Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1868-08-08
Editorial ETCVi,iCS.

Gaines, esd, II 80 per acre.
At Leeshurg, l.oudoun county, Va,
James +. Knkcr is appointed postmaster,
vice james McDonoueh
There is to be pic mic Of fat men a!
Utica, \. Y, next month. No person
will be ALLOW ed to participate in the fes-
,iyities who weighs under $50.
That scourge Of the country, tue AsiaI-
ic cholera, has made its appearance IN
New York. Although not yet ePldeml-
cal, rs presence is the lOrerunner OF an
other Of deaths haEvesls.
Three young men OF HaveEhill, Massa-
chusous, have been sent TO Jail for steal
ing Iomb,tones out OF a grave yard. Yam
kce like.
Col. ChaGin, "Natiye Ynginian "
and tic smallest man living, being ~
years old, % inches Iigh and weighing
but 27 pounds, has been on exhibition IN
the upper Valley. He is all that lie is
represented TO be and Z great curiosity,
and especially when conirasied with his
brother, who accompanies him, and Is
over six feet in height.
The New York Times says that some
months ago Messrs Barring advanced the
whole amount of tho Alaska purchase
money, S7.2OO,O0O in gold, 10 the Rus
sian government, in the expectation by
the latter that the appropriation might be
delayed BY our Congress until next win
/ ter.
The London Times states tina, the
wheat crop in England will fall far below
all average crop, on account Of the long
continued drought in that country.
The Fredericksburg Herald say that
the Smith Gold Mine, in SPoItsylvanla
county, containing 100 acres, was sold al
a ,rus; sale last week for 81 400. A
year or two ago Northern capitalists
Dough, it for $4,000. The boiler used
in lis working brought $G75-and other
machinery @225- sggregaiing 81, 400.
All bought by Benz. Smith Trustee.
Mis-. ex-Prcsideni Lincoln vas taken
sick in Baltimore, on Friday last. She
/ had intended to take the steamship, un-
der cscor. Of Mr.. Johnson, Tor Europe.
| She is letting better and will cal. IN few
days.
William Terrell, on iron ioun 'er al
Caharne Furnace, Shenandoah! county,
me. with fatal accident al that place on
Friday evening the 10Th ull. The cI'-
cumstanccs, as far as they are known, arc
about as follows, bis clothes were caught
by the Ay-wheel--o wheel weighing
about two tons and making about seventy
revolutions per nu,o,-Ind was thrown
into the PIT and Instantly killed. His
body Was terribly bruised but no bones
were broken.
Soba Suli,h died at his residence,
1.-The willows" Paichougo, l.. /, on
Wednesday last, after long and painful
illness, at the age Of rs. lie was born in
Buckdeld, Me-, September IA, 1892,
graduated at Bowdoin College in 1918,
mad subsequently settled in Portland as a
writer for the periodical press. While
there he wrote the popular series of hu-
morous political letters under tho psea-
donyme Of Major Jack Downing" first
published collectively in 1893, aud which
afterwards passed through several edi
tons.
i Londoncr wants to bet SlO,O that
omuibusscs will run with balloons IN less
than ] year
\ northern paper says Nat Gen. Gill
LENS dispatch, al have pursued, captured
and killed John Morgan" Is the most Ia
comic Of the war. But il does not com
pare either in elegance, co1ciscness, or
cxpressivcnrss with Gen. SloncwaI jack
sons: "God gave US victory at Mcdowell!
today. which exccls CGsar's "Veni.
yidi, Wei" or Perry's, "Wo have met the
enemy and they are ouEs.
Singolar-To see a boarding school
miss afraid Of COW, Notwithstanding she
did "all tho milking to hum" few
months previous.
GARDENING FOR LADlEs.-Msko up
YOU. beds in the morning; sew buttons on
your husbands shirts; DO not rake up
any grievances; protect the young ond
tender branches OF your family; plant
smile of good temper on your face, and
carefully root out all angry frclIugs-and
expect good crop of happiness,
The Des Monies Register says the
grosshoppers recently ale W half acre
of tobacco for man near that place, and
when the owner went out 10 look al j,
they sat on the fence and squigIod tobacco
JUICE in lis eyes.
4 young lady named Patterson shot a,
a young man named Falconer IN Gordons.
vile, buI he escaped unirjur d. Revenge
was the cause.
The Stanton Spectator publishes the
list OF premiums offered by the Augusta
county Agricultural Fair 10 be held on the
27th, 25Ih and 29ih Of next October II
looks and reads like "old times
Ga Monday las, the United State.
Court commenced at Parkershurg, Chief
Justice Chase presiding. This Is the
second time only, that Judge Chase has
Sc, on the bench in this State, " bich po-
siton he fills with much dignity and great
ability.
Mr.. Charles ". Gibbons, Clerk OF
Frederick County Court. died Suddenly
al his residence ltst Friday uilht
John p. Irish, editor Of the Iowa City
State Press, lately nominated Tor Con-