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

All the banks in st. Louis have re.
sumed currency payment.
\ fire broke out in Canastota, \. l..
on Tuesday night, after burning over
six acres, destroying hotels, and nit!
business places.
Fourteen inches of suow fell at Gran
berry Summit, w. Va, on Monday last.
The conservatives of Frederick coun-
ty, Va, have nominated Major Il. w.
Hunter and James Williams for the
House of Delegates.
Edwatd Kelly, a workman on the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, was run
over by hand car and killed one even
ing last week, near Baltimore.
The melancholy days" have come,
when wives tease their husbands tor
new set of turs.
An Ohio woman lately travelled with
one ticket, four trunks, two bandboxes,
flower pot, poodle dog, umbrella, jug
of milk, lunch basket, paper sack full
of peaches, and boy OF fifteen whose
age Sne gave rs nlne
George Francis Train, who arrived In
New York from his European exile last
week, having become Disguised with
America, its politics and people, sailed
away again Saturday, leaving he says,
forever.
From present appearances the country
is approaching the ''hard pan" currency
rapidly, gold having declined 1OS and
silver to par, and in some instances one,
two, and three cents in the dollar below
par last week.
The women of Wetzel county, West
Virginia, have formed Grange to pre-
vent their husbands from visiting the
grass widows in that section.
There are five vacancies in the next
House of Representatives, all caused by
deaths OF members-elect since the adj
iournment of Congress in March last,
1t is reported that SHOW fell on Mon
day last, on the Allegheny Mountains,
to the depth of eighteen inches.
The Rockingham Register has enter
ed upon the tifty-second year of its ex-
istence.
Gen. Thomas i. Rosser, Chief Engi-
neer of the Northern Pacific railroad,
has resigned his situation.
1t is twenty years this October since
Ohio elected her last Democratic Gov-
ernor, before the election OF Allen.
A. J. Pannell has been elected dele
gate to the Legislature from Ohio coun-
ty, over Major Sweeney, to fill the va
cancy occasioned by the resignation OF
DR.. Hullihen.
A citizen of La Crosse named Gin
has petitoned to have his name changed
because his sweetheart doesn't like it.
An Ohio man got mad because he
hadn't clean shirt, and he sold two
COWS and purchased 1872 shirts ready
made.
The editors Of the Hagerstown Twice
\ Week have a fitty-six ounce Peerless
potato. Big later.
Richmond papers mention the death
at Shreveport, of Gen. John 5. Hodge,
formerly commander of "Dick Taylors
Brigade" in the army of Northern Viz
oinia lie was Colonel Of the famous
9th Louisiana regiment.
A beautiful schooner was launched at
Deer Point, New York, which was bap-
tiscd ]. J. Jackson, Jr., in honor Of the
worthy Judge of the United States Dis
trict Court, for the District of West
Virginia.
In San Francisco Professor Lay was
to make a balloon ascension Saturday
with young lady and a justice OF the
peace, and the professor and the lady
were to be married above the clouds.
The wife of Thomas Finn, who has
been locked up in Jersey City since
July last, for killing Eugene Allies in
quarrel. has died from starvation i'll
New York.
Mrs. Harriet Stump, an aged lady of
Winchester, Va, was thrown from
wagon on Tuesday of last week, and so
badly injured that she died the next day.
Senator Davis and others of the Us.
Senate Select Committee on Transport
tation are engaged in examining the
proposed route of the James river and
kanawha canal.
John C. Heenan. the prize fighter,
died of consumption on Saturday morn
ing, near Rawlins, on the Union Pacific
railroad, while on the way to San Fran
cisco.
Beverly Il. Johnston, an old and
prominent lawyer Of Virginia, died at
Abingdon, in that State, on Thursday.
He was an elder brother of Gen. Joseph
+. Johnston, and uncle of Senator John
w. Johnston.
The Supreme court of Illinois, has
decided that betting on elections is not
gambling, and that Judgment rendered
on note given i'll payment OF such
debt is valid.
Thirty seven villages in the province
of Shansee, China, were recently swept
away by food in the Young limo riv-
er, causing a great loss of life.
Somebody says that if young apple
trees are rubbed with fresh blood for
foot or so above the ground it will pre-
vent rabbits from barking them. a
piece of fresh liver is recommended as
a convenient and effective thing TO rub
them with.
The man who was never chased by a
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