Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1867-09-14
Editorial Rreyities.

VI
near Yanc!eyesvihe.
We learn tina, the pastor OF the Presby-
terrain Church, Mariinsburg, Rev. James
Hughes, lies dangerously Ill, and is not
expected 10 recover.
The second annual Fair Of the North
west Virginia agricultural Society will be
held on Wheeling Island on Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, Oc'
ober lst, %, 81, and 4'h.
IA alteration occurred recently in
Winchester, between two Federal ser
gesnls, in which one named Kelly had his
law broken 10 three places and was other
wise Injured. lie is in a critical condl-
ton, and fears are entertained that he val!
not recover,
There we're 1902 arrivals at the Amer
lean Hotel, Stanton. last month.
Henry Shack!eu, of Harrisonburg, was
pretty severely injured on Saturday
week, by having an iron clock 10 fall
from Tie maniel.piece upon his face and
head. lie was lying on the chamber
floor, playing with his children, at the
time.
A woman in Richmond last week ap-
piled to the Mayor 10 have her son re-
leased from Jail. so that he could see the
circus.
AtDenver. Colorado, wheat sells at
| 81 O6 to 81 10 a bushel. 1t used 10
bring five times that much.
Over half million has been subscribed
by Va, counties to the Chesapeake &
OHIO Rsi!road. The county Of Green
brier has voted s25O,0OO.
The Shenandoah Herald says that
! Messrs. pl4cide & Clarke, who have the
contract for demonstrating the NJ. G.. X.
r., from Slrasburg 10 Nj. Jackson, will
commence the work a. olce, and that
they are nen Of known energy and exPe.
rlence.
! While some men were engaged in dig.
ging well in Richmond, they struck .
vein Of sparkling ore, which upon exam
nation, proved to be gold.
Bean Cartme,Ps farm four miles from
Winchester, at the eastern base of Lille
| North Mountain, part limestone and part
mountain land, has been sold al a rate
making about $50 an acre for The lime.
stone.
It's stated tina. "il is probable the
election Of Delegates to frame a State
Constitution in Virginia viii take place
on or about the l4h Of October"
A little boy fell into a we'll in Augusta
county, 70 feet deep, with IS feet of wa.
Ter, and, remarkable TO say, was rescued
unhur;.
Alexander KiIgour, Esq, a prominent
member Of the bar OF Montgomery coun-
iy, Nd, and frequently member of the
Legislature, died on the SIS, VII. lie
was in the Ssh year Of his age.
Rev. Henry Wendl late superintendent
Of the Germantown Orphan Asylum, was
sentenced last week, al Philadelphia, 10
fifteen years in the State prison for out
RACES on LILLE girls under bis care. The
prisoner 10 a msil OF fine education, and
heretofore much respected.
General Sheridan was honored with
grand reception al ST. Louis last evening.
A lorchlight procession two miles long, in
which twenty posts of the Grand Amy
Of The Republic and large number of
colored organizations participated, was
the principal feature of The occasion.
Registration in Virginia has closed,
and the result is as follows: Whites,
lI5,l57; coloreJ, l0l, 400; white major.
ity, 1867,
A farmer from Dixon. H., writes 10
the Agricultural Department in Washing
ton that he has successfully made sugar
from the box elder trees. The sap, he
asserts, is very sweet, graduates as read.
lily as the maple, and makes white sugar
CT finer taste.
Information fyom Savannah states that
James Duncan, commlSsary Of the Con-
federaie Wlrz al Andersonvilie, escaped
from Fort Pulaski las. week. lie was in
confinement there, serving term Of IF
teen years imprisonment, TO which he
was sentenced BY courtmarlisl conven-
ed at Savannah Immediately after the
close Of the war.
The hog cholera is prevailing 10 an
alarming extent in Giles county Va.
Belle Boyd, Of Virginia. has been act.
ing at 81. Louis.
Mr.. Harvey, our minister TO Portugal,
and whose salary Congress refused 10
vote, has just returned home.
One High McEI.oy, Montana miner,
lately shot himself The coroner's jury
called IN the case brought in verdict
"that the deceased committed suicide,
and that Ike did so II. seGdgtnee."
twenty-five of The leading New Or.
leans editors were Confederate officers.
The Bank Presidents in Richmond
have issued a card contradicting a recent
dispatch relative TO The involvency OF Rich
mond merchants. They say tina, com.
mercisl bills are being met as promptly
as ever before, bu; that some parties out
side OF commercial circles and insolyent