Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1872-11-30
Editorial Brevities.

"We are going to run peaceable ma
chine. The great interests OF our coun
try, commerce and trade, pig-lron, pork
cotton and corl,, the Fair and fair sex
accidents, circuses and so forth, thrown
in as seasoning.
The official vote of Berkeley county
gives the Grant electors only ninefeer
majority, instead of 50 rs announced
last week.
The night ofthe brilliant display o.
Aurora, few weeks since, an old color
ed man near Staunton, was walked by
his excited son, with: Get up daddy
get up Judgment day done come
sure nutf. The old man turned slowly
over, hurled brogan at the excited
youth. with a curse, and "Go long, you
fool nigger; hours de judgment day
gwine 10 com. in de nj ght ?
Mr.. Eben Taylor, the well known
baggage-master of the w. & 7. Rail,
road, made a narrow escape from seri-
Gus injuries few days since at Cedar
Greek station. He was coupling cars,
when he was caught and bruised ccnsid-
erably about his heart, but fortunately
escaped without further injury.
John Syphax, colored, has been cleo
ted Clerk of the Alexandria County
Court over David Hunter, the present
incumbent.
John NJ. Langston colored lawyer
of Washington, is candidate for Attor,
nev-General in Grants New Cabinet.
The western bound freight on the o.
4. e VI. X. X. met a drove of cattle IN
a cut, this side Of Manassas Junction, on
the 4th. Out of twenty cattle i'll the
drove, only ten are left to tell the bloody
tale.
1t is said that there were 1920 white
men in Richmond who failed to vote at
the late election.
1t is said that General A. f. Burnside
will be appointed to the vacant MAJOR
general-ship, caused by the death OF
Gen. Meade.
Two of MIR. Marcus Mills children, in
Warrenton County, girl and boy, aged
respectively IL and 5 years-were bit
ten, on Monday afternoon, by puppy
belonging to Mr.. NJ. Mr.. Mills started
Immediately with his children for the
"mad stone" which is owned by a gen
tleman near Piedmont, i'll Fauquier Co.,
Va.
An editor who was going courting
said she was going to press"
Young ladies' are now wearing their
sash ribbons tied on the right side OF
the waist, instead of at the back as here
tofore.
A monument of native North Carroll
ma marble has been erected over the
grave of Anna Cora Lee. daughter Of
Gen. r. f. Lee, by the citizens OF War
ren Co, n. &. 1t is handsomely insert
bed. She died at White Sulphur Springs
in Warren, Oct 2Oth, lS62,aged SyearS
The liquor law being enforced in
Chicago last Sunday,a heartless salooon
keeper hung out in front of his place a
beer bottle, dressed III mourning, under
meath which was bucket of water, with
the generous invitation: "Help your
selves, boys.
Since the abolishment f capital Pun
ishment for murder in Iowa, only six
months ago, the increase in the ratio OF
crime has been enormous, and Petitions
are now being circulated through the
churches in that State for a restoration
of the death penalty.
Gen. Robert f. Lee once wrote that
"Duty is the sublimest word in our Ian
puage"-a sentiment as beautiful as 1t
is true
The Fall fashion only admit of eigh-
teen shades of drab.
A Racine girl wanted her lover to
swear on the Bible that she was all the
world to him, and when he wouldn't she
knocked him down with the sacred vol
ume.
On very pretty girl saying to Leigh
Hunt, 81 am very sad, you see, he re-
piled, "Oh. no, You belong to the other
Jewish sect; YOU are very fair Ises.
Mccormick & Lynch's station stables
at Buffalo were burned on Wednesday
nic hit, and between forty and fifty horses
and mules perished in the flames.
An old tree called the "Kirg of the
Woods, under which w Washington pitch
ed his tent when he occupied Jersey
City Heights, is being cut down.
The President, it is stated, will recon-
mend, in his message, the repeal OF such
portions of the Ku-Klux law as are very
oppressive, and will persue ''concilato-
ry policy towards the South.
One of the saddest sights in this sea
son ofthe year, is young man who has
waited outside the church of an evening
until he is chilled through, only to see
his girl walk off with some rascal who
has been inside all the time toasting his
sinful shins at the stove.
Hydrophobia is raging to an unpa-
relied extent in the northern counties OF
England. where many men as we'll as
animals have died from it.
Jndge J. w. Ashby, of Page county,
was married on the 7th inst, by Rev. J.
w. Watson, assisted by Rev. J. II.
Hutchinson, to Miss Annie Brubaker,
daughter of Jacob Brubaker, deceased,
of SAID county.
n. Burwell, of Clarke county, who
was indicted by the grand jury Of Fred
erick county for an assault upon man
in Winchester, was tried before the COun-