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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-02-15
WIRE BOOTS.

Just received from the mandatory.
u essr of BOOTS with wire bottoms.
the bss, Boot IN the market Also ca"e
y, F,op,e BOOTS, 6nr calf ,hst csnn",
he ezeei)-d I" qualify or pr ee. Call and
Examine 4hen'
FSb3 u. r.. II iChtSoN.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-02-15

7 HAVE returned from the Eastern
i mark, ts 18th the finest Sock o' Goods
in my line OF business, that ha- ever been
in epherdsIoun. had made 10 or-
der in the city all numbers Of extra sizrs
Boots. Nos. 5 10 ~. and Lsdy's Shoes
from Nos. 3 to 9. can furnish all
kinds that are wanted. soch as Nra'-
Boots. Bows Boots, Lady's Fine and
Coarse Shoes, Mems Shoes, Bows
Shoes. Chlldren's Shoes. Misses Shoes.
and Notions Of every description
What You don't see. ask f'r-si Head
Quarters OF the Shenandoah Valley Rail
road SioIe.-on reasonable terms
|. W. CHAPLlNE.
nov 9 II
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-02-15
RICHARD & WELSHANS,
AGENTS FOR
Butterick's Patterns
OF
LADIES. MISSES. AND BOYS
CLOTHING.

Any Patterns no. on hand will be lur'
nishtd al short nOtice.
Gents Shir, Patterns, all sizes.
April u
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-02-15

Large and magnificent Stock Of Dry Goods
opened at l.. f ETCHlSQN'S, consisting in
part as follows: Silk Poplins, Valencia Pop
Inns, SILK Pangales, Empress Cloths, Satins,
Mohars, Black AIpacas, Caiicoes, and such
stock OF Goods as
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-02-15
NATIONAL
INSURANCE COMFY,
WHEELING, w. VA.
CAPITAL. 100000.
OFFICE
26 Monroe St., next door to LIST N. Bank.

OFFICE
26 Monroe St., next door to list N. Bank.
OFFICERS:
George X. Wheat, President.
James McCluney, VicePresident.
John Bishop, Secretary.
G. ii. Collier, Assistant Secretary
DIRECTORS:
John f Wilson, W. T. Singleton,
A. Laughlin, A. e. Quarter,
Geo. X. Wheat, James McCluney,
Morgan l.. OFT, George Adams.
John A. Armstrong.
REFERENCES:
S. Brady, Cashier, Mer. Nat Bank, Wheeling
List, Morrison g. Co., Wholesale Grocers, 50
Pryor, Handlan d Co., " -
Michael Heiliy, 90
Mcclellan s. Knox, Boot s. Shoe House
McCabe, Bushfeld & Kraft, Druggists, L"
CIV, Franzhelm & Co., Liquor Dealers, "
Winship, Woods X Co, Queens ware, "
Lewis Baker, Pub. Register, %
T. C. McAiee, Notions, ''
Frew, Hagans & Hall, Pub. 1Etelligencer, L"
OFT, Son X Co., Hardware,
J. =. Sands, Cashier, lst Nat. Bank Farmcnt.
K p. Camden, Pr. n. Tx. Blk Weston, w. Va
Capt. john Mcclure, Jr., Wheeling, w. Va.
~ A Prompt, Equitable and Liberal
Treatment of Losses will characterize this Or
ganizaiion 81
N5 b. F. HARRISON. Shepherds
town, Aven, tor jefferson County.
February Y, 1879. ly
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-02-15
HURRAH FOR THE
CHEAP STORE.

T AN requested ia announce that there is
i great REDUCTION in the price OF Books and
Stationary at STALEY'S Book Store, to-wit
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-02-15
LA DY

Is sure to please herself, no matter what her
,aste. Also large stock of MEMS WEAR,
such as English, French and American CAST
meres, Domestic Goods, Fulled Lindseys, ker-
seys, Cassnets, Tweeds. Kentucky Jeans, Cor
duroyS, &c. Ones
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-25
A CONTRAST.
Statistical Contrast Between -Four of the
Best Counties In Middle and West
Tennessee.
The Results Of a Variety Of Crops as
Compared with One CrOp-A Let
ter for Farmers.

