Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1868-04-11
Editorial Breyities.

sum oil 80 600.
The stable OF the Hoover Hotel, Win
chester, Va, was consumed by fire on
Sunday last, -Four horses. one COW, 60
bushels Of corn and large ousntity of
hay and straw were also consumed.
Prof. w. N. McDonsld and ]. S.
Blackburn Of Clarke County are publish
ing History Of The United States, for The
use Of schools.
BpA;nen on the Chesapeake and Ohio
canal are hot Permited 10 unload The
boats while in he locks.
There were twenty three town los sold
in Harrisonburg last week, al prices rang
ing from $40 10 S3l0. Ksrrisonburg
has now within lis corporate limits four
teen hundred ac!es. included in circum-
ference Of six and three ,fourhs miles.
man named Joshua Grimsley is in
Jail in Lursy. Page county, charged With
the murder Of his own brother. The
brothers had difficulty about property.
The sharp change Of Temperature on
Saturday night, which has carried US al
most back TO winter, preceded in he
northwestern States heavy snow storm.
Information was received this week at
Frederick, Md. of the drowning OF two
young men Of that city who were attend
ing school al General Lees college, Lex
ington, Va. named Luther Byery, son
OF The late Valentine Byerly. and Ralph
Luckeu, son OF The lsle B. Luckeu, Of
Frederick.
The Berkeley Union nominates for
Governor Hon. f. b. Hall. Judge of The
Tenth CiIcIil. 1t also mentions Gener.
ais Nonhcott and Duvsl. Hon. w L.
Stevenson and Hon. Daniel Polsley in
connection with the same position.
The last Woodstock IVA Herald says
The wheat crop in that region is looking
hneiy. The few warm days and the ra ms
have acted like magic. Fields that
short time ago looked barren now pesen,
n moot promising appearance. In Rock
inghsm, one OF the greatest wheat grow
ing counties in the South. the fields CT
wheat are beginning 10 present e very
cheering aspect.
Randolph GllIock. son of Mr. Harrison
Gillock. OF Woodsro met with a very
serious accident few days ago. at MIR.
Henry Hotties mill. near that place, the
injury being so great that it was necesss-
~ to ampuiate ole Of his legs below The
knee.
The fam of Mr. Joseph Hidden. near
Orange Court House, Va, containing
zoe acres, has been sold 10 Mr.. Slsnard,
Of Mobile. for $4,000 cash.
Judge Unjerwood's jury st Richmond
has found true bills against thirty revenue
officers for fraud.
Calls sla,ue Of Jefferson will he in
cueurs,ed at The University of Virginia
during the coming commencement weeE'
Hugh Blair Grigsby, Esq. viii deliver
the commemorative address.
Mr.. John l.. Weaver lately sold farm
Of 33l acres near Martiusburg for S28,-
600.
A dishllery costing 100000, will |
speedily commence operations a! Mar
nnsbUrg.
On Thursday the 2 inst, Philip WI
liams Esq. OF Winchester, was seized
with sppopIexy whilst attending TO his
professional duties in the court house al /
Woodstock, before the Circuit Court o,
county. and died in a few
hours after he wac removed from The
court house.
Captain Charles CRANKY. who COM
msnded the Norfolk Light Artillery Blues
in the late war. died a, his fathers's resi-
dence in Norfolk on Wednesday morn
ing. He was gallant Confederate. and
did heroic service in the cause.
Hedgemsn Slack. Of Ksnawha c. H..
b as been nominated by the President for
United States Marshal for the District Of
West Virginia.
4 few days sgo the dwelling Of Mr..
II. p. BagSell, in Northampton county.
Virginia. was destroyed BY FIRE. together
with all his outhouses and their contents.
The dwelling was valued at So and
insured for only $500
General Henry H. Wells, Of Alexan-
drla, has been appointed Governor Of Vrr-
rinia by General Schoheld. He has
been residing in Virginia since 1852. is
from Michigan. and was brevet briggs
der general in the United States army.
He enters upon the duties of his office al
once.
Mr.. D. ". c. Calender. Of Doyes.
Town, Pa. purchased m Tuesday last, Of
Major &. 81. Lee. agent and attorney for
Gus,svus LeIsner. The Goshen" farm,
lying on the Potomac river and Goose
creek in Loudoup county. for $4,000, |
being S2a,62 per acre. $40 acres.
A disturbance oCcar;ed at Wsrren,oa,
Va, on Sunday last, at political meet
ing, between United States troops sta.
lioned there and some OF The colored peo-
ple present Stones were thrown, and |
excitement was created for
short time.
General Jubal A. Esrlv has recently |
published. in the Richmond Enquirer. a |
letter correcting some errors, into which
Scott has fallen in his Life OF Mosby,"
in speaking Of General Early's move.
menls upon Washington in 1864. In
private nnte to the editor he says: "lf !
have remained sbseht from our poor suf-
fering country. il has been from no want