiled
at the impudence Of that Arkansas boy,
who, after killing his father and mother,
pleaded for the mercy of the Court on
the ground that he was poor orphan,
but citizen OF Marion county has i'm
pudeuce and audacity equal to that of
the western lad. Not long since, he
was adjudgeG to be the father of
bastard child, and in arranging the diff
Guilty, lie executed bonds for the pay
ments which were to be made to the
mother annually for the support of the
child. The bonds were not paid at ma
turi:y, and the mother brought suit on
one, and obtained a judgment against
the gay deceiver and caused an eXecu-
ton to be issued OH the judgment. The
officer, armed with the execution, pro-
ceeded to the home of the young man
and levied on his property, whereupon
that individual, who was a single man,
gravely undertook to avail himself Of
the benefits of the homestead exemption
law, alleging that he was Il father-the
father of the very child for whose sup
port the bonds were given-and filed
his schedule against the execution.