Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-01-13
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In New York City there are S,Sl7
licensed saloons.
The Columbia Iron Works property
in Shenandoah county, Va, has been
sold to Geo w. Pierson & Co.. for
SOL 200.
Tom Buttsield, young farmer, has
been arrested at Palmyra, Neb., for
numbering his father and mother. he
poisoned the old folks SO that he could
obtain their property.
The first satisfactory observation
through the great telescope of the
Lick Obser arory in California was
made last Saturday night. The tele-
scope is the largest in the world.
Nearly the entire business portion
Of Louisa Courthouse, Va, was burned
down last Saturday night, intlicting a
serious loss TO the community. There
was no fire apparatus in the place.
Mrs Moses Grimm, of Rondout, \.
Y, heard dog howl the other night,
and said, My time has come" she
died an hour later. Her health was
good, but she was very superstitious.
Frank p Crawford, aged twenty,
son of the well-known pavement con-
tractor of Washington, committed
suicide last week from some unknown
cause. The young man had very bright
prospects before him.
A freight train on the Norfolk and
Western Railroad ran into a rockslide u
few days ago. The engine jumped the
track and ran into New river and dis
appeared. The engineer was drowned
at his post. The fireman was also
killed.
At meeting of the A. p. Hill Camp
of Confederate Veterans held at Pc
tersburg last week it was decided TO
erect a monument on the spot where
Gen. A. Z. Hill was killed during the
late war. This spot is in Dinwiddie
county, Va, short distance from
Petersburg.
In Camden, n. j., Saturday, Isaac
Merrick, a married man, forty-tive
wears old, shot and killed Sally Harri-
gan, beautiful girl of fifteen, and
then shot and killed himself. The
girl was Merrick's step-daughter, and
he murdered her because she resisted
improper advances from him.
DIR. w. w. Weber, and lot of other
Webers, of New Hampshire, think
they are heirs to sixty acres of land III
the heart of New York, which is built
up with most valua bic business houses.
The property is valued at $50 900, 900.
The Webers will bring suit TO get pos
session, but they are not likely ever TO
make much out of ii.
Mrs. Annie Weber. of Louisville,
XIV. was addicted to drinking, and
while OH spree last Saturday night
she wandered out on the commons
and lost her way. The next morning
she was found sitting on a stump, her
elbows on her knees, and her face,
which was wTeathed in smiles, rested
in her hands, bat she was stone dead,
having been frozen 10 death. She
leaves husband and eleven children.
The Alexandria Gazette evidently
wishes TO brighten TO death the super
stirious colored people of that city.
Referring To recent grave robbery,
it says: The night doctors, it is said,
are doing good business and are not
particular whether they get their
subjects alive or dead-so they get
them 1t is also said that this city is
a favorite fed for them and that col
ored subjects are i'll most demand.
Gum shoes and a rubber bag consti-
tute the outfit of a night doctor, and
some are so bold as only 10 use stick
ing pie ter TO cover the mouth of the
victim.