Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-11-07
SOUTHERN ITEMS
SOME INTERESTING NEWS CoHPsLEr
PROM MANY SoCRcES.

-ihere was a fire IN the II IL telephone office
In Richmond, Va.
1T has been reported that the new Chamber
lam Hotel at Old Point, Va, will be run by
the hygeia management.
The Forest Inn at Natural Bridge, Va,
latey destroyed by fire. will be replaced by a
much handsomer building.
-George P. Porter, of Portsmouth, who was
70 nave been married, shot himself in the
head While loading p stol.
1t is said that the rabbit crop in Virginia is
snort TINS year on account Of the wet summer
the young ones having been drowned.
Deputy High Cous aide J. NJ. E3roughton. of
Norfolk, We, was badly beaten BY Charles
scriener. In return Scrihner was shot in the
stomach.
The Bristol Steel snd Iron Company's big
furnace at Bristol. Va, has commenced
operations giving employment 10 more than
Two hundred men.
The Wickham, statue has arrived in Rich
mond, Va, and the ceremonies Of unwilling
VIII be performed on the 10Th inst General
rtz Lee has accepted the invitation to de-
hver the Grafton on the occasion.
The jury in the case Of w. s. DashieH a
Richmond real estate agent, tried on the charge
OF uttel ing as true a forged note, rendered
verdict Of not guilty. Al the other cases
against Dashiell were dropped,
The rec mt heavy storm on the Atlantic
coast MAS particularly severe ut Cobb
Island, Va. A letter received from there
states that It WAS the worst storm seen on the
island for many years, the beach having been
greatly changed by its violence.
1t is announced in New Orleans that
Thomas ii. Kelley, cashier for Richardson,
Williams Co., whoresale dry goods mer.
chants, has embczzied $21 coo u is said the
shortage was caused by Kelley's foudncss for
buying lottery tickets.
e. H. Richardson, ex clerk in the postofsce
at Russellville Ala, shot and fatally injured
eN-Postsmaster J., T. Ninsoa aud then jumped
on horse and fled. The trouble arose over
an alleged s. ortage in ehardson's accounts
while clerk under Mr.. Viason
There is living near Fairfax Courthouse.
VA Mrs. Jane johnson, now IN her ninety.
sixth year. She possesses all her faculties Of
Summers, who died in 1875, aged one hundred
ana two years, and she is the widow of three
husbands
The levee and wharf at the foot Of ST. Phtlip
Dumane and Ursuline streets. New Orleans
continues 10 cave in the land having already
sunk from three TO eighteen feet. The Louis.
vile and Nashville Railroad has abandoned
It's depot at the foot of Canal street aud trans
ierrcd its bus ness TO the Ponchartrain Depot
because OF the danger TO its property.
The Potomac Cement Company will shortly
begin the manufacture OF cement in their new
mills. They are in the vicinity of the Poto-
mac bridge, about thirteen miles from Cum.
bertrand, Nd on the II. & o. r. r.. They
are large and well equipped with machinery
oil the latest pattern, aud in a month 5 time
VIII be prepared for work.
During the present year Colonel Thomas
Whitehead, commissioner of agriculture. has
frfa al.
Virginia lands. tn sc came from nearly all
portions ofthe West, the New England states,
and many sections OF Canada, and from other
foreign countries.
MIR. Carrigan, superintendent Of consiruc.
ton of the new piers for the bridge across
wis creek, Cumberland Md, found n six.
pound cannon-bail, supposed 10 have beeu
hired during the hate war. The ball was found
under hve feet OF debris in the middle of the
coilerdam by workmen engaged in removing
the dirt, prior to laying foundations for the
piers.
On property at the western extremity of
Main street, in Sharpsbt *, Md, is a we'll
about sixty feet deep that is curiosity.
Whenever the thermometer falls to a low
figure for two or three nights, 4 thick coating
OF ice IS formed on the surface Of the water,
which is five or six feet deep, but all the other
wells in the neighborhood show no signs Of
freezing.
Designs for a studio building for Mrs.
Amelia Riyes-Chanler TO be erected nj Castle
mn, Albemnrle county, Va, the beautiful
country seat Of Colonel Riyes and home of
Mrs. Cnanler, are about completed The
studio will be erected on an eninenre over.
looking most charming country, aud will be
pro- ided With every appliance suitable 10 n
modern bulSling devoted to the study os art.
Mr.. Nathan ilar is, living on Gap farm. in
al 4
ter nineteen years Old, who is only two ieet
ten inches IN height aud weighs just forty aud
a-half pounds. She is well proportional aud
Intelligent. Her hair is very b autifll and
glossy and sweeps the floor when she is stand.
my erect. She Is the eldest Of four living
children, two sisters and aud ore brother, who
are all well grown and intelligent.
p J. Tracy. one Of the best known news.
paper repo tiers 10 West Virginia, walked into
Mugler's hardware store in Grafton, aud after
selecting and paying for a revolver, placed
the weapon TO hie temple, and literally blew
the top OF his head OF. He was man Of goo
habits and good ability. His family relations
were pleasant aud the cause of his act is
mystery. Tracy was special correspondent
tor papers all over the country.
Many years ago there disappeared fro his
home in Keep Tryst, Nd, then called Sandy
Hook, one Albert Callahan. bow about
found, and his relatives mourned Tor him as
dead His grandmother, Mrs. BurDhouse,
who never forgot the boy, was recently sur.
prised and delighted 10 recognize In stranger
who made inquiry for her house, the lost 10y
of long ago. Mr.. Callahan explained that he
left in this mysterious way in order to seek
his fortune, in which he was successful, aud
returned to his people a prosperous, happy
man.
Land titles run back long way on the
peninsula Of Delaware and Maryland. One
Aldrch, farmer Of Northern Delaware. sold
frm not long ago and the title deeds were
dated well bnek into the seventeenth century.
aud bore the signature Of the Indian chief
from whom the land was originally bought
Up TO tho last sale the property had descended
IN the family by inheritance. When the
United states government was seeking to erect
structure on Msll0p's Island, a sand patch
on the cost Of Aeon county, Virginia, one
sneed came along with seventeenth century
title and gave no end Of trouble