Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-12-25
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

Concord NOTIudi OShON'f
ty, is dead.
Thomas w. McClungi has sold his
farm of SO4 acres, in Greenbrler coun-
tv to A. NJ. Mclaughlin, of Pocahon-
tas county, for Sls,OOO.
Amt Sallie Rockwell died at her
residence near Berkeley Springs sun
day night. in her ninety-seventh
wear. She was the Oldest person In
the county.
NJ i. Spurlock, the most extensive
lnmber generator in Wayne county,
was accidentally killed Thursday. He
was hauling timber on Big creek, near
WAYNE Court House, and while rolling
logs downa steep declivity was caught
Inv log which rolled over his body.
He lived about twenty minutes.
The connection Of the West Virginia
Central Railroad with the Grafton and
Greenbrier has been made at Bellng-
ton. the last rail being laid Friday.
The narrow gauge between Grafton
and Belington will be made standard
at an early day, and before the winter
is over it is expected that the west
Virginia Central trains will enter
Grafton.
A bevy OF young girls of Preston
comfy. got up a coon hunting party,
to which no boy was invited. They
started out with four dogs, two guns,
two axes and a big basket OF lunch.
They got lost in the woods within an
hour from the start, and were not
found until the next day at 9 o'clock,
when they were all sitting in row on
log crying.
Adam Baughman killed tho largest
deer on Gaulev Creek last week that
was ever seen in those mountains. 10
old hunters who were born and raised
in the forests of Webster it was per-
feet wonder. We are not informed as
to it's weight, but the skin measured
seven feet in length. Its antlers con-
tanned but four snags, but were ex-
tremely large and heavy, Adam is an
old hunter, but declares he did not
know deer grew to be so large.
There must be bad state of affairs
in Lincoln county. Listen to the Git
izen: THE windows Of our onl Y church
building are patched up with paper,
the stoves dilapidated and the house
cold and cherries. This is sad
commentary on the cause in this com
munity and ought to make every
citizens cheek mantle with crimson.
The Citizen is no saint, but is one of
twenty with a dollar to fix mp the
house SO that it will be safe to go into
without contracting pneumonia.
The first pension ever granted to
the widow Of a Confederate soldier
was obtained Thursday by Pension
Agent Herr, of Grafton, for Mrs. Nor
ris, widow Of Edward Morris, who was
killed at the siege at Vicksburg. After
Morris death the widow remained SIN
gle several years, when she met a man
named Thomas, who had served in
the Union army. They were married,
and some time since Thomas died,
when his widow applied for pen
sion, and after proving the death Of
Morris it was granted. The Pension
Bureau have no record of a similar
case.
The coal report for West Virginia
for 1891 shows that the output has
about doubled in the past two years,
while the number of men employed
has increased thirty-tive per cent. In
1889 the total coal production was
A. 726. 047 tons. and the coke output,
665, 1913 tons. The 1891 report estimates
the output for this year as 1881, 430
tons OF coal, and 1888, Ais tons Of coke.
The number Of men employed in 1889
was 8, 100; in 1891 there is 14,07S on
,.nl, n
ovens in operation, 800 others In pro
cess of erection, and upwards OF 1000
more have been contracted for. from
the present outlook, 1892 will double
the production Of 1891.
There isgreat excitement among the
mountaineers on Rich Mountaih, in
Randolph county, over the murder,
on Thursday, of Jefferson MolleneauX,
a country storekeeper, by Lafayette
Eliza, an ex-convict and n desperate
outlaw, who was recently pardoned
from serving fifteen year sentence
in the penitentiary, by Governor Elem
ing, for killing man at the same
place where he murdered MolleneauI.
The trouble originated over the price
of groceries, which Eliza and his son,
who were intoxicated, claimed was ex-
orbitant. MolleneauX ordered them
from the store, when Il fight began,
and they were elected. Obtaining
their rifles, they returned, and after
cowing the bystanders the elder Eliza
dubbed his rifle and buried the butt
in Molleneauxs brain, while the
Younger man prevented his friends,
at the point of his rifle, from render
ing assistaucs. The murderer finally
placed his foot on the breast Of his
victim and held it there thirty min
utes defyirg the crowd. BY this time
Molleneaux was dead. The Elias at
tempted to escape to the mountains,
but were captured and are now in
Jail.