Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-11-13
WEST VIRGINIA ITEMS.

Piedmont is TO have Democratic
paper
-Four huntsInen from Lewisburg
spent last week on the waters Of Gran
berry river. Pocahontas county, and
killed eight deer, including several
splendid bucks.
A Richie county man got up in the
night suffering from rheumatism and
rubbed a lot of furniture stain over
himself ia the dark H was picture
in the morning.
According 10 a recent article pub
lished in the State Journal there have
been IS murders in Parkersburg in the
last % years and only two convictions,
and in both instances the defendants
only served eighteen months Out Of
the eighteen seven were killed in sa-
looms and four in houses Of Ill fame.
West Virginia is land Of big cattle.
Last week, Isaac Van Meter, of Hardy
county, sold FOR shipment 10 Europe
SO head which averaged 1,646 pounds.
Nine of these cattle averaged 1905
pounds. George Cunningham, OF
Grant county, shipped lot that aver
aged l,6l0 pounds. and Allen Caper-
ton. OF Monroe county, sold 30 head
that averaged 1857 pounds.
A special from Sylbans Mills, says:
While drinking together two despe-
radoes named Newton Hobbs and
Henry Beaver quarreled over an in
suit offered by the latter to the form
er's daughter. Beaver attacked
Hobbs with butcher knife and
Hobbs drew his revolver and shot
his adversary through the heart.
Hobbs compelled Beavers family to
cook and sleep in the room where the
dead body lay thirty-six hours with
out being touched Hobbs was ar
rested.
Conductor Charles Robinson. who
resided at the Red House, near Charles
ton, was caught between a tender and
engine at Point Pleasant last Friday
night and had his left leg crushed. II
was amputated at the thigh He was
conductor on the Inflated train on the
Kanawha and Michigan Railroad on
the 4th OF July, at which time fifteen
persons were killed and thirty wound
ed. He changed OF with another con-
ductor to make run and made the
change with the same conductor on
last Friday. This is the third change
of made within the past year, and
each time he has been injured. He
may recover.
4 man named Wilson, farmer,
near Wolf Summit. who had been an
noyed Interpretations Of ground hogs
in mis- fields, the other day went into
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chucks concealed themselves, and be-
gan to set snares for the animals.
While he was setting snare little
girl named Bailey, 10 or II years old,
who lived near by, was attracted by
his actions and slipped behind stump
70 watch him. While she was glanc-
ing over the top OF the stump the man
happened TO look up, and seeing moth
ing but the top OF her head, which he
believed to be q woodchuck, he picked
up his gun and fired, shooting her
through the head and killing her in
stantly.
Eli Reynolds, an eccentric charac-
ter, of Hackers Run, presented a con-
tract for ecord at the county clerks
office at Clarksburg last Saturday,
which recited that, in consideration
OF marriage about to be solemnized, "
the prospective bride agreed that,
should she become widow, she would
remain so the balance Of her life, and
soIemnly pledged herself never to re-
marry. After seeing the contract
properly recorded, and procuring a
certified copy, Reynolds took out
marriage license and returned home,
where the ceremony was 'solemnized."
He told the clerk he had a horror Of
step fathers, and he took this llethod
to provide against any of his offspring
being cursed with one.