Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1867-09-28
Editorial BreYitics.

pouuce their intention to hold n Fair al kable-
town on the Sd Of October. The proceeds 10
be app!ir5 fer repairs to the CHURCH at that
place.
r. &. Horton, Esq editor Of The New York
Day Book, died last Sunday, aged 40, Of con
gcstion OF the lungs.
The ladies and friends OF the new Episcopal
Methodist Church in Martinsburg, are making
Preparations TO have Dinucr and Festival TO be
holden 10 the church building, commencing
Wednesday, October l6h.
Mrs Mumford, the widow of the gentleman
who - as hung by Beast Butler in New Orleans,
i now living IN Abingdon, in great desii!u''on
The Virglniau calls for aid for her and three
fatAcrlcss children
Wheat is selling in the Valley at Public Sale
for -, 30 10 s., 80 Oh a credit Of nirc months.
An interesting revival has been in progress at
Columbia Furnace, Shenandoah county, Rev. }.
T. Hide, presiding. Over $40 persons were IN
attendance and 40 proicssed and joined the NJ
T.. Church, South.
The Agricultural College at Morganlo"n
opened on The % inst, with tie most iiatlrring
prospects. Over one hundred and fifty students
were 10 attendance, with the prospects OF al IN
crease to two hundred.
The Herald learns that a fatal DyPtheria IS
prevailing in Bote:our, which has killed one
ihird OF the hog, in that county
To cure chicken cholera take lamp Of asa
feiida, size of a hul!cd walnut, dissolve IN boil
lag wafer; mix with meal and feed chickens
The Commonwealth has an article III favor Of
"Small Farms" in the Valley. 1t shows that's
farm of 400 acres only yields its owner, under
the present system, g, go, while farm of $50
acres properly cultivated, wiliyieid S2,l92'5O.
Reports from the Manassas Gap Railroad,r rep
resent the work as progressing rapidly. The
cars will ruin 10 Mt Jackson by Christmas ard
TO Harrisouburg by next May.
The Rev Dr. STYLES has been preaching in
Kansas and is highly comPlimentcd by the pa
pcrs GU, there.
Married, at Millwcod Church, Oh Wednes-
day the 18th instant, by Rev. Joseph Jones,
Major John EsleH Cooke to Miss Mary Frances
Page, of Saratoga, Clarke county, Va, Surry
has married May Beverly. LongicIow wrote
Hyperion 10 WIN wife and won her. as
Su7ry equally fortunate? he was more worthy
for he used both pen and sword.
Michael Graham, OF Mt. Jackson, has con-
tracted to furnish 3d. 900 ties for the Manassas
Gap r. r. between Mt. Jackson and Wood
stock. The ties are all to be delivered during
tie month of October. He is to get 40 cents
per tie or S45 per hundred, delivered on the
line Of the road.
Rev. Mr.. Buhrman, q Wayresboro'. Pa, has
recently been elected Pastor Of the Lutheran
Church of Middletown, Frederick county, Nd.
The peach crop in the Valley this season
seems TO be abundant. In HarrSouburg they
have been sold at 80 cents per bushel. H. WIZ
chester at 60 cents, aud apples at 30 TO 40 cents
per bushel.
N D. -. o. CYll
last week farm in Page county, Va, belong
iUg 10 Vim. L. Lauck, Containing @T5 acres, 10
D. j. Patterson, of Washington county, Pa, for
$40 per acre. Also lls3 acres, the property
of Conrad Long, two miles East of Harrison
burg, to Geo. s. Hewlett, of Western New
YorE, for SD 50 per acre. Also, !he Home
Tract belonging 10 Long, containing 1870 acres,
to Jacob MeseroIe, Of Western New York, for
S35 per acre, Also, 20 acres, belonging to the
same, for SIS per acre, to the same party.
The Rev. James R. Hughes, the Pastor Of the
Presbyterian Church in Marlinsburg. died Oh
Monday morning at 10 o'clock. MIR. Hughes
was native Of Cumberland county, Va, aud
though in bad health for some time past, had
filed most acceptably the charge of Martins
burg for The last two years. He leaves fam
ily, each member Of whom Is at this time on
bed of sickness.
old that only weighs ten pounds.
Erasmus Johnson, noted brick. meson, died
recently in Winchester, aged about 50 years.
Mrs Maria Cuisine Bell, an aged well known,
and highly esteemed lady, died ~ Portsmouth.
She was the widow OF the late Major Bell, Who
was voted handsome sword, with a golden
scabbard, by Congress, for gallant services du-
ring the war of 1912 She was also sister in
law TO Commodorcs Warrington aud Crane, |.
s. y. She leaves one son, who scrgCd gallant
ly in The Mexican war.
During the registration in the town Of Hall.
fax, man, claiming to be 4 guard, was placed
al the door who forbade negroes TO enter unless
they paid fifty cents to the Union League II
that was paid, they might register al once; if
refused, reg;sira, ton Was denied uui.I all the
members of the League were served. Ry this
process, it is stated, some five hundred dollars
were levied OF the negroes.
fine boy was Sorn on the ,rain Of the Orange
and Alexandria Railroad Thursday night near
Manassas station. The lady and her son took
quarters at the Hotel at that Station, and at
last accounts were both doing as well as could
be expected.
William II. Francis recently sold his farm Of
224 acres, Wing near PhiIomont, in Loudouu
county, 10 Mr.. Francis NJ Carter for SIS per
acre.
The Weston Expositor charges that great
corruption and 4 wasteful extravaganza is prac-
ticed in the erection Of the Asylum buildings
at that place, and calls for an investigating COM
mtlee.
Numbers Of Northern men are 10 be seen III
the Valley, examining the lands, with a view OF
purchasing.
An old farmer near Lynchburg, Virginia, has
had standing bet Of ten dollars with neigh
Dor for the last thirty years that it would rain
on the first Saturday IN August OF each year.
During that tins he has won twcnty-seYen out
Of the thirty beis.
Rev Magrudcr Naury, of Fredericksburg has
recently received call to wealthy church in
Halifax county, Va, but will not accept it,
This is the third call which this distinguished
young divine has received in the last three
months.
The Messrs. Peyton, proprietogs Of the White
Sulphur Springs, are said 10 have made $4,000
this season
The Loudoun Mirror says that the circus
was exhibited at three points in Loudoun, aud
taking Leesburs criterion, ii is fair 10 pre-
sumo that they carried away nos less than 49,
600 10 $4,000.
The County Court of Shenandoah, have re-
commended to Gen. Schofeld, the appointment