Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-08-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Harriet Beecher Stowe continues to
receive 81, 500 year from royalties on
Uncle Toms Cabin"
A fire at Bristol Va, Friday night,
burned the Burson and Frost blocks.
The loss is estimated at 10000.
Mr.. Wright Gatewood, well-known
Democratic speaker and writer, died
at his home, in Warren county, Va,
last week.
The fine residence of George Fer
neyhough, near Fredericksburg, Va,
was totally destroyed by an accident
al fire last week.
Judge Joe Holt, who was in Buch-
anan's Cabinet and afterward Judge
Advocate General, is leading a lonely
life in Washington.
The friends of the Virginia Military
Institute are trying to have United
States Army officer appointed as drill
master at the Institute.
Miss Winnie Davis, youngest dauSh-
ter of Jefferson Davis. is at Bar Har-
Dor, Maine. She will remain there dur
ing the months of August and Septem-
Der.
Miss Mary Amelia Smith, daughter of
Ex-Governor William Smith, of Va, has
written a letter to Governor Lee offer
ing to present to the State Valentines
bust of her father.
The Territorial Supreme Court has
lust decided that the Legislature that
conferred the right of suffrage upon
the woman Of Washington Territory
exceeded its powers.
There was a tariff discussion at Har-
risonburg, Va, Monday between Con
gresham Breckenridge, of Kentucky,
Democrat, and Congressman Allen, of
Michigan, Republican.
General Stevenson, who command
ed Confederate division in the de
partment of Mississippi during the
late war, died in Caroline county, Va,
Wednesday, aged II years. He was
native Of Fredericksburg and grad
uate of West Point.
The Gray National Telautograph
Company has been chartered by the
Circuit Court of Richmond, Virginia,
with the principal Office in that city.
The capital stock is not to exceed SD,
OO0, 600 The company will engage in
the general telegraph and telephone
business, under the system invented
by Professor Elisha Gray.
A woman in North Gainesville, Fla,
saw little bird flying in and out of
back window of her house. She
watched it, and saw it pass through
several rooms TO the front parlor, and
disappear on 'whatnot' in the cor
ner. There the housewife found
nest with four eggs in it. They were
not disturbed and at last accounts the
bird was trying TO hatch the little
| eggs.
Salamonie No 3, powerful gas and
oil we'll gusher, has broken loose two
miles east of Montpelier, Ind. and
the farmers within half-mile radius
of the well are panic stricken. No
fires have been lighted at their homes
since the we'll broke loose, and it is
unsafe TO strike match within half
mile of the well. The fields and out
standing crops are saturated with oil
over the entire section.
Mercie's model of the equestrian
statue of General Robert +. Lee has
been placed on exhibition in Rich
mond. The model is satisfactory TO
the members of the monument aSso-
citation, and has been accepted. There
is nothing stiff or constrained in either
the horse or rider. The former seems to
have been refined in while at a walk. its
neck curved and head turned slightly
to the left. The rider is sitting erect in
the saddle, bareheaded, with his right
shoulder slightly thrown back, the
right hand hanging by his side, grasp
ing the hat and acknowledging the sa-
lutte of the troops around him.
At an early hour last Friday morn
ing fire was discovered in the build
ing owned and occupied by Kelly &
Wallace as a general store and resi-
dence at Charleston. An alarm was
given. but the house was consumed.
The bodies of Mrs. +. Wallace, aged
so years, and her son Simon. aged 80
years. were found in the ruins. The
general supposition is that Mr.. and
Mrs. Wallace were murdered, or chic
reformed and robbed, and the house
set on fire 10 hide the crime. 1t was
known that a large amount of money
was in the house. The coroner is in
vestigating the case, and everything
points TO foul play. Several parties
are suspected of the crime. A hotel
run by man named Given. adjoin-
ing the store, was also destroyed The
loss is about $4,000, with some insur-
ance.