Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-10-04
Editorial Brevities.

Fenian Brotherhood, died in New I DIX
aged IS.
The trial of the colored man, Henry
Young, charged with the murder OF
Hahn, the drover, is going on in Wash
ington.
In consequence of the money crisis
in the cities, the University OF Virginia
has made arrangements for credit to all
students temporarily embarrassed by the
same.
DIR. Livingstone has again come to
the surface. Storms, an English tray
eler has arrived in Paris from Central
Africa, and reports that he met DR.. Liv-
ingtone last June and parted from him
on the 1st of July, at which time the
doctor was in perfect health.
Two thirds of the furnishing mining
town of Fairplay, COL, was destroyed
by fire on Friday night.
! Barnum's Rhinoceros died at Phila-
delphia few days ago.
J. III. Stewart, postmaster a. Pitts
burgh, is defaulter for $4,000.
Three hundred hands, in addition to
those of some time ago, were recently
discharged from the shops at Altoona,
Pa.
A bachelor says young married cou-
pies are apt to give themselves heirs.
Barnum, the great Snowman, gather
ed in, while in Chicago, $4,000.
A Wisconsin farmer can sail all over
his Real Estate in boat Heattended
the prayer meeting for rain.
A young lady who can gnaw an ear
of green corn with considerable grace
utterly fails to lick postage stamp.
indianapolis produces some determin-
ed women. One recently threw her
chignon out of the car window, while
returning from a picnic, because it made
her head ache.
Bishop Simpson, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, has announced him.
self as being in favor of female suffrage.
The last funny marriage we have
.'read about" is that of Mr.. Arm to Miss
Leg, by Rev Mr.. Head.
The Grand Secretary Of the |. o. o.
+. of West Virginia gave verytiatter-
inc account of the Order in this State,
in his report to the Grand Lodge ofthe
United States, now in session i'll Balti-
more.
The erection of the Meade Memorial
Church at White Post, in Clarke coun-
ty, is now going steadily forward 1t
is expected that the edifce will be under
roof some time next week.
\ brutal prize-fght came off on Tues
day last on an island in the Mississippi
river, between Mike McCool and Tom
Allen. Allen won the fight, which last
ed exactly twenty minutes, beating Nc
Cool in a most fearful manner
Mr. CASTOR, Democratic candidate
for Governor of Massachusetts, says the
prohibition laws have tended to corrupt
public morals
AS the quietest way of making for
tune cotemporary suggests marrying
fashionable young lady and then sell
her clothes.
In Missouri bushel of corn buys
pound Of sugar. ,
Place a young girl under the care OF
kindhearted graceful woman, and she
mconsciously to herself grows into
graceful lady.
1t is not good for man nowadays
to offer his hand i'll matrimony II there
is nothing in it.
1t is said that the ancient gates OF
Constantinople, which endured the at
tacks of decay for more than eleven
hundred years were made OF cypress
wood.
The man who tried to sweeten his tea
with one of his wite's smiles, has fallen
back on sugar Nothing like first prin-
ciplcs after all.
The Valley convocation of the Prot
estant Episc opal Church convened III
Berryville, on the lst of October
A honeymoon" car is now run on
the Pacific railroad. a divorce car
will be next in order for parties on the
return trip.
General John f. Roller has purchased,
for other parties, the farm of DIR. 5. a.
Cotfman, near Harrisonburg, containing
Cos acres, for $3.50 per acre. The
same farm sold for $50 per acre before
the war, and has been very much I'M
proved since that time.
There is movement in Martinsburg
to erect new hotel by joint stock
company.
The tobacco factory of AR. ]. L. Tim
berlake, in Staunton, was destroyed by
fire on Monday of last week.
The contest for Governor in Virginia
is s.red hot"-between Gen. kemper the
conservative candidate, and Hughes the
republican candidate.
The Kearsley Hotel, at Fairmont,
was sold by John Kearsley, for $4,000
to E. w. Shurtlef:
The financial crisis it is said is nearly
over. and banks are re-opening i'll New
York.
A Washington man has sued the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
for $4,000 for killing his wife. The
like of that would not be heard OF in IL
lnois
An exchange wanting to compliment
a live stock journal, ''says it is edited by
a man whose head is full of live stock. .
Een T u Imbodan hos brOu0ht sult