Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1871-08-19
Editorial Brerit.es.

Lord Byron said religion was a good
thing, but the priests had made it trade
A Florida journal says that while Ia
dy of Jacksonville was dressing a fish
recently, preparatory to cooking, she
discovered, embedded in its tiesh.a small
stone resemblinga glass and nearly the
size Of northern white bean. The
stone resembles a diamond, cuts & ASS
freely, and is very transparent and re
tractlve.
Prof. Charles Martin has resigned his
position as professor of Greek at Hamp-
den Sydney College, Va.
Theodore Tilton having been reques-
ted by Roman Catholic newspaper to
publish certain article "on the condl-
ton of the damned in hell, for the
'beneft of the Puritans, declines to do
so for the want of a reason. He says
The Puritans know as much as there Is
to be known about hell. They were
among the original founders Of it.
On Monday last the cornerstone of
the West Virginia Institution for the
Deaf, Dumb and Blind, now in progress
of erection at Romney was laid by the
members of Clinton Lodge a. f. and
\. VI.
The Romney West Virginia. lntelli-
gencer reports the result Of the vote
upon the proposition to subscribe $40
600 to the proposed South Branch Mar
row-Guage railroad taken last week as
follows: For subscription, 10; against
II Romney township voted yea and
Springfield township mo.
Mr.. S. n. Casanova, a Cuban gentle
man farming in Fauquier county, Va,
informs the Lynchburg Republican that
he has a plan on foot, and, he believes,
in process of successful execution, for
"the introduction Of considerable mum
Der of Cuban families into Fauqmer
county"
Bowen the three-wived Congressman
had quite an ovation on his return to
Charleston, ;. {.
At meeting of the Valley Railroad
Company held at Lexington on the lst
inst, the amount necessary to secure
the subscriptions Of Baltimore city and
of the B. q O. Railroad Company was
reported to have been raised. The
building of the road now is settled
fact.
Hon. G.. T. Long. >of the Jackson
Vile (Fla.) Circuit Court, arrested, un-
der the civil rights bill, for assigning
separate portions of the court room to
white and colored women, has been
held in $1,000 bail to answer for the Of
tense.
At the recent Municipal election in
Charleston, S. c., the white peoples
ticket was elected by 500 majority.
There is great rejoicing over the result
1t has been ascertained that the Ser
geant- at arms who acts as Marshal to the
Ku Klux Committee has notified certain
gentlemen summoned to testify before
the committee whose evidence it was
surmised would be damaging to the
Radicals that said committee had not
tine to examine more Witnesses. Beck
and Blair are after him.
There was seen the other day little
bov in the streets of Colosse, y. u,
crying. a gentleman stepping up to
the little fellow said: "1ly little man,
what is the matter" to which he respon-
ded, I've got the stomach-ache, and
III have it again if I've mind to.
The Pearisburg Gazette says there is
in Giles county the greatest curiosity
perhaps, that the world ever produced.
A Mr.. Williams has calf, eight months
old, that gives a gallon of milk per day.
He purchased it at the sale Of the late
Andrew Croy, when it was very young,
and kept it as kind of pet, for children
who by constant milking" as they
called it,have made good cow and yet,
only calf.
The hard earnest way in which some
Yankees hate niggers, affords really
curious subject for study. The other day
Mr.. J. S White died leaving $1,000 to
the University Of Vermont at Burling
ton, upon the express condition that no
colored student should ever receive
dollar of it
A negro riot occurred at municipal
election, in Charleston, S. c. on We'd
nesday last. a negro assaulted feder-
al soldier who tried to arrest him for
riotous conduct, whereupon the soldier
fired, killing the negro instantly.