Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-05-24
Editorial Breyities.

alton as Chief Engineer OF the docks III
New York city.
The dry goods firm of Fowler IL Slo-
cum, New York, failed "Wednesday.
Liabilities s500,009.
Last Friday week, young William
Martin, residing near Rileysville, Page
county, was accidentally shot by anoth-
err young man. The ball entered his
side, near his hip, producing very Sc
rious wound.
The new University of the Methodist
Church, South, to which Commodore
Vanderbilt gave half million dollars,ls
to be located at Knoxville, Tennessee.
Five car loads of infantry passed st.
Louis Thursday ell route for the Lava
Beds.
Mr.. Pearson, gentleman from Scot
land,is said to have the best wheat crop
on the south side of the Rappahannock.
He bought what was known as the Ger
~ Farm, near Santee, about elghtmiles
below Fredericksburg.
Rev. Thomas NJ. Cann,fo some years
principal of the Frederick Female SEM
mary, has rendered his resignation, to
take effect the latter part of June.
Manassas, ever memorable in history,
is a thriving village, twenty-seven miles
from Alexandria, and now contains some
half dozen stores, two hotels, real es-
tate agency, newspaper, the Gazette,
by d. w. Whiting,a church, blacksmith
and wheelright shops, and sometwenty-
five or thirty other houses
All the train employees Of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad are hereafter to
wear uniform caps, with the position
they hold stamped upon the front.
Throughout the South generally there
seems to be All expectation that the in
coming cotton crop will be the most
valuable over raised in the United States.
The annual examination of the cadets
at the Naval Academy at Annapolis
commences on Monday next, and ends
on the 10th of June, when the diplomas
to the graduating class will be dlstrlbu-
ted, and the exercises at the Academy
closed until the first of October next.
The graduating class this year has TWEEN
ty-eight members.
After the 1st of July next letters con-
tanning fractional or other currency, sent
through the mails to or from the Trea-
surer of the United States may be reg
istered without charge; but the postage
on them must be paid, as on all other
like mailable matter"
The publicity given to messages writ
ten on postal cards may be avoided by
the use of invisible ink, the direction to
"hold to the fire" being written with
common ink. This checks the inquisi-
tiveness of postoffice clerks, who have
not the time to make the application.
In France invisible ink is sold tor this
purpose.
The Springfield, Ills, post of the
Grand Army of the Republic made ar
1angements Saturday night for the OBJ
serSance of Decoration Day. 1t was
understood that the graves of eight hur-
dred Union and three hundred Confed-
crate soldiers in the cemetery at Butler
would be decorated alike.
Many persons-besldes school boys
and college students-use the phrase
"He is brick" without the least idea
that it is supposed to be of classic orr
gin. 1t is said that King Agesi!aus, be-
ing asked by All ambassador from Epi-
rus why they had no walls for Sparta,
replied, 1--WE have" Pointing to his
marshaled army he said, There are
the walls of Sparta; every man you see
is brick.
Gen. John 3. Gordon made a little
speech at a reception given him in Sa-
vannah, Ga, a few days since, closing
with the sentiment The heroic dead
of both armies, who fought for princi-
pie, and backed their convictions with
their lives. Let both be duly honored.
We have received the Catalogue of
the officers and students of the Univer-
sity of Virginia for the session of 1872
rs. The faculty will Oh the goth of
June make appointments for State Stu
dents for vacant districts.
The following sentence was dictated
by the late Lord Palmerston 10 eleven
British cabinet ministers, not one of
whom it is said, spelled it correctly at
is disagreeable to witness the embar
rassment of harassed peddler guaging
the symmetry of peeled potato"
Tile New York Bulletin says :-"Of
all the Atlantic States there is not one
able to contest the superior natural adj
vantages of Virginia in relation to the
widest development of the continent to-
wards the West and Southwest"
The troops about the Lava Beds be-
gin to be annoyed by rattle snakes and
scorpions, which give them almost as
much trouble as the Modocs.
A destructive freshest, visited Fred
erick county, Saturday, a week ago:
The Winchester papers state that it did
great damage. The streets and cellars
of that town were flooded and much
damage to fencing and crops was sus-
tanned throughout the county.
Colonel William Allen, of Washing
ton and Lee University, has been elect
ed by the trustees of the McDonough
Education Fund and Institute at Balti-
more to the Office of principal Of the
farm and school farm in the new insti-
tuition now being established by them.
Salary $4,000 and house furnished.