Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1865-08-05
Nems Items.

mp All old apple orchard. and sold tour or
FIVE tons OF the roots 10 a New York
manufactured al q good prize, to make
"briar- wood" pipes OF.
The young man who received the first
prize for commencemen,,day oratory al
Rochester University, was zine years ago
canal driver. parenlless, unable TO read !,
ignorant even Of The time Of his birth.
lady in Indianapolis committed sui
eide because her husband refused TO take
her 10 an ice cream saloon.
The abandoned females of St. Louis
who fall into The clutches of the police
are put to work breaking stone for the
roads.
Mrs. Johnston, wife Of Gen. Bradley
I. Johnston, late Of the Rebel army, arri
we'd in Frederick city, Md. on last Wed
Eesdsy evening, together with her son.
Vice, Admiral Fsrragn, and family, and
Admiral Bailey and family, are sojourn
ing at Rye Beach, Mass.
Charles H. hopkins has been appoint
ed assessor Of internal revenue for the
FIRST district of Georgia.
Mail service has been ordered on the
Richmond. Fredericksburg and Potomac
route, and on The Richmond and DanyilIe
Railroad.
The rebrl General J. B. Hood arrived
at San Antonio. Texas, on the Sd. He
cOanseIs Obedience lie the laws.
Nor SO Bad AFTER ALL.-Confeder
ate notes were in demand yesterday al so
cents for thousand dollars. The enter
prising individuals who were hunting up
these Confederate promises TO pay ere
supposed to have been agents for paper
mills.-PetersbtTg Express.
II is stated that he Hon. r. NJ, T.
Hunter of Virginia, now confined as a
State prisoner in Fort Pulaski, asks for
his release, with the privilege Of leaving
the country forever.
Water melons were plentiful in Rich
mond last week, selling al 10, 10, and 20
cents apiece.
There now remains in custody OF the
Government but one prisoner OF war,
Captain Henry Werlz. confined in the
Old Capitol, awaiting his trial upon
charges of cruelty TO our prisoners al An
Jacksonville.
Mrs. Lincoln is living in perfect seclu-
sion seven miles from Chicago.
The soldiers call the army biscui, Ihe
"rock of ages
The application Of Gov. II. A. Wise,
to he allowed to return and occupy his
former residence a! Rolliston, Princess
Anne County, Va, has been refused.
TIA, place is now occupied by the Freed
mems Bureau.
A great scarcity of lsborers prevails in
Mary land, after the employment of all
the remaining freedmen with HE vie y
of Temedying this Inconvenience. agents
have been sent into Virginia 10 induce
the removal Of co8irabands 10 that State.
Rev. +. II. Monroe. who is member
Of the West Va. Conference Nj. z.
Church, for the past few years chaplain
in the u. S. Army, has recently been APP
pointed agent Of the American Bible So
ciely for The State of West Va.
The Washington Republican says that
Hon. Montgomery Blair expects TO sue
coed to the se1 now occupied in the
House of Representatives by Benjamin
G. Harris, of Maryland.
The Republican authorities al Chicago
have ousted all The city employees of
Irish and German birth. and placed in
their stead negroes.
The States which elect Governors this
fall are Iowa, Maine. Massachusetts,, Vef-
mont, Minnesota, New Jersey, Ohio,
Wisconsin. and Virginia.
Gen. Meade has been honored by the
degree Of /. l.. ID. from Harvard.
The New York Worll Is out for Gen.
Il. +. Lee, IS the next Democratic can.
dldae for President.
The degree OF l.. l.. D., was conferred
on Gen. Grant. Secretary Stanton. and
Charles O'Conner, by Union College,
Schenectady, at The commencement last
week.
The Post special dated Saratoga, July
2sih says: Gen. Grant arrived here last
evening, and vas met at the depot by a
committee of citizens, and conducted TO
Congress Hall. the crowds at the depot
aud hotel loudly cheering the General,
SturdlVan,, who has just been elected
Mayor OF Richmond, was known to have
been one Of the 6ercesi traitors in that