Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-03-15
Editorial Breyities.

Monday next St. Patrick's Day.
Who'll be ''wearin of the green"
An election will be held in the Luz
theran Church tomorrow for six Elders
and six Deacons.
The colored Public School of this
town, has suspended. The teacher, Rev.
Wilson, has gone west to preach.
Madam Rumor says we are soon to
have another lot of weddings in town.
Nothing like it.
Moving day will soon arrive, and a
good deal of ''fittiug" will take place
here.
Mr.. Adams received the first lot of
fresh fish on Wednesday-perch SOC,
herring 65c, rock 75c.
If several weddings do not soon COME
off in this place, there will be heap OF
loves labor lost.
They are saying all sorts OF cruel
things about the mosquito, but no one
has vet accused him OF being fool
enough to till kerosene lamp while it
is lighted.
A marriage notice in Vermont pa
per has appended, mo cake-no cards
no divorce. "
A Western editor, in writing an obit
uary of respectable citizen, says that
he has gone to that undiscovered burn.
Early lettuce is now brought to the
Norfolk, Richmond and Petersburg mar
kets
Good Friday comes on the 18th Of
April, and Easter Sunday on the 18th.
The credit mobillier investigation has
turned ont to be great cry and little
wool" The committee recommended
the expulsion of Ames and Brooks, but
the House let them off with a simple
vote of censure, and thus ends the whole
thing.
Show us family of intelligent girls
and boys and we will show you house
stored with newspapers and periodicals.
Reader, is this your paper? Did you
subscribe and pay for it If you didn't,
drop it this minute!
The new one hundred dollar green
back is in circulation. When we get
one well tell you all about it.
We have a fellow in town who can
bore an auger-hole with agimblet. He's
the biggest bore in West Virginia.
Advertising reminds people of things
they had been wanting all along, but
had forgotten about.
Daniel Ketauver, of Middletown, Md,
killed steer weighing 1920 pounds,
and sold it at 8 cents per pound, realiz-
ing s1.6.
The Martinsburg Statesman advocates
the election of Hon. &. j. Faulkner as
the next T. S. Senator from West Vir-
ginia, to be selected two years hence.
The Preston County Court refused to
grant license for the retailing Of spirit
uous liquors in the county.
The latest applicant for divorce in
England is grandson of Lord Byron.
Blood will tell"
An exchange saws that it is wasting
time to hug the girls. Our Jour says
he lo2es to waste little time now and
then.
The Lexington Citizen says the pros
poets for good wheat crop this year
are promising in Rockbridge county,
aud so far as it can learn the prospect
is generally good throughout the Val
ley
\ county paper in Minnesota wants
to know who swindled the Indians of
"such an Internal country as Minnesota
is. and who dcluded the white men liz
to il.
Some men pay for eastern papers, but
for home news they borrow their neigh
bor's paper
The Public Schools of this town will
close in few weeks.
The Martinsburg Era states that a
private dispatch received there from
Charleston says that the proposed liquor
law has been virtually killed in the
House Of Delegates.
The second trial of DR.. Jacob Thorn
as charged with the murder of John
Lloyd Belt, Jr., at AdamstowD, Md. ON
the I'd of October, is now going on in
the Circuit Court of Frederick city.