Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1867-10-05
Editorial ISreyities

Grecnsburg school, Friendship school, Otter
bein school, and Strinesilie school. Addresses
by Rev, Mr.. Lower, Mr.. Spear, and DR.. liar
man, A large number Of children were IN at
tendance.
Quite an extensive revival is taking place al
the NJ. f.. Church in Martinsburg, conducted by
the Rev. Mr.. Mcdaniel, the resident pastor, as
sisted by the Rev. Mr.. Welsh. \ number Of
converts have been gained, and the meetings are
becoming still more interesting.
lIoreb Encampment, No. II, |. o. O. F., OF
Martnsburg, has been organized, and the fol-
lowing officers elected DR.. F. NJ. Burkhart
c. T.; J. Baker kearioot, ii. p; Henri Couch
man, ). W; Samuel Aler, j. W; II. 4. Mil
Ter, Sentinel. Meets 81 and ith Tuesday night,
Of each month, al Odd Fellows Hall.
The Berkeley Union states that on Friday
evening of last week Martinsburg was ilumna
ted for the first time by street lamps, which shed
a cheerful light and made the citizens feel quite
clty-hed.
| On the train on Thursday morning last says
! the Winchester Times we met with an old gen.
tleman from Pennsy !Sania, who was on his way
! TO Winchester in search of good farm. lie
had seen 4 circular from an entcrpr!sing land
agent here, and concluded "irom the number Of
/ farms advertised FOR sele," eud the fact that
! ''Shcrid had devastated the Valley" that
"No farms could be bought for five dollars
! per acre ~ Finding the people not quite pre-
( pared to give their farms away, he left on the
return train,
On Thursday, Goth uIt., number of the la
dies and gentlemen Of Romney, assembled TO do
| the appropriate honors of inaugurating monu-
ment TO the Confederate soldiers who fell in the
! Southern service during The late war. Adircs-
ses were delivered by Jas. ID. Armstrong, Esq,
| Maj. Alex. Monroe, aud Rev. G.. i. Fitzpatrick.
The procession, which was large one, was un-
der the marshalship Of 1t. Col ID. Ed. Beall,
late Of the Confederate service.
\ person applying for the benefit of the bank
rupt laws cannot obtain discharge from hIs
. debts if he has lost any part of his estate in
gaming within four months Of the filing OF the
application.
No debt created by bankrupt while acting
in any fducIary character can be discharged
under the bankrupt law, but such debt may be
proved with others and the divided will be cred
tied on account.
The Shenandoah Tallty learns that reliable
Information has been receN cd in relation TO the
Methodist Church Property. The present oe-
cupanis will retain possession until the mailer is
decided by the Civil Courts.
At a meeting of the Radical party on Satur-
erson, Jonathant Roberts, and Levi Dcnning,
white aud Fred Foote and S. Collins, colored,
were elected delegates 10 the County Conven-
ton TO be held OH Monday The 9TH Of October,
for the purpose Of nominating a candidate 10
represent the Radicals Of the county in the pro-
posed State Constitutional Convention.
Hon Benjamin Stanton has received the nom
inalion for The House of Delegates Of Ohio
county.
Hon. W. Porcher Miles, of South Carolina,
has purchased the magnificent estate of Judge
Alexander Riyes, called Oak Ridge, on the Or
ange and Alexandra Railroad, III Nelson coun-
ty, for the sum of $4,000.
4 man named b. +. Spicer elopcd with a
"war widow" from Augusta county, last week.
lie left wife and seven children; the widow
four children.
Solomon II. Rupert, a wealthy and resp0cta-
bic merchant of New Market, committed sui
eide by hanging himself on Sunday last. Mr..
j. has for some Time past been suffering with
the heart disease, which threw him into a mel
ancholy state, and Of course partial derange-
mcnt Of mind.
The Virginia Conference will assemble in
Petersburg on the 18th Of November next. 1t
is expected that some two hundred delegates
will be present. Bishop Doggctt will preside.
a black man was caught in an undertaker's
shop, in Richmond, in the act of stealing cof-
fin. lie was looking to "the latter end"
The Powhatan Hotel property in Richmond
has been sold, Mr.. Samuel Brown, Of Augusta
county, becoming the purchaser.
Tar is said TO be q speedy for the disease
now prevailing among hogs. Tho tar should
he mixed with the corn, aud then fed 10 the
hogs.
General Lee has written a letter in behalf of
General Porter. The General thinks, from the
position of affairs in the rebel army when Por-
ter is supposed to have bluudcred, that had he
gone in lie would have been badly worsted.
In Augusta county the Court was addressed
on MONDAY last on the subject Of subscr Ption
to the Chesapeake g. O. Il. Il. by Major J. u.
Paxton, in an exhaustive and convincing
speech. lie was followed by Major II. NJ. Bell.
Major j. i. Watts, Col. Bolivar Christian and
Gen John Echols, in favor Of the tax. Capt.
Jas. Bumgardner G.. VI. Cochran, Jr., and Ma
jor NJ. Hanger, opposed the tax. The Court
decided, unanimously, TO submit the question of
subscription of $500, 900 to the qualified vo-
tiers of the county, to be paid in the bonds of the
county, on Thursday, November 2lst, 1861.
The Winchester Times gives the proposed
route orthe Strausburg Railroad extension, from
Winchester TO Strausburg, and says II is well
adapted for the purpose, the deepest cut on the
whole line being only 10 feet, the heaviest
grade 80 feetper mile, and the strongest curve
one degree.
The Warrcnton Sentinel SAYS "Ma lor John
Scott, OF Fauquier, now in Europe, has just
written. informing his friend here, Col. John :.
Mosby, that the Prussian War Minister, Count
Bismarck, has ordered government translation
of his late work, ''PartiZan Life with Mosby,"
for The purpose Of adopting IN the Prussian SER
vice, the system developed by Col, Mosby dur
ing the late war regard it as entirely original
aud effective. Also, that the Russian War
Minister, and his Royal IIighne,s-Crown
Prince, of Russia have written him letters in
high commentator of Col. Mo.by's newly de-
yeloped system of warfare"
The Piedmont Agricultural and Mechanical
Association was organized in Warrenton last
week, with Ex-Gov. VIM. Smith as President,
and X. b. Boiling Vice President.
A meeting was held last week at Ur5anna,
Nd, for the purpose of taking into considera-
ton the duty, and propriety of removing the
neglected Confederate dead, whose graves are
exposed and unprotected upon the battle field,
at the Monocacy Junction, to Mt. Oliyet Gene
terry.
There was quite stiff frost in this section on
Monday nlght-ttc first we believe of the sea-