Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-02-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Congressman James Phelan, Of
Tennessee, is dead.
Hon. A. II. II. Stuart is in dying
condition at Staunton, Va.
Last year the people OF the United
States drank %, 32S, $50 barrels of beer
James Redpath, the well-known
journalist, died in New York on Tues
day.
The Legislature Of Idaho has elect
ed w. H. Claggett as Senator 70 sue
ceed Mr.. Mcconnell.
A very destructive tornado passed
over Helena, Alabama, Monday, caus-
ing great loss TO property.
Ex-President Cleveland announces
that he is opposed TO the free and I'M
limited coinage of silver.
Joseph Thomas. a colored man.
died in Baltimore a few days ago,
leaving fortune of $4,000.
Gen. VIM. T. Sherman is seriously
i'll at his home in New York. He is
suffering from erysipelaS and a slow
fever.
Philadelphia is to have an elevated
railroad 1t will run along Market
street from one side of the city to the
other.
A cave of large proportions is said
to have been discovered in Warm
Spring mountain, near Berkeley
Springs.
Over 10000 coal miners and coke
workers are on a strike in Pennsyl-
vania-mostly in the ConnellSyille re-
gion-for more pay and fewer hours
for work.
Col. Richard F. Beirne, for several
years editor of the Richmond State,
lied at Ashland Va, on Monday.
He was IS years old.
The Taylor Manufacturing Com
pany at Chambersburg, Pa, has Just
made most disastrous failure. The
company owes about 1885, 600.
The largest and richest vein OF tin
ore known TO the world at the pres
ent time has been discovered, ii is
said. in the old Dablo mine shaft,
fortv-five miles southwest OF Duran
go, Mexico.
The congregation of the Christian
Church at Bloomington, H., recently
bought an organ. Some OF the mem
beers bitterly opposed the organ, and
the other night they broke into the
church and carried the instrument
out and burnt il.
The rapid increase of the disease
known a the peach yellows IN the
orchards of Delaware is agitatlng the
fruit growers at present, and unless
some radical steps are taken TO pre-
vent the spread Of the disease, the
days of peach growing IN Delaware
are numbered
Extensive preparations had been
made for the marriage OF Charles
Gordon and Miss Mary kephart last
Thursday night at Huntingdon, Pa.
The presents were arriving and n
HONEYMOON trip was projected. In
the afternoon the groom secured $3.50
from the bride elect and her mother
TO make additional purchases, and
taking the first train west, left Tor
parts unknown.
An exchange tells of farmer who
has kept flock OF sheep for four
teen wears, and has not had them at
tackled by dogs even once, though
hocks on adjoining farms have been
ruined. The flock always wears be-
tween five and eight bells of different
sizes and tones, and there is not Il dog
in the world with sufficient courage
to attack flock Of sheep that is well
supplied with bells.
A big tiger valued at 49, 900, belong
ing to Barnum d Bailey, was choked
to death by a bone sticking in its
throat while eating at the winter
quarters of the show in Bridgeport,
Conn. Saturday night. The carcass
has been sent to Barnum's Museum
at Tufts College. BY the law OF com
pensation fine liOness gave DIrth to
four beautiful cubs at the same place
in the evening, which are valued at
SO, 900.
A writer in the Boston Traveller
saws: "A clever little house-keeper
told me the other day that she has a
ldTRt lIullh III AbC So ~
Things | do not want When she
comes across anything she thinks
good for nothing instead Of throwing
it away she consigns it to this trunk.
And what, then, do you think? She
saws further that when she wants
anything che doesn't have she goes TO
this trunk and is sure TO find it.
On the 23d Of January Rev. |. s.
Anderson. OF Jonesville, Lee county,
Va. married j. NJ. ParsOns and Miss
Mollie A. Miles. The ceremony was
performed at s o'clock in the even
ing. and at midnight the groom was
a corpse. He was i'll OF pneumonia
at the time, and had to be propped
up in bed, but no one thought he was
so near the end. The Bristol Courier
saws he had made his will, giving his
bride all Of his property, but it had
not been witnessed, and when the
parties who had been requested to
witness it arrived at the house next
Morning they found him cold in death.