Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-08-15
Items Of Interest.
1t is said that business at Buena
Vista, Va, is improvingto consider
able extent.

1t is said that business al Duena
Vista, Va, is improvingto consider
able extent.
Hon. Howell E. Jackson, associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States, died at his home, near
Nashville, Tenn, last Friday, aged six
ty-three years.
Governor Brown has appointed Rob-
ert H. Gordon, of Cumberland, to be
associate Judge in the fourth judicial
circuit Of Maryland, succeeding the
late Judge Hoffman.
Jennie Greenwell, aged sixteen years,
was killed by having her hair caught
in the revolving shaft of a sewing
machine which she had been working
in factory in Baltimore.
Rev. Robert W. Black,a well-known
and greatly respected minister Of the
Baltimore Conference of the NJ. &.
Church, died at his home in Baltimore
on Tuesday, aged 10 years.
A vicious bull attacked Louis Rich
and his son, George, in a field near
Valparaiso, Ind, on Saturday. The
father was gored to death and the son
fatally injured before he succeeded IN
killing the bull with the shots from
revolver he carried.
A Mrs. Buschman, of Baltimore, last
Sunday night, had spasm whilst she
had young babe in her arms, and
fell against wash-tub containing wa
ter. When found the mother and
child were dead-the babe in the wa
ter with its mothers arms around 1t.
Gen. Thomas L. Rosser, distin-
guished officer in the Confederate SER
vice during the late war, will deliver
a course of lectures this fall and WIN
ter in the interest of the Confederate
Veteran Camp at Charlottesville and
Of the National Memorial Association.
In a peck Of trouble is J. Wisotzky,
of Cumberland, Nd, through his marry
ING proclivities. He left a wife and
two children in Russia, afterward mar
ried Jane Keer, of Frostburg, under
the name of Joseph henderson and
was about to skip off with Mary Bobi-
nette, of Cumberland, when his arrest
was ordered.
A Washington paper says that Ma
ior Robt. w. Hunter, of Virginia, as
sistant attorney of the Interior Depart
ment, "will soon lead to the alter one
of the most beautiful and accomplished
girls of Virginia. She is direct de-
scendant of the Washington family,
and has been social favorite for several
years in Richmond
Mr.. Chas. B. Rouss, Of New York,
desires to put up building for Con-
federate veterans at the Atlanta Ex-
position. He proposes to make 1t a
meeting-place where lectures and
speeches may be delivered by veterans
and where Confederate relics may be
shown. This is an excellent PROPOSE
ton and will doubtless be accepted by
the exposition managers.
Mrs. David A. Day, wife Of David
A. Day, well known missionary of
the Lutheran Church, at Muhlerberg,
Monrovia, Liberia, died at Lewisburg,
Pa. Her death was the result Of an
attack of African fever, contracted
while engaged in her work in that
country. Mrs. Day, who has been in
Africa with her husband for more than
q years, returned to America fourteen
months ago.
Hon. Henry G.. Davis has sold all
his villas and cottages at Deer Park,
Nd, to the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road Company except his own family
residence. A syndicate composed of
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad people
has purchased about four hundred
acres of land on the south side of the
railroad, opposite the Deer Park Hotel,
with a view to the erection of another
large summer hotel, and connecting
the two by an elevated carriage drive.
A fraud order has been issued by
the Postofice Department against the
Ell. opean Specially Company, OF
Bridgeport, CT, and against J. w.
Adams, its proprietor. The company
advertises to sell a razor, brush, strop,
soap and cup for % cents. To those
sending the money it forwarded a
stone an inch or two square, with in
structions to rub dry on the face until
all the hair was gone. AS the adver-
tisements were misleading, the depart
ment decided to issue the order.
George Everson, a young married
man, living with his wife at Haw-
thorne, Pa, wants an injunction to pre-
vent his wife from wearing boomers
He is an enthusiastic bicycler, and
some time ago taught his wife how to
ride. She complained, however that
there was little enjoyment riding with
heavy skirts, and few days ago she
came out in brightred boomers. Hel
husband argued with her and tried in
vain to persuade her to give them up
She was obstinate, however, and finally
the husband consulted Lawyer Randall
as to the possibilities of getting an in,
junction from the court to restrain
his wife from wearing boomers. Wher
told he could hardly get court to act
in such a case, he went home sadly to
renew his arguments with his wife.