Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1868-12-05
Editorial Breyities.

/ vOtes tor 1ranl anu CoidA' WOO Wa
John Householder. no will De one hun
dred and three years old in This month.
Mr.. Decatur Hedges. of Berkeley coun'
~. has purchased from Mr.. John ). Ma
gill his farm neal New,o"n. containing
| 400 acres. al $50 per acre. spn this isrm
is one of the finest residences in the Val
! lev, while The land is the best limestone
Gen. NJ jeff. Thompson has received
an important appointment as civil engI'
neer in Louisiana.
H. Nj. Cage, OF Msrlinsburg, was cleo
| ted Assistant Clerk to The Senate on
Wednesday OF last week. lie was nom-
mated for the position by Joseph A.
Chaplns, and elected on the third ballot.
The dwelling Of Mrs. Patterson, near
Walkers Mill, Berkeley county. was de-
sttoyed By FIRE, on Friday night, the 2OIh
ur.
Pork has been selling a, Chsrlestown
at from So 10 $40 per hundred, The form
er price predOminsllng. So says the
Spirit.
Augusta ]. Evans, the weIl.kUown All.
lhoress, was married on Wednesday night,
in Mobile, 10 l.. Nj. Wilson, president OF
the Mobile and Montgomery railroad.
Miss Jennie Hunter. has been voted the
pretlies, lady in Martinsburg and award
ed the chair by The authorities of the 3sP-
tisl fair lately held 10 tina, place. She re-
ceived one hundred and fifteen votes. len
fair rivals divided nineiy-nine votes g.
mong them in complimentary quantities,
ranging from one to fifty.
Among The names recommended Tor
Cabinet positions is that OF General Rob-
eu E. Lee, Who is suggested on the
score of magnsnimity, and as reward
for bravery and Christianity
If is said that vessel load OF COLES,
direct from China. recently arrived at
Galveston, Texas.
A peculiar death occurred a, Louisville
the other day. A gentleman wore tight
boots. which caused modification 10 set in
on the ins'ep of his foot and he died in
three days.
Admiral Semmes is in Baltimore, de.
lvering his. lecture on wind and
Wave
The Central Lnnstic Asylum at Colum'
bus, Ohio, was destroyed by fire one
night las, week originating from de-
feclive fue. SIX of the female inmates
were smolhered before aid could reach
them, bu, their bodies were rescued. The
res. were gotten out Of the burning build
Jog safely. The. scene is described as
appalling.
General w. C.. Wickham has been
elected preslden, Of the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad.
|, is stated that Mary Hayes, the Lou
isvllIe courlessn who fell heir 10 $500, 600
in gold, is lying in The last stages of con-
sumption in that city.
General Grant. il is said. will recon-.
mend 10 Congress, 10 his frs, message.
the adoption of a Constitutional Amend.
meni providing tina; any person who has
once held The Presidential chair shall not
be eligible to the same office again.
The 81. Louis Denocrs, ,hinks that
tina. city will do more in the pork packing
line ibis season Than either Cincinnati or
Chicago.
The Union Pacific road convey passen'
gers 400 miles from Chicago. Only
ten DAYS to California" is advertised by
the company in connection with the
WelIs-Fargo Express.
Ohthe popular vote as il is, Grant has
a majority OF 100000.
The nine Congressional Districts in
Kentucky wen, Democratic by the fol-
lowing msjo.ries FIRST, ll,966 Sec
ond, e.56S Third, 6979 Fourth, H.
400; Fifth. 1888; Sixth, 1857 Sew
ente, O,52l Eighth, 4sl Ninth, g.
CTS.
The Presiden, has appointed John Saw
age, the Fenian Head Centre, Consul at
Leeds, England.
Henry E. Hill, well known druggist
in Detroit, committed suicide las, Thurs
day by blowing out his brains with pls-
toll He had failed in business The pre-
vious day.
A s,ove-pipe hat, six,y6ve years old,
has been discovered in Essex, Mass, and
is said 10 be exactly IN HE present fash
ion.
The Secretary of the Treasury esti-
mates The total revenue 10 be raised for the
fiscal year ending June, 1870 al two hun
1red and fifty millions Of dollars.
The United States Government spends
Sl7,5 every second.
Hon. f. B. sshburne. OF ILL.,, the
"father OF The House," will, with !he
next Congress, begin his ninth term.
Mayor Thomas, of ST.. Louis. reports
lhs, lie hes already expended one tbons-
and dollars more than the poor approprls-
lion for the year ending mex, April, and
vet The season Of poverty has not fairly
commenced.
Minnesota pays $40 piece for wolf
scaps, and in The pas, year has expended
$4,000 in such purchases.
Within two months there have been
shipped from Lexington, KY. $4,000
barrels Of corn 10 the distlllerss Of Bour-
bon and II arrison counties.
There dwels a, Cummine,on, Mass,
an IIlilters,e quack named Bird, who
spells lungs "lolngues,' and calls him
seIr Hor,Or