Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1867-06-08
Elit0Pial Breyities.

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Mic at Bediugton on Monday next
John w. Daley. Assessor for Berkeley coun'
ty, has returned his list Of births for the iasI year
which shows birth for every day IN the year
J. w. Robinson, copservati e, was elected
Mayor Of Martnsburg on Monday OF last week.
The Councllmen elected are also conservative
Rev. DR.. Strobel, fjr several years past Pastor
of the Lutheran Church of Middletown, Freder-
lex county. Md, on Saturday last tend his
resignation TO The Church Council, and on Sun
dav announced the fact 10 his congregation. lis
resignation is 10 take effect on The 5th OF June
instant.
A call for border State convention has been
issued by the radical State central committee OF
Maryland TO be held IN Baltimore on The l2lh
of September next. The States Of Delaware,
West Virginia, Kentucky. Tennessee and Mis-.
souri, arc invited to send delegates to conven-
ton without regard to color. The object OF tn .
con ention is 10 organize an appeal to Congress
on the part of the border States for {. passage
of legislation which may lead 10 The eslabll h.
merit of colored suffrage.
At the Municipal election in Washington on
Monday, tie Radicals carried the city by about
200u majority. electing their whole city IT, ket
consisting of Collector, Register, aud Surveyor,
thirteen out of twenty .one Councilmen, four out
of tie seven members of the Board Ct A ldermen.
The negro vote was large.
| AT the floral decoration at Richmond on Fri
day Of last week. The vault IN which rests the
remains of Gen. John Fl. Morgan was open the
entire day, and was visited by hundreds. Many
wreaths were left upon the coffin containing ali
that is mortal OF the cavalier whom Kentucky
gave to the Southern armirS. The graves ol
Gems. Pegram, Jeb. Stuart Archer, W. Il. Stark
and Armisead, Col Robt. " heat. Capt. .. Jen-
nnss Wise and Willie Pegram, President Mon
roe and olher distinguished Soulherners were
visited and srewn with flowers.
The New York Day Book. the leading
organ of the Democracy in the United
States, is out in a strong article favoring
the nomination of Jefferson Davis and
| Edgar Cowan as the Democratic candI-
dates for President and Vice Presiden, nj
The Uuiled States.
! A young lady connected with the Baptist
Sunday School al the Material Bridge Va. re-
Gently memorlzed aud repeated A5O verses fl ON
the BiHIe at one lesson.
Some ncgIoeS, in digging W II lately, near
Pensacola Florida. encounleIed brick vault
am hrc ahing through II found chest win
hey in it and brass plate attached TO It lnd'
eating The amount Of special deposit, S5iooeu'
The cuncealmen must date back to The Spanish
occupation OF the country.
! The Pete sburg Express says that lady OF
that city standing nesr one OF the trees IN her
yard. was much surprised not 50 say frlghlen-
/ ed. TO find Der head euvclopcd i'll huge swarm
of bees. which had suddenly descended upon II.
BEFORE she could well recover her presence Of
mind the bees had settled upon her waterfall, aud
it was only by extra exertions, aided by her
friend that she was able to dislodge them.
/ A gent eman in Alabama, who, before The
wac, owned $50 slaves aud large plan aiIon, If
on his way to New York to mortgage his plan
tation with several others, at one fifth Of Their
value 10 procure the means nI a'"rlirg star n
ton from his Immediate community. He also
states that many of his noishhors were co'2pel
led to eat roots aud snakes to prevent starvation.
Asher Mes>ick, 60 ears old. living two IN les
from Harrsunhurg, Va, without other assls-
ance than his daugh,er and another lady, has
plowed ~ acres OF gr"und; scwed ! hnShoIs 81
TO IS and narrowed It in; planted Ia acres III
corn; one fourth of an acre m potatoes; made
GO rails. and put up about 200 panels oil fence,
besides attending TO other business, such AZ
strengthening, going to mill. blacksmith shop
and to the city OF HarTisonhurg.
IT Annual Meeting OF runksrs will be held
a, Pipe Creek. Md, on The 18th of June. Al
the Animal Meeting Of 1865 held near Waynes-
horo.' Franklin county, II was decided. "thal
there be no public preaching at the place where
the Council is held, aud ''tbat there shall he
no boarding teGt put up at the place OF meeting
To entertain and feed a mixed multitude. MS be-
ure." tut "that the Church holding the NEE;
ing shall make arrangements to receive and en-
,eriai in the brethren and sisters prlvatey.
| Genera James l.. Kemp'r is TO address the
Alumni of Washington College, Lexington Va,
and Rev. NJ. d. Hoge, ID. II. The Literary Socie-
ties al tie annual commencement, this month.
The arnuI commencement exercises at
Hampden Sidney College, Va. take place on
the 18th instant, aud those OF the universl y OF
Va, OH the eth, and those the Virginia Mil
itary Institute o.. the 4th Of July.
A party of Swiss laborers has arrived in
Lynchburg Va. and more are coming.
Twenty inches of snow fell at Central City.
Colorado, Oh the 10th of May.
B BERKELEY CoUhT'-"o cup '"' ''
lowing from the Martns1urg New Era !:
State VS.. Geo. s. Wine. Larceny. Verdit
guilty and sentenced TO one year in penlienIiary.
S ate va Jonathan Philippe. Indictment Tor
stealing horses in lS6l-verdlct at The last court
of guIlly-new trial awarded, end noe prose-
q vi entered by the States Attorney with the AS
sent Of the Count at the present term, 1t being
appa rent that the prosecution could not be main-
tanned.
Jonathan Strine VS.. T. T. Dugan. War
TrespaSS. Dismissed.
Robert Penery VS.. ID. Lefevre and others.
War Trespass. Dismissed