Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1869-12-11
Editorial Breyities.

The Charleslown Free Press las chan.
ged its publication day from Thursday 10
Monday.
Presiden, Grant has subscribed S., 1000
towards getting up the Worlds Fair in
Washington the coming year. The total
subscribed in Washington SO far i, about
$425,OOO.
The property consisting Of a Woollen
Factory and farm of 424 acres, lying
about lhree miles from Berkeley Springs,
was sold on Tuesday lac, for the sum OF
81, 100, purchased by widow CEossman,
on the premises.
We notice remedy for founder in
horses given by Mississippi correspond
emf of The Southern Cullvslor. lis :
Give one tablespoonful Of powdered al
um.' He adds: 'Try.i, before anything
else and you'll find it something great
A man named William Bailey wss con-
vicled in the Queen Anne's (Md.) court
Of stealing nine ears Of corn, valued at
nine cents. and sentenced TO the peniien.
tlary Tor one year
Destroy the passion for tale telling.
Lisp not word that will injure the char
ac,er OF another. and, as for as You are
concerned, SANDER will die.
Petroleum oil, such as is used for lamps,
is an efectual preventive agsins! the de-
s,ruciive propeOsilIps OF worms IN timber.
The timber is 10 be washed over with il.
TO day the body of George Peabody
will leave Portsmouth, England, in her
Maiesty's steamer Monarch, and will be
accompanied TO this country by quite a
funeral flee,-England, America and
France will be represented.
Twenty-Five thousand head of Texas
cattle were carried over the Kansas Pacf,
ic road during the month OF October.
The salary of Hon. Jefferson Davis in
his new position OF President OF the Car
oIira Life Insurance Company has been
fixed a, the handsome figure OF " 1000
year.
The ladies' OF Shsrpsburg and vicinity
will hold isir for the benef, oflhe Ger
man Reformed Church. commencing on
Christmas Eve and continuing through
the Holidays. ......
The largest wheat-grower in Minneso'
ia Gu, his 1000 acres with fifteen respers
and ls5 hands. Ills average is twenty
five bushels 10 the acre, of excellent quail
ily. .''''
A man named Death lost $4,000 by
the burning OF his dis,illery al Warsaw,
III .. the other day. Twas the first time
that deal! ever lost anything by tue whis
key business.
The Tennessee Legislature on Friday
las, tabled bill repeating the law allow
ing negroes to hold Office or act as Jurors
by vote OF al to so.
The president OF the e. & O. Canal
gives notice 10 all persons having leases
of the company's property on the line OF
The canal. that such leases will be with
drawn in those cases where spiriIuous Ii.
quors ate peImi,ed 10 be cold on The
premises.
In Washington city licenses are fefus-
ed 10 keepers of hotels, saloons and res
taursnts who are opposed 10 receiving ne
eroes as guests in their establishments on
the same footing as whites.
Matte Davis, one Of the New Orleans
Demmonde "hoped God night psralyze
her II il WASH, co." and she was instant
" struck blind, deaf and dumb. She re.
NAMED in The constose state fos seventy.
two hours when she died.
The Baltimore anG Ohio z. r. Com
pany has made Weverton a frstclass
station, and in consequence all passenger
trains will stop there.
By the action OF the General Synod, in
session in Philadelphia. The "German
Reformed Church" will hereafter be
known as the reformed Church Of the
United States in America The word
German is omitted in the new title.
= A sale Of 5000 acres OF splendid coal
and mineral land. in Gran, and Mineral
counties, Virginia, has just been
made, for cash, to John l.. Crswfo
james Boyce, and Samuel J. Maccubbin,
Of Baltimore. This gres, track of coal
! land is said 10 be Of the most valuable
character. end the purchasers will open
the mines in short lime. The price
paid Tor The property was s225,OOO.