Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-07-04
SOUTHERN ITEMS
SOME INTERESTING NEWS COMPLIED
FROM MANY SOURCES

= the wheat harvest about commencing in
tanquier county, Va, bids fair TO be good
I one
AT Riverside, W. Va, Clarence Neal, aged
eighteen, killed Charles Skidmorc aged
{ fifteen, and then escaped.
Z Joe Garrison, who was arrested at Clifton
{ Forge, Va, for abducting q girl, broke Jail
and made good his escape.
7 a Philadelphia syndicate has purchased,
for 500 900, five thousand acres Of land in
/ Prince George county, Va.
A Henrieo Va, farmer has been sentenced
( to one year in the penitentiary for spreading
poison on his premises to kill dogs,
Eastern capitalists have just purchased 8. 900
acres Of coal and timber lands in Webster
county, w. Va. for which they paid $4,000.
"A cave-in occurred in the rear Of the silk
mill at Fredericksburg, Va, entsiling loss
TO the owners Of the mill Of two thousand
dollars.
Col. Basil Brawner, a venerable Nirginian,
was struck by the shaft Of wagon in Alex.
andris and received injuries which will prob
ably prove fatal
Solomon Flaw, who was convicted at Clarks-
burg, W. Va, Of the murder of Young Ben.
nett and sentenced 10 the peniteutary for life.
Is only twenty-one years old.
From 1900 TO y, 1000 lambs will be shipped
from Rockbridge county, Va, to the New
York market this season. Five years ago
scarcely a carload was shipped
Charles Osburn, who was to have been
hanged at Atlanta Ga, for the murder Of
John Bradley, was respited for thirty days ON
account of his weak physical condition.
lin recent interview Mrs. jefferson Davis
informed a delegation of Richmond Indies
that the preference Of her husband for his
grave was one upon which the sun could
shine"
AT Lexington, Va, the remains of Gen.
Stonewall jackson were removed from the
grave and placed in the vault over which the
monument is to be unveiled July q is now
building.
Fifteen years agoex- Attorney General Rufus
A. Ayers was a page in the Senate Of Virginia,
and he is now worth $4,000 He has Just
finished a magnificent residence near Big
Stone Gap.
1T is estimated that between fourteen and
fifteen thousand logs went out on the recent
rise of the Big Coal river in West Virginia,
valued at about $40 900 This is quite boom
to the timber merchants Of Boone county.
In row between field hands near Norfolk,
Va, Hargroye Robbins beat Abram Cure
nearly TO death with a door-bar, fracturing
his skull breaking his collar bone aud
inflicting other injuries, Robbins was lodged
in Jail
Christiansburg, Va, by sctto between the
chief of police of Radford aud h prominent
divine of that place, in which the latter used
his umbrella vigorously and is said 10 have
come out first best.
A slight shock of earthquake occurred at
Charleston, ;. c., at 1i.27 o'clock the other
night, doing no damage, but recalling the
awful earthquake Of August 81, 1886, when
twoethirds Of the buildings in the city were
damaged and ~ lives lost
Becke Parker, handsome country girl OF
nineteen, living near Clover Fork, Va, and
splendid rife-shG and huntress while engaged
IN gathering gensing roots came across den
of rattesnakes. She had only sticks and
stones to fight them, but managed 70 destroy
sixty.three after desperate battle
"A citizen from Appomattox, Va, had an
exhibition in Lynehburg, consisting of a cat
with family Of squirrels, which she tended
the same rs If they were her kittens, and
gentleman Of Lynchburg showed a large Leg
horn hen that had adopted family OF three
kittens. She appeared very proud Of them,
and would sit on rest with the kittens under
her.
The board Of trustees Of the Washington
and Lee University has bought the real estate,
library, etc, Of the old Franklin Society. 10
pays each stakeholder $50 and the depis Of the
society, and endows the Franklin Society
scholarship with $500 for some student from
Rockbridge.
+ Rev. J. w. Stone has been conducting a re.
yiyal in Mason county W. Va, and was &c.
cused by John Woody Of being too intimate
with a sister Of the fold, whereupou the rev.
erend drew his knife and stabbed his accuser
in the side. Although Woody was wounded,
I he gave Stone such "a thrashiDg that but for
+ interference he might have killed him.
/ "A sensation has been caused in legal circles
in West Virainia by the discovery that over
tour-fifths of the juries drawn since the SEES
sion Of the Legislature closed were drawn
4 illegally. The jury laws were modified by
the Legislature, and the changes were gener
ally disregarded, so dozens of important trials
viii be rendered void.
fourteen years, was fatally shot by his brother,
Dorsey Kaufman, aged sixteen years. The
boys were examining a revolver, when the
weapon was discharged. The ball entered
about the region Of the heart, and death was
almost instantaneous.
1 Joseph Demeritt, aged 10 years, plunged a
knife into his fathers heart at Key West, Fla,
death resulting instantaneously. The father
George w. Uemeritt WAS chastising his son
for stealing $40, which the boy denied. The
batrieidc is acigarniakero Of morbid disposition
and consumptiye. The father Was fisher
man.
The census Office just issued bulletin Civ
ing the population OF Virginia by minor civil
divisions. The total population Of the state
is $50, $50, an increase ever 1890 Of li3, AS.
! OF the 100 counties in the State IS show de
creases of over 10 per cent. Warwick, Roam
oke, Allegheny and Tazewell ties show
the largest percentage Of incaease, the first
named showing an increase Of 1g4jl per cent,
while Roanoke shows an increase OF 1900
per cent. Henric0, Norfolk and Roanoke
show the largest numerical increases.
Houston Obenchain, Of Roanoke, Va, shot
and mortally wounded H. N. Trout at Trout
vile, about ten miles from Roanoke. Oben.
chain len Roanoke in buggy and stopped at
Trout's fathers. In the evening be took t~o
girls to church, and then went 10 TrOut's
residence, and invited him TO 20 70 church
with him. When in front Of the edifce he
drew his revolver and fired FIVE shots at Trout.
Two balls struck him In the head one enter.
ing the bpain and the other entering through
his jaw. Obenebain, il n said, accused Trout
with circulating dsrogatory reports 10 lady
regarding his character Obenehain then
went to Ben Murray's house, close by, and
placing the revolver TO bis forehead, sent 4
bullet through his brain, from which he died
instantly. Trout was kind Of detective and
Oberchain was a fiagman. Trout cannot live.