Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-08-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Mr.. VIM. r. Alexander has with
drawn from the congressional contest
against Col. O'Ferrall in the 7th Viz
ginia district.
D. b. Snyder, who was reported
dead from the shot inflicted by +. II.
Broylrs at Luray, Va, is slowly re-
covering from his wound.
Mrs. Jacob Humbird, an estimable
woman who lived near Cumberland,
Md, was burned to death last Satur
day by the explosion OF a gasoline
stove.
The Republicans of the sixth Mary
land district nominated George IL.
Wellington, of Cumberland, for Con
gress on Wednesday.
Gov. Buchanan, of Tennessee, has
saved Col Clay King, the murderer
of Col Poster, from the gallows by
committing his sentence to life I'M
prisonment.
w. J. White, man who has made
millions out of the manufacture of
chewing gum, has been nominated
for Congress by the Republicans of
the twentieth Ohio district.
AT Bolivar, Mo-, the other day, the
Texas giant, Colonel Powell, seven
feet eight inches in height, married
pretty Henrietta Mority, the midget
maiden, who has just reached an al
titude of twenty-five inches.
Some boys in Murray county, Ga,
claim that they saw blacksnake
run at full speed down a steep hill
and Jump ten feet high and capture
sapsucker, which was drilling hole
in the bark of II pine tree with It's
sharp beak.
The daughter Of the great Indian
chief, Sitting Bull, and Peter Markle,
formerly of the U. S. army were mar
ried at Rondour, n, Y, on Thursday.
Markell served with Custer, and 1T is
reported the bride once saved his
life when he was attacked by the
Indians.
A startling variation Of the snake
story comes from Rome, Ga. gen
tleman, seeing a snake lying on the
road, prodded it with his umbrella.
The snake Strengthened its body,
spread out two long wings like goose,
arose in the air and flew across the
field.
A white man by the name of Vandi-
yer, from Clarke county, who is CON
fined in Jail at Front Royal while the
Jail at Berryville is undergoing re-
pairs, on Saturday attempted suicide.
HI first took dose of corrosive sub
limate-about teaspoonful-wh
he seems to have had in bottle on
his person, and then attempted to cut
his throat with pen-knife.
George Burton was shot and in
stantly killed near Fort Worth, Tex,
on Saturday by George Meyers,
bov of seventeen. Burton, had at
tempted to assault the thirteen-year-
old sister of Meyers The mother
pursued Burton, followed by the boy
brother, who seized pistol from the
hands of his mother and grappled
with Burton, who was pleading his
innocence. He fired, the ball strik
ing him in the forehead. The boy
surrendered, and was locked up, but
there is no question of an acquittal.
Miss Alice Cutler, of RineclifT, while
fishing for black bass in the Hudson
River, near Newburg, n. Y, on Sat
urday caught queer fish. 1t was
about foot long and was a small
mermaid" the head and neck being
counterparts of those of a woman.
They were jet black, with light blue
eyes and red lips, while the head was
covered with thick growth of black
woolly hair Miss Cutler was so hor-
rified that she would have fallen into
the river had she not been caught by
companion. The mermaid" has
been placed on exhibition.