Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-03-01
Editorial Brevities.

!
DR.. Andrews, Of tie Episcopal Church OF
/ ,bis town, has dec red free pews" and The
''eDvelope SYSTEM
Rev Mr. Neel, Of the NJ. + Church South,
! delivered all interesting sermon to The Saooa'h
! Schools of the town, on Sunday afternoon ias'.
The 22nd of February, was celebrated III all
the principal cities and towns.
The Virginia Legislature will probably pass
| the per cent. interest bill.
Gen. Grant has ordered all the troop. from
the South aud concentrating them near Salt
Lake City. A speck Of war with Inc Mormons.
Congress ha. removed Extra Billy Smiths
disabilities, Of Virginia.
A large daily paper, the "lndePendent,' will
soon be started al Martlnsburg. Success 10 II.
Hon. A. II. Stephens of Georgia is elected
to Congress without opposition.
! Mr. Shafer " agner's Smoke-house was rob-
| bed one night last week. Keep your eye "peel.
! ed"
The colored public school in this town taught
by Mr. Wilson, colored, is largely attended,
aud he gives general satisfaction.
Another cold snap this week. Ground Hog
! prognosticaiions all right.
Boatmen ar. hunting up their craps" get
| ting ready Tor the raging cana"l
There is a scarcity Of coal IN our town. Hope
our dealers will receive new supplies before
we are all ''irlz.'
| Dr. Witherow's remains were inferred in
the Presby terrain burial ground, at Marllnsburg,
last Saturday afternoon, the sermon preached
by Rev. DR.. Riddle, attended by number of
Masons, TO which order he belonged.
Gen, Grant offered Col Mosby ten thous
and dollar fee, IN law case, employment by
the Government, which he declined.
Mrs. Ann q Logan, wife of Lloyd Logan,
Sr., Esq =, died at Winchester, ON Tuesday
morning, after lingering illness.
ThTty-two persons were admitted 10 fellow
ship in the Lutheran Church Of Winchester, Oh
Sunday last.
Last Wednesday was Ash Wednesday, the
first dav OF Lent, which will be kept by the
Episcopal church of this town aud other places.
Andrew G Boyd runs the Hagerstown Daily
News and makes At lively. .7ndy is full Of spice.
The Cour, Of Appeals Of Maryland has gran
ted Davis. in tae llagerslown Jail, for The muir
der OF Lynn, new IrIal,on the )4th OF March
Stokes, the murderer Of Fisk, Will probably
have a new trial.
eve on your fire aud hot ashes.
The Young folks are still getting married
Keep the ball moving girls. Who next;
Hundreds Of people have recently been frozen
to death VI England.
The United Brethren Conference closed at
Hagerslo.n on Monday OF last week Among
The appointments made are Rev. j. W. Howe,
Martinsburg Station, Rev. e. Is. Hammock,
Tuscarora Mission, and Rev. A. Hoover, Back
Creek Mission. Next Conference will meet III
MaItinsburg.
John W. Tabb, of Berkeley County, found
the body Of an infant IN sink, in one OF his
fields, last Saturday.
The Shenandoah Valley Farmer, is a new
paper just started IN Marlnsburg, by Messrs
Go.horn. 1t Is ABLY aud neatly gotieu up. Sue
cess to il.
We regret to learn that Mr.. Gallsher, Sr.,
of the Charlestown Free Press, IS confined 10
his bed by SICKNESS.
John NJ. Coyle, near Summit Point, has dis
| posed OF his farm OF 300 acres TO Charles Beck
of Ohio, for $13 per acre.
Mr.. Samuel Sheelz, one Of the oldest citi.
zens o Charleslown,d led on Sunday last. lie
was a soldier Of 1912.
John W. Kennedy, of Charlestown, acciden-
! tally cut his loot with an axe, on Saturday last.
Another three inch snow fell here on Thurs
day morning last.
| CALoMEL at disc ,unt. Defiance to South
ern Fevers Good digestion is TO be secured
by using SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR.
The President has postponed his Southern
tour and will call All extra session Of Congress
March 4h.
,lo a. Il
Mr.. Munsey, now living in Tennessee has been
paral, zed,
Five hundred and thirty women in the United
States are doctors, t"en,y-four are cenlisls,
five lawyer, aud sixty-eIght preachers.
General l.. l.. Lomsx, OF Virginia, vas mar
red to Miss Beili. Payne, daughter O. Mr.. AL
ban S. Payne,ot Fsuquler county ,on Thursday.
Mrs. Elanor Philips wife Of Rev. r II.
Philips, Principal OF the Virginia Finale In
stiiute, died at Stanton, Tuesday 18th.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln has lately visited
Washington The guest Of Senator ard Mrs. Hsr
Ian, whose daughter married Robert Lincoln.
1.-THE Capitol bill sleeps the seeP of the
lust. There should be a tombstone erected
over its grave, and an epitaph Inscribed there
on, as follows 'Died Of too much politics"
The second trial Of Jesse W. Uppercue, TO-
dic,ed for the murder Of Mrs. Amelia Wheat,is
now in progress 10 the Criminal Court Of Bal
timore.
General Charles NJ. Thurston, an old and
prominent citizen of Cum berland. died in that
city on Tuesday Of last week, al the advanced
age Of IS years.
The Inauguration of President Grant will
take place on Tuesday next, and great prepa-
rations are being made for tie grand event.
Hon. Walter D. Leake, died on Wednesday
Iast at his residence, Rock! Spring. Goochland
county, Va. in the sixty-ttird year Of his age,
of typhoid pneumonia.
The Nicholson pavement in front Of Lemons
Store, has been furnished with spriugs-wet
springs that squirt nastiness up fellows pants
limb. See to II William, before the ladies tread
there.
Judge John Kenney died at the residence Of
bis son, Judge James Kenney, iu Harrisonburg
90 the morning Of the .7th, IN the eighty third
year Of his age.
President Grants residence, six miles from
| 81. Louis, was burned on Friday.
Mrs Matte Ready Morgan, widow Of the
| celebrated Confederate General John b. Nor
gar, was recently married to Judge VIM. H.
| Williamson, of ebsnon, Tenn.
In the U. S. House of Representatives, on
! Friday, on motiouo of Mr.. Davis, of West Vir-
giuia, the Serate bill for the construction Of q
public building Al Martinsburg, was considered
and passed. What the "public building" 10
! for, we are not Informed.