Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1872-10-12
Editorial Breyities,

with sales Of 3,700 bushels prime red at
S1,S5, and $50 bushels choice at 100 a
Sl,9l.
c. T. Laise, Of Berkeley, announces
himself as straight out Independent
Republican Candidate for Congress.
Circuit Court commences in Morgan
next Tuesday, and in Martinsburg on
the 22d inst.
Hendricks is probably elected Gov
ernor Of Indiana.
We invite attention to the sales Of
real estate advertised in the Register
Bargains can be had.
a portion of our merchants-Wm.
VI. Lemen, i. +. Etchison, Abram
Harris, +. Il. Grove, J. +. Welshans, j.
S. Fleming, and ID. 5. Rentch, are now
in the city purchasing goods.
The wharf, at the Potomac is wear
busy aspect,in the unloading OF straw,
coal, lumber, and brick. Things is
mo:ing,"
John r. Gatrell purchased the canal
boat belonging to the estate OF ii. Smith
Crowl, on Monday last, for S275,00.
Chesauts sold on the street on We'd
ncsday last at II - cents per quart.
Our friends b. 5. Pendleton and Rob
ert L. Magruder, has left town. BUR"
has gone to Kansas city, and Der" to
Wellsyille, Ohio, Good luck to We, boys,
Rev. J. Hawkins will deliver an ad-
dress before the Young Mems Christian
Association, Of Shepherdstown, i'll the
Lutheran Church of this place, on Fri
day evening next, 18th inst. The pub
lie are invited to attend.
Rev. Mr.. Neal delivered very inter
esting address to the Sunday Schools OF
the town, on Sunday afternoon last, nthc
NJ. +. Church South.
New Corn is selling at GO cents
per bushel,
Gen. L. g. T. Beauregard, that gal
liant officer OF Confederate memory, Is
spending few days in Loudoun coun-
tv, with his old comrade i'll arms, Col.
Henry +. Peyton.
Our little friend Jimmy Harp has
gone to Piedmont to seek his fortune.
May YOU find it Jimmy" is our prayer,
The Lutheran Synod which met ut
Hagerstown adjourned to meet at Fred
erick next year. Rev. DIR. Strother, of
Williamsport, is the president for the
current year.
"The What Is It's the title of
daily paper to be issued at Hagerstown,
next week, during the Agricultural
Fair, by Messrs. Fechtig Il Senior.
Mrs. Eliza Beard, Post mistress at
Boonsboro, Md, died on the 25th ult.
Her daughter, Miss Eliza, has received
the appointment.
Quite number of our citizens attend
ed the Baltimore Fair this week.
The sap-ient editors Of the Spirit got
hurt at our remarks last week. Truth,
like lightning, will sometimes strike
hard heads" and ''crack' them.
A brisk trade is now going on among
the coal merchants. Cumberland lump
Sc per ton and run of the mine 50, and
anthracite IS, delivered.
The Frederick and Hagerstown Ag
ricultural Fairs commence next Tues
day, the 18th.
The Congressional election i'll this
State will take place on Thursday the
oath instant.
Hon. A. r. Boteler, Independent
Candidate for Congress, is now canvass
ing the Western part of the District.
The second trial of DR.. Thomas of
Adamstown, for killing young Belt, was
postponed at Frederick, until February
next, on account of one of the counsel
being sick.
Jacob LEM Of Baltimore, has sued
Miss Mary Schomm for u breach Of
promise, of marriage, laying damagesat
$4,000. lie says he has been ready long
ago, but she won't ''come to time.
Many persons write articles and send
them to the editor to be corrected-as
if an editors office was house of cor
rectiOn.
Last week Mr.. Samuel Wagoner,near
Kcedysville, threshed twenty bushels of
wheat, the product of half acre Of
ground sown with one bushel of Fultz
wheat. This is at the rate of 40 bushels
to the acre.
a piscatorial party is what they call
it now. When we were boy they
called it ''goin fishing.
An Irish advertisement "lf the gen
tleman who keeps a shoe store with =
red head, will return the umbrella of
young lady with the ivory handle, he
will hear something to her advantage.
This is the intelligent manner in
which the London Court Journal pre-
sents an American item to its readers
The girls of the Mo, in Missouri, areso
sweet that poets speak Of them as Mo
l2SSes."
The Washington County, Md, Agri-
cultural Fair will commence on Tues
day, the 18th inst, at llagerstown.
London ladies faint at thunderstorms.
Their American sisters do not tremblc
at "blowing up.
Arrangements have been made with
the Baltimore and Ohio, and Orange,
Alexandria and Manassas railroads, for
round trip tickets at greatly reduced
rates, to persons desiring to attend the