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

brought 10 a close on Saturday evening,
the Jury rendering a verdict for the De-
fendani.
Thirteen negroes engaged in hauling a
seine near Aqua Creek las, Friday. were
caught in gale and the entire party
drowned.
Captain Dravton G. Meade has pur-
chased the excellent farm Of Mr.. Sylves-
ter Welsh, near The Plains ststion. in
FaUqnier county. containing two hundred
and fifty acres, well inclosed with. and
divided by stone fencing, and upon which
are the usual farm buildings in good con.
dIion, for $40 per acre.
A letter from Lexington, Va, in the
Nashville Banner says: "Gen. Lee
was recently confined to his room for
come days, but he is now performing his
usual duties. think there is a very pre-.
eeplihIe change in him since he came 10
Lexington. This life Of confinement
does not agree with him. He lacks that
lIghlness Of step and brillsncy Of eye that
were peculiar 10 him when he command
ed his fiery legionO al Charlottesville, or
even on shat mournful day when he sur
rendered his war-worn, but veteran SOL
diers of the Lost Cause"
A Radical Judge in a Pennsylvania
court decides lIAi while people have a
clear RICH, 10 exclude dsrkies from seats
in cars, al theatres, rooms in hotels, &c.
A new banking institution has been Or
ganized in Lexington, Virginia. under the
State law, and is called the "Rockbridge
Bank" G. A. Davidson, president, and
A. F. Denny, cashier,
Some days ago Samuel Strong was ar
rested in Washington, at the instance Of
the Governor of Virginia, on a charge Of
having obtained signatures to writings
under false prelenses with in,en, 10 de-
fraud. Having been bTough, before
Judge Fisher, Of the District Suprem
Court. he was discharged on the ground
that Virginia was not a State in the Uni
on therefore Governor PierponIs re-
quisiiion could not be recognized. Gen.
Scho6eld has since issued requlslton
by virtue of his military authority. and
the Court are considering the question
whether this requisitiou obliges a rendl-
ton of the fugitive.
Anew "Chicago Bible" now in press
is to contain, in addition 10 The pages or
dinarily devoted TO births, marriages and
deaths, several leaves for divorces.
The latest alarm in regard TO die, is The
alleged discovery of a minute insect in
brown sugar. It's said 10 abound in al
most all coarse sugars, and 10 subsisi on
their impurities. Out OF seveniy.,wo
specimens OF brown sugar recently exam
ined, cnly one was free from this insect.
a Confederate ghost sent the editors
of The North .AiaJamian Ku Kux or
der, and enclosed twenty dollars in Con-
iederale money, 10 pay the printing, tie
says il passes 10 The moon al par.
Among the two millions of people by
whom Jeddo in Japan is Inhabited there
is not beggsr in the streets, not man
unable to read. not bOor, no, drunk
ard, not ruffian. The women are beau
,iful. the men are robust and energetic,
there is no trouble about fashions. educa-
ZION is universal, books are plentiful,
though there ale no newspapers. lie 10
simple and easy, marriage is universal
and The children 60 naked.
The Cairo Democrat says Cache River
little coffee colored stream tha, emplles
into the Ohio Eve miles above Cairo, IS
d cidedly The most serpentine sream IN
America. From lis mouth to It's source
is distance Of thirty SIX miles. The
stream. however, is one hundred and
eighty miles long. showing a waste OF
one hundred fortyfour miles in cr"oks,
A lady died in Gloucester, N. j., a
few days ago, aged nine;y-'hree years,
who had distinct recollection OF the exc
cu,ion of Major Andre. the spy.
The Methodist Church Of New Eng
land has jus, held its conference at Bos-
ton, and par, OF ts proceedings was the
appointment Of "commiltee on the state
Of The country" This commllee report
ed resolutions which approved The i'm
peschmen, OF President Johnson and
commended the course of Secretary Stan
ton"
is stated ,ha, Colonel Grenfel, tie
ev. Confederate, who has been imprson-
ed a, The dry Torlugss for consPlrlng TO
burn Chicago during the war, has es-
capped from prison.
The United States law officers in Flor
ida, have just sold the Alabama snd Flor
ida Railroad for the small sum OF $50
600. 1t is forty five miles long, thirteen
miles Of the distance being in running Oh
der, and the price named included iour
engines, thirty -four care, the office. and
all the fixtures.
Governor Oglesby has issued procla'
m alton designating the 18th Of April next.
the anniversary of the assassination of
President Lincoln, as a day Of fasting, hu-
initiation and prayer.
Jno. G Brain, Of The late Confederate
navy. who has been confined in Tie Kings
county jill. Brooklyn, n. Y, for The past
eighteen months, without Trial, has made
an appeal TO his friends for assistance.
lie states that his health is suffering, and
that his family is in the mos: extreme
poverty. The appeal is add SD to Ad-
miTal Semmes.
IL is announced hat General John B.
Gordon has bCcn recommended by 4 ma