Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-03-29
Ed,tnrint Breyities.

means are provided the system VIII laii.
DR.. Rosser is now carrying on pro-
tracted meeting ut Knoxville, Tenn.
The Press says 1.-The meetings have been
productive of much good, and as the
interest is uuabated, they will continue
for some time.
The number of persons out of en-
ploymeut in Philadelphia is appalling.
One insertion of little advertisement
for clerk in railroad Office brought
9s5 applicants in a style day.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
last week decided in favor of the consti-
nationality of the Local Option law,
which gives the people of certain coun-
ties and of certain wards OF Philadelphia
the right to decide to vote whether or
not licenses to sell liquor shall be gran
ted therein.
The hoax about the anticipated de-
struction of the Natural Bridge, in
Rockbridge county, has made loud
laugh in that section OF the State.
Rev. S. A. Steele has been elected to
the chaplaincy of the University Of Nir-
ginia for the session Of 1874.
A Kentucky paper says : Sowing to
the protracted bad weather, not much
hamp has been broken" 1t is to be
hoped that the weather in New York
will soon become settled.
Lucien Beard, the notorious Virginia
horse-thief has been apprehended in
Missouri and brought back to Richmond.
The Legislature of West Virginia
sits longer each day than any Iegisla
tive body that ever assembled in this
or any other country. They meet at
8 o'clock, A. NJ, and sit until 6 2. NJ,
only taking short recess TOR dinner
Night sessions are frequent; and hereat-
ter are to be held regularly.
A jury in the City Court of Brook
lyn, last week, gave verdict for 81, 900
with interest, the full amount claimed
by the estate of Victor Flewry, from
the London, Liverpool and Globe lnsu-
rance Company. The defence was that
the deceased concealed from the COM
pany, at the time of the issue of the pol
icy, the fact of his having been attacked
a short time with temporary paralysis.
The United States treasurer lately
received letter from a gentleman at
Scottsville, Illinois, inclosing the mutt
lated remains of sixty dollars worth of
greenbacks, which the writer said was
a part of sum which had "been chaw-
ed up by hogs" Of the $50, $55
worth of bills were identified by Gener-
al Spinners experts, and will be redeem
ed.
The two executions last Friday, Eos
ter, who murdered Putnam, street car
passenger,in New York, land McElhany,
who killed his wife, from whom he was
separated, in Bostun-show that hang
ing is not entirely played out" at the
North.
Commodore Vanderbilt has given an
other $500, 900 for the purpose of erect
ing a large seminary for females on the
grounds of the Moravian Church at
New Dorp, Staten Island, to be built
upon the plan of the seminary at Beth
lehem, Pa, also endowed by the Com
modore.
Norman B. Harding, Esq, formerly
Sheriff of Frederick county, Md, former
proprietor of the City and United States
Hotels at Frederick and the Revere
House at Cumberland, died in Baltimore
on Monday last. His remains were re-
moved to Frederick for interment.
The arrival of The steamer Alaska
brings the latest news to San Francisco
from Japan. A recent edict opens the
whole of this empire to Christianity.
The Christian religion is to be tolerated
and strangers are granted the right to
travel in any part OF the land.
Gov. Walker, of Virginia, acknowl-
edges the receipt of a portrait of ex-
Governor Barbour, of Virginia, to the
State, by Mrs. William HI. Collins, Of
Baltimore, to the Virginia library, to be
preserved and left on exhibition.
VIM. w. Holden, who, about year
and a half since, was impeached and de
posed from the North Carolina Govern
orship, has been appointed Postmaster
at Raleigh on his own unsided solicita-
ton.
The Richmond (Va.) Wing states
that the conference committee Of the
two houses of the General Assembly of
Virginia have agreed to a report on the
interest question, which fixes the legal
interest at per cent, and allows con-
tracts as high as eight per cent. Any
charge above the latter figure is to i'll
volve the forfeiture of all interest.
VIM. A. Richardson, assistant secre-
tary of the treasury, has been appointed
by the President, secretary OF treasury,
vice Boutwell,, resi- gned.
The Richmond VA Enquirer states
that Minister Charles Lewis, accredited
from Virginia to Portugal, has resigned,
aid his successor will be appointed from
the Pacific.
a suit against the Maryland Insurance
Company, brought by Hopson, for the
recovery OF 81, 500 insured upon the to-
bacco factory destroyed by FIRE in Pc
tersburs, Va, has been decided in favor
of the Plaintiff i'll the Circuit Court of
that district.
James a. Turk and J. II. Parkins
have purchased the interest of Col. "A.
W. Hartman in the contract Tor sec
ton 10 Of tho Nallpy Railrnnl aud Col