Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-09-21
Some interesting Item. from Last Week.

Some Interesting Items from Last Week.
Lester Wallack, the well-known
New York actor and playwright, is
dead.
Judge Ney, under the Iowa prohib-
itory law, decides that man cannot
lawfully manufacture cider for use in
his own family.
Hon. Jacob Yost has been .renomi-
mated for Congress by the Republicans
OF the tenth Virginia district. Harry
Tucker is the Democratic nominee.
Joseph Pulitzer, proprietor of the
New York World, has totally lost one
eve. and the sight of the other is
threatened. He is now in Europe in
vain search for relief.
A freight train dashed into the John
Robinson circus train on the Little Mi
ami Railroad, near Cincinnati, last
Sunday. Four circus men were killed
and eighteen injured. None of the
animals were hurt.
While wedding party was waiting
for a squire to perform the ceremony
at Alpharetta, Georgia, the groom ex-
cused himself and fled The bride pro
posed to the groomsman on the spot
and thew were married within an hour.
The Forthcoming annual report OF
the Postmaster-G General will show that
the number of presidential postoffices
i'm force July 1st was 500, an increase
during the year of 166. The total
amount of salaries paid to presiden-
tial postmasters was 81, 202, 800. The
total gross receipts from presidential
postoffices for the year were S3S, 49,
9SS.
The Albany Argus tells this story of
a Union veteran who fought at Get
tysburg. Just before entering the
action he took his canteen from his
shoulder and hid it in the crevice OF a
rock. Then came that fiery hail of
shot and shell that swept down regi-
ments like fields Of wheat before the
reaper. At the close of the battle the
soldier forgot all about his canteen,
nor did it ever occur to him again I'M
til he visited the field at the late reun-
ion. Then it flashed through his mind,
and after few minutes search he
found it where he had left it on that
momentous day.
London special says: 1t now seems
to be fact that the Old World needs
from 20, 1000, 900 to so, 900, 600 bushels of
wheat more than the harvests Of the
wear will produce. Toput it in anoth-
er way, the countries which always
have to buy wheat must this year buy
some 37O,OOO,000 bushels, while the
countries raising more than they con-
sumo will have about 295, 100000 to
sell. The annual international grain
market, held in Vienna on Monday,
gave estimates of the world, which
varied only in few particulars from
those already given, the chief differ
ences being in unimportant countries.
A live and successful farmer of
Sumpter county, Ga, had drove of
fine hogs to disappear a few weeks
since, and he hunted high and low for
them, but could not find them. Hav-
ing an old fortune-teller living near,
he went to her, paid her fifty cents
and received instructions as to where
they were. She said that they were
penned every night and turned out
during the day, and would go to the
museadine vines. He went to the
thick woods, and there, among the
vines, he found his grunters, fat and
doing well. He carried them home,
and now his faith in the fortune teller
is marvellous.
a bad accident occurred last Mon
day on the New York, Pennsylvania
and Ohio Railroad at Rittman station,
Ohio. The train consisted of nine
cars, filled with Grand Army men and
other excursionists The connecting
rod of the locomotive drawing the
special broke.near Rittman, and after
much difficulty the train was stopped
on curve. While waiting for repairs
to be made freight train No. 81, which
had been following the special, thun-
dered down the heavy grade at the
rate of % miles an hour, and although
warning was given it was impossible
to avert the collision. The locomotive
of the freight plunged into the rear
coach of the special, wrecking four
cars, two of them being completely
demolished. The excursionists had
notice of the impending danger, and
all succeeded in getting out of the
cars before the crash came, but as
hey hurried down the embankment
th.wrecked coaches rolled down upon
them, killing four persons outright
and inJning 25 others.
A dispatcr from Plymouth, Mass,
says: "A most Interesting experiment
eliminated to-day in the reaping of
some wheat grown from seeds as old
as the Exodus. The e8perimenter is
David Drew, who last Year received
from a friend in Alexandra. Egypt,
some grains of wheat taken from a
mummy exhumed near the ruins of
Memphis, and belonging, tits believed
to the period of the Ninth Dynasty,
which would make it grown about
5000 b. c., or be nearly five thousand
years old. He planted the seed year,
in the spring, and carefully nursed it.
They grew rapidly, and at the time
of cutting measured from 81 to feet
high. The leaves alternate on the