Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-03-16
Notes From Nearby.

Stephen G. Lightcap, proprietor of
the Valley Hotel, Hagerstown, died
suddenly last Thursday, aged Is years.
W. E. Tebo, lumber dealer and con-
tractor, of Martinsburg, has gone into
bankruptcy. 1t is said his assets are
$4,000 and his liabilities nearly $22,-
900.
The famous maidstone was sold at
public sale Monday at Leesourg, Va,
and was knocked down at $682.50. 1t
was bought by Miss Geiman, who at
the former sale purchased it for $3.50.
The Charlestown Spirit says Mr..
and Mrs. George Nicewarner and five
children, of this place, were poisoned
Sunday morning by eating canned to-
matoes, and for while two of the
children were dangerously i'll.
The managers of the Hagerstown
fair have determined to hold their
fair for five days next fall-October
10th to 18th, inclusive. The exhibit
ton will begin on Tuesday and end
with big carnival Saturday night.
Ben Ball, negro living at Mount
Pleasant, negro village in vicinity
of Summit Point, attempted suicide
few days since by slashing his throat
on each side with knife. Failing
in this attempt he tried an old gun,
inficting slight wound in the back
of the head. Bens mental faculties
have been somewhat deranged for some
months. We understand he has been
taken into custody and will be sent
to the asylum.-Adcocate.
Mr.. Charles Broadway Rouss, of
New York, will shortly begin the cree
ton in his family lot in Mount Hebron
Cemetery, Winchester, Of large and
imposing mausoleum. A representa-
tive of the New England Monument
Company was in Winchester Tuesday
arranging the details, and stated that
Mr.. Rouss intended the mausoleum to
surpass in beauty and cost anything
ever erected in this section of the
country. The mausoleum will be Of
granite and will cover a large portion
Of the Rouss lot, which is the largest
private space in the cemetery. 1t will
cost a small fortune.
A young couple came in over the
n. & w. from Charlestown at 1920
o'clock Thursday night, signing for the
knot there's no untying. They were
Miss Carrie G.. Rissler and Mr.. Fsnton
B. Crawford. They fell into the hands
of John Tyler, who piloted them to
the residence of Rev. A. B. Station,
and as the clock pointed to ll30, the
words making them man and wife had
been said. The happy couple registered
at the Lands Hotel, remaining over
night. The groom stated the blizzard
last month interfered with the orig
inal wedding plan, but they decided
that it shonld be a 60 this time, biz
card or no blizzard.-HagerStoUn
Nail.
Prof. w. G. Johnson, State ento-
mologist, and Prof. C. O. Townsend,
State pathologist, state that "ths
Maryland peach crop has been liter
ally nipped in the bud. " Professor
Johnson says: eve have just received
replies from the most prominent grow
ers in every section of the State and
find that the entire crop has been de-
stroyed by freezing. We have also
sectioned several thousand buds from
the mountain and tidewater peach
belts and find none alive. Even the
hardest varieties have been destroyed.
The greatest loss will be sustained in
the Blue Ridge belt, where hundreds
of acres were coming into bearing for
the first time this year, in addition to
the older orchards, all of which were
we'll set with fruit buds. All the buds
we have examined are either killed or
injured beyond recovery"