Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-08-30

W. COUNTY NEW P
following items from the Charlestowi
papers of this week.
VACANCY FILLEp.-Cleon Moore has
been appointed Commissioner to settle
fiduciary accounts, to fill the vacanc!
occasioned by the death OF +. +. Cooke
Esq. The three Commissioners i'll the
County appointed by the County Cour'
for this purpose, are-John +. Smith
E. Willis Wilson, and Cleon Moore-al
of them most efficient and Trustworthy
ofIicers.-free Press.
A PAIR OF NETERANs.-On friday
were seen toddling up the high Steps OF
the Free Press Office, arm III arm, two
of the members of the Rifle Company
of Captain George w. Humphreys, IN
service in 1Sl4-Messrs. Humphrey
Reyes and John S. Gallaher-the first
in his S1st year, the other in his nth.
We believe there are but four in all OF
this company suryiving.-Ffee Press
For TIE ARm.-We are gratified to
learn that George S. Young, son OF
Capt ID. j. Young, Military Store Keep
err at Governors Island, New York, has
been selected by the President, with
number OF others (who were chosen
from about 400 applicants) for an ap-
pointment as a Second Lieutenant, IN
the Army, subject to an examination by
a Board Many OF our readers will re-
member Capt Young, for many years a
resident of iIarper's Ferry and an otll-
Ger of the u. S. Army during and since
the late war.-Eree Press.
DEATH OF EDWARD Z. COOKE, ESQ.
The unexpected announcement OF the
death of this venerable and widely
known member of the bar OF Jefferson,
on Wednesday last, threw a gloom over
the entire community. 1t was not I'M
known to his friends that his health was
feeble, and his vital powers yielding
gradually to the intirmitics OF age. But
his recent appearance oh our streets
made it difficult to realize that the place
that once knew him should know him
no more. We learn that he was i'll the
eighty-tirst year OF his age, and that his
death was occasioned by no particular
disease, but had proceeded simply from
Old Age. His faculties, functions, and
force of vitality had performed their
part on this stage of action, and the
whole man passed off it by an easy and
natural transition.
For more than fifty years the deceas,
ed had been practitioner at the bar OF
Jefferson, and had long been eminent
particularly in the science of equity
pleading, and jurisprudence. In these
departments, he had no superior at our
bar. 1t is doubtful whether the State
of Virginia ever produced finer Mas
ter Commissioner than Edward T..
Cooke. He excelled us much in this
department, as did his distinguished
brother, John II. Cooke, in the field OF
forensic eloqucncc.
For many years these brothers prac-
ticed in this county rs partners, and with
great success. a third brother, Philip
Pendleton Cooke, was one of the earliest
and sweetest singers America has pro
duced. The subject of this notice was
the oldest of the brothers, and long sur
vived them both.
lie married Miss Harrison, OF Lou
doun county, and was a brother in law
of the late Bushrod G. Washington OF
this county, who married sister of his
wife, as also of NIessrs. Burr W., John
NJ. and Henry II. Harrison, OF Loudoun
county, Virginia.
His remains were inferred in the Epis-
copal graveyard, in this place, ON Thurs
with Masonic honors, by Malta lodge
No. 80, a. +. & a. NJ, of which he was
one of the oldest members.-Spirit.