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Ne,rsu Notes.

NetrSy Notes.
As much as IS per bushel has been obtain
ed at Pittsburg for early Washington county
ND peaches.
The Christian Endeayors present at the
great meeting in Boston are estimated any
where between forty and seyenty-ige thou
sand.
Rev. f. ]. Prettyman was presented by
the @. E. Society of his church with a trip
to Boston, aud left on Tuesday. -Martins-
burg Ind.
August Thumel, for 20 years an employe
of the B. & o. railroad at Martinsburg,
dropped dead while working in the shops
there. He was 20 years old.
A negro man near Havre de Grace, Nd,
on Sunday attempted to carry off an eleven
year old girl who was on her way TO Sunday
school. He was captured and jailed.
Seven hundred Chinese attacked Hsinchu,
Island of Formosa, on July 10. Two hum
dred were killed and many captured. On
the japanese side the loss was IL men.
Aaron C. and Emory A. Pry, of Keedys-
willie, Nd, who W peach orchards in the
Elkridge and South Mountain regions, esti-
mate their peach crop this year at between
$4,000 and 10000 bushels.
A married son of Gen. James A. Walker,
of the Stonewall Brigade, died from the
effects of an accidental wound whilst on
military duty guarding the Crozier Iron
Compauy's coal mines against strikers.
The enterprising HagerstOwn merchants,
Messrs. Updegraff, are building another adj
ditiou to their mammoth store in that place.
It is to be SOx6O feet ia size and will be
used for the cloak, fur and curtain depart
ment.
B. c. Milliken, private secretary of SEN
ator Harris, is charged with haying attempt
ed to chloroform a daughter of ex-SOlicitor
General Phillips, in Washington City, on
the night Of the 4th of July. He was ar
rested and released, but will be rearrested-
if found.
Miss Edith Virginia Hedges, daughter OF
Rev. and Mrs. John W. Hedges, formerly
of Berkeley county, was married Wednes-
day evening to DR.. John Ernst Matzka at
Ell Reno, Indian Territory. DR.. Matzka is
a professor in Leland Stanford University.
-MartiasJmg Statesman.
The trial at Berryville of Henry Robin
sou, colored, charged with assaulting Miss
Maggie Noll on the 22nd of June, was con-
eluded last Wednesday-the jury finding
the prisoner guilty and fixing the penalty at
fourteen years in the penitcntiary. He was
taken to Charlottesville by the sheriff, ac-
companied by a military company, for safe
keeping.
The Baltic Avenue Casino at Atlantic
City last Wednesday night was crowded with
people. The occasion was a social session
of the Order of Elks. The building sud
ueniy COIhpstu duu iullg " NhV"o""N fNA
sons were thrown 20 the floor beneath. Many
women, wives of the visiting Elks, went
down in the ruins. About two hundred were
injured. but no one killed outright
Deford & Co. have notified the employees
of their tanuery at Berkeley Springs of an in
crease oftheir wages to the scale in force be-
fore the cut Of 10 per cent. During the pc
Rod OF financial distress, while l2O tanneries
were entirely shut down and Others were
being operated on half time, with a cut in
wages, all three of Deford d Co.'S big tan
neries were running three-fourtbs full time,
with only a 10 per cent. cut.
James s. Pitzer, a member Of one of the
Oldest families iu Berkeley county, died at
his home seven miles from Martinsburg
Monday morning, aged seventy years. He
had been in for almost a wear with an all
ment resembling Bright's disease. He was
one of the best-knOWn men of the county
aud had been a devout member of the Meth
odist Church for ffty-fye years. He leaves
q widow and eight children.