Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1858-08-14

I The .Bloomer Dress ReformerS.--A
; correspondent of the Davenport Gazette
. writing from Coriandville, Cortland coun
. ly, IN. " June 3OIh. says -:
, LAST Tuesday and Friday the Nallona
, Dress Reform Association held It's third
annual convention in this place. There
f were about one hundred and fifty women
present in Bloomer costume, and lawyers
doctors, professors, editors, &C., paFlIcl'
o,red in the doings. believe some elghl
or len diferen, States were represented
Inst think of il, one bundled and fifty
Boomers together They were OF ev-
erv age, from childhood 10 gray hairs
homely, handsome, smart, stupid tall
short, enthusiastic, deliberate, tasty ,sloven-
Iy. There seemed 10 be three leading
patterns Of the BloomeI pants: one style
vas loose in the sailor fashions; another
was the full Turkish style, gathered into
rifle abou, the ankle; and sill another
was close, tight legs, like some OF your
Shanghai dandies occasionally get on. The
length o. the skirts ranged from two to
three inches above the ankle 10 as much
above the knee; and there was as much
variety in the materials, trimmings, and
tasteful arrangement Of the entire dress,as
You would find in any gathering of women.
Silks, callicoes, velvets, lawns, linens, de
Iains, apacas, ginghams, in fact almost
every figure might be found there. Near
ly all of them wore their hair cut short a
bout the neck like schoolgirls with va
rious styles of hat, trimmed to the wear
er's taste; and walked in CATERS, slippers,
boots, kips, &C., as the case might be y
CHURCH DlFFlcuLTY.--The members
iu the Burning CHAM, on the Ohio, below
Wheeling have recently had serious dill
fcul.y about a trivial matter. Several
weeks ago travelling exhibition stopped
there for one night, and quite number
Of church members attended il thinking,
doubtless il would do no harm. Ihe eX-
hbilon was a combination OF circus. the
atre, "nigger dancing" and other pea nut
attractions. The Methodist preacher very
severely rebuked The offending members
of his church WIN attended the show, and
took immediate measures 10 have them
expelled. Whereupon The church in a
body deserted him. Very few Of the
community sympathise with the preach
er, because Of his harshness.
Novel READING, whole family,
brought TO destitution in England, has had
all It's mislor,unes traced by the anthori-
lies TO an ungovernabIe passion for move
reading, entertained by the wife and
mother. The husband was sober and in
dustrious. but lis wife was ndoent and
addicted to reading everything pro'urea-
bic in the shape Of romance. This led
her 10 neglect her husband, herself and
her eight children. One daughter in de-
spair, fled the parental home, and threw
herself INTO the haunts Of vice. Another
was found by the police chained by the
legs to prevent her from following her SIS.
tiers example. The house exhibited the
most offensive appearance OF filth and IN
digence. In the midst of this pollution,
privalIon and poverty, the cause Of il sal
reading the last "sensalion work OF The
season, and refused 10 allow herself 10 be
disturbed in her enlertanment.--CO Courier
and Enquirer.
DAN RICE AND Ills IIoRsE EXCELSIOR.
The repo.led death OF this horse Is I'M
true. Recently, al Waukegan, H., man
rose up in the audience and told Dan he
A L., l.,
make his horse jump from the platform
he was descending. Dan stopped the
horse in his descent, and told the man toI
come forward with his 500; they were
five minutes arranging the matter. Then
Dan turned around and told The horse 10
Jump. The horse no sooner heard the
command than he wheeled and jumped
of, sinking up to his knees in the black
mud which tie ring was composed OF; the
sinking of bis legs in the mud caused him
to fall over; he gave groan, but was soon
up on his leet again. Dan says he has
performed with MIN ever since, and has
seen noting TO show that he is hurt in
tie least. He returned the money 20 The
Sucker, telling HIM that ne had more than
he knew what TO do with, and he did not
want his money. The man retired amid
the eers Of tie audience and cheers for
Dan Rice.
Sufferers from ScrofuIa and Srrofulous
affections, clean up! Why wear your
Pmpes, Bolches, Ulcers, Sores Why
have the life twisted out Of you by Dys-
pepsia, Rheumatism and Govt? Why
suffer Syphiitic and Mercurial diseases
TO rot the bones in your body, or the flesh
off your bones why let your sluggish
blood drag. and scatter its disiempers
through your veins! AYERS CoMP. EXT
CT Ssrsaparilla cures these complaints, and