Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-05-30
SOUTHERN ITEMS
SOME INTERESTING NEWS COMPLIED
FROM MANY SOURCES.

somE INTERESTING NEWS COMPLIED
FROM MANY SOURCES.
An Episcopal church. to cost $4,000, is in
course Of erection at Pulaski city, Va.
"A movement is on foot 10 organize camp
Of Confederate veterans at Roanoke, Va.
Contract has been awarded for the erection
Of hotel in DanvilIe, Va, to cost Si0oooa
The Salem Val Improvement Company
has recently placed ] $50 shares Of its stock in
Europe.
Robbers are touring through Monongahela
county, w. Va, burning barnes and stealing
vainables of all kinds.
-Ludley Coleman, contractor on the
Roanoke and Southern Railroad, was bitten
BY ratilesnake and died in u short time.
"A freightwfeck occurred near Buckhannou,
Va, on the Chesapeake and Ohio. Many cars
were badly wrecked, but no one was injured.
-Gov. Holt, Of North Carolina, has offered a
reward OF - y for the capture of Il. A. Rid
dick, who on February Goth killed W w Cor
man.
The county court Of HaT ly county, W, Va,
has decided to build bridge across the Poto-
mac river near Mooreield, known rs Buzzard's
Ford.
The Grand Camp Of Confederate Veterans
will meet in Fredericksburg, Va, June 10.
The Confederate monument is to be unveiled
there that day.
Benjamin Chambers colored. was hanged
At Wayeross, Ga, fer the murder of Samuel
Stroiher, also colored, at turpentine still
few months ago.
AT the Pratt mines, Birmingham, Ala, an
explosion d gas IN a shaft where eoHyicts are
worked killed ten negro eonyicts aud one free
miner named Tom Moore.
John Brown, one of the ringleaders al the
late race riot in Charlotte, y. c., was recog-
nized while visiting one of the other rioters in
the Jail and put behind the bars.
- II. Miller, postmaster at Gauley Bridge,
w, Va is eighty-hyc years old. lie was mp
pointed postmaster in July, 1871, and has
served in that capacity ever since.
There is big fight in Wayne county, W,
Va, over the proposition 20 build $25. 900
courthouse. The county court wants the i'm
proyenent, but some of the people do not
Two ducklings were hatched from single
duck egg, belonging 10 Miss Minnie Snowden
OF Laurel, Md. The ducklings were rather
smaller than ordinary, but were well formed
IN every way.
John ilensley was shot and killed by John
Eyersoic near Manchester, Ky. They had an
old quarrel, and Hensley went TO Eyersole's
house 70 settle it. Eyersole is a nephew OF the
county judge.
=. A. Boslwick, Of New York, sent the
Carolina thirteen thousand dollars in Iiousa.
tonic Railway bonds as his contribution TO the
Increase of the endowment.
John Stevens who killed Gus Eisberg in
row at Eagle Rock, Va, on April 2, last was
rleu IN the County Court of Botet0urt, cOu-
victed of murder in the second degree and
given eighteen years in the penitentiary.
1T is said there has never been in the history
OF Alexandria, Va, time when there was
such demand for real estate as now. Wash
lngtonians are flocking there daily, and are
purchasing some of the most desirable resi-
dence sites
While fishing for trout at Benwood, W. Va,
Thomas Hyde was Mortified to find the body
Of a man on one of the hooks. Ii proved to
be the body Of George Engle, of Wheeling
who was thought 10 have been run down by
w-boat during dense fog and drowned
Alfred S. Sadderth was jammed between
cars while uncoupling in the railroad yard in
Asheville, n G. His abdomen was badly
crushed and long key in his pocket was
forced into his thigh, opening the fcmeral ar.
terry He died from internal hemorrhage in
five minutes
The body Of Samuel T. Watts. who suddenly
disappeared from Huntington, w Va was
found at Catlettsburg, KY, and showed signs
Of foul play. An autopsy revealed the fact
thai the man had been murdered and thrown
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made pending further investigations.
John d. Morrison, lawyer Of ability and
well known all over Southwest Texas, killed
his wife and himself at their residence in San
Antonio, while the rest of the family were
attending church. Mr. Morrison was from
Greenyille, Ala.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad will re-
wise its passenger tariff and put on new
schedule June /. First-class fare Is reduced
from IN sfa
from to 2 40 cents, a reduction Of II per
cent. in first-class fare and 10 per cent. in
seeond-elass fare. The reduction is made ON
account of an increase in passenger traffic.
While Jas. Il. Lee, Of Northampton county,
N. c., was driving along the road with
wagon-load Of cotton, his horses ran away aud
he was thrown to the ground. One of his legs
was broken and he was also badly bruised
about the body. He was taken home aud
medical assistance promptly rendered
Quite an excitement was caused in bling.
don, Va, by handsome United States deputy
marshal cscorting beyy of iancifully-arraycd
mountain misses, who we're brought there
from Lee county on the charge Of moonshiuing
They were escorted to jail by their gallant
commander, and are now forlornly waiting
triaL
The Masonic lodges Of the ihirtyninih
district, embracing Tazewcll Pocahontas
and Clineh Valley Railroads IN Virginia will
hold celebration at Graham on June a.
Past Grand Master X. r. Craighill. Grand
Lecturer Geo. w. Wright and other dis
tinguished MusoBs viii be present.
Lloyd Bowers aged sixty eight years, and
for twenty years prior 10 January OF this year
cashier Of the First National Bank Of Mobiie,
Ala, shot himself in the forehead the other
morning and died in the afternoon. He had
been forced by i'll health to retire from active
business life lie had $4,000 to his credit in
the bank.
"A young woman Of poor but respectable
family named Zines was to have been piarried
TO young man near Jouisburg, N. &. lie
betrayed her and then declined to marry
warrant was issued. lie was arrested and
taken 10 Louisburg. Al this 80 bore upon the
mind Of the youug woman that during the alb
sence Of her parents at the trial she committed
suicide.
Charles Koch, Of Annapolis, Nd, uneartheG
an old pistol on the banks Of the spa creek,
which resembles very much pop-gun. The
barrel is about twelve inches long and half an
inch in diameter, and is composed Of solid
silver. The handle is Of carved iron, which
appears 10 contain the works Of this singular
frearm. 1t is supposed to have been lost
during The Revolution, and Is thought to have
been a dueling pistol.
"A gentleman Of Hsgerstown, Nd, went 10
Cearioss 10 buy some hay which he needed
but the farmer informed HIM that the hay was
mouldy aud unfit for use. On examination
they found that the mould was a kind Of web
filed with countless black larya worms abont
half an inch in length, and the stack was
literally replaced BIZ g squirming mass Of
animals. a handful Of the hay xithered in
the grasp and left black stains
"A great many pine trees are dying through
out the Valley Of Virginia, as far east a. the
Blue Ridge Mountains, and continuing 10 the
Ohio river. The bark seems 70 be fall Of
small holes, causing the escape Of the rosin.
When the tree is cut down thirty feet from the
stump il is blue or miidewed. The decline Of
these trees has only been in the last four or
i've months, and it commences at the top.
Along the north fork Of the Blaekwater
river, IN Tucker county, half mile from
Hendricks station, on the West Virginia
Central and Pennsylvania Railroad, there i a
cave one mile long, which has, rs yet. only
been partially explored. An srehed channel
varying from six 70 thirty feet in height, leads
throughout the entire cavern that has a sub
terraHean stream Of pure water constantly
flowing through the main way and all the
recessss 20 far discovered. Half mile from
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