Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1869-04-17
Ediferial BPeyitics

a narrow escape from desth by drinking
in mistake from bottle containing
deadly bed-bug poison. The fluid burn,
inc hi, mouth he speedily spit i, out. and
fortunately received no material injury.
Ex President Johnsou's speech 10
Nashville vas made to three THOUSAND
people, many of them colored men. he
denounced The Union Leagues as the ~
ran,s of The colored race. He also de-
Tended his course while President in The
matter of pardons.
Na,chez, Miss. lis without an officer any
of kind-no Mayor. no seIectnen. no as,
sessor or collector. no city clerk, marshal
or policemen. Every officer is disqual'-
fed.
F,idsy evening last. Brevet Lieutenant
Colonel F. NJ. Folleu. captain COMMAND
ing company ID. 4h artillery regiment
committed suicide in bis quarters al fo!'
Mcilenry, near Baltimore.
There were len PfoiesIan. Episcopsi
Bishops rresen, in Boston on Thur.dsy
a, The CONSIDERATION Of Rev. Ffedefick v.
Huntingdon, D. D., as Bishop OF the Clio
cese Of Central New York.
The Radicals in the Indiana Leg's'a'
.ute, recently reassembled. cannot pass
the fifteenth amendmen, for want OF
QUORUM. All The Democrats who had
previously vacated their seals and were
reelected by their constituents reso!'eo
in caucus, on Saturday. 10 prevent the
massage of The amendmen, by refusing TO
take their seats.
Miss Rebecca Wright of Frederick
County, Va. has been awarded pension
Of fifteen dollars per month by a special
&C, of Congress. as recompense IN giving
information on the eve Of The battle oil
Winchester. ~,
young man lately attempted to XIII a
Young woman in New York. named
Monks. because she refused 10 60 nome
with him from church. Both are respect
ably connected.
The Mayor of Fredericksburg has re-
ceired letter from an old dark'e IN hIng
George asking his laid to relieve MIN
from The responsibility Of malrlmony.'
The Fredericksburg News says that
gentleman asked one OF his ioTmer slaves
II he was married yet. mo, cir replied
the boy, II ain, gwine to gel married III
has a good master seln to take care o'
my wife and children"
Two twin sisters, aged Is, recently
eloped together from Nashville with
pair of beardIess youths, and were safely
N arried in Cincinnati.
The Hancock Club OF New Orleans
has given Frank Blair complimentary
supper. He made 2 short speech, saying
he had fully determined TO cast his lot
With the oppressed South.
The Bene fetal Saving Fund Society,
corner of Twelfth ard Chestnut Streets
Philadelphia, was entered by burglars, IN
dsy ligh., on Sunday last, and bonds and
other securities amounting to 81 0Oo'Ooo
were stolen. Abou, 100000 of The
bonds were registered. A reward oil
5000 is offered.
A late invention is a glass mould board
for plow, to resist corroding SOILS.
JEFF. Davis has expressed his intention
to return to this country.
The womsn's rights question has crep'
into The South Carolina mixed LeglsIa-
,ure. The question of women voting VS.
referred TO the Judiciary Committee OF
the House, who heard speech from
mulst,o woman named RaWllns, IN sup
por, Of woman suffrage. The Commit
tee has not reported. lis chairman is
relative Of the mulailo woman.
John F. Lewis, Of Rockingham county
administrator Of the late John Minor Bolts
on Wednesday presented TO President
Grant ring. The sienet OF when was
made of Tie filings from lbe bell that hung
in the Old Independence Hall, in PhIis'
delphia. Mr.. Bolts, prior 10 his death,
requested tina, this ring which he had
worn, should be given 10 Gen. Grant
whom he considered the most f' recIPl'
en-, OF the relic. ,,.
The Petersburg MdeT publishes
.Declsrs,ion Of Independence adopted
BY The AMT marrying society OF that
ci,y. which contains number OF counis
,gs;ns, The ladies' of the city, who, II
seems. will no. lie. the bachelors "have
peace 49,, ,
A New York paper states that straw
berries have been selling there Tor some
weeks al $40 quart.
The celebrated McArdIe case, IN lie
United States Supreme Court, has been
decided, Chief Justice Chase delivering
The oninicn, dismissiDg The case"ior want
Of irrisdictou." McArdIe. il will be re.
membered, was the Vicksburg (Mssissip.
pi) editor arrested by General Ord, tried
by military commission, and imprisoned
in 1867 for printing "sedI'ious arncies
in the Vicksburg Times.
Mr.. J. F. Mcguire, NJ p, has pub
lished lecture delivered al Cork and
Limerick. on Irish emigration 10 America,
In which he states that, 10 his knowledge
The Southern States now "arden,y desire
some share Of tina, priceless stream oil hu.
man wealth which is enriching other Pof-
tons of The Union HIS objec, lie 10
warn emisrsnis on arriving IL America
against neglec,ing to reach The p ace suils.
BILE for his special industry. and sscrit1cing
certain independence TO momen'ary sd-
vantage.