Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1854-08-26
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offer 10 sell Slka to the United States Is
now pronounced "Pure invention
The denial, however, is no more auihorl'
lalire than the assertion; so that readers
can believe which they please.
( The IIF!GHr OF MEANNEss.-Ihe
Kniekerbocker tells Of a man who stole a
five dollar bill out in lndlanna. Ills
counsel tried TO prove tina! the note was
not worth five dollars, it being at DIS
count. The prosecutor said he kne" that
the thief was the meanest man in the
State. bu, he did not think he was 50 all
fired mean as not to be willing TO St6G'
Indiana money at par
VINO CAN BEAT lT.-A young wo-
man, of Cole county, Illinois, recently
presented her husband with four children
at one birth ! This vas her first effort in
the line, and there is no telling, therefore,
what she may be able to do hereafter
Great country tI:is, and bound to pros
per
BuRyING TWO WIVES IN A WEEK.--At
Buffalo last week, German is SAID TO
have lost his wife by cholera, married an
other the next day, and lost her also by
death on the day following.
The story runs that Sir Charles Ma
pier, in speech made before leaving
London, concluded by saying that he
would lunch at Cronstadt and dine at St.
Petersburg on the same day. BY way OF
rctort, the Grand Duke Constantine, after
carefully examining the Notifications there
not long since, remarked that he was now
ready to lunch Admiral Napier, but he
thought The repast at Cronstadt would be
such as to take away his appetite for dim
ner at ST. Petersburg.
A CONSCIENTIOUS CoNGREssMAN.-lI
is stated that the Hon. Gerrilt Smith, OF
New York, in settling with the Sergeant
alarms. was entitled to about $500 legal
mileage, but only took 800, being IS
day while coming and going, and actual
travelling expenses.
Ireland Is being drained OF It's popua-
ton. The inhabitants amoAnt to only
seven millions at present, and three mil
lions Of lhem are Protestant, leaving only
four millions to fight the British, and win
freedom and religious liberation.
A German woman passed through Day
ION, Ohio, recently, having with her S'r
children, all boys, born at The same Time.
They were six months old, small but
sprighdy.
AR1srocRATIC.--The lady who did not
think it respectable to bring up her chll-
dren to work has lately heard from her
two sons. One Of them is bar-keePer on
a flat boat, and the other is steward OF a
brick-yard.
Easter, negro woman, the property OF
Mrs. Eliza +. Garter, near UppcrvI'Ie,
Fauquier County, died recently, having
attained the age of one handred ald. for
~!
WoMAN's RIGHrs.--A party Of "strong
minded women" paraded Boston Com
mon, on Saturday last, smoking cigars.
A good natured husband, dozen chill
dren, and 4 happy home, are women'S
rights.
WAD1NG ACROSS THE OHro.-It is said
that boys are wading across the Ohio rlv-
err at the mouth of the Kannwha. 1t IS
thought the uyer has not been SO low
since 1888.
LT. BoNApARTE.--We see il stated that
the resignation of Brevet Lieut.. Bonaparte
was received on Monday at The War De-
partment, in Washington, and accepted.
The lieutenant is now in Paris, where, we
learn by the late arrival, he has accepted
a commission flom the Emperor III The
French army.
The Fredericksburg News says:--'To
give faint idea of what our mlIIerS are
doing this season, we may state that one
of them has already taken in eleven thou
sand bushels of wheat, to say nothing of
what he has bought besides. One Of them
has sold fifteen thousand bushels in the
shape of flour, and has the cash ready 10
buy more.
Erskine S. Allen, Of Springfield, is APP
pointed acting Superintendent of the Ar
mory there, and William Byinglon at
Harper's Ferry. These gentlemen were
the master armorers under the military
system.
The Abingdon Virginian notices the
death of Rev. Samuel Patton, OF Knox
vile, Tennessee, formerly of Southwest
tern Virginia, very popular minister OF
the Methodist Episcopal church. He was
editor of the Holston Christian Advocate.
A two o'clock OIL Sunday morning a
week 500 kegs of gunPowder in the mag,
azine at MaysvilIe, KY, exploded. The
effect can be 'better imagined than des-
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