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

GEN. ROBERT E. LEE.-The last num-
Der of the Edinburgh Review contains
an article on the life of the late Gen.
Robert Z. Lee, which will excite much
attention in Great Britain and will be
read with deep interest in this country.
1t embodies brief but excellent &C
count of the military career Of Gen.
Lee, and noble tribute to his character
as a mali and christian. 1t concludes
with the following 1.-The day will
come when the evil passions of the great
civil strife will sleep in oblivion and
North and South will do justice to each
others motives and forget each others
wrongs. Then history will speak with
clear voice of deeds done on either side,
and the citizens of the whole Union do
Justice to the memory of the dead and
place above all others the name OF the
great chief Of whom we have written.
In strategy mighty; in battle terrible; I'D
adversity,:as in prosperity, hero In
deed, with the simple devotion to duty
and the rare purity of the ideal Chris
tan knight, he joined all the kingly
qualities of leader of men. 1t is a
Wondrous future indeed that lies before
America; but in her annals of years to
come, as in those of the past, there will
be found few names that can rival in
unsullied lustre that Of the heroic defen-
der of his native Virginia, Robert Ed
ward Lee"
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-05-24
Medical Biunders.

From the period when surgeons applied
their salves to weapons instead of wounds to
the present wide-awake age, the medical pro-
fession has often unwittngly taken side with
disease in its conflicts with the human system.
Even vet, in spite of the teachings Of centuries
Of experience, some physicians believe in de-
pleting patients already seriously exhausted by
sickness, with powerful evacuants, emetics,
salvants, cautharidal pla:ters or the lancet.
But, proyidentially public. intelligence is ahead
Of these medical fossils, who belong, OF right,
10 the era of the Crusades That powerful al
ly of nature in its warfare with the causes OF
sickness, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, has
opened the eyes of the masses to the paramount
importance Of increasing The vital strength OF
the body when menaced by disease. They un-
derstand that when the atmospheric conditions
are adverse to health, 1t is wise to reinforce
tne system with q wholesome tonic and stimu-
LIANT. and thus enable il combat and repel the
decreasing influence Of an inclement tempefa-
ture. 1.-The constitutional and animal powers
were always thus recruited in the presence OF
danger, the mortality from consumption, bron-
chitis. chronic rheumatism, Sc. would be much
less than il now is. The causes which produce
Groups, colds, quinsey, diptheria aud calarrh
seldom affect strong and active vital system
and of all vitalizing preparations. Hostetters
has proved the most efficient. 1t Is not claim
ed that this standard tonic SIS specific Tor lung
and throat malades, as il is for dyspepsia liver
compi amt and intermittents, but IT Is unhesita-
tingiy asserted that it is the best known sale
guard against all the atmospheric elements oil
disease.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-05-24

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

"SrR,yrD OR STOLEN. Under this
caption, Mrs. Susan Hundley, OF "ohel-
TVS Farm" Wythe county, Virginia
adyertises in the Wytheyille Enterprise
her ..absconded husband, Andrew
Jackson Hundley, who left her about
two months ago, as the advertisement
states, in company with one Manda
Wyrick. who, Mrs. II. believes, con
;ured or bewitched" him by giving HIM
"a Gun of coffee to drink, upon the top
of which he says he saw blue gloss
swimming" The fugitives were ac-
companied, it is alleged, by Mrs. WIS
..son Bos, who left wife and three
children" The deserted matron says :
81 want A. ]. arrested, handcutfed, II
necessary. and brought back to me dead
or alive. as he owes good many debts
that he must pay, and he owes me a
sunport in nv old age. He is supposed
to have gone to Tennessee or Iowa, or
ont West. He is a long, lean, lank
fellow about six feet high, broad shout
ders. thin beard, light hair and com
plexion, blue eyes, about forty i've years
face Cbeinc about twenty-five younger
than myself:') She offers to pay any
bodv 4 fair price who will return mm
n h.r "dead or alive" and requests all
napers in the United States to copy 'he
advertisement one time and forward
their bills 10 her.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-05-24

DuRELL vs. McCoMB.-The last ex-
plot of Judge Durell, of New Orleans,
is his attempt to force the New Or
leans, Jackson and Great Northern Rail
road Company into bankruptcy on a
suit for some $3.50, but it is likely to
result disastrously to that notorious In
dividual The road is under the control
of Henry S. McComb, whose dealings
with the late Cakes Ames has made his
name familiar to the American public,
and it seems that he proposes to make
it exceedingly lively for the judge, who,
with assistance from Washington, has
succeeded in everthrowing the elected
government of Louisiana. The New
Orleans Herald says that Mr.. McComb
has retained Gen. B. +. Butler and the
Hon. Jeremiah S. Black as his counsel.
There is prospect of fight which it
is stated may expose to the public view
the manner in which the administration
of the bankrupt law in some parts OF
the South has been made the cover for
a long series of successful plunderlngs
Ball. Sun.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-05-24