From an Occasional Correspondent
CoLgAIBIA, Tenn, August 22.-The
census tables OF 1870, though imperfect,
teach valuable lessons, which are con-
firmed by daily observation and ekperi-
enee. The statistics 1 sent you in my
last letter are very suggestive. The fact
that grain, provision and stoek-growing
counties are richer than those raising
cotton only is sustained by uniform ex-
peTience. Even in this region the grass
aud stock counties are richer than those
growing cotton, wheat and corn. and
neglecting grass and stock. Giles
county raises nearly as much cotton as
MauTy, and more corn, but still the lands
in Maury are the most valuable, be-
cause they are grass lands and sus-
tain more horses, mules, cattle and
other live stock. | gave yo1 in nay last
the agricultural productions Of four OF
the best counties in West and four
of the best in Middle Tennessee,
with the value of the land
in each. Although the West Ten
nessee counties had agricultural pro-
duets worth more than did the Middle
Tennessee counties, yet the latter were
more than twice as rich. This was OW-
ing to the difference in the character of
the productions. Another reason is,
Middle Tennessee produces more stock,
and has more land in pasture, which re-
quires less labor. Let US see:
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-25
THE ANNUAL STATEMENT,

The ANNUAL STATEMENT of the cot
TIN and general commerce of Memphis,
which was compiled for and published
in the Memphis APPEAL last year, was
received by the commercial and general
public with expressions of such lively
satisfaction, that we feel certain the
still greater efforts we shall make this
season, will lead to a corresponding
demand for the APPEAL of September
lst, which will contain the state
ment for the present season. Ex-
pelienced persons, well acquainted
with the city and its people, are en-
ployed in obtaining a wide range of
accurate information regarding every
business interest in the city. The sta
tistics of the Chamber of Commerce y,1Il
be added to those preserved by the TOM
mercial editor of the APPEAL, and the
result Of the APPEALS daily columns
Of Memphis commercial news will be
epitoDlized and tabulsted, presenting a
mass Of facts and figures respecting the
commerce, manufactures, aud general
business Of the city, and of its material
progress in every way, such as no pre-
yious Annual Statement published in
Memphis has attained. This document
viii be Of value to every business man,
and to every individual citizen its exhi-
bitiOn of the commercial condition, pro-
gress, aud prosperity of Memphis will
prove profoundly interesting. No one
interested in the welfare Of this city can
show a desire for its prosperity better
than by mailing this annual statement
To personal friends, and business cgn-
,geetions, in distant parts of the u nion,
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-25
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
One Hundred and Twenty-Five Buildings
DestrOyed-WOrth S50O,O0O.

BELFAST. Me, August GA most
destructive fire broke out at two O'Clock
to-day, the weather being dry and a
strong gale blowing from the north. 1t
commenced In Dennettis safl-loft, north
Of R. Siblsy Brothers, wharf, and
spread with fearful rapidity along the
wharves as far as Carter's ship-yari and
marine railWay-crossing Union street
and extending to High street; consun.
ing all the buildings in its course as
far as the house of E. N. BoyIe.
on High street, where the fire was
stayed. Over one hundred and twenty.
five buildings were destroyed, mostly of
wood, whose loss, as near as can be es-
timated tonight, is nearly five hundred
thousand dollars. Excepting on two
steamboat-wharves, with a single ex-
ception, all prominent wharf buildings
are burned. Among the principal
buildings destroyed are the storccs of r
Sibley d Son, PiteheSss q Gorham. i
". tTederlrE- & Co., W. B. Swan & Co,
Dame! Lane, Belfast Foundry,
w. Pitcher & Sons, five
houses, Carter H. Goes shipsart, with
one or more vessels on the stocks, Coop
eEs's lumber-yard, Mathews & Co.'s sash
and blind factory, G. r. Thombs's sail
loft, d. W. Dyer & CO.. g marine railway
on High street, the valuable house Of
James Gilmore, the Josiah Fanear
house, the Carter house, Frothing-
ham house, and the houses of
E. w. Stephenson, d. W. Dyer, Asa
Faunee and E. X. Boyle. At least one
hundred and thirty families are rendered
homeless. A large number Of persons
removed their furniture.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-25
MIDDLE TENNESSEE COUNTIES.
WEST TENNESSEE COUNTIES.

