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

your smoked glasses ready.
The Tax Collector of the corporation
| of Shepherdstown is now on the rounds
Parties indebted should "fork over, for
the streets must be improved and order
preserved.
H. S. Sleeper, of the Leavenworth
| (Kansas) Times, predicts that the next
| Democratic ticket nominated by the
National Convention Of the party will
be for President, Salmon z. Chase, OF
Ohio. For Vice President, Augustus
G. Dodge, Of Iowa.
It's reported, says the Cleveland
Ohio Leader, that if Ohio and Penn
svlvania should both go Democratic this
fall it will be q strong blow against
Santa Domingo Annexation. And 1t
will prevent the denomination OF Cen
Grant. Much therefore depends upon
the result of the election in these two
great States this fall.
Senator Carl Schurz, of Missouri, is
going to speak in Pennsylvania and
4 ONO tlllS -iit ian NAi t1'N -
Reform party movement.
The people of Waynesboro, Pa, are
moving on the Railroad question. They
are about forming junction with the
Western Maryland Railroad near the
Monterey House.
The cherry and raspberry plckers
have had their hands full during the
past two weeks. Raspberies II cents
and cherries cents per quart.
A minister not long ago preached
from the text, "Be We therefore stead
fast" but the printer made him expound
from "Be ye there for breakfast"
The Directors car of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company, loaded
with eleven million dollars in specie, on
the way from Californiato Washington,
was detained at Omaha on the 9th by
an unusual flood. A company OF Uni
ted States soldiers guarded thetreasure.
Writ Byrd, Esq, member of the
Shenandoah bar, died very suddenly last
Saturday evening, just as he had return
ed from visit to Baltimore.
The Lexington Gazette is gratified to
announce the continued improvementin
the health OF Rev. DR.. White, Of that
place.
The smoked Radicals of Wilmington,
n. G., say ''they be dogoned if dey vote
for any mo carpet bagitters unless dey
Get some Of de offices dao own SETS
Sensible darkS.
1t is announced in London that Gen.
Sicblcs, who is a great fayorite at the
present Court Of Spain, is shortly to be
married to young and beautiful Span
ish lady.
The Rev. Mr. Sutton, Methodist
minister, on leaving the house of Mr..
Ellinngsworth at Louisville, handed his
coat to Miss Ellingsworth, when PTS
tol fell out of the pocket and was dis
charged, the bullet penetrating the alb
domcn of Miss Ellingsworth, intlictinS a
mortal wound.
A Vicksburg man who set a spring
gun in his chicken house found himself
a widower a few hours attcrward. lie
says he will tell his second wife when he
puts the gun there again.
The Salt Lake Methodists mean to
convert by the acre. Their tents will
each hold 10000 people.
Major Cook who was trusted men,
Der of Lees staff, is now Principal ofthe
colored high school in Petersburg, Va.
Mrs. Fair says she doesntmind hang
ing, but to being accused of q weakness
for gin is too much.
A woman Of Omaha threw her six
weeks old babe into a cistern, and then
cried out, "What are you doing down
there.
A tornado passed through Paxton,
Holden and West Boylston, Massachu-
sets on the 14th, tearing up everything
in its course trees were carried thirty
rods, houses, barns and stone fences
were Frustrated.
To make good vinegar, take one pint
of strained honey and two gallons of
soft water Let it stand in a moderate
ly warm place, and in three weeks it
will be excellent vinegar.
"Mammy !" said precious little boy,
who against his will was made to rock
the cradle of his baby brother, "if the
Lord has any more babies to give away,
don't you take EN-"
Kettles may be cleansed ofonion and
other odors by dissolving teaspoonful
of pearlaSh or saleratus in water and
washing them.
1t is stated that between $4,000 and
$4,000 persons have lately died Of vel
low fever in the city of Buenos Ayres.
The mortality by last accounts was aba
ting.
Gen. Jubal Early has published card
denying that the residence Of Mont
gomery Blair was burned by his orders.
He says he is no way responsible for the
incendiarism, which he emphatically
denouccs as an act of barbarity.
Andrew Johnson is talked of as the
Democratic candidate for Congress in
the 1st District in Tennessee. The
New York Herald says they can surely
elect him, and he is just the man want
ed in the House of Representatives to
take care of General Ben Butler and the
Constitution.