Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-05-10
Editorial Brevities.

was found drowned in the Canal, below
Cumberland a few days ago.
Col. J. ii. Chaffin, the celebrated Nir-
ginia dwarf, died the 23d day of April
in his 18th year, at his home in Bedford
county, Va. He was the smallest man
in the world.
Rev. Al. D. Hoge, d. d., of Rich
mond, has consented to deliver the
commencement Address at the close ot'
the session of Stonewall Jackson 1nsti-
tute on the 18th of June, at Abingdon,
Va
DR.. William II. McGufey, Professor
of Moral Philosophy at the University
of Virginia, and authorof the well-known
McGutfeys School-bookS, died in Char
lottesyille, after long illness.
IIon. James Brooks, member of Con
gress from New York, died i'll Wash
ington, April 3Oth inst. He had long
been in feeble health from, as lie
himself said, the effects of fever which
contracted in Asia Deceased was i'll
his 63d year.
One night last week, Mr.. Joseph NJ.
Barton, near Winchester, lost twenty
seven Cotswold lambs, killed by dogs.
Their market value was upwards Of $50
but being Of choice breed it was Mr..
Barton's purpose to form flock for his
own benefit and that of his neighbors.
Major Harry Gilmore has been unan-
imously elected to the command Of a
battalion of Maryland cavalry, just or
ganized in Baltimore.
A Frederick county correspondent of
the Richmond Wing suggests the name
Of Capt. w. L. Clark for the position
of Attorney General of Virginia.
Hon James /. Orr, of South Caro-
lima, United States ambassador TO Rus
STA whose death at st. Petersburg, May
9TH, has been announced i'll the cable
dispatches, was appointed minister at
ST. Petersburg in December, 1872, and
went abroad to fill his post only about
month or two ago. He was fifty-one
years of age.
Judge Hoge commenced court in
Morgan county on Tuesday. a. full
weeks term is expected.
A great drought recently prevailed in
South Carolina, and prayer for rain were
offered III many of the churches.
Capt. J. b. Updike, of Front Royal,
Va, has purchased of Mr. JAS Reamer,
the s.Reamer House" in Leesburo, and
will take charge the first of June
There will be q total eclipse of the
moon on tho morning OF the 18th inst.
Early risers will be the only lucky ones,
as the observation takes place at 4:30.
Mr. Joseph Rothged, who resided
about miles southwest of Luray, com
mitted suicide on Thursday morning
last, by Shooting himself with a pistol.
He was aged about 73 years.
On Monday last the water i'll the
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal was drawn
off on the Williamsport level on ac-
count of sunken boat at the Dam No.
) Guard Lock. Navigation was sus
pended for some twelve or fifteen hours.
AT the last Modoc fight only 80 in
dams were engaged, which is supposed
to have been their whole strength. The
Federal troops lost ii guns and two
thousand rounds. of ammunition which
the Indians got.
a Kentucky paper contains report
of a recent wedding,in which the bride
was not particularly handsome, but her
father threw i'll seven mules, aid the
husband was satisfied"
Henry Taylor has sold out his inter
est in the Baltimore Gazette to Charles
J. Baker That paper will hereafter be
conducted by Messrs. w. III. Welsh. {.
j. Baker and w II. Carpenter, under
the firm name of Welsh, Baker & Co.
A young lady recently, on being re
quested to sing The Maiden's Prayer,
Immediately favored a Rockford audi
fence with Mother may go out to
swim %
a New York female who read that
the Hoosac tunnel cost 5000 per yard,
said she would have dress pattern off
from that piece if the old man did not
lay up cent for the next two years.
The b. e o. r. r. will on May IS
commence running passenger trains to
the West, from both Baltimore and
Washington, over the Metropolitan
branch road The time tables have al
ready been arranged.
T,o,, NJ V II.
ces the death in that city of John r.
Thompson, formerly editor of the South
ern Literary Messenger, at Richmond,
Va, but for several years past connected
with the New York Evening Post.
Gen w. \. Pendleton late Chief of
Artillery of the Confederate Army OF
Northern Virginia and now rector of
the Episcopal Church at Lexington, in
Virginia, is on lecturing tour through
the South.
Mrs. Joseph Bell, of Mt. Sidney, Au-
gusta county, died OH Tuesday night,
29th ult, of lockjaw, caused by running
a nail in her foot:
A party of English farmers are ex
pected to arrive at the port of Norfolk
shortly, who come to this country with
the purpose of making it their future
home.
1t was a brilliant Fond du Lack boy
who, seeing dog with muzzle on for
the first time, exclaimed: mamma,
mamma, l bet five cents the dogs are
going to wear hoopskirts; there goes a
doc with one on his nose"