Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-07-05
Editorial BreVifies.

Col. Is. w. Byrnc, State Superlnten-
dent of Free Schools,is at the st, James
Hotel, at Wheeling, quite i'll from very
severe attack of cholera morbus.
Whatever We owe, it is our part to
pay it, and do it without asking, too,
for whether the creditor be good or bad
the debt is still the same.
A young man in New Hampshire
shot young girl who refused his com
pany, and then shot her father, after
which he shot himself, the most fortu-
nate shot of all, rs it will Kill him.
A German paper says that American
girls make themselves conspicuous at
the Vienna Exposition by their good
sized braids.
Some girls are like old muskets. They
use a good deal Of powder but won't
go off.
A correspondent wants 10 know if
we can tell him how to keep his glasses
on his nose. We suggest that he sand
paper his proboscis.
Yomg Walworth, Oh trial for the
murder of his father, i'll New York, has
been found guilty OF murder i'll the sec
ond degree.
A Minnesota man who was fined SO
for cutting off a quarter of an inch Of
another mans pig tail, is demanding to
know what value the other man puts
on the whole pig.
A precipitate Detroiter is miserable
at discovering that his wife inherited
half a million Just after he had procured
a divorce from her.
Ships wants to know why it is that
when woman goes to 4 store to buy
No. 5 shoes, she always says she is get
ting them for some one else.
On Tuesday last the tower por-
ton of the Round House of the Is. &
o. II. r., at Martinsburg, fell in,but no
persons were injured.
Col. John S. Mosby arrived in Wash
ington Sunday night en- route for Mon
treal, Canada, where his children are
being educated.
The Winchester District Conference,
NJ. Z. Church, South, will meet at
Hedgesvile, Berkeley county,commenc-
ing August 25th, at O'Clock, p. NJ.
The married ladies of 4 western city
have formed Come home husband
Club" 1t is about four feet long, and
has brush at the end of it.
General VIM. o. Butler, the Demo
cratic candidate for Vice President in
IS4s on the ticket with General Cass,is
still living. He is in his eighty-third
year, but a kentucky journal says he
walks at least six miles each day.
Mr.. Charles b. Gatewood son of John
Gatewood, Esq, of Shenandoah county,
Va, is named in the list of successful
candidates for admission to West Point.
He was appointed by Judge Harris,
upon the recommendation of an exam
ming board.
Lawrence Rust, son of Col. A. 7.
Rust, OF Loudoun county, Virginia, was
awarded the Debater's Medal by the
Washington Society of Washington and
Lee University, at its late commence
ment.
The honorary degree OF IL. d. was
conferred on the Right Rev. William
Pinkey, assistant bishop of the diocese
of Maryland by the Columbian Univer-
sity of Washington.
Hiram Powers, the American sclilp-
tor, died at Florence, Italy, on Friday
the 9th of June, of consumption, in
the seyenty-third year of his age.
During thunder storm in Staunton
on the oath, colored boy was killed
by lightning while up a cherry tree, in
the lower part of the city, the lightning
striking and killing the boy, and a hog
at the root of the tree r.i i. sd
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