Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1860-05-26
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Forsyth county is out Of debt and has
an empty Jail.


lack Homer. convicted at Hampshire,
Va, for placing an obstruction on the
rack of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
\ as been sentenced 10 three years IN the
penilenIiary.
The Legislature of Maryland, at lis
last session. passed law prohibiting the
mannmission Of slaves, by deed or wlll.aI-
ter the first .; next month.
The Richmond Wing states that the
merchants of Richmond have employed
The Hon. John Nj. Bolts to test the con-
sttuionality of the lax bill lately passed
by The Virginia Legislature.
Ex-presiJent Santa Anna and family are
in New York.
The Japanese Embassy had an inter
view with the Secretary of Stale on We'd
nesday. and were received by The Pfesi-
den. on Thursday.
Gen. Scott, it is said, announces him
self ain favor Of The Constitutional Union
nomination al Baltimore"
The Piedmont Independent says. ru-
NOR is quite current thatlhe Clinton Bank,
in Weslernport, Md, has closed. We
learn that The officers have left.
One of the New York papers charges
distinctly that Hannibal Hanlln, the Re
publican candidate for Vice Presidents
free.trader, as proved by his record-so
writes the Washington correspondent OF
the Philade phia Press.
Official intelligence has been received
in New York that the Steamship Great
Eastern is TO come TO that port.
The actual deb, of Virginia is at pres
emf $49, 552, 1892.
Small droves of superb cattle number
ing from $50 to 800, have passed through
Winchester, for the Baltimore markets.
from The Western and Southwestern coun'
Ties within the last ten days.
The Governor of Virginia has been
well pleased with his visit TO the North
and has come to the conclusion that with
The advantage of climate and facilities for
getting iron and coal, equal 10 aIy in the
WORLDLY the Stale Of Virginia can manu-
fac!ure arms cheaper than they can be
bought a, the North or elsewhere.
A man named Myers. keeper Of a res
taurant in ST. Louis, has been lucky e.
nough to lVse wife, who on Sunday
night last clipped with his bar keeper; anu
unucky enough To lose $1,000 In cash
M hich che iook with her
The Hsgers,own, (Md. Herald and
Torch says that the wheat crop in Wash
ington county presents an uncommonly
fine appearance, and promises al present
one of Il largest fields realized Tor many
y ears.
Boston is at present supplying New
York epicures with peaches AT 81, 90 each
Better 10 sell than buy al that price.
A buffalo boy named Fred Whitehead,
has been Astonishing the 81. Louis people
with his shooting. At "a distance OF ten
PAGES he knocks half dollar out OF a.
mans hand every time and shoots com
mon siz d lemon off a mans head.
Whitehead claims to be the champion
shooter in America.
Seuen Gouernors at Chicago.-Gov-
ernor Morgan, of New York; Kirkwood,
of Iowa; Ramsey, of Minnesota; Randall,
of Wisconsin; Dennlson,of Ohio; Woods,
of Illinois, and Morrill, Of Maine, attended
the Chicago Convention.
Rev. Geo O. Lillle, an associate edl-
tor OF the Baltimore Clipper, died in Get
tysburg, Pa, last we k.
DIT Like ia German girl in Gin,
cinnali went TO gel hei picture taken at
Car. and got kissed by the OPP
orator. She did not like either the pic
lure or the kissing, and wen, TO law for
redress. The Judge fined the artist
twenty dollars and costs.
Mr.. John Donahoe assistant in the oil,
fee of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
al Harper's Ferry, has been appointed
agent in the place of the late lamented
Fountain Beckham, one of the victims oil
old John Browns raid.
The Boston correspondent of the n \.
Tribune writes that Mr.. Everett will GER
tainlv decline the nomination for VICE"
President conferred on him al Baltimore
Comterfeiters.-Two coun'eIleI'eFs
have been arrested in Cleaveland, O.,haV-
ing in their possession several thousand
dollars in noes upon the Wamsuita anu
Union Banks, Mass.
Kendall, of lha New Orleans Picay une,
"ranching'' it in Texas. writes that he Is
the owne; Of 200 lambs, and expects In
thrpe weeks IN own 500.