Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-01-11
Editorial Brevities.

Smoke house thieves III town. Apply
a little powder and shot triends,and save
your bacon
The sleighing is still excellent and
the bows are sleighing their sweethearts.
The lady who wore the red dress, at the
Fair on Saturday evening last, was con-
sidered the handsomest lady present.
Seven funerals took place in Cumber-
land, on Sunday last.
Experience will teach any man that
it is advantageous to patronize those
who advertise in newspapers.
The trial of Mrs. Wharton, for the
poisoning of Van Ness, in Baltimore, is
now progressing at Annapolis.
After second trial, the jury in the
Stokes case, for the murder Jim Fisk,ln
New York, in January 1872, have found
him guilty, and he is sentenced to be
hung on the 2Sth February next. a
lust verdict, we think.
The weather on Monday was extreme
" cold all over the United States. AT
Milwaukee the thermometer was thirty
degrees below zero. Engines troze up
on the track in Indiana ant trains were
Stopped in consequence.
Boonsboro' is excited over the erec-
ton of hay scales The Odd Fellow
man counted twenty men bossing the
lob on Friday last, all with their hands
in their pockets.
The ice is now perfectly ripe and fit
to pull. Fill your ice houses with the
fruit.
Clear off your sidewalks and keep
them clean.
Commence the New Year by subscri-
bing for the Shepherdstown Register.
The storm of last week extended far
and wide; heavy SHOWS and rains being
announced from all sections Of this coun-
try, whilst Gable DISPATCHES from Eu-
rope announce the prevalence of gales
and floods there. In England rivers
have overilown their banks.
At the village Of Columbiana, Penn
sylvania, man by the name Of Elberi
Porter, it is alleged murdered his two
children with Ratchet.
Readers of newspapers will observe
that an unusual number Of disastrous
fires are now occurring all over theco
try. More fire being used in winter
necessarily increases the chances of con-
fagration. Keep sharp look out.
One of the best plantations in South
Carolina, containing 5000 acres, was
sold for $1,000, recently.
At railroad meeting in Winchester,
on Monday evening last, a proposition
for a subscription Of $4,000 mile, on
the part of Frederick county, to secure
the construction of the Martinsburg and
Potomac Railroad extension was REFER
ell to committee.
John B. Shupe, of Montgomery coun-
ty, Pa, who purchased the Lebanon
White Sulphur Springs, in Augusta
county. Va, whilst in Philadelphia on
business several weeks ago, he was con-
fronted by an old security debt Of $40,
900. He returned to Virginia, and III
despair shot himself.
Col E. NJ. Mobley, Of Hagerstown
while crossing the public square Of that
place on Trssday last, fell and broke
his leg. This is the second accident o.
the kind the Colonel has met with in the
past year or two.
A poetical exchange gets off the fol
lowing: The bass horn Of the bull-frog
has ceased to blow, the stage driver
sinks not in the meadows low, the Katy
dds hurdy-gurdy has ceased to flow
| and the file-tiy's lamp no more will sho"
the cricket how to tune his old banjow
I Cause winters here.
in Holland, when gentleman buck
les on lady's skate, she rewards hin
with kiss. Why don't they do it here
A young lady had her feet frozer
while travelling between Wilhamspor
and Hagerstown on Monday,
a Boston woman who had been read
ing in the paper that Sunday marriages
: are illegal writes to the papers to know
how it is with baby born on Sunday
! II SO which should be punished, tn
| ~ IT., Oh ,,otha, or tho hahy