Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1860-01-21
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Ex Governor Wise. of Virginia, has re.

charged win tie murder of Benz. F. Fan
Inigsn, whose Trial will take place IN Feb
ruary next Rhetorical sky.rockels may
be expected about that time.
The people Of Oberlin, Ohio, propose
t. erect monument to Copeland and
Green. the negroes who were hung al
Charlestown, Va, and Lewis Leary, who
fell in the fight al Harper's Ferry, all Of
whom have been students at OberIn.
A Connecticut chap announces 'ha
next spring lie intends To cross the She
mrket on a rope with two men hanging 10
his hair. on each side. He is nov h1sy
day and night, letting his hair grow ioI
that purpose.
An exchange advises husbands To love
their wives. The suggestion IS good, bn,
we amend by adding an edmonton not 10
love each others wives.
Senator Mason, of Virginia, appeared
in the Senate on Wednesday, III gray
sui, Of homespun.
For lady TO sweep her carpe, with
embroidered uudersleeses, would ht con-
sidered indecenhy dirty; bu, to drag The
pavement with her skirt seems to be very
genteel.
among all my boys" said an old
man, II never had but one boy who took
after me, and that was my son Aaron, who
took after me with a club.
Runa3Cay Wives.--The Charleston
Mercury says that careful observation and
calculation from reliable statistics show
that moro wives of Northern men, in pro-
portion to the number, annually run away
from lher husbands, than there are slaves
who fee from their masters.
A Requesf.--Joel O,honrn. Esq..who
died in Ioudoun county, Va, on The 81
inst, left Will by which he directed his
executors to sell his farm near Woodgrove,
and give The money 10 the Alexandria,
Londoun and Hampshire Railroad Com
pany, to he used for the building Of the
road The beqnesi is valued at about
$4,000.
Three married sisters, residing in off.
fefent places-one Of them "A resident Of
Lynn, Mass, have each, within the past
year, presented their husbands with twins.
A woman in Florida, named Cross,
lately gave birth to an infant son, which
only one pound. That Cross
wasn't hard TO bear.
Gov. BIacksnake, the sold Indian"
died at his residence on the Allegheny re-
servation, eight miles from East Randolph
county, N. Y. December
Goth, al the advanced age Of 1913 years.
John Br0Wn's Gun.-The Senate In
vesrigalng Committee have directed that
The Joslyn gun, which the abolition
isl traitor, Brown. treacherously obtained
and nrasouabiy used should he sent from
Richmond TO Washington. lis weight is
thlrty-one pounds, and it carries ball
weighing two and half ounces. Brown
boosted that he could kill his man easily,
if only two and half miles off.
Missouri LegiSlature.-The bill to
drive the free coored population out OF
has passed both branches of the
the Senate having agreed TO
the amendments of the House. 1t has
yet to be signed by tie Governor.
A convention of merchants Of Nlississip-
pi has been called TO consider the best
means of obtaining their goods direct from
Europe.
Mrs. Martneau denounces crinoline,
ard says tina, the peticos,s of the present
isy only serve as mask Of the human
form-a perversion Of human proportions.
woman on a sofa looks like child pop
ping up from a hsycock. A girl in
dance looks like Dutch tumbler that was
a fsvorte toy in infancy.
Poisoned by Tearing Hoops.-A
couple of females at Cayuga, Canada West,
went into the forest TO cut material for
hoops, being resolved to keep up with
The prevailing fashion. They selected
The stem of the "poison IVY" and after
wearing the hoops few days, were so
affected as 10 require medi-
cal treatment. Girls should be careful.
The Tennessee House of Representa-
lives has passed the bill requiring The
free colored persons To leave that State
before the lsl of next January.
Seven fugitives from slavery-one d.
rect from HarPer's Ferry-passed thro'
Syracuse by the Underground Railroad
last week enroute for Canada. They re-
ported that seven others would come over
The same route this week
. A Strong .NQn.-ll is stated that Or.
Wneship,the strongest man in The world.
pow Lifts with his hands 1902 pounds,
and expects To be able, before long, 10