Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1868-03-28
Editorial Breyities.

year me Vote $1,000 ! FOR EnSIIsn, uemo'
cra,, for Governor, Al for Gen.
Hawley, republican, 46,57s, being ma
Jointly Of 9s7 for the democrats.
To learn the value Of money, try 10
borrow some.
Partial returns from the Arkansas con-
sliiutional election, show large decline
in the colored vote, and the majority
agains, the constitution will be larger than
had been anticipated, the whites voting
almost unanimously agains, ii.
Shsd are selling at $50 per hundred in
Alexandra, Va.
The N. Y. Herald ssys-"Somebody
is deeply interested IN keeping
the rebellion alive" and inssmuch as 1t
cannot possibly be for the interest OF the
late "rebeIs.' the irresistible conclusion
is that the "somebody' is on the other
side Of The river.
On Thursday last. the Valley Bank
property, in Winchester. was sold by
Joseph 5. Carson, agen,,for FL. G. Frsnl,
Receiver. 1t was purchased by the
Shenandoah Valley National Bank, the
price paid being $4,000. The property
is very valuable.
The history Of the late war, BY The
Hon. Alex. n. Stephens, late Vice Presi-
dent Of the Confederate States, is now in
press.
Hon. David Wilmot, at one time
! prominent member of Congress. and au-
thor of the celebrated "Wilmos proviso, y
died a, his residence in Bradford county,
Pennsylvania. on Monday last, aged fifty
four years.
A short time since Mr.. George Fouke,
residing few miles north Of HagersIown
Md, took hog from straw stack, be-
meath which il had been buried some FIVE
or six weeks without food or drink. j,
was lille thin, but was lively and did
not seem 10 have suffered much from its
long fast.
The Montgomery (Ala.) Sentinel of
the 9th says: We learn that j.. V. b.
Martin, who attempted to assassinale
Judge Busteed in the streets of Mobile,
las, fall, has sbsconded, and is nowhere
10 be found.
Meetings in favor of raising subscrip-
tons 10 the stock Of the Alexandra, Lou
doun and Hampshire railroad are being
held along the line of the road. About
thousand dollars of The new bonds of the
road were sold in Alexandra one day last
week.
In the House of Representatives on
Mondy 10th inst, Mr.. Bingham introdu-
ced bill to relieve from their "disabill-
ties," Mr.. VIM. w. Holden, furious
secessionist OF 1861 /; Gov. Brown OF
Georgia, who captured Fort Pulaski at
a, the beginning of the war; General
James Lonsstreet, Hon. Jas. l.. Orr, and
his brother, an ex.member Of the Confed-
crate Congress, and others.
The mansion belonging TO the estate
of the late General Winfield Scott, at
Elizabeth, N, j.. was sold al auction, on
Wednesday, for $1,000.
is stated lba, the trial Of Jefferson
Davis, at the solicitation Of The Govern
ment, will be further postponed from
Marchsl TO May A, and that the official
announcement Of the fact will be made IN
in day or two.
The Winchester Times says, that the
growing whes, 10 Frederick and Clarke,
presents an unusually vigorous and
heallhS appearance.
tits lted the, Gen. Brown, assistant
commissioners of the freedmen's bureau in
Virginia, will probably be sent, 10 The Uni
ted States Senate from that State.
The sapnsQn Valley Tirgiaion says:
There are numbers Of people on Garden
Mountain, Bdtetourt and Rockbrldge
counuee, who havd nothing to eat bu, dry
corn bread. Agenllensn informs US that
he has recently seen girls, Is and II
years old, dressed in nothing but thin
cotton dress and no meat to be had.
The American silver CONS, which peo-
pie so rarely see, are circulating in such
great numbers in Canada that they ere
drug in the marker. 100000 Of these
coins are now circulating in Canada, and
the Canadians are anxious 10 get rid OF
them, and impose duty Of Is per cent.
on further inpor'allons.
A lead mine has been recently discov-
cred in Clarke county, Va.
WorS on the Manassas Gap railroad,
which was suspended during I5e winter,
is again resumed, leaving hopes that the
road will be finished to Noun, Jackson
by the FIRST OF May aid to HarIisonburg
by October.
The Woodstock Herald says lump OF
gold in crude state, was taken from
chickens crsw few days ago, by Sam
uel Cooley, Of Warren county, supposed
to be the value of three and half to four
dollars.
If possession is nine points Of the Law,
wha, is the tenth Disappointment and
it's as big as the other nine put together,
and much more common.
After long consultation, the committee
have concluded 10 turn the bronze counle-
nance OF Edward Everett, in Boston, to-
wards the south, and give him new
pedestal.
The blacks have majority Of SO in
the city OF Richmond, according 10 the
last registrations.
Governor jenkins. of Georgia, couD-
sells non-aclion by the white people, it is