Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-04-18
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPLIED
FROM MANY SOURCES.


4 The Masons of Salem Roanoke county, Va,
will erect temple to cost $4,000.
| 1t is ssid the Farmers Alliance member
4 ship in West Virginia now aggregate 27,000.
"A board of trade has been organized at
Salem, Va, with w. B. Towels as president.
The commissioner of revenue of Roanoke.
/ Va. estimates the population of that city at
/ 22,500
The Atlantic Land Company of South Nor
/ folk, Va has purchased the Dodge farm for
! 100000.
| The police commissioners of Roanoke, Va,
found policeman $50 for taking drink Of
whiskey whilst on duty.
The contract has been awarded for the con-
struction of railroad from Fincastle TO
point on the Shenandoah Valley Railroad in
| Virginia.
Miss Cora V. Dehl, who has been elected
recorder of deeds for Logan county, Ala, is
twenty-one years old and commenced making
sreenback speeches at the age of sixteen.
Near Oneonta, Blount county, Ala, Ed
Strange, a farmer, while loading his rifle to
shto hawks, accidently shot and killed his
wife, to whom he had been married only two
months.
William Carder fell faintng into a CRATE Gre
at his residence and was cremated before the
family became aware of the accident. lie
was eighty years old.
The census of Shendun, Rockingham county,
Va, has just bee taken and shows popula-
ton of 7u9, of which 439 are males and 279
females. This is an increase of 100 per cent.
in about five months.
w. r. Kersey, young farmer, of Hanover
county, Va, accdently shot himself with
shotgun. The load passed through his left
Sb
wound is considered serious.
"A report from Florida says the bloom on
the orange trees in nearly all the groves in the
State is very profuse this spring, and, with
favorable conditions through the summer
and fall, the crops will be the heaviest ever
known.
Wesley Tomblin, Of Lincoln county, VIVA,
met death in peculiar manner. He was
hourishing revolver over his head, when
the weapon was discharged, the hammer
having struck joi,tin the ceiling. The ball
passed through his brain.
The dwelling of Joseph Wright on the
BELL" farm, near White Post, Clarke county,
! Va, was burned to the ground few days
since. Mr.. Wright lost everything he had
and his wife wa, compelled to walk mile
while thiny clad, to the house of Il neighbor
Tor assistance.
"A Clarbsburg, wv. Va.) dispatch says;
Italians are returning in squads from the
| interior daily, en- route to PIttSburg. They
decliIie to explain why they are leaving their
work unfinished or what they expect to do at
/ Plttsburg. Their movements are a mystery
and confrm the reports that Italians are con-
J gregatng in that city"
A meeting of veterans was held in Rich.
mond, Va, at the private residence of Major
/ Louis Ginter, at which money was subscribed
! to erect monument to Gen. A. p. Hill. 1t is
10. hn tod f.a.
I road aud Laburnam avenue, in Henrlco
! county. The monument is to be of granite
( 30 feet high, surmounted by bronze statue,
/ Miss Kate Brammer, OF Raleigh Court
/ House, WA, made plucky defense when the
/ house was attacked by burglars. One OF the
/ party demanded Abundance at the door, but
/ was refused By the lady, who was alone. lie
! then raised window and was climbing in,
when the plucky girl knocked him seuselesS
| with an axe. The other thieves fed, utd the
wounded man, named Thompson, was cap.
! tured.
I Hon. George A. Bicknell died suddenly in
/ New Albany, KY. Of apoplexy. He was born
/ in New \ ork in 1874 and married in Phila-
deiphia in lS4J lie removed to Lexington
/ Ind, and in 1851 was elected circuit judge. in
I 1852 be went to New Albany and was circuit
/ judge there till 1875 when he was elected to
/ Congress and served two years. He was later
! again elected circuit judge and resigned last
/ October.
/ John q, LEVEL, Of Fairmont, w. Va, lost q
! mule last week whose eyenttul history runs
through nearly the length Of generation of
men. The mule was bought at government
/ sale of condemned stock at Clarksburg during
! the war, and was brought there and put 10
! work in the American mines during the war.
since which time she has been constantly en-
gagged about mines, and literally died in the
I harness. 1t is reckoned thSs she was thirty
i six years old and her head become absolutely
+ gray with age ere she gave UP the ghost