The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-01-29
GREAT ORCHARDS
In vicinity Of lfartinsbusg win Pro-
dpee Cheat Yields.
THE ANTIFTAR BATTLEFIELD
10 Have Many New Monuments
Gold san Advertisements to a
Revolutionary HsrO-Coal Diseov-
ery-Romantie Wedding.
sr.elaI pI.paleh o IL Inlelllreneer.


Special Dispatch to the 1ntelligencer.
MARTIEsBURo. ". Va, Jan. 2S.-
The orchards of G. p. L. P. and H. W.
Miller, together with the orchard Of 1.
II. c. Pancake. OF Romney. constitute
the largest orchards IN the world. Most
OF the Miller orchards are scattered
over this county. During the past
year they cleared 1.7ss acres of timber
land In the heart OF the Allegheny
mountains and planted, last fall. lSl.eOa
trees. with their bearing orchards.
from which they shipped over one hum
dred carloads Of peaches and plums two
years ego. they now have $4,000 peach
and plum trees. The orchards represent
an enormous outlay Of money. General
views of the orchards and conditions
have been sent to the Paris exposition.
Monuments to be Erected.
Antletam battlefield will shortly see
2ome new monuments. The Ninth
Pennsylvania regiment VIII erect a
monument ON ledge of rocks on Corn
field avenue. The Fifteenth MasEachu-
sets regiment WIN erect one sur
mounted by n lion and bronze figure
OF General Kimball, and the Nineteenth
and Twentieth Massachusetts viii each
erect monument. The site for the
Flftesnth's monument was paid for a
few days ago by General E. A. Car
rnent. of washington. who visited the
battlefield.
DR.. Gold Heard From.
philip H. Gold. OF winchester Va,
near here, has Just received letter
from his brother. DR.. William Wood
Gold. formerly of winchester. but now
living In san Pedro. Honduras In
which he says that he is slowly re-
covering from the effects OF the wounds
received at the time captain Jack Inn
boden was killed by a native Hondur-
aniaa several months ago. This Is the
first intImatlon that has been received
In this country that DR.. Gold was alive,
as all reports hitherto published stated
that he had been killed outright.
Mason-slidsll Documents.
Rev. coupIan Page. of Hagerstown,
Nd. has presented to the Turner Ashby
Camp OF Confederate Veterans. OF Win
chester, Va, historical document
chest. The chest was the property OF
James NJ. Mason, United States sena-
tor from Virginia Just before the Civil
war, and figured In the MasOn-slidell
episode. 1t was while returning from
England that Mason and slidelI were
arrested, and the chest was in their
possession. filled with oficlal docu-
ments. Afterward 1t came into posses
sion of Mr.. MasOn's daughter, who gave
it TO Rev. Sfr. Page.
General Daniel Morgan.
Representative Amos ]. Cummings,
Of New York, chairman OF the commit.
tee ON the library of Congress. has re-
ported favorably the bill Of Congress
man John Hay for the erection of a
monument over the grave Of General
Daniel Morgan. Revolutionary hero.
who Is buried In Mount Hebron Gene
terry. Winchester The amount asked
for Is $4,000. Al present the grave is
| marked only with slab, and the In
scrIptlon can hardly be decIphered. 1t
has been badly broken and Clipped by
relic hunters.
A prospecting party OF the TIdewater
Anthracite Coal Company recently
struck four-foot vein of bItumInous
coal in the mountains of this county.
Brave Deserve the Fair.
j. Carter Davis. West vIrsi"Ian.
was married at Mt. Holly. Pa. to Miss
Mary F.. sweIgert. Friday evening.
During the spanish-AmerIcan war Mr..
Davis was corporal of Company g.
Second West Virginia Regiment. on
the march from Camp Meade to
Gettysburg the regiment camped over
Sunday at Mt. Holly and 1t was there
that Mr.. Davis met Miss sweIEert.
They viii reside at Harrisburg. Pn..
where the groom is now employed.