Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1901-10-24
Items of Interest.

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The Maryland Republican State
campaign committee has purchased
14,4OO pairs of spectacles which are
being distributed throughout the State
for the use of illiterate voters on elec-
tion day.
The board Of health of Pottsville,
Pa, has issued an order that all
women shall wear short dresses, claim
ing that long dresses dragging on the
streets gather disease germs ard carry
them around.
In Philadelphia on Monday Miss
Edith Boone had damage to the
amount of $25 awarded her against
Frederick Farrow, who squeezed her
hand so hard that one of the bones
was fractured. If he loved her as hard
as he squeezed she ought never to
have sued him.
The Postofice Department has de-
cided to place the late President Nc
Kinleys head on the new issue of pos
tai cards, which will appear shortly
after December lst next. The design
includes the year of birth and year of
death Immediately at the left and
right respectively of the name "Mc-
Kinley," which will be directly under
the head.
Miss Louisa Martin died in Berkeley
county in 1897. She had $4,000, but
not a relative to leave it to. She
made will which has been recorded,ln
which she disposed Of 500, and said
nothing of the $4,000. The interest
of the 500 was devised to Whitehall
Church, in Frederick county, Virginia,
for the support of the gospel go long
as the Methodists preach there. "lf
said Methodists dissolve, the principal
to be divided among the preachers of
the Baltimore NJ. E. Conference" This
would give each preacher annually
about 2! cents. The State Of West
Virginia will get $4,000.
From Richmond comes the follow
ing: In the large and heroic equestrian
statue of General Robert E. Lee, which
stands in the western portion of Rich
mond, it has been discovered that there
is probably hundreds of pounds OF
honey. Both the horse and rider,
which latter is a splendid likeness of
General Lee, on his famous war horse,
Traveller, are Of bronze, and hollow.
For months bees have been going
in and out at the parted lips and
nostrils of the horse and rider. 1t
was discovered, and it was noticed
that the bees went in and out in almost
constant stream. The bees began
to enter the statue last summer, and
have been making honey ever since.
The disappearance Of Sinking creek,
a large mountain stream in Pendleton
county, West Virginia, has mystifed
the people and has caused financial
loss. 1t furnished power for several
mills, but has suddenly disappeared.
About week ago the water in the
stream began to fall and now the bed
is almost dry. There has been plenty
of rain, and the only explanation Of
the streams disappearance ia that 1t
has worn its way through into some
supterraDean cavern and joined one Of
the underground streams. Old citi-
zens say that the creek disappeared
in the same manner many years ago
by finding a subterranean outlet. This
incident gave the name 10 the creek.
The committee composed of. Taylor
Ellison and Geo. L. Christian, Of Rich
mond, General Evans, Of Georgia, Cen
eral White, of West Virginia, General
Briggs, of Kentucky, appointed By
the late United Confederate Veterans
reunion in Memphis, to devise plans
for the establishment il Richmond Of
a Confederate Memorial Hall in con-
nection with the Charles Broadway
Rouss donation Of 100000 for that
purpose, met IN richmond, 'a'i re-
Gently to look over the ground and
confer with the Confederate Memorial
Literary Society in regard to the
movement. The committee now has
1926, 900 in hand, and proposes to
commence building as soon az site
and plans can be secured.
The South African war entered last
Thursday upon its third year. Eng
land has sent $4,000 soldiers TO the
Transyaal during the progress Of the
conflict. Of this number 1906 have
been killed and died from wounds and
disease, 1908 have been wounded,
9,450 have been captured and 55,495