Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1871-05-20
Editorial Erevitirs.

Editorial Breviries.
The resolution providing for an a
mcndment to the constitution to confer
the Suffrage on Women has been defeat
ed in the Massachusetts Housed vote
Of GS 10 IS.
The Enterprise published at Ilamil-
ton, Loudoun County, says: Some at
tention is beginning to be paid in this
vicinity to truck farming, Mr.. Aaron
Beans and L. Dow Hess have planted
several acres in onions, potatoes, (sweet
and lrish,) cabbage, beans, DC.
James A. Harvey, L. 5. Commits
sioncr. was arrested in Stanton last
week by L. S. Marshal, and lodged in
| iall, for malicasancc III office. There
were two complaints against him, and
bail was required Of $50 in each case,
which he failed to give.
A number Of persons attending pic
mic at Palmyra, Mo, were poisoned on
Saturday evening by some roughs put
ting tartar emctic III the spring. Nine
persons were seriously poisoned, i've OF
whom are not expected to live. They
first tried TO break up the party, failing
in which they poisoned the spring,
Registration at Lexington, Va, end
ed on Monday, sth inst, with the fol-
lowing result White voters, 800; color
ed, 3775. White majority 49,
Tn. first load Cf cocoonS ever trans
ported over the Pennsylvania railroad
pass ID through Harris 'urg few days
ago, destined for Paris. They We're
brou ;ht from Japan to San Francisco,
and from thence shipped east. They
are to he used in the manufacture Of silk
textures.
Another horrible outrage of the ku-
Klux is reported in North Carolina. 1t
was an attempt to intimilate a minister
of the Gospel y negrp preacher III
Lincoln county has received the follow !
ing anonymous letter: You m"sf
either quit preaching or quit stealir v
h gs' II
The Alexandria Gazette says that t
origin of the explosive balls u ti'
by the armies Of France and Prustn
and now by the French, having attrac,-
ed considerable attention by military
men owing to their effectiveness, is
claimed by Maj. George W. Luhey, OF
that city.
Governor Gearv is constantly in re
ccipt Of letters concerning DR., Schmppes
fate. One, from the Wit of promi-
ncnt clergyman in Philadelphia, hoped
the Governor would hang SchTppc, as
no woman with property is safe while
such men as he remained unhung.
The centennial anniversary Of the
Declaration of Independence will be eel
ebrated in the city Of Philadelphia in the
year 1875, by holding an Int national
Exhibition of American AMI foreign
products and manufactures This de
monstration will be held under the aus
pieces of the Government of the United
States.
On Tuesday, 9th inst. the lower
house of tie Pennsylvania Legislature
passed to a second reading bill appro-
pliating 5000 for the use of Washing
ton Cemetery, at Hagerstown, Mary
land. 70 be expended in removing to
said cemetery the bodies of Confederate
soldiers buried in scattered places in
Pennsylvania The vote stood-yeas
A., nays 50,
Forepaugh's camel which was left on
the sick list at Hagerstown is dead.
Thirty YOU g ladies were admitted
into the sodalty ofthe Blessed Virgin
Mary of St. Alphonsus Church, Wheel
ING, on Sunday last.
The Statue of Abraham Lincoln, in
tended for the Fairmont Park, Phila-
delphia, is now on its way to this coun-
try. The statue Is OF bronze, was sculp-
tured BY Rogers, and is valued at the
sum of $4,000.
Miss Fowler, Orange, n. j.. is the
leading physician Of that place, and does
f.om $4,000 to $4,000 worth Of prac-
tee annually.
AT the decoration of Confederate
graves at Atlanta on Wednesday, 9th,
tle services were strikingly beautiful.
Among those present were General Al
bert Pike and Hon. Robert Toombs
The Augusta (colored) eornet band, nine
instruments, rendered their services for
the occasion.
The former residence and plantation
Of Mr.. Jefferson Davis, in Mississippi,
is owned by a colored man, who is in
telligent and industrious, and successful
in his business of cotton planting. 1t is
said that Mr. Davis lately paid a visit
to the place al d was greeted by his
former servants with affectionate respect
and that he met them,comteously, and
! encouras ed them with many kind words