Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1872-10-26
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ted with that paper as one OF its pub
fishers and proprietors. Mr.. II. is
clever gentleman, and ne hope he may
find his new field of laborapleasant one.
The widows of the engineer and fire
man who were killed in recent acct
dent Oh the Erie railway, by negligence
of the train dispatcher in telegraphing
trains to pass each other, have recover
ed five thousand dollars damages each
against the Erie railway.
The South Carolina election seems to
have resulted in the success Of the regu-,
lar Republican ticket, at the head of
which is +. X. Moses, Jr., for Governor,
the boilers, headed by Reuben Tomlin-
son, for Governor, having failed to break
the power Of the existing ring.
Rev.D. Atkinson, President of Hamp
den Sidney College stated in late dis
cussion that but one student had died at
that college in hundred years.
Willie, the youngest son of Hon.
Jefferson Davis, died at Memphis recent
ly, of diptberia.
At Rockpot, Arkansas, on the LIST
inst, some of the men connected with
Coles Circus, killed ayoung man named
Park, and severely beat the son Of Mr..
Floyd, the proprietor OF the hotel at
that place, where the circus was stop
ping The Sheriff commanded posse,
and arrested the whole concern, from
the ring master down to the sleeping
beauty"
The official returns Of Pennsylvania,
except one county, make Hartrantts
majority 35,SS9.
&c. Hays; formerly known as Col.
Jack Hays, the leadc- ol the "Iexan
Rangers" is living on the income of
100000, in Alameda county, California,
The barn and stable of the West
Side Stage Company Chicago, was burn
ed Monday night. Loss, 900. For
ty horses were burned.
1t is said that the Siamese Twins diff
er ON the Presidential question. Chang
will vote for Greeley and Eng for Grant.
In the recently elected Pennsylvania
Legislature there are IS Republican Sen
ators and 10 Democrats; 80 Republican
representatives and 10 Democrats The
Republicans have majority of % on
Joint ballot. This secures the re-elec-
ton of Simon Cameron to the United
States Senate.
In discussion at Fredericksburg last
week, between Col. Popham, and Col.
r. f. Withers, the latter said, that in
North Carolina the radicals had stolen
everything in the State except the peni-
Tertiary, and that every Radical in the
State claimed homestead in that insti-
tuition.
Rev. T. d. Witherspoon, d. d., Chap
lain of the University Va, delivered 4
lecture in Baltimore last Wednesday
night, on Lights and shadows of Con-
tederate Prison Life" He was pris-
oner two years at Fort McHenry. The
next lecture will be by Rev. II. L. Dab
ney, D. D.,-subject, "Stonewall Jack
SON. The proceeds of these lectures
are for the benefit of the Campinos
(BraziD Mission School.
Col. VIM. A. Jenifer, of Maryland,
who, several years ago, went 80 Egypt
and entered the service Of the khedive
as inspector of cavalry, arrived i'll New
York on "Wednesday by the steamship
Cuba en- route home, having received
Through from the Khedive for brief
period.
Mary Ann Gotten is undergoing trial
in England charged with poisoning her
mother, fifteen children, three husbands
and one lodger.
The trial OF Mrs +. Wharton for iii
attempt to poison Mr.. Van Ness in Bal
timore last year was postponed to the
October term of the Circuit Court, OF
Anne Arundel County.
Edmund Winston Henry, the young
est and last son of Patrick Henry, died
at his residence la Charlotte county, Va,
last week, in the 10Th year OF his age.
Since our last issue widowers have ad-
vanced in popularity with the girls.
They are on rising ground.
ANTlETAN NATIONAL CKMETEkY.-
We are informed by Thos. A. Boult,
Esq, Secretary and Treasurer of Ante
tam National Cemetery, that all the
material for the construction of the mon
ument has been raised from the quarries
ut Westerly, Rhode Island. The mon
umont is to be IS feet in height from
the ground to the extreme top, the pc
destal % feet and the statue 20 feet, the
whole to be constructed OF white gran
tie and weighing 800 tons. The statue
alone, which is to be q colossal Ameri-
can soldier, will weigh IS tons, com
posed of two blocks. weighing. in the
rough IS tons. This work of art will
be the largest statue i'll existence, and
its conception by the managers of the
Cemetery, OF whom our townsman, Mr..
Boult is one of the most active, was
thought that is of infinite credit to all
concerned. 1t will be finished in time
to be erected, we presume, on the elev-
enth anniversary of the battle of which
it is in part commemorative. -Hagers-
town IWire-.7-Urk.
The Detroit Frse Pros says: dur
ing the excitement of registration one
Of the carriages stopped at house on
Beech street, and the driver pounded at
house tenanted by man who had ne