Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-07-19
Editorial Breyiiies.

town, washington county, has tcnuefeu
his resignation. and proposes opening a
Female Seminary in Mcrcersburg, Pa.
Ex-Governor Francis Thomas, United
States minister Ia Peru, is now ut his
home in Allegany county. on 4 sixty
! days leave of absence. lie Is much i'm
proved in health.
A pic mic was held at Willow Grove,
near Halltown,o on Friday last, July ith,
and the anniversary of our national in
dependence spent mid the mazes of the
dance.
The business portion Of Frog Level,
South Carolina, was destroyed by lire
on Sunday morning last. Loss 100000.
Young Walworth, for the shooting
of his father in New York, has been
sentenced to the penitentiary for life.
There are in West Virginia, accord
ing to the census tables, 1850 Germans
over the age of ten years, aud 3,Oj1
Irish, engaged in various occupations
According to the latest census, there
are j52, ,327 sheep in West Virginia.
which Weld l,592, ,53l pounds of wool,
averaging but > pounds and S9-loOths
per sheep.
There are 79,S79 male children and
1896 female children attending school
in West Virginia
West Virginia has 1925 persons en-
gagged in agriculture; and the United
States has 10000 lawyers.
Major Griswold. Confederate officer
was the superior of Captain Wira and
for the execution of whose order WIZ
was hung, has recently been appointed
by Prcsicent Grant to lucrative Fed
eral office. lie is of the Longstrcetand
Mosby stripe 1t is n pity Wirz is dead;
he might have obtained an office too.
Eight Dubuque families lately had u
PICNIC at which eight mothers showed
eighty-two SONS and daughters.
A widow in Portland, Maine, offered
her husbands silver collin plate 10 n
peddlar in exchange for n pair of spec
taclcs, and the pcddlar not only refused
! to swop, but when he left stole theplate.
He was overhauled 10y the police, aud
the precious relic recovered.
An Indiana wife, whose drunken hps-
band was killed on railroad, has oh.
tanned $4,000 damages from the man
who sold the liquor. And thus new
avenues OF usefulness and independent
exertion are constantly opening for
downtrOddcu women.
At twenty-five man wonders what
woman hc will have; at fifty, what wo-
man will have him.
A Young man named James lluct, n
widows son, was instantly killed, while
PLAYING base ball, at Spencer, Itoanc
county, w. Va, on the 10Th ult. a
Miss Sergeant, on returning from the
funeral, was nearly killed Wy being
thrown from her horse.
Sometime ago, Henry Croxton, living
near Cumberland, Swore off from drink
ing spirituous liquors, and strongly cx-
pressed the desire that il he should fal-
ter in his resolution he might be struck
deaf and dumb. lie got on spree
short time since, and is said to he losing
his hearing.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is at st. Cath
crimes, Canada, where she will pass the
summer.
A IIarper's Ferry man owns n whole
mountain and offers 10 trade for shot
gun.
\ very wealthy farmer of Ohio conn
ty, Ky, has this 'notis pasted up in his
field If any mans or womans cows
or oxens ghs in these here oats his or
/ her tail will be cut off as the case may
! be.
Miss lila Greeley has been so annoy
ed by the attentions Of young gentle
man named Hudson, who persisted in
visiting her, that she has had him ar
rested.
The Louisville Courier Journal thinks
the sight Of four ablc-bodied men play
ing croquet is the subimest spectacle
an impoverished country can behold.
A Catholic father Of st. Loris has
warned his congregation that hc will
read from the altar each Sunday the
names of all persons belonging TO the
parish who may have been found drunk
during the preceding week.
There is 4 movement in New York
against fashionable funerals. 1t is
thought that with less expense there
could be more of them.
Agassiz says that the evening hours
are the best for sleep. They are also
the best for sitting up with a nice girl.
A little child Of Mr.. Emanuel John
son, of Cumberland, was poisoned
few days ago by sucking the ends Of
some lucifer matches, which il had got
ten hold Of 1t lived only few hours
While pretty Omaha girl was get
ting married, one Of her Tilted lovers
walked into a back room and smashed
up the handsome bridal presents
a citizen of Connecticut, recently in
troduced to a newly married man, con-
graduated him warmly, and said '.Ab,
these LitchfeId comfy girls make cley-
er wives I've had three Of them
A gentleman in Mobile sent out so
many bills 10 bis customers One was
returned with the following written oil
the margin, ale is gone where your
bill cannot reach him. Send another
on fire-proof paper"
CARLYLE saws: "If you are in doubt