Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1870-04-16
Editorial BreYities,

OF Marllnsburg, is a, present member OF
of the Florida Legislature.
A Western editor offers 10 wager fifty
dollars tina. there will be women in Con-
gress within three years.
Those having business with the De-
pariments Of State should recollscs mat
their communications should be directed
TO Charleston.
The colored people of Marlinsburg are
| m,kng arrangements to celebrate the d
dop,lon OF The Fifteenth Amendment.
Major Il. II. Turner of Warren county
Va, was on Tuesday OF last week elect.
ed by the Legislature Of Virginia Judge
Of the l2lh (Winchesler) Judicial Cir
cult.
Whenever YOU are in doubt which Of
TWO things to do. let your decision be for
,ba, which is right. Do no. waver, do
no, parley; but square up 10 The mark and
do The right thing.
DR.. J. F. Smith, formerly of Boons-
boro', has been appointed Chief Judge of
The Orphans Court Of Washington coun.
ty, Md. 10 place OF John w. Btelhed.
Esq, resigned.
The Chsrleslown Free Press states
that Mr. B. F. Ramey, near that p ace
has lost fhy-lhree on. Of fi!Iyfve chick
ems by Cholera
In the U. S. Senate on Friday, Mr..
Stewart offered ONT resolution author
izlng the Secretary of War 10 detail q
compelen, engineer 10 make survey Of
the ground from the west bank Of the
Potomac, adjacen, 10 The city of George
town. TO Ilarper's Ferry, with view 10
the building Of military and commercial
railroad which was passed.
Some thief or thieves broke into The
house of Jacob Sfine, OF Optquon town
ship. Berkeley county, on Friday night
OF last week, and carried of 1000 lbs. of
-four. several bushels OF potaIoes,a guam
THY of butter and other articles.
o., in Wyoming Territory the men
are preparing 10 emIgrale 10 some other
locality where women don't have it all
their own way. A man unmarried ISM
safe there, He has more proposals of
marriage than he can attend to.
A bearded girl has made her appearance
at GLADE Spring depot, Washington coun-
iy, Va. She is four years old, and has
mu' lache and whskers, the hair upon the
forehead extending TO the eyebrows
Very heavy hair exceedingly black, ex-
tends below the shoulders. The child is
sprigh,y. with fully developed limbs and
welI-lormed body. The arms. shoulders
and back are covered with soft, downy
hair.
We see that The ladies Of Clarke are
moving in regard to the floral decoration
ofthe graves of dead Confederate soldiers
Mai John Esten Cook has written
new work-Hsnmer and Rapier-con-
tanning series of sketches of The battles
OF Virgins, including Gettysburg and
Sharpsburg, from the 2ls' OF July. 1861,
to The ending, al AppomalIox Court
House.
The Supreme Court Of The United
States recently held that title TO lands
seized and sold under the confscailon
acl Of July, 1862, could pass only for the
lifetime of the person who owned The
land and, therefore, his heir must now
come into possession.
The mother of Belle Boyd resides in
Baltimore, and Belle Boyd. herself, has
been for months an inmate OF Mount
Hope Asylum, near thaiciiy.
The Potomsc Iron Furnace. Company
OF Loudoun county, Va, have sold to III.
Thomas. esq, of Phi adelphia, their Fur.
mace and Ore Banks, SITUATED on the Po-
tomsc river opposite the Point of Rocks,
for 100000
The California Farmer says. 1--WE
regre, 10 hear that new and strange d..
sease has appeared among horses IN and
around Woodland, 10 Yolo county. and
from reports from that section ao hear
that the disease IL fatal in few hours.
All horses that have been taken with this
mssdy have died.
The Clarke Courier mentions tina, on
THURSDAY last party OF gentlemen from
Winchester, about five or SIX, caught
with hook and line, near The TIlhammer
mill, about 800 fish; the fish were The
white and yellow suckers, averaging pro-
baby IL or II inches.
Would any sensible man ever think Of
attempting 10 carry on any business that
depended upon public patronage. Without
hanging GU, sign on The streets Hard
". Remember that an advertisement in
popular newspaper is sign which ex-
tends into every body's house. aud is
,hrus, under every body's eyes.
In Winchester, on Saturday, 24Ih ult.,
HE York House" was sold, at public
auction. for S4,425. The Rev. Siss Bill
ings purchaser.
The U S. Marshall, Mr.. Slack, for
this State, is making his appointments Of
Deputies for taking The census.
A few days ago Mr.. John Burns cold
twenty acres (nesrly) Of land, called the
"MiIl Race" farm, unfinished, near
Charles,own, and adjoining the valuable
estate Of Mr.. II. B. Davenport, TO that
gentleman for $1,000 fraction over
$3.50 per acre.
Jacob Baker, Esq, senior member OF
the Lursy bar, died at The residence Of
Mr.. James Jeti, IN Page county, on the