Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-06-27
rIten,s Of Interest.

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A Missouri drover has hogs so fat
that to find out where their heads are
it is necessary to beat them and Judge
by the squeal.
President Cleveland has gone to his
summer home at Buzzard's Bay for
the season. He will transact public
business there.
Al Indian named "Man-Afraid-of-
Nothing" married white woman
in Montana recently, and In one week
afterhis wedding he applied 10 his tribe
to have his name changed.
A lot 162 feet front and 100 feet
deep on Broadway, New York City,
sold few days ago for 81, 100000.
A sixteen-story building, $50 feet high,
will be built upon it at cost of an
other million and a-half.
John Jacob Astor, who has a strong
taste for mechanics, took charge Of a
passenger engine on the Illinois Central
Railroad recently and, it is said, drove
it the hundred miles between Fort
Dodge and Sioux City, Iowa, at rate
that often dazed the regular engineer.
Postmaster P. B. Woodson, of Gaines
vile, Ala, and d. H. Hunter were
whipping two negro girls named
Wright for insulting Woodson daugh-
ter when the father OF the girls at
tackled them with a hoe. Woodson
shot the negro and his daughter dead.
Maud Pensoera, Of Denver, Col,
who has for two years suffered from
malignant multiple sarcoma that has
turned her body into mass of bone,
is at the point of death. An offer OF
$4,000, it is said, has been made for
the corpse by the Bellevue Hospital,
New York, and it has been refused.
Twenty years ago VIM. j. Brown,
an Indiana man, in a fit of jealous
passion, killed rival suitor for the
hand of Miss Mile f. Jamlson, to
whom he was engaged. The term of
Imprisonment for which he was sem
fenced expired recently, and a few
days ago he, now a white-haired man
of seventy, was married to the woman
on account of whom he committed the
crime.
Carl Browne and Miss Mamie Coxey
Goddess of Peace of the Common
veal, were secretly married Friday
evening at Massillon, O., by Justice
Folger. The bride and groom .epa-
rated after the ceremony, with the ex-
pec.ation of keeping the fact to them
selves until the Fourth of July, when
they will have another and a spectacu-
lar marriage in Washington. The
groom is forty.fve years of age and
the bride is eighteen,
y young Chicago drummer was TAX
ing a vacation with his uncle in the
country, and was suddenly called upon
to ask the blessing, and not being &C.
customed to it he promptly tackled
the difficulty in the following style
eve acknowledge the receipt Of your
favor of this date. Allow us to ex-
press our gratitude for this expression
of good will Trusting that our house
may merit your confidence, and that
we may have many good orders from
you this fall, we are, yours truly,
amen" The old man will say grace
hereafter.
The people of Williamsport, Nd,
are very much excited over what they
fear has been an attempt to pollute and
perhaps TO poison one of the most used
wells of water in the west end of the
town. The water III the well has a
pinkish cast and small sample Of it
was brought in a bottle by Conductor
Sheet and handed to Health Officer
Simmons, who examined it. He finds
it loaded with chlorine caused by
sewer filtration and says the water is
unfit for horse, save human being,
to drink. As to the pinkish substance
in the water he is unable to tell what
it is. a gallon sample Of the water
will be sent for analysis to the State
chemist.
The graves of the Confederate dead
in Washington Cemetery at Hagers-
town were strewn with flowers last
Monday. Washington Confederate
Cemetery was secured by an appro,
priation of $4,000 from the Maryland
Legislature in 1870. Two and a-halt
acres in Rose Hill Cemetery were pur-
chased for 81, 400 and the remains OF
l,72l Confederate soldiers which lay
buried at Antietam were removed in
1871 at an expense Of $3.50 each. The