Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-05-02
Items of Interest.

inventor says he has made improve
ments so that it will be indispensable
to every household.
Samuel Nolan, a boy nine years old
was teased by his mother at Fort
Worth, Texas, on Sunday. He told
his playmates goodbye, saying he
would never meet them again, got his
fathers double-barreled shotgun and
blew out his brains.
Miss Mabel Hammond has entered
suit for $4,000 damages against the
Western Maryland Railroad on ac-
count of injuries received March Is,
while crossing the Potomac Valley
Railroad at Williamsport in spring
wagon. The team was caught by a
backing freight train, and Miss Ham
mond was rolled under the car for
some distance, sustaining very serious
wounds.
George G. Firth, 81 years old, a
Fultonville On. Y. y saloon-keeper, was
converted at Evangelist Giels revival
the other night Later, in the pres
ence of 1000 spectators, he rolled his
liquors and beer out on the sidewalk
and emptied them into the gutter and
made a bonfire of the barrels. Evan
gelist Giel preached a short sermon to
the crowd while Firth was destroying
his goods.
Miss Harriet Dugan, 70 years Of
age, who for 80 years had been a
mendicant at Rockville, Nd, died re-
Gently. After her death seven trunks
were discovered filled with handsome
and valuable articles Of wearing ap-
parel and personal adornment, while
81 800 in gold and several thousand
dollars worth of bonds were also found
slowed away safely in places indicated
in the will she left.
Women residing in Chester, Pa, are
alarmed by the actions of man, who,
claiming to represent the university
extension, enters their homes and pro-
ceeds to put his arm around their
waists and call them endearing terms.
He is said to be good-looking young
man, but only goes to the houses Of
married women. The old maids of
Chester are naturally incensed at him
for giving them the go-by. Angry
husbands are hunting for the bold
stranger.
The State seal of Alabama has been
changed. 1t now represents soldier
on horseback, with the figure of girl
seated behind and pointing forward.
1t commentaries the bravery Of Miss
Emma Samson, of Etowah county, who
courageously piloted General Forrest
on his way in search of Federals in the
"late unpleasantness." When asked
if there was man about who could
act as guide she replied, "No, but |
can" The Alabama Legislature gave
her a medal, 120 acres of land, and a
vote Of thanks thirty years ago, and
now they give her the State seal.
Some fifteen years ago an ancient
Hebrew inscription was discovered in
an underground passage to bring wa
ter to the Pool Of Sloan. Away back,
perhaps in the reign of Solomon or
Hezekiah, excavators set to work at
opposite sides of the hill, and met in
the middle. Their meeting-place was
marked by rows of curious letters cut
in the solid rock. This is part Of the
inscription "While the excavators
were still lifting up pick against pick,
each toward his neighbor, there was
heard the voice of one man calling to
his neighbor. After pick had struck
pick one against the other, the waters
flowed from the spring to the pool for
a distance of l 200 cubits.
1t is a well-known fact that horses
can hear sounds that are not percepti-
bic to human ears. For days previous
to the great earthquake in the Riviera
the horses Of that locality showed
every symptom of abject fear, which
continued without change of character
unless it was in the direction of great
er frenzy, until the fury of the great
CONFUSION broke forth. Not until
few seconds, however, before the earth
began to tremble did human beings
hear the subterranean rumblipgs. One
writer from the scene says that in his
opinion the horses knew that the great
quake was on the way from seventy
two to one hundred hours before their
masters heard or felt the first jar.
The fight between California griz-
Fly and the Mexican fighting bull,
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