The quantity of cattle is also much
greater in the Middle Tennessee cOun-
ties than in the West Tennessee. The
mules and horses in West Tennessee
are generally brought from abroad, or
very few of them raised there; whilst
in the Middle Tennessee counties they
are raised there. So in counting the
relative wealth of the two, the horses
and mules in West Tennessee should
not be taken into consideration, because
they are bought and not raised in those
counties. No country or section of
country that buys its provisions, its
clothing, its wOrk-stock and its means
of transportation, no matter how natu-
rally fertile its soil may be, nor how
much the value of its farm products,
will ever prosper and be rich. The soon
er the farmers of West Tennessee find
this out and act upon it, the better viii
it be for them and for their section of
country. 1t will not do to say they can
not raise provisions and stock in West
Tennessee. Let them use the same care
and means they do in Middle Tennes-
see, and they will succeed. They can
not, if they devote their whole time to
cotton, nor could the people in Middle
Tennessee. They cannot do it all at
once, but they can get at it gradually.
In proof of the position have taken,
will mention one of the finest counties
in North Alabama, naturally, and show
that it is like West Tennessee, because
it is merely a cotton county, when, on
account of its fine water and fertile soil,
it could be equal to any of the Middle
Tennessee counties, or nearly so. al
lude to Madison county, Alabama. The
value Of her land in 1870 was g, ,I94, ,S34,
and the value of her farm productions
the same year was 81 $50, sol.
In Lincoln county, Tennessee, adjoin-
ing Madison county, Alabama, the value
of farm productions in 1870 was s., ,O66,-
342, while the value of land the same
year was Sc, ,52l 100.
In Madison county, Alabama, the
cotton-crop is the exclusive crop, as will
be seen from the following table.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-25
DEATH OF 4. A. H. = sxsOx.

The announcement q the death OF
Hon. t. a. R. NelslJn will be received
with deep regre.o, especially by men,
bers Of the be-, throughout Tennessee.
Not long ago, when be sat upon the
supreme bench, there was evinced the
taste and genius OF the scholar and
poet, 2s well as the vigorous intellect of
the lawyer and accurate thinker. Above
ali hjs fellows on the bench, he most in
duEged a taste for letters, and rarely have
TIE lawyers Of Tennessee appeared before
q judge whose kindliness and pStience
We're as tireless as those of +. A. r.
Nelson. His father was Justice of the
peace, famed, as was .ne son, for that
peculiar moral and Intellectual organi-
zation which make right thinking and
acting matter OF instinct rather than
of reasoning, We are not the less well
satisfied Jnat, while Mr.. Nelson's high
est aspirations were gratified when he
won Che place on the supreme court
BEECH, that his choicest delights were
iound in his library, by his own fireside,
IN the midst of books and authors whom
he loved, and Of whom he spoke with
w0manly tenderness. Mr.. Nelson was
graduated more than thirty years ago,
10y the university Of East Tennessee, at
Knoxville. He went 10 the bar before
he was twenty-one years of age, and
soon became famous. He lived, We be-
ieve, at JOnesbOro. He was a member
of congress fifteen years ago, and made
a speech which was so remarkable as a
literary performance, rather than for its
reference to international questions that
the London Times published it in full,
pronOuncing il the "fnest forensic ef-
fort Of modern American lawgivers."
Mr.. Nelson was a devout adherent of
the Union, and never did more than
enough to escape expulsion from the
country when war made the very same
people enact most extravagant roles of
absurd folly, He was very poor, and
barely made enough by the prac-
uce Of Lis profession to give bread
IN those fearful days in East Tennessee,
TO h.ose dependent on him for the
mems Of living, Mr.. Nelson was a can
dldate for the United States senate in
1851 and 1852, and was beaten by James
q. Jones. His connection with the de-
Tense Of President johnson, when i'm
peached by fanaticism at the bar of the
senate Of the United States, is familiar
to our readers. Mr.. Nelson was as
truthful aud fearless and honest q gen.
tleman as ever graced public or private
station in Tennessee, and courts and the
press and people should not fail to award
distinguished honor TO his name and
stainless memory.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-25

McSwine's store and seized on about
two hundred dollars worth Of clothing,
but yesterday was himself seized upon,
and now languishes in box
car, where he waits transportation
to Coffeeville. / believe Mr.. MeSwine
recovered all of his goods. Ike Tinnin,
an old negro, took 1t upon himself to
thrash a young colored preacher by the
name Of Bates, and, on the principle
that one good turn deserves another,
was himself taken out by a crowd Of
negroes and whipped until he was left
for dead. He has since recovered 50 as
TO be able to be around. The crops in
this section were fine until about the
tenth Of August; since that time it has
began to fail very fast on account of dry
weather. The cotton has thrown off
most of It's forms, and in some cases the
young bolls have began to fall. The
farmers have saved fine lot Of fodder
on account of the dry weather. As for
our cotton factory we propose to erect
and the narrow-gauge railroad from this
place to Charleston, / viii at present
only mention that such enterprises are
looked upon as favorable and practi-
cable.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-25
HORRIBLE MURDER.
A Young Man Killed and Mutllated-In-
tense Excitement.