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

PRESCRIPTIONS pu, up al all hours
Z at DR.. Magruder', Drug Store.
QOAPS Of different grades at
- DR.. Nagrnder's Drug Store.
DLACK and Green Tea. for sale at
- DR.. Magruder's Drug Store.
EGG e. Yates Family Flour, and
IL Corn Meal, for sale at Renichs.
NARLY Rose, Peach BLOW and Carter
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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-05-24

The MAsoN-McCARrY DUEL-A True
Persion Of That. Recontre.-The late
duel in Virginia has revived interest in
the Mason-McCarty duel of 1919, one
party to which was an uncle Of Mr..
Page McCarty, who killed his antago-
mist lately near Richmond. The Lynch
Virginian gives the following ac-
of the old-time duel:
In the first place neither Mason nor
McCarty were in Congress at the time
OF the Occurrence-the latter never was
member. Nor was McCarty, who
submitted the desperate proposition to
jump off the summit of the capitol with
his adversary, or to sit with him on a
keg of powder, which, when exploded,
would send them both into eternity, the
challenger. The facts are briefly these !:
General Mason was the challenger, and
pursued Colonel McCarty until he con-
sented to meet him. They were first
cousins, and the quarrel was purely po-
litical. Mason deing Democrat and
McCarty of the then opposition party.
1.-The latter, though a man of reckless
courage, did not want to fight his kins-
man, but when convinced that nothing
less than blood would appease the wrath
of Mason, submitted such propositions,
as would, if accepted, result fatally to
both, and spare him the pain of shed
ding kinsmans blood. These PROPOSE
tons being spurned, McCarty was at
length induced to yield to the wishes
of Mason, and accepted the challenge to
meet him with hostile weapons. He
chose muskets, and demanded that the
combatants should stand but twelve
feet apart, so that the muzzes of their
weapons would almost meet. In such
desperate encounter both parties ex-
pected, of course, to fall. McCarty was
saved as by miracle, the ball from Ma
SONS musket striking the muzzle of his
gun, glancing along the barrel and tear
ing off a portion of the stock, which lac
Grated his arm severely, but produced
no other injury. Mason fell dead.
at is due to Colonel McCarty to say
that though he survived many years, he
never vaunted of 'the fine quality of his
valor,' nor behaved otherwise than q
gentleman who was deeply afflicted
with the memory of an act that he tried
by every means that he thought honora
bic to avoid. He was man Of impoS.
ing appearance, and when we saw him.
many years after this occurrence,w we was
him, many years after this occurrence
he was neither 'oae-armed drunkard
nor braggart.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-05-24

ANOTHER CoLoRED CADET.-Hon. j.
II. Plat, of the Norfolk, Va, congress
ional district, made his appointment of
a cadet for West Point, subject to a
competitive examination before an I'M
provised board, consisting of Major w.
H. Spear, United States civil engineer;
Judge Dorman, Of Norfolk; r. G. L.
Page, colored member of the State
Senate, from Norfolk county; and Mar
tin McDevitt, of Hampton. Three
candidates competed viz a son of w.
II. Loyns, a machinist, in Gosport navy
ward; son of r. G. Staples, Esq. of
Portsmouth, and John w. Williams,
bright mulatto, II years of age, former
ly slave and at present student in
the Hampton Normal School, which he
has been attending for FIVE years. Will
liams answered correctly sixty-five ques-
tions, out of sixty six; Lyons sixty-three;
and Staples less than fifty. The cadet
ship was awarded to Williams.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-05-24

TIE VIENNA ScANDAL.-In view of
the statement by cable, from which it
appears that the charges of fraud and
lean department at the Vienna airhave
been fully sustained, the Washington
Star pertinently, but rather broadly,
asks els America to be forever and
everywhere disgraced by men selected
to represent her p While there may
be individual exceptions to this whole
sale application, the question is none
the less appropriate. At Vienna our
representation is, under the existing cir
cumstances, practically ubiquitous, for
all nations have us under their eyes and
on their lips, and it is tolerably safe to
say that the American contribution in
the way of moral science will never be
forpotten.-BdK San.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-05-24

