Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1868-05-16

MIR. John A. Logan. CommandeI-in'
Chief of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie. has general orde, announcing that
the 3Olh of May is designated Tor the PuT'
pose of srrewing with flowers or other
wise decorating the graves Of their com
rsdes who fell during the war.
The Surrall trial has been postponed
until Juns.
Uheat on Or. Cages farm, near
Uylheville, is three feet high and has
heads two and thTee-quarler inches long
A meeting has been held in Clarke
county, Virginia, and an association formed
for the purpose ofrepairius and rebuild
ing The locks on the Shenandoah river
from Berry's ferry TO HarPer's ferry, and
of Transporting and insuEing against r'sk
The transporting Of freight on the Shenan-
dosh river, 10 the chesapeake ano Ohio
canal, or to the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road.
On Sunday last the Presbyterian church
OF S!sunion received into lis commuoion
thriy-fve additional members.
We learn that, on Saturday evening
last, son Of Judge Brockenbrough, OF
Lexington, while walking with his moth
er, was dangerously, if mol fatally shot,
by a negro man, who refused 10 give him
room on the eide walk:
Lieutenant Cluncy, OF the U. 5. A.,
visited Berryvilie, Va, the past week and
closed the VI. E. Church. For The past
two years dispute has existed between
the Northern and Southern Mothodsls.
A Now Orleans correspondent writes
relative TO the Louisiana sugar crop, that
the plantations sre dong well this year,
and il is "esiima,ed that there ls cene
enough in The ground to prod 10000
hossheads of sugar, provided il is not
killed and choked ont by politics.
A violent hail storm occurred on Set
urday last in the lower counties OF Vir-
GINA and Maryland, bordering on the Po-
tomsc. In King George county, Va, the
hail stones we're ss large as wslnuts, and
on the opposite side, in Maryland, they
sre reported TO have been even larger.
The "Florsl Offering" will take place
in S,auntou on the 18Th of June.
The little daughter OF Prof. J. H.
Hewitt. OF Sioun'on, was scverely burned
a few nights since, by her night dress
catching fire from a candle.
Gen. Wade Hampton, Of South Caro-
lima. has accepted the appointment 10 I'D
dress the Literary Societies of Washing
ton College al the ensuing commence
ment in June. J. Horace Lacy, Esq,
will address the Society Of Alumni.
The New Orleans Picayune, of the lsl.
makes the following announcement The
gallant, brave and universally beloved
General Hood was married yesterday
evening to Miss Anna Hennen, daughter
OF the late Duncan n. Hennen, Esq. Tie
hero IN this. az we'll 40 Of great may
other, 5u, very different enggGcmen'a,wss
surrounded by number Of his comrades
in arms, among whom we noticed Cen
erals Buciner and Bragg.
Henry Pitts, only son Of DR.. Pitts, Of
Abingdon. youth Of some fifteen or six
teen years, and student at Emory ard
Henry College, was severely if no. fatal
ly sho, on Tuesday night by negro
man, whom he and some ten or twelve of
his fellow students, disguised as h. K.
KS, were epdeavoring TO (righeD.
During the entertainment Of ST, Maur
in Petersburg on Tuesday night. negro
man had the impotence to take bis seat
among the white people. He was told IS
20 to the gallery but refused to do so, and
had to be elected from the hell By the
police.