SMITHvILLE, GA, August 22.-Last
night Joseph f. Johnston, clerk of J.
w. Bolts, and son of the well-knoYn
blacksmith, William S. Johnston, was
aroused at a late hour by knocking on
the back-dOOr of the store. Opening it,
he admitted negro named Jasper Ian
amore. The negro asked for shoes.
Johnston went TO put a pair on the
counter, when Lanamore struck him on
the head with a blacksmithis heavy
iron-plate, knocking him insensible.
LanamOre then went TO Johnston s room
at the back end of the store, and took a
knife from Johnston's pantaloOn's and
went back and cut the already dying
boys throat, and then proceeded to rob
the store. He got five dollars in money
and few articles OfgOOds from the store,
and fled. This morning Bolts came to the
store at the usual hour, and found it un-
opened. He went to the back door and
found it ajsr. In the front room be-
hind the counter, and covered with four
shawls, and in q pool of blood, he saw
the body of the murdered clerk. Look
ing around, he found his shoes on the
counter with the knife and blacksmith's
screw-plate. The plate was identified
as that stolen from young JOhnstOn's
fathers shop twenty yards behind the
store. This is regarded as the most
fiendish murder that ever took place in
southwest Georgia. When the train
passed Smithville to-day the business
houses were closed, and the citizens were
feTreting out the murderer. Some have
gone in pursuit of bim.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-25
ANOTHER BUTCHERY.
Railroad Train OF the Traek-FOnr
Persons Killed and Fifteen
Wounded.

WHEELING, w. VA, August 24.-An
accident occurred on the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad to-day four miles west of
Cameron, by which three or four Ger
man immigrants were fatally injured
and fifteen or twenty wounded. The
accident was caused by the spreading of
the track, which threw the tender, ex-
press-cars and one passenger-ear down
an embankment, and all the coaches off
the track. The coach which went over
the embankment some fifteen or twen-
ty feet contained seventy or eighty men,
women and children. The car turned
bottom upward, the trucks with it..
Some of the immigrants became en-
ragged, thinking the engineer and con-
ductor were trying to kill them,
and set upon the officers of the
tram with stones, and they had
to flee for their lives. Ia an hour OF
two after the accident occurred the ex-
press train, which was an hour and q
half late, came up, and its officers, di-
rected by Captain Defries, who was q
passenger, rendered all necessary atten-
ton to the wounded. Captain w. H.
Harrison, assistant masteT-maehinist,
was also on the train, and rendered val.
liable assistance. A couple of surgeons
were sent from Cameron, and as soon as
the track was cleared the unlucky emf.
grants were sent to Bellaire, where
every comfort was supplied them. Nc
blame is attached 10 any one for the
accident,
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-25
GARNER'S.
A Thriving Railroad Town Near Grenada
The Population, Wealth and
Trade.
The Schools and Churches-EVidence OF
Thrift EVeryWhere-CrOps.

From an Occasional Correspondent
GARNER'S STATION, August 3d.
There are many of your readers, per-
haps, that have never heard of Gar
ner's Station, an incorporated village of
YaIabusha county, Mississippi, twelve
miles north of Grenada, eighty-seven
south of Memphis; population two hum
dred an fifty; situated in the midst of
as fine a cotton and corn country as
there is in any part of north Mississippi; I;
ships between fifteen hundred and two
thousand bales of cotton every season.
Garner at present contains four drygoOds
stores, two groceries, one hotel, tele-
graph and postoffice, and, in fact,
all of the etceterds of thriving village.
Among our merchants are Colonel s. P.
Burke, for many years a State senator
from Alabama, during the time
honest and intelligent men were chosen
to represent the people. He owns an
extensive plantation in COahoma coun-
ty, of which he has several hundred
acres in cultivation. To him all honor
is due in building up this little city.
By his liberal policy to farmers and
others he furnished supplies. He al
ways pays Memphis prices for cotton,
little tiny more" And by this method
are several hundred bales of cotton ship
ped from this place more than there
otherwise would be. Mr.. p. NJ. Robert
son, another merchant of this place, late
of DeSoto county, is engaged in an eX-
tensive trade of probably seventy thou
sand dollars per year. He IS quite
popular otherwise than as merchant.
AS it is conceded by most of the voters
of the county, and especially by the
citizens of this vicinity. that be
will be our next representative,
the people generally have laid aside all
feelings of a personal nature, and have
agreed to vote for those men alone who
have the ability, linked with the hon.
esty of purpose, brave heart and patriotic
spirit to carry the standard of reform.
Such a man is 2. NJ. Robertson, a man
that rings nor monopolies will buy.
Yalobusha is the banner Democratic
county of the State, and with Mr..
Robertson, we feel that the honor and
dignity of the county will be preserved.
We have three schools, each in a -four
ishing condition. Rev. George Richard
son, brother of Rev. Mr.. Richardson,
pastor of the second Presbyterian church
of your city, has a fine school. Mrs.
Tomlinson is principal of the
female seminary, assisted by her
accomplished daughter, in the orna-
mental department, music, etc.
AS for the young ladies Of this place, the
young gentlemen brave old Neptune,
and boast they are fairer than Juno OF
the Mercedes. The bar-keepers are
driving a fair trade, Notwithstanding
the late July law in relation to whisky
dealers. Drunk men are more common
now than before the law came into force,
We did hope that after the passage oI
the liquor-law that retailing would be
prohibited. We find that we were sadly
mistaken. Crimes, or police news of any
kind, are scarce, though few nights
since q rowing genius broke intC
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-25

