Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-11-14
SOUTHERN ITEMS
SOME INTERESTING NEWS COMPILED
FROM MANY SOURCES.

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AZ Ararat, Va.
The spool factory at Bedfo.d city. Va, was
destroyed by fire.
I'm Campbell county, Va, VIM. +. Evans
shot Geo Horsley through the groin.
Friends of the late Senator Riddleberger, Of
Virginia, propose to erect monument to his
memory,
Mrs. Mary Wilson, of Rock bridge county,
Va, committed suicide by cutting her throat
with razor.
The pay roll of the Roanoke Machine
Works for October was $40, 100, against So, 600
tor the previous month.
Abrahsm Wsyman. colored, was hanged at
Trenton. Ca, for the murder Of prison guards
at Cole City, Ga, last July.
In Lincoln county W. Va, Paris Brum-
field, noted desperate, was shot and killed
by his son, Charles Brumheld.
In Putnam county, W. Va, Royal Phelps
and John Boss both Grand Army men, were
ambushed and seriously shot.
Thomas Webb, colored. convicted Of Grim
insl assault on a child thirteen years old at
Sandersvillc, Ga, was hanged there.
-Esau Ruchnau, Of Long Fork. Dick inson
county, Va, ha his leg sawed of just above
the ankle while working in a sawmi.l.
Steps for securing funds for the monument
to Jefferson Davis 10 be erected in Richmond,
Va, will be inaugurated at an early day.
Only a short distance Of the Fincastle aud
Cloverdale Raslyosd yet remains to be graded,
and this work will be finished in a very short
time.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad is to be
double.traek d from Anderson to Greenbrier
stock yards, W. Va, distance Of seren
miles.
An establishment for the manufacture of
paint is to be put in operation at Buena Vista,
Va. Ii will employ twenty-five hands to
begin with.
Col. +. IT, Fries president Of the Roanoke
and Southern Railroad claims that the road
viii be completed and in running order by the
fist of January.
The sorehouse Of Mr. Nottingham and the
cabinet-making shop of c. II. Swecker, at
Dunmore Pocahontas county, Va, were
destroyed by fire.
~ German carp weighing nineteen pounds
was caught in the Shenandoah river ut River.
ton, Va, few days ago. The nsh measured
% inches in length.
The shipments of coal by the Pocahontas
Coal Company for the month of October
aggregated 1877 900 tons, an increase Of I ,2i3
tons over september.
The Berkeley Phosphate Works Of Ashley
Junction S. O., seven miles from Charl slun,
were destroyed by fire. The los is about
$4,000, fully insured.
An ore elevator at the Alice Iron Furnace,
Birmingham, Ala, broke its reariucs and fell
81 feet, instantly killing Henry Williams and
Robert Jones' laborers.
The Iynehburg IVA. Cotton Mill COMPANY
is preparing to put S61. 900 worth Of new ma.
chinery into their mill. This includes over
five thousand additional spindIes
Another f,rest fire is reported in Coosa Co.,
Ala. spreading rapidly toward the river the
fire burning houses and barnes on its way.
There has been no rain in several months.
The large dry goods firm Of Weiss Bros,
Galveston, Tex, made mn assignment, Gus
Teeyy being named SIS the trustee Assets
between 500, 900 and S600,O00, Liabilities
$3.50 COO.
Rev. Dr. James Murray pastor Of Bethel
Presbyterian Church, Rockbridge county,
Va, has resigned after passionate Of twenty.
eight years 10 accept position in female
college in Alabama.
The farmhouse Of Joseph Bowlcs, near
Bethel in Clarke county, Va. was burned
few days ago. The cause Of the Are w1s
defective Hue. The tenants, Stillman and
Benn, lose about 5000 in value and The
house was insured for $500.
After ten days trial Of Charlotte, y, C.,
the Motz brothers were acquitted Of the
murder Of sam Motz. The case, from It's
pathetic character aud complicated situations,
as excited the greatest interest
The friends in Richmond, Va, Of Mr..
Cleveland are talking Of getting up big
celebration on the 2sd Of next February and
inviting the ct- President TO attend II is pro-
posed to make the event q Suite affair
Never within tho history Of Alexandra.
Va, have the contractors refused work at this
season Of the year but are compelled 10 do 80
Mt present as they have as much on hand a.
they can finish before the cold weather sets in.
"A span Of the Richmond aud Dauville Rail.
road bridge over Dan River, al Danville, Va,
collapsed and preeipitated freight train into
the river. -Four men were injured, one Of
whom, VIII Queensberry brakeman, died.
Two freight trains on The East Tennessee,
Virginia aud Georgia Road ran Rtoeach other
thirteen miles east Of Knoxville, and were
badly wrecked The two engines were de.
molished and number of cars burned.
Brakeman Falley and tramp were killed.
The South Carolina comptro ler-gcnera1's
report 10 be submitted to the rext General
Assembly shows an increase in the taxable
property of the State over the past year Of
$lf, So ,2iS. The total property returned for
taxation amounts TO Si6s 2G2, 66s
There were received at the Tennessee State
prison AZ convicts from Somerset, Ky, 81
from Chattanooga and from Middlesborough,
KY, all Of whom had been released by miners
at Coal Greek, Breeville and Oliver Springs.
General Scott Ship, superintendent Of the
Virginia Military Institute, Is making ar
engagements to build a memorial hall 10 Stone
wall Jackson. The estimated cost of the
building is $4,000, so, OF which has been
secured.
Hugely. buster & Robinson, DanviIIe, ~,
have sold 10 10. +. Holloway, Of seda ia Mo,
their 5-ycar-old stallion Woodsprii, by Nut
wood dam Willie Velles by George Wilkes
second dam Sally Sonthworth, by Mambrino
Patchen, third dam Puss PraIl by Mark
Time. Price IS 800.
The Alexandra IVA. Savings Bank, which
vas organized about eighteen months ago, Is
about to close up its business, paying the
stockholders and depositors In full the amounts
the closing Of the bank are that the deposits
we're so small as to make il impossible 70 keep
i running on paying basis.
On beautiful kRoll In the northeastern
portion of the grounds al the Natural Bridge
10 Virg mia, g site has been selected for new
hotel building, TO be built Of stone anil wood,
at a cost Of 800 900. with all the modern I'm.
proyements, 10 be completed by early spring.
An electro railway will be constructed 1, com
meet the property with The two Grand Trunk
lines. Norfolk and Western aud ChesaI cake
and Ohio Railroads.
While repairing the dwelling on the farm
Of Charles f. Rich, Of RoseYille, Md, large
and iinsly-shaped Indian axe was fund by the
workmen. The axe was found in the boxing
of the house and acrOss the blade rcttc
large snskc skin which had been left by its
owner, nj made an impression across the
entire breadth Of the stone axe. which was
not efiaoed by the handling IL received. The
impression Of the smallest scale is distinctly
seen.
"A hye-year-oid son Of Mr.. Geo. Eqrnshaw,
Of HagerstoRB, Nd, while his mother was
down stairs preparing breakfast, smnsfd him
self by taking pair Of scissors and eut all
the long, curly locks from his Iitile three
year-old sisters head Around the cars he
said he was afraid T. euf for fear Of cipp Bg
her ears. Whea he ct through ! started To
cut bis own head, but was surprised wlIiic al
the job.
CHILTS NEW PRESIDENT.