Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-02-24
Deferred Items.

neDlLeulldi lOI DlSoAy'
burg Telegram says: Young WANT
was born and reared near Chenille.
He was a school teacher and moved
in the upper circles Of society. He
woed and won the affections OF Ella
Meadows, daughter Of one OF Gilmer
county's most prominent citizens and
q sister OF the late Prof. Meadows.
Want and Miss Meadows became en-
gagged and Want went to Kentucky
for short time. There he so far for
got his West Virginia girl as to WOO
and marry belle Of the "bluegras
region" He shortly left his Ken
lucky bride and came home on visit.
He met his fancee, number one, ana
''to make a long story short, mar
ried her also. 1t was not long until
the Kentucky bride heard Of his sec
ond marriage and instituted proceed
ings that landed him in the peniten-
tiury for two years as above stated.
Both girls, it is said, claim they will
live with him when he is released
from prison.
President Harrison will join in the
Inauguration ceremonies aud remain
at the White House with Mrs. Mckee
to receive Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland.
Immediately after the inauguration
ceremonies, accompanied By Mr.. and
Mrs. Mckee and their family, he will
90 direct from the White House TO
! the railway station, and will leave
| Washington for indianapolis by an
early afternoon train. They will
break the journey st Pittsburg. where
they will stop over night and spend
| Sunday with friends. On Monday
morning they will start for lndianap-
oils, where they will arrive that even
ing. Mrs. Mckee will open up her
fathers indianapolis home aud re-
main with him during the spring and
early summer. 1t is the President :
desire to go TO Cape May, and it is
quite certain that he will pass the
midsummer months there with his
children and grandchildren, to fill the
cottage with the family life, upon
which he will be more than ever de-
pendent.
The Washington correspondent OF
the Richmond Dispatch says: 1t is said
that the oldest living Democrat in
Virginia is making arrangements to
attend the Inauguration Of Mr. Cleve-
land in the person of "Governor" Ned
Embrey, who resides near Pine View,
Fauquier county. 1t is stated that
the Governor" as all his friends call
him, was l07 years of age on the 18TH
Of last June, and that he cast his vote
at Morrisvile for Cleveland and Ste
venson. "Governor" Embrey is q
man who still enjoys lie, lie shucked
considerable corn last fall, and the
correspondents says he will ask that this
interesting old Democrat be given a
special seat on tho platform when Mr.
Cleveland is inaugurated.
1t is said that Mountain Lake, q
large body of water in Craig county,
Virginia, near the West Virginia
boundary line, is disappearing. The
water, which usually overflows the
basin at this time OF the year, is HOW
twenty feet below the outlet, and j.
still sinking. The boats which are
used in the summer for the guests are
standing high and dry on the shores
4 small stream near by which
empties into Doe creek is unusually
large at present, and it is thought tC
be carrying of the water from the
lake by some hidden outlet. Unless
some measures Sre found to stop it, il
is said the lake will be emptied en-
tirely in few months.
About the middle OF last November
II. q. Wilson, the secretary OF tn,
Belaire, O., Water Works, disap
peared, and no trace OF him beius
found, a successor was chosen. al
examination Of his accounts showed
Il smorts.e OF $1,000, extending Over
three years Nothing was heard Of
Wilson until last week, when the
dead body of II well dressed man wa:
found in the bushes on farm about
twelve miles from Wheeling. There
was bullet-hole through the head
and the body was frozen solid.
Thomas Lambert, one OF the white
men implicated in the murderous as
sault on Shortridse and Ratclin, the
Buchanan county farmers, was cap
tured a few day ago in this State, OF
the line OF the Ohio extension Of tn,
Norfolk and Western, but escaped
through the window OF a car in which
he had been placed by the guards
Shortridge is dead and Ratcliff j:
very low and not expected to live.
There are twenty well-built town.
in Kansas without single lnhabItant
20 awaken the echo of their deserted
streets. Saratoga has a $50, 900 opera
house, u large brick hotel, a $1,000,
) school house and large number o
fine business houses, yet there is no
body TO even claim place to sleep
, At Fargo Il $50 900 school house stand!
on the side Of the hill a monument t
. the booming craze.
Negroes and whites are permitted
to marry in twenty-three States anC
territories. These are Connecticut
Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan
Minnesota, Montana, Ohio, Oklaho
ma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island
South Dakota, Vermont, Washing
ron Wisconsin md WyOIuinu Nav