Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1872-10-26
Editorial Dreviiies.

The baltimore EptSc0pof Mes"o" o.
announces the dissolution Of partnership
between the proprietors, Rev. Messrs.
Poisal and Baird, DR.. Poisal, the foun-
der of the paper, having sold his entire
interest to Mr.. Baird, who has associa-
ted with him in the business department
J. L. Martin, Esq g.
The other day at Buckhannon, in this
Stste, fifteen or twenty ladies waited on
the village druggist, who had been sur
reptitiously selling liquors, and gave
him notice to quit.
An Iowan, going to a friend to get
him to write notice of his "'ites deser-
ton, the latter wrote, "My wife having
left my bed and board" when the hus.
band exclaimed, "Stop! stop! There's
the trouble, she didn't leave my bed, but
carried it with her"
"Let that pudding alone, there
That's the desert !" exclaimed waiter
to countryman who was devoul1ng
the tapioca at an early stage of the din
ner. IL don't care if it is desert, ties
tily said the countryman; I'D eat it if
it was a wilderness"
Mr.. Augustus Hammond, from Fred
erick Co., Md, q salesman in the Shoe
establishment of ]. J. Mcmahon, OF
Stanton, died Unexpectedly on Monday
week. He was making his toilet and
remarked as he turned from the mirror,
that he was looking badly. He com
| planned of chill aud lay on the bed
while his wife Was getting blanket to
throw over him. As she was spreading
it he died.
DR.. Z. /. Massie, one Of the most
prominent physicians of New Orleans,
died in that city few days ago. DR..
Massie was native of Virginia, and
was chief surgeon on the staff of Major
General Walker in Lees campaign in
Virginia. lie was long resident of
Washington city, where he graduated
III his medical studies.
On Tuesday week in front Of the
Courthouse, at Staunton, +. NJ. Cush-
inc. asctioneer, sold $4,000 in Conted-
crate notes, OF denominations running
from SIS to zoos for $3.50. lawful mon
ey of the United States. The purchu-
ser was Professor Therry from France,
who bought them is curious memento
of the ''lost cause.
AT Harrisburg, Pa, in the case OF
Emanuel Shaffner, on new t1al for
the murder of his two wives and John
Sharlock by poisoning, the prisoner
pleaded guilty of murder in the second
degree, and was sentenced to the Eas-
tern penitentiary for thirty-six years
twelve years OH each indictment
A feverish state of excitement still
exists in Osceola, Arkansas, and many
of the citizens are fleeing with their
families in anticipation ofanother attack
from the negroes. No further blood
shed is reported. The whites Of the
village arc still under arms, and all ap-
proachcs, at the last accounts, were guard
ed.
Forty-eiglt colored young girls and
boys from different points in North Car
olina eighteen being from Greenbor",
the point where they were shipped: have
arrived at Hampton, Va, to attend the
colorcd Normal Scool, where they will
be fitted for teachers gratuitously.
How IT WAS DoNH.-Col Mike Har-
man, of Stanton, (who is very much
like his brother, Maj. John A. Hartman,
Radically WIS i'll Harrisonburg, just
before the late election in Pennsylvania,
where he was accosted by negro and
the following conversation occurred:
Cuffee-'Why, Major, how is You =?
Glad to see YOU down here.
Col. H.-'How do you do.
Cutfee-'You don't know me, was
in the Convention at Richmond with
you
Col. H.-Oh, yes. Well why amt
you in Pennsylvania.
Cuffee-'Ah, Major, I'm gwine dar to
morrow. Dey done give me $40 aud
my expenses,
Col. H.-'Why you ought to have
| more than that.
Cuffee-'Oh, Ina gwine to get more
fore fore i'm done. I'm gwine to get =
house arter while.
The town of Harrisonburg, Virginia,
has just subscribed twenty five thousand
dollars to the capital stock of the Wash
ington, Cincinnati and st. Louis Narrow
Gauge Railway. The charter OF this
road was granted by the State of Viz
ginia, and capital is fifteen millio 1t
will be three feet guagp, crossing the
Ohio at Point Pleasant. The survey
has been commenced at Harrisburg, and
runs west up North river, and crosses
North river gap in the Shenandoah
mountain thence west through &High
land county, passing over the Alleghe-
ny mountains by low gap into POGO
hontas county; West Virginia, thence
through Webster, Braxton, Clay, Jack
son and Mason counties, West Virginia,
to Point Pleasant.
SYMPTOMS OF CATARRH.
Dull, heavy headache, obstruction of
nasal passages, discharge falling into
throat, sometimes protuse, watery, acrid,