Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-06-20
SOUTHERN ITEMS
SOME INTERESTING NEWS COMPLIED
FROM MANY SOURCES.

Virginia, has resigned.
& The new hotel At Est Lake near Birmins
ham, 8iHs, was burned lass 80 90
Prot George 1aylef Winston. A. NJ has
been elected president Of ti3e University 81
North Carolina
/ w. II. Robinson and Frank ]. Reid, green
gooils men, were convicted in the United
States Court at Raleigh, n. g., and sentenced
I TO ghteen months each In the peniieutiary.
The leading citizensof Richmond, Va. favor
the Suggestion Of the president Of tue Column
bian Worlds Fair f5r each d the colonial
States to have column iii ths exposition
grounds.
Rev. A. +. Dickinson n. D., editor Of the
Religious Herald, dedicated the beautiful new
4 Baptist Church at Hamilton, Louaoun
county, Va, IN the presence Of large CON
I gregaiion.
The Westham Granite Company, Of Man
+ chester va, has been awarded the contrast
for furnishing 4200a0 belgian blocks to the
government u be nsed for street paving in
Washington.
-Dominick C 0'Marley's partner, McCfys
( tai, was found guilty at New Orleans of otter
/ ing bribe to juror in the Hennessy case,
Charles Granger was tried on the same charge,
but the jury filled to agree.
Robert A. Peasants, overseer on the farm
Of Prot. J. j. White, near Lexington, Va,
4 was drowned in a narrow spring, while drink
( ing, BY slipping between the walls and being
unable TO extrieate himself
I B. NJ Clark, aged twepty-eight years, post
master Of Old Jefferson. Rutherford county,
4 Tenn, was killed by shot from ambush as
be was leaving the residence Of Miss Susan
Wade, where he had been visiting.
Z Near Kerville, Tenn, while John Parsons
and his son were hunting, the father aecidently
shot his son through the heart, killing him
instantly. Mr.. Parsons is 50 shocked that lac
may die Of grief gaused BY the accident
Col. r II. Abererombie, Of dadsdeu, Ala,
was mistaken for burglar the other night by
his son-in-law, Dr. Baker, and instantly killed
while walking in his garden. lie wds &
prominent man and was q colonel in the civil
war.
"A lively "wet-and-dry" contest was IN
volyed in the late Buena Vista, Va, town
election and a result was u victory for the
'wets. as a tilaiority Of the councilmen-eleet
are in favor Of license. The to2It is dry" at
present
-Poeahontas, Va, coke is pushing It's way
into the North, rs well IS into the distant
West. The Cumberland Valley Railroad is
now carrying from thirty to iofty ears Of coke
daily, which il delivers to The Pennsylvania
Road at Harrisburg.
Delegates representing towns aud counties
ia the State of Alabama, Geor9iH and lennes-
spe, met at Chattanooga and adopted resolu.
ions iayoringa united exhibit Of the three
States at the Chicago Worlds Fair il build
ing 70 be erected jointly.
The Board Of Public Works Of Virginia has
fixed twelve o'clock noon OF July iSt next as
the day on which b proceed with the assess.
mcnt Of canal, railroad, steamboat and express
properties for the present year. The meeting
will be held 10 the Office of the Governor
w j. Michin bo8kkceper Of the American
Naional Bank Nashville. Tenn. Il charged
with being deanltcr in about $4,000,
Michin disappeared May o. The bank viii
lose nothing MS ne was bonded by a guarantee
company Miehn isthirty-scven years old
Tbr t;olr uoues the nov hotel al Thomas.
( gilIe Ga ,cas dc1trn,sj i,y ~. a nv Jsvs
AGO. Two families WHO we're occupying the
house during thr summer season escaped in
their night clothes. The hotel was built last
year, and cost about SlS. 600 IT is total loss.
Tbe lsts q Nslake a realtbv merchant
If Tt,,lb.rto, n 4 b9s le6 lysEa Earfst
Co'lcgr tvepfy.fige thousand dollars; BAPTIST
0rnhau1op AZ n ouggyille AVA tbonsand.
Baptist School ~ luinbcrton, fifteen thousand
and 5n endowment i0r aged ard niirm minis
tiers, six thons5id
H. aeeaptina 40 rfeae hif; "A Rock IiII
,,ear Ffatiftse iii Va tlta 8ofttln tree AZ TIA
bacE N tybjelt I'm Gentlemen stt broke ana
t,a vehicle, running r4pi,ilv down thr bill,
strnrk a tfep completely depioIishiug the
hack, ANA injuring every one d the gentlemen
more or less severely.
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b,rsobt a lar9, bo,d ~ cabbHep ana N, ~
q no,ina. tba lar0s etifry Ieave4 yras sprprise1
~ AKA ,bat ;rsla.l IN enrtnsiuo one sfliJ
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