Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1869-05-29
Editorial Breyities.


acquillal Of the accused.
|, is stated that Senator James I.
Clarke, OF Baltimore county, oilers "
take The entire conlrac, fo7 building the
Frederick and Pennsylvania Line RAILROAD.
Henry Brown, former member OF the
Maryland Legislature from AiIegany couh,
ty, was accidentally killed at Cumberland
Yesterday by The bursting OF saw 10
stave factory.
EIGHTEEN new cases Of smallpox are
reporled in New York city, most oil them
being of vIGuIenI character.
An Illinois paper has information that
| Gen. John A. Logan is 10 deliver ser
mon in the Methodist church al Carbon
dale. on his return 10 that lace,
Robbers are bold in Richmond, Va
Las, week several iron ratings were sto-
len from private residences and carried oil
without detection.
Alexander Saunders. Of Hampshire
county, Va, has a male calf, which when
one day old weighed SO pounds.
James Grsn,, Of the Pollard tragedy no.
toriely in Richmond, has joined the Rich
ings opera troupe, ills said, for TOUT
next fall.
An able bodied negro died OF Starvation
a, Columbus, Georgia, recently Inc eV''
dence al the inquest, showing thai he
| starved rather than work.
The Supreme Court of Michigan has
decided that under the State law coIoreu
children must he admitted 10 the PuoIlc
schools of the Stale on equal terms with
white children.
! Dor MARYLAND exchanges all speak IN
elo wing terms of the crop prospect IN all
sections Of the State.
Col. Bob Crockett, grandson of Davy
Crockett, lives in Arkansas, and is report
ed to be az eccentric as his iIlustuous pre-
decessor.
An English gentleman has bought be-
tween ), 900 and 1000 acres Of Land IN
Nelson county, Va, on which he intends
10 settle eight hundred English families
1t is stated tina, there are more stores to
rem, on Broadway, New York, than was
ever known before al this season OF the
wear, and there are more new buildings
being erected on he same thoToughlaFe
Than during any other season.
1t is stated that Hester Vaughan, con-
victed of infan,icide, and pardoned by
Governor Geary, Of Pennsylvania, sailed
for Europe few days since.
1t has been raining continuously on the
Pacific coast for several days, and It Is
thought the crops have been considerably
damaged.
4 citizen of Indiana, who had the ex-
perience Of eigh. wives, says that dlVor'
ces are much cheaper than funerals as
way of disposing Of an uncongenIal part
ner.
The Fredericksburg Ledger says
There is not qualified clerk OF the
court in the counties Of Stafford. kIDg
George or Wes,moreland, and in neither
of Tue counties can marriage license be
obtained.
The dwelling of Mr.. Levi Porter, of
Shsrpsburg, was entered snd robbed dur
ing the absence of the family on Monday
Of last week. The plumber secured was
about $50 in money.
Ills said that there ls monument near
Copenhagen, called the weeping eye. A
nobleman'a grief for the death OF his wife
was so excessive that he caused monu-
men, TO be erected over spring, and
made the water spout from the eye, as
continual food OF tesrs--a symbol oil his
excessive grief.
Mr.. Samuel c. Robinson's farm near
the Natural Bridge, Va. containing 375
acres, was sold at auction on the llth IN
stan, for SIC 40 an acre. Mr.. Franklin
Slearns, of Richmond, was the purchaser.
Texas has begun 10 grumble loudly
over the crop prospects. The grssshoP-
pors are already destroying the corn by
wholesale, and there is little hope that cot
ton can be successfully planted.
The ha,che, with which George Wash.
inglon cut his fathers cherry tree, has
been, since the death Of HE General, In
possession of the Washington Lodge oil
Masons, in Alexandra, but was presented
by them, recently, to the Alexandra Nu-
scum,
Hon. James NJ. Mason, so long an ex-
lie from his country, has returned 10
Winchester, where he will reside.
"Dropmore. the well known estate OF
the late Nathaniel Burwel, adjoining the
town Of Salem, Roanoke county, Va,
was sold las, week, BY auction, 10 various
parties, for 100000.
Rev. VIM. F. Eys,er, pastor OF the
Lutheran Congregation OF Greencas'le,
has been rendered and has accepted the
office of Principal Of tie HagersIowh te-
male Seminary.
A wag who was asked to buy bank
note deleclor one day said he would pur-
chase it if it would detect bank'note IN
his pocket.
The Rev. r. A. Holland, pastor of
Trinity Church, Baltimore, will preach
tie commencement sermon at the Wes-
leyan Female Institute, at Stanton. Va,
on the Gath Of June.
Ii is siad that John Russell Young, lale
of the New York Tribune, is 10 be Jay
Cooke & Co.. iDa nclal agent in Europe.
In recent suil before the Harrison,