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

| equestrian group, VIZ LeNIs anu ~ >,
| list is now complete and comprises The loho"'
ing Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson george
Mason, John Marshall, Andrew Lewis and
Thomas Nelson.
Messrs. Conrad, Hunter and Sherrard, com
mittee for the directors of the Winchester and
| Potomac railroad, 10 negotiate lease or sale
! Of that road, have had conferences with the
, president OF the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
! Company and parties in Louisville, ny. The
! terms of the agreement have nOtyel been made
known. 1t is stated, however, that there is a
/ fair prospect Of satisfactory bargain.
Abner Marks, arrested in Richmond short
time since, on the charge Of having robbed the
Adams Express Company in West Virginia
about fifteen months ago of $4,000, was ar
ragned for the third time before the Mayor.
Abner asked the Mayor TO discharge him, stat
ing that he would Immediately leave the city.
The Mayor told him be was not TO be trusted,
and as no reGus!lion from the Governor Of W.
Va. had been received, he would remand him
to Jail for while longer.
ES. Our farmers are now in The midst
OF their seeding; fine rain is now fall
ing which will be of great benefit to the
grain being put in. The amount Of land
being put in wheat this year is more than
the average Of the last few years.
Fanny Janauscbek, celebrated Ger
man iragedienne, arrived at New York,
I by the North German Steamer, on Salur-
day.
The first Jewish Synagogue ever cree
ted in North Carolina, was coHseGraied
al Wilmington on last Sunday.
The total number of registered whites
and blacks in Mississippi is officially sta
ted to be-whiies 52,l54; blacks TO-
ol9. Black maj 1866.
The friends of Speaker ColfaX deny
that he faVors impeachment, despite the
sentiments expressed in his late WOTce.-
Ter, Ohio, speech.
A single dealer in eggs in Western
New York sent over half million Of
them TO market at New York in three
weeks.
VIM. II. Ketchum, a well-known stock
broker of New York, fell dead while eat
ing supper at hotel in Philadelphia,
Thursday night
Emory and Henry College, in Virgin
ia, has about l4O scholars in attendance,
and additional accessons almost every
week.
Several small parcels of Virginia tobac-
CO, from this years crop, have already
been sold in the Danylle market.
A woman in Petersburg has trained
four chickens 10 draw carriage with a
rooster in it.
In a Radical procession, in 81. Louss,
few nights since, banner was proml-
men, which bore this inscription mo
more Presidents. Presidency the first
step TO despoilSm."
\ lot in Chicago was sold for $4,000
per from. foot, the highest price ever paid
for land in that city.
The transformation OF old firearms into
needle guns has been commenced in Italy.
The Lexington (Ys.) Hotel has been
sold to Col. c. II. O'Ferrall, of Stanton,
and VIM. w. Major, of Rockbridge
county, for $4,000.
A census, just completed, OF CoIum-
bus, Ohio, gives a population of about
$4,000, an increase OF nearly 10000 SINCE
1860.
Handsome collections were taken up
in the churches in Baltimore on Sunday
in aid Of the yellow fever sufferers in Gal
weston.
The forthcoming statement Of the pub
lie debt for September, il is said, will
show a further reduction in the sum total,
though it is not expected to DO as large as
the one previous.
A malignant typhoid has prevailed late
ly in the towns bordering the Duchess
and Columbia line, in New York, and
many deaths have occurred.
Owners Of starch factories in the North.
ern part Of New Hampshire, the Concord
Statesman says. arc contracting for pota-
toes al ihrly-Ihree cents per busbeI.
A Paris correspondent. who has just
returned from Switzerland, states that
he came TO Paris on The train with Gen
eral Mcclellan.
Twelve hundred Polish cmigrants are
expected to reach Virginia The coming
season.
A sea-wall Of granite is now conslruc.
ting for the protection of the harbor OF
San Francisco.
Hon. John A. Logan made a speech
al Cleveland, Ohio, on Saturday, in which
he favored the election Of coIored men TO
Congress, and inllmated that a colored
President would not be TO much amiss.
The farm, which has upon 1t the min
ersI springs known as the Tsylor's
Springs, situated about four miles east of
Harrisonburg, Va, was sold last week
by Col. George E. Deneale 10 Mr.. Lin.
meas Woodson, of Goochand county. Va,
for the sum Of $4,000. The farm con.
tains 100 acres Of land, with good i'm.
provements.
There are men in London who make a
business Of fixing up partly decayed fish
so that it can be sold IN the market.
Ills said that The iron work Of the Paris
Exposition Building has been soId' and
viIl he hrouoht IN the limited States.