An OLD ESTABLISHED FIRM.-The
firm of S. NJ. Pettengill e Co. commenc-
ed their Advertising Agency in the old
Journal building, No. 10 State Streer,
Boston, nearly quarter of a century
ago February, 1870, where their Agen-
cy is still located, carrying on a large
and successful business. They estab-
lished branch in New York City, May,
1852, which has grown to be larger than
the parent house, increasing steadily,
year by year, until now it has the agen-
cy OF nearly every newspaper in the
United States and British Providences,
and does yearly business of hundreds
of thousands of dollars. S. NJ. Petten-
gill e Co. have recently opened another
branch office at 7Ol Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia, where they are doing a
successful increasing business. This
firm is favorably known not only
throughout this country, but in all parts
of the world. They have established a
reputation for honorable and fair deal
ing which any firm might envy,and but
few have attained to. We congratulate
them upon their success. We wonld
recommend all who want advertising
done in any part of the country to call
upon them. They can point to hun
dreds of business men who have follow
ed their advice, and trusted to their sa-
gacitv, and availed themselves OF their
facilities, who have made fortunes for
themselves, and they are daily assisting
others i'll the same path.-Bosto" Jour
nal, May Sth.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-05-24

MAKERS OF HISTORY DYING OFF
The worlds great men are dying OF
rapidly. The makers of history are
themselves being made into history.
Within year or two some of the great
est men of this century have been taken
away, among the chief of whom were
Dickens, Louis Napoleon, Bulwer, Gree.
ley, Seward, Baron Liebig, Chase and
John Stuart Mill. All mankind must
sooner or later obey his summons and
90 foreYer hence. Neither greatness
nor power of intellect, wealth or posi-
tim can resist him; neither can the
meanest or most lowly of humanity es-
cape him. We live to-day, and to-mor-
row we die. Death is the inevitable
destiny of all humanity. And yet how
much all men, great and small, live and
strive, and fret themselves, as if there
were no end Of live, and no higher or
more serious object to live for than that
of gratifying their ambitions as mere
worldlings, and of achieving influence,
wealth or greatness, which, after all IS
over, proves to be an illusion and van
Chicago Jeurnai.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-05-24

A TUNNEL THRoUGH THE ALLEGHA-
S1Es.-Senators Casserly aud Bayard, of
the Seuate subcommittee on transpor
tat;on. on the recent tour over the pro-
iected line of the Virginia Kanawha
Canal, from the James river to the Oh
IN, examined into the feasibility of
tunnel a mile long through the Allegha-
MES They were assured by compe.
tent engineer that it could be completed
in four years with the requisite appro-
preparations by Congress.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-05-24
TO THE PUBLIC !
GREAT BARGAINS
AT THE
MERCHANT TAILORING
Establishment.

THE undersigned have just received from the
i Eastern markets one Of the LARGEST,
CHEAPEST and BEST STOCKS OF GOODS
ever brought TO this market
The Stock consists in part Of superior French
and English Cloths Of all colors, Casimeres and
vestlngs and other goods which they will sell BY
the yard OF make up to order: They also In
yite attention to their Stock OF
READY-MADE CLOTHING,
A FINE AND LARGE ASSORTMENT OF
FASHIONABLE HATS,
NOTIONS, and Shirts, Collars, Neck Ties,
Suspenders, Handkerchiefs, &C., which they
will sell cheap for cash.
All Goods purchased elsewhere will be cut
and manufactured 10 order at short notice and
fit guaranteed. :,
We are also agents for the celebrated No. l
Family Empire Sewing Machines
S. P. HUMRICKHOUSE,
JAS. S. RIGHTSTINE.
May II
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-05-24

SrAuNroN AND THE VALLEY RAILROAD
AT meeting of the city council of
Staunton, Va, on the 9th inst, condi-
tional action was taken resembling the
ordinance passed by the council in Sep
TENDER, 1871, authorizing the subscrip-
ton of Sl5O,OOO by the city of Staun-
ton to the construction of the Valley
Railroad from Harrisonburg to Salem.
The preamble sets forth that the origi-
nal conditions of the ordinance had not
been complied with, and that it embar-
rasses the action of the city in other
important works. The resolutions de-
clare, THAT unless the conditions an
nexed to said subscriptions be fulfilled
and fully complied with within thirty
days from this date the council will re-
gard the city of Stanton released and
discharged from all obligation by virtue
of said conditional subscription, land pro-
ceed to act as if the same mad never
been made.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-05-24

The last number of Harpers Monthly
in The Wine Islands of Lake Erle,
gives an account of the raid and capture
and death of John Yates BealL Inc
death of the young man, firm, unsnaken
and frank in all things, is one OF the
saddest episodes of that sad struggle.
The writer in Harper gives him all the
credit that can be expected from a
source of that kind; but his name and
his deeds will ever be the memorial of
fair, honest, bold man, who took his
life in his hand, and persisted. His trial
was a farce, his execution crime.
While Hunter was burning the Valley;
Sherman setting fire to Columbia; o.
Neil numbering in Missouri; Butler rich
" earning the name of 'the beast" in
New Orleans, and General Dix, who
signed the order of the death of Beall,
was eager for a victim of blood. John
Yates Beall gets scant justice now, but
the future will right him.-Baltimore
Gazette.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-05-24
100000 ACRES.
Cheap Farms.
The Cheapest Land in Market, for sale BY tho
Union Pacific Railroad Company,
In the GREAT PLATTE VALLEY.

