Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1901-05-22
NOTES FROM NEARBY

roy Sai~eneE uas plOouCeO ripe To-
msto this season.
Stock of the Hsgerstown Bank
sold at public sale recently for So a
share-psr value SIS.
The Lutheran Sunday School at
Shepherdstown raised $63.9S for the
cause Of missions during the month
of April.
Hsilstones as large as wslnuts fell
IN Page county last Friday during a
heavy storm No serious damage
done.
Welton Beatty, of Front Royal.
and Miss Ada Partlow, of Washing
ton, Rsppahannock county, were
married st the home of the bride last
Wednesday.
Mr.. W. G. Carroll, of Chsrlestown
W. Va, has sent his check for 800 to
the Jacksonville sufferers. A ball
given st Charlestown Melted 500 for
the same cause.
Miss Susan May Magruder, daugh
ter of Capt. J. W. Msgruder, of
Woodstock, is to represent the Sew
enth District as sponsor at the Con
federate Reunion at Memphis.
County clerk Csrtmell of Freder-
lex county has issued marriage IL
censes to slightly over 1000 persons
since his incumbency of over twenty
years-this means 1000 couples.
Ira Martin, a boy thirteen years
old, of Hagerstown, was taking his
COW 20 water when the animal be-
came frightened and ran away. The
chain with which he was leading the
COW became fastened around the bov
and be was dragged to death.
Edward L. Bennett, former clerk
of the Loudoun circuit COURT, died
last week at his home near Clark :
Gap. He was 90 years of age, and
was a gallant Confederate soldier.
being a member of Whites Battalion.
de leaves a wife and several children.
The Luray College property, be-
longing TO the Rev. DR.. u. VI. Whar-
ton, the well known Baptist evange-
list, Was sold under the hammer last
week TO the Shenandoah County
Building aud Loan Association, Of
Woodstock, who held first lien. Ii
brought $500, little more than
one-third Of original cost.
Adam A Mcdonald, an engineer
Of the Baltimore u Ohio X. r.. whose
home is at Brunswick, Md, has ID
vented q device to equalize the pres
sure on opposite sides of q piston
within the cylinder of a locomotive.
which may revoluuonize the con
struction of engines. A patent has
been granted Mcdonald.
The Leesburg Mirror says that
there has been an unusually large
shipment of horses from Loudoun
county lately. Mr.. Mott, of the
Msy6eld Stock farm, shipped ten
thoroughbred yesrlings to England,
and Senator Henry Fairfax sent to
New York nineteen head of carriage
and driving horses.
The Becker land, consisting of
nine fruit fsrms along the Blue
Ridge Mountains, was sold in
Charles Town last week. One tract.
containing l56 acres, was purchased
by George h. Hsgley for $2,O23.
The other eight farms, containing
1859 acres, were purchased by
Charles Becker, of Baltimore, for
$1,000.
The Register says a hot fight is
on over the Shepherdstown post
office. Mrs. Ida Chaplaine, widow
of the late postmaster, who recently
died, wants the Office to remain in
the family, to be conducted by her
daughters. Harry E. Munday, q
local republican politician, is also an
applicant, and making q strong fight.
The office pays s., 100 year.
With his leg badly maugled IN a
sawmill accident, Lesley Pope, aged
p, was compelled to ride a distance
of twelve miles to Winchester for
medical attention. Pope fell under
q log crrriage at Ridgewsy, W. Va,
and the wheels over his leg, grind
ing the flesh, and bone to splinters.
The nearest physician was in Win
chester, and he made the trip in ag-
ony.
A dispatch from Winchester says:
1t has developed that D. Tucker Hill
yard, of Winchester, W hose dead body
was found under q Baltimore and
Ohio bridge st Hazelton, Pa, Sstur-
day, tie 1lth, did not die from natu-
raj causes, but was probs Uly murder
ed, and after being robbed, was
thrown from the track. Late on the
evening preceding his death, be was
seen standing on q ridge with two
other men. When his dead body was
discovered next morning by workmen
passing the spot, ali of his money, a
considerable sum, was missing, and
his watch and ring were gone also.