Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1872-07-06
EditoriaI Brevities.

A bashful printer refused SITUATION
in a printing ofiice where females were
employed, saying he never "set up WIN
gal in his life.
Politics are getting awfully mixed
lust now. You can't tell "tother from
which.
Josh Billings says: "There IL one
thing about a hen that does look like
wisdum, they don't kackle much until
after they have laid their egg. Sum
pholks are alwus a Dragging and a
cackling what they are going tew do
beforehand.
A little girl sent out to hunt eggs,
came back unsuccessful, complaining
that lots of hens were standing around
doing nothing.
Skies says the prettieSt sewing ma
chine he ever saw was about seventeen
years of age, with short sleeves, low
necked dress, and gaiter boots on.
1t is no point against Democracy to
call Morrissey the gambler Democrat
It isn't seven weeks since Senator Nor
ton ''pokered" John out of eight hun
! dred dollars in one evening.
J. Randolph Tucker is now Doctor
Ran. At the late commencement OF
William & Mary, he was made an l. l.;
Dan honor he has well earned and
will worthily wear.
A tremendous hail storm passed over
Cleveland, O., between one and hye
o'clock Sunday. Several houses were
struck by lightning, and one woman
was killed in bed Considerable dam
age was done in the city and to crops
in the country.
Mrs. James Fisk, on riding to the
| New York courthouse, Wednesday
night, to attend to some business, was
mistaken for Josephine Mansfield and
hooted and Kissed and otherwise insult
| ed
The three things which woman can
not do are now said to be, to sharpen
pencil, tie up a bundle, and carry an
! umbrella. Well,wh cares if she cant?
She can always get a man to do such
things for her,just for the sake of show
ing his superiority.
The western confectioner who, few
months ago, taught his parrot to say
"pretty creature to every lady who en-
Tered his store, is now a millionaire.
Some citizens of Bridgeport, Conn,
recently punished an aggravated case of
organ grinding by riding the offending
grinder on a rail and burning his organ.
Messrs. Shepherd and Mack, now of
Missouri, were in the United States
army that invaded Canada in 1913.
They met the other day in st. Louis, for
the first time since they parted on the
banks of the st. Lawrence sixty years
AGO. Both are or were recently editors,
which adds another to the many proofs
that poverty is conducive to longevity
Lay your finger on your pulse, and
know that at every stroke some mortal
passes to his Maker some fellow be
inc crosses the river Of death and if
we think of it, we may well wonder
that it should be so long before our
turn comes.
The Greedy Mass Meeting in Rich
mond on Wednesday night, VAS very
large and enthusiastic one. Gov Wal
ker presided. Speeches were made by
several gentlemen from different por-
tons Of the State, which were respond
ed to heartily. There was torch light
procession previous to the meeting.
Hon. J. c. McGrew will be n candi-
date for denomination for Congress, at
the hands of the Republican Conycn-
ton. Our friend J. Nelson Wisner, OF
the Berkeley Union, will also be pro
minent candidate for the same position.
The Maryland and Virginia boundary
commission on the Eastern Shore has
failed to agree The Maryanders can
not find the old landmarks the en-
croachments Of the waves having geol
oeized them. Gen. Wise, however, for
Virginia, insists that he has found them
but cannot get the other side to look at
them.
A change in the fees for money orders
is made Formerly the fee was ten
cents for all sums of $50 or under.
Now it is fixed at five cents for 80 or
under, and at ten cents for SUMS from
$40 to $40.
Rev Mr.. Leech, a Cumberland min
;s.ar ,,raoobaI n harmon m tho Su,irk oil
est man in Cumberland" Whether he
aimed his remarks at the local Of the
Times or News is the subject of dispute
there at present.
J. Brisbin Walker, Esq, a son-in-law
of Gen. u. II. Strother, has been nomi-
mated by the Republicans Of the Sd
Congressional District, as their candi-
date for Congress.
A western writer describes a Dolly
Warden dress as an animated old fash
toned window curtain thrown over a
red brick wall
The latest novelty in the role of fash
J ion yet reported is said to consist OF
dolly Warden" carriers. We must
confess that, unless dresses are going to
be worn very short, a la ballet, aud pants
Ia continental, we cannot see how
persons will be able to tell whether the
beax and bellies are following the fash
ion in this respect or not.
The Fredericksburg Herald says -
1--WE regret TO hear of the death, last