Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1868-02-01
Editorial Breyities.

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! federates.
The Exchange Hotel of TIarrisonburg, Va,
wss sold las. Saturday for $500, Mrs. Warren
| becoming the purchaser.
Samuel J. Tebbs, an old citizen Of Loudoun,
! Va, and at one time a representative OF The
county in the Legislature, died few days since.
! 1t is announced that Mrs. Stonewall Jackson
has received Sl5 900 from the sale Of the life oil
| her husband.
The Jail at Louisa courthouse, Va, was fired
| few days ago by a drunken negro aud totally
consumed.
Forrest Hill, seven hundred acres, near
Charlottesville, Va, has been sold to Major
| Lord, of Maine, for $500. ltbeonged 10 Mr..
| Powers, OF RichnoDd.
! The wife of Rev. John L. Clark, for many
years member OF the Virginia Conference, and
now connected with the Baltimore Conference
of the Nj. E. Church, South, died in Slsunton
on the 9Th ut.
Richard Fl. Bailey ,a>solored resident OF Lees
burg, Va, has rendered 10 the school associa-
ton lot upon which 10 erect school house for
colored children.
A new order Of the Friends Of Temperance
was instituted and organized at McGaheysviile,
Rockingham county, on Dec. 29th, 1867.
= military order issued in Lynchburg directs
that no liquor shall be sold to U. S. Soldiers in
that place, and that all houses Of i'll fame fire.
quented by soldiers shall be closed.
A vessel is now loading in the Richmond
Dock, with cargo Of granite from the Rich
mond Granite Works, for Baltimore. There
| is no better granite anywhere than that quar-
ried along the lire Of the canal, above Rich
mond.
Isaiah Mealey, residing three miles south
west of Frederick city, Nd, made during the
past year 1852 pounds Of butter from seven
cows, making within fraction Of 265 pounds TO
the COW, which returned him, averaging the
price Of butter at thirty cents the year round,
s555.
The farm belonging 20 Mrs. Rebeeea J. Ste
pheus, containing PAS acres, situated near New
town, has been sold to Samuel Headley and w.
Carter, Of Bucks county, Pa, for $4,000. The
land is slate.
The Petersburg Express OF the 18th, says -
"We were told by gentleman YESTERDAY after
noon that several ladies had, on thet day, been
forced 10 burn their bedsteads and chairs 10
keep their chilIrsn from freezing"
An old and experienced farmer says that
swelled jaws in sheep can be efectually cured
by rubbing the Inside Of the jaws and mouth
with mixture made Of alum and salt equal
paris Of each.
The Native Yirginian says: GA friend of
ours in Richmond assures US that he owns in
Western Virginia a seam Of the finest Camel
coal, which is IA feet thick, 7 miles or more
long, and OF indefinite depth. IL is estimated
that this seam is worth four millions ofdollars."
A joint stock Company is being organized in
the lower end of Berkeley county, for the Pur-
pose Of erecting Wooden Factory at Little
Georgetown, in that county. The site and wa
ter power selected for the Factory is the best
in the county, and we have no doubt the stock
will pay handsomely. They propose to put in
machinery for The manufacture Of the Spanish
Merino wool. which will soon be extensively
grown in Berkeley and adjoining counties.
The Native Erginian at Orange Court House
says:-We hear on good authority that the no.
tce in this column some weeks ago of mineral
and parl lands in Greene aud Madison has at
tracted northern purchaser who desires 10 buy
loo, 900 acres in the mineral region and settle a
German colony there.
The Adams Express Company, through the
agency Of their division superintendent, Mr.. w.
II, Snyder, have perfected arrangements for
running line of steamers on the canal between
Lynchburg and Lexington, which will be devo-
ted exclusively TO the carrying Of passengers
and light freight parcels.
The Conference of the United Brethren
Church will be held at the Church of that de-
nomination in Martinsburg on the 7th instant.
Mr.. Van Wrinkle, of this State, voted for the
resolution nor. concurriug in President Johnson's
suspension of Mr.. Stanton from the Office Of
Secretary of War. Mr.. Wiley was absent.
A gentleman in Springfield has a machine,
which cuts meat and vegetables, Sits -four,
kneads bread, works crater, slices fruit,
churns, works over butter better than can be
done by hand, grinds and scours knives. 1t is
simple in const ruction, and has but four wheels;
and yet does nearly everything in the house,
keeping line except scolding the servants and
waiting on the table.
A Pomeroy (Kansas) paper has been edited
by the spectacle, in the court room In that place,
OF four lawyers reading one Bible at the same
time. Two we're sitting down and holding the
book between them, and the other two looking
over their shoulders. end the attitude and e1-
preston of the group was such as TO inspire the
belief that they had never seen the book before.
In Virginia a plan to complete the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad, under the auspices Of the
Virginia Central Railroad Company, has been
formed, and there are said 10 be hopes Of its be-
ing successfully carried cut.
Mr.. John esrter one ofthe oldest citizens Of
Winchester, died on the 18th ult. lie had al
tanned the ripe old age Of SO years.
Tho last new feat for circus acrobat consists
in turning double somerset over sixteen mus
kets with fixed bayenets, the guns being fred at
the moment Of the leap.
The Post Office at White Post, Clarke coun-
~, has again been opened, with Mr.. Jarvis jon
nings as postmaster.
One negro in Montgomery, Alabama, knock
ed another down for asking him TO run for Sec
rotary Of State on the Radical Ticket.
We notice in the S,apnton Spectator q sug-
gestion of schedule of prices for farm labor
Il is as follows: "For January and February,
81 per month; March and April, $40; May, Sl2
June, SIT; July, SIS; August, sl2; September,
$40; October, November and December, 81
each" Thus graduating the amount Of pay to
the amount of labor performed.
The Empress Eugenie, at last accounts, had
three thousand dresses, No Flora McFlimsey
about her.
Miss Patience Miller, residing in the family
of Mr.. James Ritter, about four miles from
Winchester, Va, hung herself on Saturday
night last.
A meeting Of the Lincoln Monument A,so-
citation was held at Springfield, H., on Thurs
day, and it was resolved to erect monument
costing 100000.
The Grand Division Of the Sons OF Temper
ance of the State of New York are in mud
die over the everlasting negro. On Thursday,
during the deliberations of that body at Albany,
a proposition to strike out the present restrc-
tons upon colored members Of the order.where-