Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1910-05-19
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

master for over twelve years.
A fruit farm of 90 acres, near Winches-
ter, which was bought three years ago
for $1,000, was sold last week by Mrs.
Thomas w. Harrison to George Bowly
for $l2,740.
Harry Smith, aged 20 years, was ar
rested for setting fire to the barn OF
Charles Smith at Myersvllle, Md. He
confessed, and said that he did it lust
for pure devilishness." WhiSkey was at
the bottom of it.
r. r. Ross, cashier of the Farmers and
Merchants Banking and Trust Company
of Leesburg, Va, committed suicide by
shooting himself on Tuesday. He is sup
posed to have been temporarily insane.
Ross, who was IS years old, is survived
by his wife and several children.
John O'Brien, laborer with Foreman
c. H. Alderton's gang of trackmen, was
struck by a B. & o. engine and killed last
Thursday night at Kearneysville. The
man, who was about IS years OF age, was
a native of Ireland, and it is said had been
educated for the Catholic priesthood.
An unknown man tried to kill Jeff Ball,
the colored hostler of DR.. Howard Os-
burn, at Ripon, Thursday night. With
his wife and another woman Ball was
driving to Charles Town, and was fired
upon at Roper's woods. The shot took
effect in Balls head but did not do him
any serious injury.
They have some queer ideas IN Hagers-
town. For instance, having voted to keep
dozens of wretched bar-roomS in the
place, they are now making mighty fuss
over the poor household fly; and after
encouraging the sources OF moral pollu-
tlon and degradation, they are raising a
big dust over dirty streets. Hagerstown
is putting the cart before the horse.
Bub Pierce, coIored youth from Clarke
county, went to Charles Town the other
day, and becoming bit gay, flour shed
arazor, with which he threatened to carve
some one who had incurred his diSpleas-
ure. He was arrested for carrying con-
cealed weapons, and was victim OF
West Virginian's stringent law on this sub
iect, Justice Gallaher sentencing him to
six months in Jail and fine OF $50.
William A. Manuel, living near Aid
rige, this county, met with a serious &C
cident on Monday while driving home
from Charles Town. The shaft iron
broke off and the horse ran off, throwing
him out, injuring his spine land causing par
ysis. What makes the case much Sadder
is the fact that Mr.. Manuel is already a
cripple, with large family to support,
which he has tried faithfully to do.-Ad-
VOcate.
Eli Walker, of Knoxville, Md, hired a
team from Liveryman Cummings, of Har-
per's Ferry, to drive four miles in the
country to a church festival. Eli must
have lost the way, for he drove to SharpS-
burg, thence to Shepherdstown, on to
Charles Town, and finally got back to
Harper's Ferry with the horse in such
condition that Mr.. Cummings caused
Walkers arrest. He was fined $40 and
costs, amounting 10 $l7.60 in all.
Miss Alba Fockler, of MartinSburg,
and William Shipp, a sailor from the
battleship New Hampshire, went to Ha-
gerstown last Thursday, procured a Ii
cenSe and were married by Rev. c. L.
Hubbard. After the license had been
secured, the bride decided that she was
not yet ready to be married, and conSid-
cradle time elapsed and much confusion
resulted before she finally consentedt to 60
with the groom to the residence of Rev.
Mr.. Hubbard, where the knot was tied.
The West Virginia Supreme Court OF
Appeals has reversed the Jefferson Circuit
Court in the case of Henry w. Castleman'S
administrator VS.. James ]. Singleton, ad-
ministrator OF Parthenia Singleton, and
others. In November, 1892, special COM
misSioners of the Jefferson Circuit Court
of this county sold the farm of the late
Henry w. Castleman, south OF Myers
town, at public sale for $40.25 an acre. A
survey of the land had been made some
years previously, and this showed the
farm to contain 400 and a fraction acres.
Mrs. Singleton was the purchaser at the
price named, Mrs. Dewanna Castleman,
the widow of Henry w. Castleman, hav-
ing her dover interest secured to her by
the interest on one-third of the purchase
money, which was made safe by a lien
on the land After the sale it was dis
covered that the farm actually contained
over eleven acres less than were sold,
and in March, 1894, Mrs. Singleton had a
petition filed, stating that mistake had
been made as to the area land purchas-
ed by her and asking for credit Of $780,
90. the price of the shortage in acreage at
$40.25 per acre, upon her last unpaid
bond. The case was finally disposed of
in the Circuit Court in February, 1908,
when the court refused the prayer OF the
petition, and dismissed if at the cost of
the petitioner. The credit of $466. 90
claimed in Mrs. Singleton's petition OF
March, 1894, which has been allowed by
the Supreme Court of Appeals, with the
interest that has accumulated on it since
then, now amounts to almost ST ,000.-
Advocate.
The back-to the farm movement inaug-
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