Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1871-07-29
Editorial Bfeyit;es.

Cool nights and mornings make
ague and fever weather, and therefore
due caution ought to be observed. Frosts
are reported in the back country.
Judge William Leigh, Of Halifax
County, died on Wednesday last, i'll his
SSth year He was the brother Of the
late Benjamin Watkins Leigh, the emf
nent Virginia iurist
Mrs Burnside, daughter Of Hon. 81
mon Cameron, who was seliously Ill
few weeks since, is again poorly, and
can live but few days
A New Orleans man who tried to
frighten his wife by playing burglar
hopes to recover, even il they can't find
the ball.
Whole herds Of cattle near Council
Bluffs, Iowa, are becoming totally blind,
and no cause can be assigned for the ca
lamity.
Cincinnati last year had 365 divorce
eases. just one day.
1t is said that the mountain regions Of
Western Maryland have been visited by
frost for several mornings past. 1t was
50 cold at Cumberland Oh Friday that
the papers would not have been surpris-
ed to see ice formed.
The Democratic State Central Com
mittee of Indiana, have adopted resolu-
tons supporting Thomas A. Hendricks,
for the Presidential nomination in 1872.
Jacob Journals died last week in Kan
sas city, at the age Of 134 years. 1t is
said Journals was probably the Oldest
man living. lie was Canadian French
man BY birth, but for more than half a
century was a hunter and a trapper in
the employ Of the fur company, one OF
the French voyageurs, as they were
called
The wife of Jefferson Dove, living
near Chapman's steam saw-mill, Clarke
county, Va, was found hanging to
ratter in the garnet Of her husbands
residence on last Sunday morning. No
cause can be assigned for the rash act
John Reed, the farm hand who re
Gently assassinated buxom Miss McCor-
mick, in De kalb county, Illinois, be-
cause she would not accompany him
"to see the Fourth Of July, and escap-
ed, has been arrested. He converses
freely about the details of the murder
says he was jealous and expects to be
hanged.
A gentleman 10 jefferson City, who
was troubled with bed bugs soaked the
bed with kerosene and turned in, leay-
ing the light burning. Just as he was
dreaming that aregiment of bugs were
drawing up set of resolutions con-
demning him for using kerosene, hewas
awakened BIZ fireman pointing the
nozzle of hose through the window.
The house was injured, but the man
was not.
Big watermelons are three cents
apiece at Newbern, \. c.
Mr.. f. c. Fennimore has sold from
ninety acres of land, within the last ten
years, near Wilmington, Delaware,
peaches to the value Of $l50,Sll.
1t is said that more declarations are
made at Long Branch in one night than
at any other place in month. Sea sir
must be conducive to scttening Of the
brain
A minnesota man has agents out
along the Cedar and Des Moines rivers
gathering ginseng, and expects to ship
25O,Oo0 pounds OF the root TO China this
year.
Simeon Benedict, a clergyman of the
African Methodist Episcopal Church, at
Weeksville, Brooklyn, was arrested for
attempting to shoot children in an or
phan asylum with q loaded musket. As
for as can be ascertained, he got it into
his head there were altogether too many
children, and that it was his duty to
kill them off in order to lessen the num-
her,
We were visited with a heavy show
er OF rain on Thursday afternoon.