Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1871-06-24

l.. alandlgnam was OF the HlosI III
posing character The procession was
two miles long, and was composed Of
persons of all political parties and pro
LESSONS. Business in many parts Of the
city was suspended during the passage
of the cortege The county, city and
many private buildings were draped in
mourning. The pall-bearers were A.
G.. Thurman, S. S. Cox, George L.
Pugh, Geo w. McCook, Judge Gil
more, Gen. O. c. Maxwell, John How
ard, Samuel Creighead, Elihu Thomp-
son, d. A. Bayer w. H. Gillespie, and
ID. A. Houk. Many distinguished gen
tlemen from all parts Of the Union were
present. The attendance Of Chief JUS
tice Chase was prevented by i'll health.
GREELEY ON CARPET-BAGGEEs.-The
old white-hatted philosopher photo
graphs to life these birds Of passage. In
speech at the Lincoln Club Rooms in
New York last Monday, he said:
"The thieving Carpet-baggers are for
the most part fellows who went down
South in the track Of our armies, usual
" at safe distance from danger, some
of them on suffers wagons, some OF
them with cotton permits in their peck
cts and hoping that something might
turn up for them, they remained in the
South They mixed themselves up
with the blacks, and promised to be the
champions Of their rights. Some Of
them got elected to the State Senates,
and some of them to the Assembly and
some are Judges and magistrates.
There they stand, right in the peoples
eyes, stealing and plundering, many of
them with their arms around the ne
groes' necks and their hands in their
pockets, seeing if they can steal some
thing. laughter They are the thirty
ing arpet-baggers and very pious gen
tlemen at that. Some Of these thieves
affect to be honest men. They 60 about
with long faces, and with their eyes
rolled up and their hands clasped over
their stomachs- great laughter and
profess to be greatly concerned for the
education of the blacks, and still more
concerned for the salvation oftheir souls
Mr.. Greeley initiated the hypocritical
carpct-bagger, clasping his hands over
his abdomen, rolling up his eyes and
whining out with nasal twang, LET us
pray" Great laughter and cheers.
Yes, said Mr.. Greeley, these men are
heavy on praying, but they spell pray
with an f, and in that sense they fulfil
the apostolic injunction to prey without
ccasing."
The details of the total destruction by
fire of the Peruvian ship Don JUAN at
sea, have been received. 1t is supposed
that she was set on fire by the Coolies,
who had been entrappcd on board at
Macco, China. The crew abandoned
the vessel, leaving $50 Coolies fastened
under the matches. Five HUNDRED Cool
les were roasted alive, the others escap-
cd when the matches burned off. The
vessel was American built, and was sold
in San Francisco to the Compania Ma
ritina de Peru, and re-christened DO
Owes Ugaite' She was fitted out for
the Coolie trade, and returned several
times for supplies while engaged in the
traffic.
Died at her residence, near Grove
Mill, Page county, Va, on the 9th of
June, 1871, Mrs. Susan Sommers, wife
of Mr.. George Sommers, and mother Of
Capt. George Sommers, who was shot at
Rudes Hill, in 1865, without trial after
the surrender, by order Of Col. Huzzy,
of Ohio volunteers. Her death was
caused by paralysis, in the seventeen
year other age.
The Rockville, Montgomery county,
Md, Sentinel, records the death of ne
gro boy, from hydrophobia About 9
months ago, he was bitten on thelip by
a dog, and at the time no suspicion of
the dogs rabbidness was entertained,
consequently nothing in that direction,
was done for the boy. Last week, he
was taken with hydrophobis, and, in
few days died, after the most horrible
suffering.
When Horace Greely, the Printer,
Philosopher, Almanac Maker, Humani-
tartan and Farmer, speaks at the Cattle
Show, near Frederick, On the 18th of
October, ne will draw a larger crowd to
hear him tell What | know about
Farming, than was ever assembled at
an agricultural gathering in that county
on any previous occasion.
There is very simple process by
which muslins used for ladies and
children's dresses can be prevented from
catching fire. Dissolve small piece of
alum in the water in which muslins are
rinsed. Wien dry, if light be put to
them, they will shoulder slowly away,
but not break out into blaze. And
this, so far from being injurious to mus
lin, improves its appearance greatly.
DR., Pancoast, of Philadelphia, recent
ly performed painful operation on a
little girl, whose feet had been deform-
ed by wearing. high-heeled boots, and
expressed his opinion that it was only
the beginning of large harvest ofsuch
cases 1t SO happens that extremely
high heels are going out of fashion ). but
there is still room for much improve
ment in this direction.
MI. Shaw Josh Billings) resides in
Fifth Avenue, New Yosk, IN s2mpen-
o0S style