On Monday evening DFeux Guillerey
and Felix Soilian, VINO had quarrelled at
a ball, met in old Grand Prarie, st. Ian
dry parish, Louisiana, to settle the mat
ter by fist fight, to witness which about
a hundred persons had assembled. After
the fist fight fight with pistols, grow
ing out of an old feud between the Gull
leroys and others present, resulted in
three killed and one mortally wounded.
The conclusion arrived at by the coro-
ner's jury was that Augustus Gullleroy
killed Carroll Blackmore; that Dreux
GuiIleroy killed Alexander Nidrine,
and that ArIstide Ortega killed Dreux
Guilleroy. After being shot down
BIaekmore fired three shots at Augustus
Guilleroy, who is between sixty-five
and seventy years of age, mortally
wounding him. Several arrests have
been made,
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-25
rHE nEErINe THIS AFTERNOON.

The narroW-gauger railway convention
committee meets with the chamber Oi
. commerce this afternoon at half-past
three O'Clock. A large number of pro-
gressive public-sprited citizens will be
convened. Judge T. w. Brown will
discuss questions submitted to the COM
mittee Of which he is a member, as will
Captain George Gift. Let there be a
1Ul attendance. Everybody under
stands now the state Of facts affecting
the Selma road, and several members Of
the county court will listen to the dis
cussion in which this commercial COM
munity, if it have any brains, must con-
fess 4 keen interest.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-25
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

The house-painters and decorators oI
London are on a strike.
TelegTaphic advices from Carlisi
sources state that Berga has been in.
vested again by the Csrlist army. Both
sides claim the victory in the recent
battle before the town.
NJ. Meyer has reported to the acade-
my Of sciences, France, a discovery OF
great value in factories where mercury
Is used. 1t appears from his expert
ments that ammonia gas mOdifies the
unpleasant and suffocating air Of silver
ing factories tOsuch an extent as to re-
suit favOrably on the health of the work
men. He recommends spTinkling the
floors Of fsilvering-shOps with solution
of ammonia.
An Italian physician, DR.. Francisco
ScriffignatO, has communicated to the
Reuistd GiRicd Bologna an important
fact concerning the administration OF
quinine and tobacco in cases OF inter
mittent facial neuralgia. He admins
ters them in the form Of snuff, mixed 10
the proportions of fifty centigrammes OF
citrate Of quinine to one grain of tObac-
co, well fermented and iTTitant. The
medicine is thus made to act almost di-
rsctly on the diseased nerve in man
ner analogous to the bypodermic method.
Almost the last scientific work done
by the late DIR. Gustav Rose of the uni
versity of Berlin, consisted Of series Of
experiments relating TO the action OF
diamond and gTaphics under heat. His
paper on this subject appears in the last
number Of Poggendorff7s AnnuJeg1, and
is illustrated with a plate showing the
appearance exhibited by several dia-
monds after exposure to heat, giving es-
pecial prominence TO the curious tTian-
gulsr impressions developed on the faces
of the diamond by the action of high
temperature.
At the examination of Matto, Italian
pddrORe, in New York yesterday, be-
fore the United States court, his coun-
sci asked for his discharge on the
ground that the court had no jurisdic-
ton, and that not being citizen, Matto
could not be tried under the civil rights
law. The acting district attorney held
thst defendant, being an inhabitant of the
county, he was amenable for. violation
9i It's laws. The counsel said he had
doubts as TO his jurisditioc, however he
would continue the examination, and
81 s1s close would take papers.