Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-01-11
Editorial Bresities.

The Winchester News announces the
death of Mr. John NJ. Masson, ''proba-
bly, the oldest printer in the Valley OF
Virginia
The ladies of Winchester Episcopal
church only realized 500 10y their game
supper, showing n great wand of pluck
in their beaux.
Game Is plenty in Winchester mar
kets, and turkey only Is cts per pound.
Another fire occuredin Boston on
2Srd December. Loss $4,000
Two doting fathers snapped babies
at the baptismal font in Dubuque, Iowa
\ girl and Sl5 for 4 boy.
The streets of our city have presented
an animated appearance since the late
snow. Sleighs and every other deS-
cription of vehicle throng our thorough
fares, and our merchants seem to be do
ing a driving business.
Judge Richard Parker, of Winches-
ter. is Senior Grand Warden of the
Grand Lodge of Masons, of Virginia
The South Braurh Railway, between
Romney and Green Spring Run, West
Virginia. sixteen miles in length, con.
Meeting with the Baltimore ana Ohio
railroad, has progressed 80 far that the
contracts for grading and masonry are
to be let this month
Gen. Banks has offered bill in Con
gress increasing the presidents salary 10
$4,000 per year The extra s25,OOo
will pave Banks way back TO the radical
party.
The earnings of the Baltimore Il
Ohio Railroad for the year ending Sep
ternber 30. were $lS,6l4,S76.
\ lawyer friend says that the three
most troublesome clients he ever had
were young woman who wanted 10 bc
married. married woman who wanted
to he unmarried, and an old maid who
didn't know what she wanted.
At this season, let those who are able
of their abundance to give, remember
the poor, and not TAIL 10 make glad the
hearts. as tar as they can, of many who
will be thankful for their iayors, aud
deserving of their bounty.
The advance of price in Western
lands is going on with wonderful speed.
Lands in western Michigan, which "A
few wears AGO were considered worth
less. or next 10 il, are now selling for
from fifty TO one hundred dollars per
acre.
There is another large lot of hoop polls
at the depot at Orange Court t-houSc, a
waiting shipment to the West Indies.
Bad cooking on the part OF the wife
is held by Texas Judge TO be good
ground for divorce.
Corn is selling at fifteen cents abush
el in Illinois.
From three TO four inches Of snow
fell ut Augusta, Georgia, on Tuesday
night, 10Th inst, being the heaviest for
many years. The sight presented in
the city AMI country around is said to
have been both novel and interesting
one in that section.
II is stated that T,rrarce Dollar,
laborer, of Manhattanville, New York,
went home drunk on Monday night last,
put his little infant son, three years old,
on a red hot stove and roasted him 10
death.
A young man engaged in making
himself attractive 10 a young lady, was
taker with a violent fit of coughlng,and
brougt up two marbles he had swal-
lowed when boy. The young lady
dismissed him. She said she didn't want
to marry stone quarry.
1t rcportcd eighth four SHIPS were
lost in the storm which ragged recently
in the north of Europe.
There are no less than twenty-five
mIrderers now confined ln the Tombs,
in New York, aud the Times, of that
city docs not believe that more than Que
or two of them will ever meet with any
punishment
Onc-h half Of the false hair worn by
American women comes from prisons
and lunatic asylu;ns.
Rev. DR.. Amasa Converse the dis'in-
guished Presbyterian Editor, lately Of
Richmond, is dead
OsDOIUt i . stultIHDll' 'ih1i W w hrb-
ington. He was the last active partici-
pant, with Capt John Brown, at Har-
pcrs Ferry, in October, 1859.
a grocer had pound Of sugar re-
turned with a rotc, attached 10 il, s.y-
ing. Too much sand for table use, and
not enough for bnilding purposes.
a Washington street boy received q
dollar for learning eight hundred Bible
verses, aud has bought with il hand
some deck Of linen-back cards.
Pity the sorrows ofGeorge Lanham,
Of Kentucky His wife ran of with a
chap named Taylor about six months
ago, and he had to leave his crops right
in the busy season and go and kill Tay-
lor; and now, just after be bad peacefully
settled down with her after trial and ac
quittal, Methodist minister has COB
bled her up and departed.
Vicksburg is cursed with 1900 dogs
that eat beat and bread enough 10 feed
several thousand people.
Nix. GKEELEr's VBGisIA FARN-
At the time bis death Horace Greeley
owned farm in Virginia, which is likely
TO become q source Of considerable
wealth TO his heirs. In 1870 he bought