Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-11-09
shepherdstown Register.

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The prisoners in the Hagerstown
Jail had planned wholesale escape
on Tuesday, but fortunately their plot
was discovered and frustrated. A
search of the prisoners showed that
they had knives, saws, razors and
other weapons in their cells.
Mrs. Henry Shepherd took her de-
parture last Saturday for New Or
leans, where she will spend the COM
ing winter. She will stop on her way
for short time at the University of
Virginia to see her boys, who are at
tending school there.
Rev. J.. n. Mason. rector OF Trinity
Episcopal Church, Shephetdstown,
has accepted the cali extended 10 him
by an Episcopal congregation at Pen
sacola, Fla.
Mr.. Geo. Everhart, of Baltimore,
who was given a call by the Reform
ed congregation of Shepherdstown,ha has
accepted the same, and will probably
arrive here next week. Mr.. Everhart
is unmarried, and this is his first
charge.
Mrs. Nancy Henretty, wife of Mr..
William Henretty, died at the resi-
dence of her husband near Kearneys-
vile last Sunday, aged ~ years. Mrs.
Henretty leaves seven children-four
girls and three boys-without moth
er's care. Her remains were taken
to Duffields for interment on Monday.
State Senator Charles II. Knott, Of
this county, will start next Monday
for Sacramento, California, to attend
the 23d annual session of the National
Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry,
which convenes in that city or No
vember 18th. Mr.. Knott Is a dele
gate from West Virginia by virtue Of
his Office as Master OF the State
Grange.
Mr.. Edmund C.. Blunt was shot and
seriously wounded last Monday after.
noon in Washington in the Sh0emak-
er Wine Rooms by George Mantz,
formerly proprietor Of a notorious "a.
loon in that city, but now a political
worker in Maryland and hard case
generally.
Mr.. Blunt, who is son OF Major II.
w. Blunt, proprietor Of the Potomac
Cement Mills near this place, l. q
young lawyer of ability. and was at
one. time prosecuting attorney In
Washington. He IS interested In
racing. and owns several fine horses,
among them being Seymour and st.
Swiftin. He frequently visits Shep-
herdstown, where several of his horses
are kept. Mantz, who shot him, is "A
common tough, and claimed that Mr..
Blunt owed him money.
In Baltimore, in the parlor of the
Howard House, on the oath of Octo-
Der, 1889, by Rev. Robert Thompson,
Mr.. Alton ID. Osbourne, of Shenan-
doah Junction, w. Va, and Miss
Irene l.. Schoppert, of Abortion, Nd,
formerly of Jefferson county, w. Va.
THE COUNTRY is FULL OF THIEVES
AND SHARPERs. One day last week
stranger registered as Frank Davis,
of Philadelphia, stopped at the Entler
Hotel in Shepherdstown, and hired u
horse and buggy from Liyeryman j.
w. Osbourn. He drove to Sharps-
burg, where he left MIR. Osbourn's
horse and hired another from M. +.
Snavely, who keeps livery stable
there. He drove to Hagerstown,
where he sold Mr.. Snavely's horse and
Mr.. Osbourn's buggy to w. II. Bow.
ers, for S35, and that's the last that's
been heard of him. Ascertaining the
fellows rascality, Messrs. Osbourn and
Snavely at once hunted up their prop
erty, which was finally recovered in
good condition.
The same thief, in all probability,
hired horse from Thomas Hutchin-
son, Berryville liveryman, on the
Saturday previous, and took IL Ia
Charlestown, where he sold il to Jos.
Gearing for $50. He passed there UNI
der the name OF Brown, and was last
seen at the S. V. II. II. Depot. whero
he took north-bound train.
The band of thieves that evidently
have their headquarters in the neigh
hood Of Harper's Ferry continue their
depredations, and are growing holder.
On Monday night they visited the
premises OF Mr.. Vincent G.. Moore,
near Kearneysville, where they
caught one of his horses, stole several
bags of wheat aud departed. Thurs
day the horse was found in a field
near Keller's Station, and the owner
recovered him.
1t is also reported that few nights
ago the thieves stole % chickens from
Mr.. Thomas Files, lot Of turkeys
from another farmer in that locality,
and carried them off on horse be-
longing to Mr.. Reynolds-the horse
found some distance below DufiieIds
the next day.
One night last week a raid was
made on the meat-house ofC. It. But.
Ter, Esq, near town. The building
was undermined, and the thieves were
probably disappointed when they
found that there was but one piece OF
meatin 1t. But they took that, new
ertheless.
These robberies have been so fire.
quent that most Of the country people
have taken their bacon into their
dwellings for safe keeping.