Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1855-07-07
IL VI EL93J.

RoPgERY.-The Charestown Ere,
Press says, the Barber Shop of JOIN
Brown and Joe Trockmorten, in TIA
town. was entered on Thursday night,an,
ninety dollars distracted from the drawer
twenty-five hundred barrels Of pola
toes, peas, snaps, apples, &C., were ship
ped to New York from Norfolk on Satur-
day. This shipment WIKI Weld return
of ten or twelve thousand dollars, and the
freight alone amounts TO nearly 7l,GG0.
Wm. VI. Burwell, of Virginia, IS to b.
the editor Of tie American Organ, in the
place of Judge Ellis, who viii be tempe
rariIy absent on account Of his health.
The marriage of the Hon. JOHN Y
Nason's daughter, Miss Bette W. Ma
son, to Roscoe Heath, Esq, Of Virginia,
at Paris, is announced.
CoNyICTIoN.--A. ]. Copenhaver, tried
like Spur, for the murder of Isaac ".
Smith, was found guilty on Friday last OF
murder in the second decree. He was
sentenced by Judge Parker to the peni.
Tertiary for l5 years, three years less than
his accomplish. The blows which eau,
sed death came from the latter.-U m
chester jirgulim.
UNIVERSITY OF NRGINlA.-The follow
ing were among the graduates who re-
cclved diplomas on Friday the 29h uIt:
{. $. Alexander aid J. II. Srallh, JEFF
lcrson A. NJ. Smith Winchester; JAS.
G. Clark and W. p. Loulhan, Clarke
J. +. Lowell, Warren and X. J. Koonlz
and w. W. Bird, of Shenandoah.
There is an establishment in New
York extensively engaged in manulactu-
ring shirt collars Of paper. It's SAID 'hat
one thousand per hour are turned of by
machinery and that they bear such close
resemblance to the linen collars we are in
the habit Of wearing, that the difference
could only be discovered. by tearing the
article.
Peter Lawson, OF Dracut, Mass, has
Just sold an Attorney COW and calf for
1925. Last year the cow produced II
pounds of butter per week OF such quail
ty Mat il sold al fifty cents pound; coo
pounds per year is considered her aver
age. Mr. Lawson sold at the same time,
an Attorney hciler eleven months old for
$I26.
By the late foreign arrivals, we learn
that in France a very satisfactory yield
may be counted upon Naples and Spain
a very short crop Piedmont, also unla-
vorabie; Lombardy, below the average.
In the markets at ST. Eiienne and Lyons
the transactions are active, and prices well
maintained.
In l788, siXty,eight years ago, eight
hundred acres Of land, the present site Of
Cincinnati, was purchased for five hun
dred dollars. Millions would be rcquir-
ed to purchase it at the present time.
REMOVALS AND APPOINTMENTS. - Wash
ington, July 2.--Thc new Commissioners
Of Public Buildings has appointed VIM.
Morgan and VIM. II. Thompson, capitol
police. vice Hendricks and Nokes reno
we'd; Jas. Flemming, Waterman of the
Patent Office, vice Peter Bergma II, reno
,ed; and Charles G.. Edelin,, IampIlghter,
ice James Roby, removed.
LAND WARRANTS Within the last
week there has been guile brisk demand
or land warrants, with an advancing
market The ruling rates yesterday were
Sill per acre.--U ash. Union.
A poor woman has lain in a PhiIadeI-
,hia prison for more than a week on the
barge Of stealing an old dress skirt worth
cents. Her innocence
,as clearly proved. The charge was
,ronght by an Alderman.
A HINT TO FARMERs.-CaLtIe, for fresh
cef, should never exceed three years.
they should, by course of feeding, be
rought to maturity at that age. A steer
t three years, is as much more valuable
D the farmer than one of The same weight
we years old, as the two years keeping,
nd The interest Of his money.
The receipts Of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad for the month Of May show a
ecrease of&l5, 36O,25 as compared with
he same month last year. The entire
eceipts for the first five months Of this
ear show decrease of S4G,O79,I2 As
ompared with the same months Of last
ear.
DISMISSAL OF CLERKS, Washing
IN, July I.-During the month Of June
OF less than twenty clerks, messengers