100000 Acres in Central Nebraska now Tor
sale in tracts OF forty acres and upwards on fvo
aud Ten Years Credit nj per cont. No Al.
vance Interest required.
Mild and Healthful Climate, Fertile SOIL, IN
Abundance OF good Water.
THE BEST MARKET IN THE WEST
The great Mining regions Of ~yoDing. Colo
ado, Utah and Nevada, being supplied by Tho
farmers in tho Platte Valley.
Soldiers Entitled 10 Homesfsad ef
100 .fcres. The Best Location for
Colonies.
FREE HOMES FOR ALL Millions Of
Acres OF Choice Government Lands open for
entry under the Homestead Law, near this Great
Railro d with good markets and oil he convs.
niences Of on old settled country.
Free passes 10 purchasers oil Railroad Land.
Sectional Maps, showing the L'nd, also new
edition Of Descriptive Pamphlet with New
Maps Mailed Free Everywhere. Address,
o. DAVIS.
Land Commissioner u. p. X. r..
Omsha, Neb.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-05-24

WIT FROM TIE PULPrr.-It is related
Of certain New England divine VINO
Aourished not many years ago,and whose
matrimonial relations are supposed not
70 have been of the most agreeable
Kind, that one Sabbath morning viii. while e
readinn to his congregation the parable
o ofl the supper 1T , in which occurs the pas,
caro- And another said, have bought
five woke of oxen, and go TO prove
them urn pray thee have me excused.
And another said have married wife,
and therefore canno: come he sudden
w naused at the end of this verse, drew
off his spectacles, and looking around
on his hearers, said with emphasis
THE fact is, my brethren, one woman
can draw man further away nom the
Kingdom of Heaven than FIVE yoke OF
oxen!"
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-05-24
Berkeley County.
We clip the following items from the

We clip the following items from the
last Martinsburg papers,
CIRCUIT CouRr.-The Spring term of
the Berkeley Circuit Court, Judge j. B.
Hoge presiding, commenced on Tuesday
the 18th inst. The Grand Jury made
but one presentmenL
On "Wednesday the case of the COM
monwealth against John Collins, Jr.,
charged with being an accessory in the
murder of O'Leary, last Fall, the cir
cumstances of which were reported at
the time in the Statesman, was tired ana
a verdict of acquittal rendered. Hons
CT, Faulkner, Z. Boyd Faulkner' IL
II blackburn and c. j. Faulkner, Jr.,
onroared for the defence and Common
,raoItbs Attorney Price, assisted by A.
Hunter for the prosecution.
The case of Il. c. johnson, charged
with forging a viii, removed from Jef,
r,son county, occupied Thursday and
FRIDAY. The jury rendered a verdict
against the prisoner and fixed the time
of his IMPRISONMENT at two years III the
penltcntlary. - tH0''0N
Chs,}es Davies c. ]. Faulkner and
w n Travers, appeared for the de-
fsr,ce snd c. NJ. Beltzhoover, Il. NJ.
pic Daniel b. Lucas and n. Kennedy
For the State.
In the case of Joseph Long, charged
with horse stealing, the prisoner plead
Cd ouilty and threw himself upon the
mercy of the Court. The jury fixed his
term of imprisonment in the Penitentia-
arv ut two wears, the shortest term al
lowe by law in cases of grand larcency.
The court is likely to have protrac-
ted session, as the chancery docket is
large one.
The dignifed bearing of Judge Hoge,
and the general decorum OF court pro,
ceedincs is observable, and IN marked
contrast to what it has been the past
several years.-States'nan
The dwelling house, on the west side
of the mountain, near the Gap, belong,
inc to James Park, Esq, and occupied
bv Mr. Samuel Franks and family, took
fire and was totally destroyed on Tues
day night of last week. None OF the
family except Mr.. Franks were at home
at the time Of the occurrence, and the
origin of the fire is not known.-Gsr-
ardstoun Times.
A PHENoMENoN.-Last Sabbath a
gentleman at Little Georgetown, tins
county, while standing on the brow OF
the hill jus, above the village, saw ap-
preaching what he at first supposed an
ordinary "whirlwind." As it came
nearer it was preceded with loud,roar-
ING noise like a tornado. 1t passed near
him and over small stream, taking up
the water, and leaving the bed OF the
stream where it passed over, completely
drv for few moments. and throwing
the water as high as the tree tops II
struck fence in its course, lifting II,
bottom rails and all, into the air, scat
tering them around promlscuously' lhe
gentleman who watched it says he new
er before saw anything Of the kind
Indtpfndent. =,
.'Men are what women make the'h,
il the SINGULAR title of new book. III
NAV be true, but we have seen some
dreadful poor specimens OF the manu-
featured article, which fact reflects badly
either upon the material or the maker
Independent.