Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-06-21
Editorial Breyities.

Killed Oh Monday last by log rolllnS
from wagon upon him. lie leaves a
wife and two children.
A chap given to statistics estimated
that over two thousand toes were frozen
during the last winter by young ladies
keeping their beaux lingering at the
gate, instead Of asking them into the
parlor.
Col. John B. Baldwin, of Stanton,
has been paralysed.
Thos. J. Niche, one of the oldest
and most disting uished lawyers in the
Valley, died in Staunton, on the 18th
instant.
DIR. Boyle, of Cham5ersburg, lost a
son in the Lava Beds in one of the re
cent fights
At the next meeting of the Rich
mond Council a city engineer will be
elected Gen. Lindsey Walker and
Col. Cutshaw are still the most promi-
nent candidates.
The Staunton Virginian says that
Henry Forrer 81 Co., have sold Eliza
beth Furnace to Sir Antonio Brady, of
England, for 100000,
The young lady who turns up her
nose at shoemaker is apt to marry a
man who takes q cobhler down.
You can use postage stamp twice.
The first time it will cost you three
cents, the second time fifty dollars
A divorce suit in which Madam Pau
line Lucca, prima donna,is plaintiff, and
her husband, Count Won Rhodes, is de-
PENDANT. has been decided in her. favor
by Judge Fanchcr, OF New York. Mad
am Lucca is now living in Kingston,
Rhode Island, and has declared her in
tention to become a citizen Of this coun-
try.
The Messrs. T. B. and w. r. Davis
celebrated race horse Fadladeen, was
successful at the races of the Maryland
Jockey Club, near Baltimore, on the
2Sth ultimo., winning the $500 purse in
three straight heats. Time Las -.
Last week case involving the pro-
visions of the act past by the last Legis-
lature authorizing the abatement Of in
terest during the war, was tried before
Judge Turner, of the circuit count of
Clarke county, who, after hearing able
argument on both sides of the question
decided the law unconstitutional.
Prof. 7. G. Bittle, of Parsou's Semi
nary, Texas, and son Of Rev. DR.. Bittle,
of Roanoke College, has been elected
Professor of Modern and Oriental Ian
guages, in Roanoke College, Va.
Here is an enterprising man, indeed.
A Snowman who resides in Tiffin, Ohio,
offers the Government 100000 for the
use of Captain Jack, now in the custody
of the military authorities. He desires
to exhibit Captain Jack for sixty days,
and offers to pay 100000 when the Mo-
doc chief is delivered to him, and the
other half at the end of sixty days.
The auditing committee of the Berk-
eley County Court estimate the proba-
BILE expenses of that county,for the next
year, at $4,000.
Jacob Thompson, Secretary of the
Interior under President buchanan, is
lying in Memphis dangerously i'll with
the cholera. ,..a.
Last years wheat crop in the North
west seems to have been enormous. The
receipts at Milwaukee Friday were near
ly quarter of a million bushels, against
$4,000 bushels for the same day last
year. The receipts of this year exceed
those of the last year by over three mil
lion bushels, and the shipments by three
and a-half million.
There have been few cases Of small
pox at New Creek and other points in
Mineral county. One death has result
ed from the disease.
News comes to US from New York
that the trial of young Walworth, the
parricide, will begin on Monday, the
23rd inst According to the criminals
own statement, the murder was cold
blooded and deliberate one, apd the
sooner society is relieved Of the pres
ence Of such 4 wretch the better
The State Treasurer has paid to the
officers now in possession of the asylum
at Weston, Thirty thousand dollars, upon
the order of the Auditor.
A disastrous fire occurred at New
burg, New York, Friday, which swept
a whole street and destroyed property
to the amount of half a million of dol.
lars. The fire was caused by boys smo-
king among bales of hay,
Pliny Fisk, of New York, and seve-
raj Germans, large stockholders in the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, own
large coal and iron tracts on the Kama
VIVA, and will erect furnaces and other
works this summer and fall.
The Clarke Courier says Cross-ties
are being rapidly delivered along the
line OF the Shen. Valley Railroad. A
number of hands are wanted by the con-
tractor to cut and dress cross-ties
The Cholera is prevailing at New
Orleans, Memphis, Nashville, and Green
vile, Tenn. 1t appears to be travelling
up the Mississippi river, and now at
Greenville. An ounce Of preventive Is
worth pound of cure.
Susan b. Anthony of n. Y. has been