Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-06-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


priest with a shotgun.
PEN. Whiting, son of VIM. H. Whit
| ing. of Wildwood, Clarke county, Va,
was drowned Saturday while bathing
in the Shenandoah river.
1t is stated that the Baltimore &
| Ohio Railroad Company has sold out
its palace and sleeping car equipment
! to the Pullman company. The price
was 1,250,00O.
John p. Carrigan, a citizen Of
! Boyce. Va. committed suicide Satur-
dav by cutting his throat with a
razor He was fifer for Company c.,
of the Stonewall Brigade, during the
| late war.
President Cleveland has signed the
pension bill which makes the pen
sions of widows take effect from the
date of death of the husband. This
applies to all applications since July
! LIST, 1880.
At Cumberland, Nd, the other day
Will and David Halter were fooling
with an old pistol, when the weapon
was accidentally discharged. The ball
hit David in the face, breaking his
jaw and causing serious injuries.
A passenger train on the Virginia
| Midland Railroad ran off the track a
| bout % miles IRON Alexandria last Sat
urday. Four trainmen We're killed,
| but strange TO say none of the pas
sengers lost their lives, though a
number of them were injured. 1t was
a bad smashup.
A recent traveller in the East calcu
lates that when the Israelites left
| Egypt under the leadership of Moses,
| hundred leagues long and six million
camels. The greatest show on earth
sinks into insigniticance when com
pared with that procession.
Myriads of grasshoppers have APP
peared in many parts of southern In
diana, and are devouring all vegeta-
ton as they go. They destroy mead
owS first, then the foliage Of trees, and
next corn, oats, and garden vegeta-
bles. Thousands of acres of meadows
| have been devastated by them.
The body of Washington Ives, col
ored, was found hanging to tree about
| three miles from NatcheZ, Miss, Mon
dav. Attached to the body was u
card bearing the inscription, Beware
Of committing outrage Friday night
| the negro entered u house and at
tempted to outrage young lady, but
her cries gave the alarm.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
rolling mill at Cumberland, employ
! ing 42S men, shut down Saturday. No
| date of resumption Is fixed, but II Will
probably not be earlier than Septem-
! Der or October. The force at the
same company's round-house at Cum
! berland has been reduced Is men,
about 10 per cent. of total force.
Snowman p. II. Barnum has pur-
chased plot of ground one hundred
feet square in Bridgeport Conn, val
ued at 100000, upon which he will
erect a handsome fireproof building
to cost 100000. The entire plant
will be presented jointly TO the
Fairfield County Historical and
Bridgeport Scientific Societies for
| their entire use and benefit.
An express train on the Northern
Pacific railroad was danger signaled
between Big Horn and Meyers station
in Montana When it came to stop
it was boarded by robbers who com
PEELED the engineer to break open the
express car door. The express car
and many of the passengers were
robbed and the robbersescaped. One
of the passengers was killed.
Miss Grace Stevenson, aged eigh-
| IL 10 a ftar
noon in the Ohio River near her home,
in Delhi, o. She was the daughter
of w. l.. Stevenson, and bright and
promising girl. No motive for her
act can be assigned by her parents
Her conduct after she left home
Thursday was peculiar. She had a
man row her across the river, and af-
ter he had gone she deliberately walk
ed into the river.
Hamilton, O., has social sensation
of the first water Cards had been is
sued for the marriage, Wednesday
! last. of Miss Grace Campbell. daught-
or of the Hon. ID. l.. Campbell, TO Mr..
! Henry Weblpy, an English manufact-
urer, but Mr.. Webley arriving in Ham
iton and finding that his betrothed
was not as richly endowed with this
worlds goods as was expected inglo-
riously departed, and stood not upon
the order Of his going.
Miss Amelie Rives. the noted au-
thoress. and Mr.. John \. Chandler
were married at Castle Hill the home
of the br -de's parents, near Charlotts-
vile, Va, last Thursday. The cere-
mony was very quiet, only the inn
mediate family of the young lady be
ing present. The Rev. Mr.. GOODWIN
of the Episcopal Church, of which
Miss Rives is a member, otliciated
The newly welded pair will remain
at Castle Hill for the present and go
to Paris later.
Mrs. Inhoff, of Carlisle, Pa, has a
| large cat known as Toby. Many dog
has gone down before him, but Toby
! has come to grief at last. The other
day he killed an English sparrow that
was eating crumbs of bread in the
yard \ score Of the sparrow's com
panions witnessed this act. and made
Il furious attack upon the cat. The
birds pecked Toby viciously, digging
their beaks deep into his hide He
! fought bravely for time, but finally
] luGIltu tdll anu lltu DeIltdlll Tic
| porch.
Judge Turner, in the circuit court
1 at Winchester, Va, has granted Tur-
ner Ashby Ridenour, under sentence
| Of death, new trial, on the ground
| that Judge Clark's certificate of facts
/ did not state BrOy, the murdered man ;
name, TO be William Andrew Broy,
but gave it simply as Andrew Broy.
The indictment charges William
Andrew BrOy. The seventy bills of
exceptions taken by counsel for the
prisoner were all decided against him.
This will he the third trial, the former
trials resulting in verdicts of murder
in the first degree.
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