Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-01-02
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Items OF Interest.

heads cut off for disobeying instruc-
tions
Grant Bently, young colored man,
of Georgetown, Ky, recently died from
the effects of hemOrrhage brought on
by shouting hallelujah at a revival
meeting.
A shrewd Yankee is selling an edi-
ton of the Bible which contains pie
lures of black angels. 1t cost him
$3.50 and he sells them for IS apiece
on the installment plan, demanding
$3.50 on delivery.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad
has recently ordered 500 large gondO-
las, with Hensen couplers, from the
Ensign Manufacturing Company of
Hunting, W. Va, and 100 box cars,
with a capacity of 10000 pounds,
equipped with Westinghouse brakes
and the master car-builders couplers,
from the Lenoir Car Works of Lenoir
City, Tenn.
\ movement has just been started
by Mr.. George Alfred Townsend, of
Washington looking to the erection of
what is to be known as the Army
Correspondents Memorial" Itis the
intention of Mr.. Townsend and other
surviving army correspondents and
literary minded men of the American
civil war period to erect memoralon
South Mountain, Maryland, as recol-
lection of letters in the midst OF arms.
This memorial will be in the shape Of
building in which will be collected
trophies of the late civil war.
An investigator has discovered that
in the present congress there are 2Ss
lawyers, forty.one farmers, twenty-sev-
en- editors, ,twenty-eight manufacturers,
one railroad manager, two steamboat
owners. fourteen teachers and college
professors, twenty-five bankers. twenty
merchants, one house builder, three
clergymen, seven who say they are
engaged in business" eight doctors,
one architect, one music teacher, one
owner Of oil wells, five miners, two IN
sumnce agents, one theatre manager
one manufacturer Of ice, three civil
engineers, nine lumbermen, two own.
els Of stone quarries. two real estate
agents, one pharmacist, and one steam
boat captain. A happy conglomera-
ton, but what a mixture OF ideas there
will be.
The section of country lying north
Of Bowling Green, Ky, which has be.
come famous for its immense subter-
ranean passages and caverns,has yield
ed large cave which promises to far
surpass any that has previously been
discovered, the Mammoth Cave exs-
cepted. The entrance to the newly
discovered cavern IL in Edmondson
county, and only two miles from the
Mammoth. II is called Colossal
Cave Exploring parties have en-
tered il for upward Of twelve miles
without finding the end, and they
met with new and varied attractions
at every step. a stream, supposed to
be the headwaters Of Echo river, 1ows
through the cave, and numerous
springs, clear as crystal, bubble forth
The Illinois Steel Company, Of Chi
cago, has just closed contract with
the pocahontas Va Company for the
purchase Of 100000 tons Of coke dur
ing 1896. The supply is TO run from
$4,000 to $1,000 tons per month. or
about so cars per day. The Illinois
Company furnishes its own cars, Of
which it has an abundance. 10 carry on
the enormous traffic without delay or
inconvenience. This is one Of the most
important contracts ever made in the
, Pocahontas Flat Top field. The Iii
nois Steel Company is one Of the largest
: consumers Of coke in the United States
and formerly its patronage went en-
tirely 10 ConnelIsulic. The Norfolk
and Western Railroad Company has
decided to construct FIVE miles Of
double track Of the Elkhorn where is
, traffic is heaviest.
According to medical paper a
; man committed suicide few days ago
from melancholy conviction that he
vas bis own grandfather He left
this singular letter II married a
widow who had grown daughter.
: Ny father visitsd our house very Of
en-, fell in love with my stepdaughter
aud married her. So my father be-
: came my son-in-law and my step
daughter my mother, because she was
. my fathers wife. Some time after
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