Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1869-11-13
Editorial Brevities.


~. III. oblsined 1900 pounds Of honey
this year from forty swatms Of bees, sn
average Of los pounds TO each swarm.
At The banquet a, Louisville. the mem
Der. Of The Commercial Convention drank
four thousand bottles OF champagne, be-
J sides immense quantities Of carei and ca
iawba.
lis roughly estimated that the reduc'
lion Of The public debt during the munIh
Of October will amount TO eight millions.
4 wedding al Cairo. H.. was posiPon-
ed The other day by telegram from The
groom, which read: Have 10 wait ill
next week. Wife has overhsuled me-"
Beef is selling al only two cents per
pound in Texas.
1t is stated that 90 sir.lIne railroad.
from ST. Loui. 10 Louisville. will be bullI
al once.
A young gentleman Of Wauensburg,
Mo-, offered premium Of s45 for the
preilie.l girl attending the Johnson coun-
ty Fair. Miss Ellen Bttres. very beau
( uful young lady, received the premium.
/ Four inches OF snow fell Nov. I, al
Covington, Va, and at Greensboro. n.
G. TIE snow storm seems to have fol-
lowed the mountain range. There was a
squsl here.
There has been a cowhijng case in
South Caroline, wherein, prompted by
jesously, the colored AdJntanI General
horsewhipped the Governors white sec
rotary.
Al King George Courthouse. Va. on
the 10th inst the LADIES' Of the King
George Memorial Association will drdl.
cate the monumen, which they have raIs-
ed to the memory Of the Confederate
dead.
Ala sale OF autographs. letters, &C., IN
New York, lat week. those Of JOAN e..
Calhoun sold for 60 cents, Reverdy John.
con and Charles Summers Is cents, J.
W. Forneys 10 cents. Abraham Lin.
coins 81 and 81. and George Washing
IONS $25.
Among the European ecclesiastirs who
have promised To attend the meeting OF
the Evangelical Alliance al New York
next year are Pfescusse and Monsrt. OF
France, several professors from S"llzer
land, and Durrer, Wlschern. Tholurk 9,
KRAFT, Muller and Coun, BernsroG from
Germany. CURT. D'Aubigne and Count
Casparin have promised TO send papers.
The sum Of $4,000 has BEEN subscrrbed
to delrsy The expenses Of the convention,
which is within $1,000 OF he amouni
needed.
George Wikes. now in Europe, has.
he saya, conversed ~Ilh an emlnrhI Paris
physicisn relative to Ihe character 81 Ma
poIean Illnes. The physIrisn confirm
ed lhe statement heretofore made ihai The
Enperor's disease was lucutable, and gave
as bis opinion thai he would not i've Elk
months.
Ella. Jasper. an intelligent c"lored man
o. Norfolk, las invented a wood--aw
that i. worked with lever. cutting wood
OF any SIZE with much ccIcuty. 1t has
been examined by streral mechanical ex-
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over the ro"lt'y u f''hafS"''y large '"u
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VINO recently I'su 10 s''''f 'h' u son =,
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was '".sse"' Su" ny o'EglnR !" WE R''oeh
me oody was '"Lnu. lie poor h'le lei
10" had eaten oil ms hEecr' 'nd d'e''
The new church. erected al Mount
OIlge' IN Shenandoah county, Tor ;he NJ.