Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-07-05
Editorial Breyities.

Governor w alker has appolnleu vi
l. H. Darlington, of Richmond, visit,
or of the University of Virginia to I'LL
the vacancy in tile Board caused by the
resignation Of Mr.. B. Johnson Barbour
Marble of the finest quality has been
found in Augusta county, Ya-brown,
red, white and black, with lines OF green
running through it. laz la1s<
An exchange, in commenting on the
Sharkey trial, in New York, attributes
most of the crimes there to two causes,
which usually go together-whiskey
drinking and pistol shooting,
General Rosecrans, who has been
railroading in Mexico for number OF
years. thinks that the MeXicans are
.brave, generous, docile and thrifty
much more easily led than driven, and
more susceptible to,and appreeiative OF,
kindness than any people in the world.
The Warren Sentinel gives an account
of man in Maine, who recently wrote
to Front Royal for the amount OF a
board bill which he left standing III
1862, while serving in the Union army.
The bill was forwarded and the cash re-
mitted. Good. Let's all send our bills
The Board of Visitors, of the Univer-
sity OF Virginia, have elected n. IA.
Davis, President of Bethel College,
kentucky, to the Chair of Moral Phil
osophy, recently made vacant by the
death of DR.. VIM. II. McGraffrey. Prot.
Jas. +. Harrison, has been elected Chair
man of the Faculty. in place OF Prot.
Fenable, resigned.
Repentant Senators and members OF
Congress have returned to the United
States Treasury the sum of $l92,Ol7.34.
This is snug little sum,but only repre-
sents about 0ne-fifth of the extra p2y,the
taking of which is supposed to be con-
trary to good morals.
The United Brethren in Christ will
hold a camp, meeting near Meyers cave,
Rockingham county, commencing on
Friday, August l.
The four principle bridges on the
Valley railroad will be of iron, and are
now being built in Baltimore.
On Monday brakeman named David
Allen, on the express train, when be-
tween Weverton and Sandy Hook, on
the main stem of the Baltimore u Ohio
Railroad. fell from the train, and was so
badly cut up rs to be difficult of recog
milton. His remains were forwarded to
Baltimore.
James Il. Skinner has purchased two
hundred acres of land, near Upperville,
Loudoun county, Va, for $1,700. w.
Delaplane has purchased the kinsey
Mills, in Fauquier county, for $500.
Mr.. John w. Garrett, president of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, with Mrs.
Garrett and daughter, will sail for Eu-
rope OH Saturday afternoon next in the
North German steamship Berlin. The
visit of Mr.. Garrett to Europe has no
relation to railroad matters, but will be
made solely for the purpose OF recruit
ing his health.
The Montgomery, (Va) Messenger
says, the railroad pays into that county
annually, for cross ties, wages, DC,
S147,7Sl. This is one of the ways
railroads benefit the country.
Major Johnson, Of Cincinnati, had an
attack of cholera but is recovering.
Miss IIulett, Chicago's new lady law
yer, surpassed twenty-threc gentlemen
in her class. The average age of the
class was twenty four, and she was but
nineteen.
The Wheeling CIV. Ya.) Register de-
MES the statement, as telegraphed over
the country, that cholera exists in that
city.
June 18th, Rev. Z. L. Wilson, Of Han
cock, Md, and son of the late Rev. l..
f. Wilson, Of Berkeley county,was mar
led in the Presbyterian Church, Farm
vile, Prince. Edward county, Va, by
Rev. ii. III. Hawes, to Miss Ann 4.
Dupuey, of Prince Edward county, Va.
Josh Billings says, very truly: ''You'd
better not know so much, than to know
so many things that amt so.
Ready made sermons, neatly litho-
graphcd, can be bought in London at
two shillings dozen.
A WOMAN MARINES n WoMAN-An
extraordinary law suit is now going on
in Paris. Some years ago a surgeon
made the acquaintance of a girl, who
soon became a mother. Il cannot
marry you," said the doctor, although
he was not married,) ''bnt if you can
find any one else to make you his wife
and adopt the child as his own, | will
leave him all my fortune" But hus-
band could not be found to accept these
conditions. However, among the girls
friends was school companion of hers
whose brother Mad just died abroad, and
she proposed to take her brothers name
and attire, and marry her friend, TO save
her from disgrace. This was done and
they duly married and lived before the
world as man and wife. The doctor
died in course Of time, and, according
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