Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1872-11-16
Editorial Brevities.


Yeung Fewell, tried at Brentsville,
for the murder of James +. Clarke,
charged with abducting and running his
sister, has been acquitted.
Freight trains now run regularly to
Hinton, 40 miles West of White Sui
phur.
Railroad accidents are becoming as
plentiful and common as tiddlers are re-
ported to be in lower regions, slut no.
body is to blame
Our exchanges report the growing
wheat crops as looking remarkably well
throughout the Valley and Mountains
west of us.
The Martinsburg Statesman says that
Horace Greeley spent thirty years ct ms
life in making the colored man The po-
liticai equal Of the whiteman. He found
by last Tuesdays vote that his "colored
brudder is VERY ungratetul critter.
The receipts of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal for the past week were as
follows: Cumberland, 81, 74O, 81; George
town, S2,757,74; Williamsport, $4,000,
Hancock, sl2s,22. Total, $1O,766,93.
The Culpepper Observer says "A
gentleman OF the vicinage, few days
ago, whilst digging a post-hole, I'M
earthed about bushel of tiints, design
ed for obsolete musket use, and which,
from indications seemed to have been
per,lu since the Revolution.
Mr. Daniel Root diedin lIagerstown,
Md, on Tuesday last. Deceased had
been quite an active politician for years
in the democratic ranks, and had filled
a number of official positions, and for a
long time WAS keeper OF the almshouse
of Washington county. Mr.. George
Gillmyer, another old and respected cit
izen OF Hagcrstown.dicd OH Wednesday.
The trial of Fewell, for the shooting
Jas. +. Clarke, III the Jail Of Prince Will
liam county, a few months ago, is now
going on in the Circuit Court of that
county. Much interest was manifested
during the progress of the trial, and a
number of witnesses examined.
\ portion of the large Wine cellar,
recently finished 10y NJ. Is. Buck, OF
Front Royal, caved in during the late
heavy rains, involving much expense
and trouble.
There are 321 churches in the Valley,
capable of accommodating 100000 per-
sons. They are divided among II diff
erent denominations, the Methodists be-
ing the largestby far; Presbyterian next.
On Thursday last, Willie, aged be-
tween two and three years, and son of
Mr.. Jno. Lupton living near Harrison
burg, whilst eating parched corn got
grain in his windpipe and strangled to
death before he could be relieved.
Eight million pounds of wool was
was destroyed by the Boston fire. Con-
STEERING the product of wool in the
United States, it is not probable that
the loss will materially affect themarket
of wooden fabrics. In 1870 the clip
ping in the United States amounted to
one hundred millions one hundred and
two thousand and three hundred and
eighty-seven pounds.
The Staunton Spectator says, we no
tice that the farms of several in this and
adjoining counties, who borrowed mon
ey at II per ceut. from Northern CAPT
talists, are being sold out by the Trus-
tees. Twelve per cent will eat up any
farm in the State, and almost any other
legitimate business.
a practical farmer who has had large
experience in rearing sheep, assures us
that the epizootic influenza, which has
attacked the horses with so much viru-
lence, is precisely similar to the malig-
nant distemper which sometimes des-
troys whole flocks of sheep.
The prosecution of Mrs Lloyd, charg
ed with poisoning her daughter, cost
the county of Loudoun $4,000.
In the Circuit Court of Augusta coun-
ty last week, the jury in the case OF
Mrs. Sarah J. CARRIER, widow, against
David Meyer, widower sixty years OF
age, for breech of promise to marry,
awarded the plaintiff $4,000 damages
She claimed $4,000