Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-07-12
Editorial Brevities.

Railroad company has, for some time
past, been constructing under the city
of Baltimore, is now"completed and eX-
press trains run from New York 10
Washington in nine hours. This Is
quick work
Dir. George Doolcy, son of Mr.: VIM.
Dooley, deceased, native OF Wlnches-
ter, employed on the Pennsylvania Cen
trail as brakcsman, was fatally injured
at the yard of that company in Phila-
delphia last Saturday. He died on Sun
day.
John Carpenter, of Michigan, has
stopped smoking. He knocked the ash
cs out Of his pipe on a keg OF blasting
powder.
a patient wife says that if death re
ally does love shining mark, it is SIN
gular he has not fired at her husbands
nose before this
is there any one here who takes eX-
ceptions to the rulings of this court ?
said q Nevada justice, putting six
shooter Oh the table. There wasn't one.
A stock company is fencing i'll Mag
ara Falls, with view to entrance fees.
w. ii. II. Lynn, of Stanton, sue
ceeds Thos. J. Niche, deceased, in the
board Of directors Of the Western Lu-
matte Asylum at Staunton, Virginia.
Mrs. Avery D. Putnam, the widow
of the victim Of the car-hook murderer,
in New York, has recovered in the Su-
perior Court of that city, $4,000 against
the Seventh Avenue Railroad Company
for negligence Of the Car driver and
conductor for not putting Foster off the
car when requested by Dir. Putnam.
A wicked man in Davenport, being
on his dcath-bed, . wished to consult
some proper person regarding his future
state, and his friend sent fire insurance
agent to him.
The remaining fifty-ninc miles of the
Valley Railroad have been left to G. Il.
Mason, Il. IL. Menefce and y. w. IIar-
man, upon the terms advertised. The
contract has been signed by all parties,
and the contractors will go to work III
all three counties-Rockbridge Botc-
tourt and Roanokc-at once.
The Washington Chronicle has direc-
ted its carrier to stop the delivery Of
that paper to all dead heads" OF per
sons who do not pay forit, on the ground
that it is no more unreasonable TO ask
for groceries and dry goods for nothing
than to expect a newspaper gratis.
A terrible earthquake occurred on
10Th ult., in the country north Of Ven
ice, destroying much property and hui
man life. Several churches are in ruins,
many shattered, and hundreds of houses
levelled. The inhabitants fled to the
fields.
Hon. William Whiting, member of
Congress from the third district Of Mas
sachusetts, died ut his residence, Boston
Highlands, last Sunday night.
Seven Indians made a raid into Brown
county, Texas. but were captured, and
after being washed, seven white men
stood revealed They were hung out
to dry.
w. L. Arthur, member Of Congress
from Kentucky, voted against the sal
airy grab" but pockcted his back pay
for the reason that it is his solemn duty
to obey all laws passed by Congress.
Texas is large and sparsely populated,
but the poor people are doing the best
they can. A Wade man is the father
Of so children, having had Is by his
first wife, Is by his second, 10 by his
third, 6 by his fourth, land thus far, 8 by
his fifth.
Mrs. Lottie Palmer, a pretty widow
who kept photograph gallery in Wis
consin, has been mobbed by battalion
of Jealous wives whose husbands had
too many pictures taken.
Iowa is the only State of the Union
represented as being entirely free from
debt, and yet is State that has doubled
its population in the last ten years.
If You can't talk to a person without
running down some one else, keep still.
We have several of this stripe IN our
town.
John Weatherby, one of the Gallant
Six Hundred, OF Balaklava, committed
suicide i'll Jullyndcr, India, last month.
A retiring man says nobody eyerpaid
him much attention until he broke out
of Jail, and then lie was much sought
after.
An exchange asks '"What is it that
captain Jack wishes - We really don't
know, but III a short time his most ear
nest wish viii undoubtedly he that he
had died wien lie WAS a baby.
Master Il. Powell Fauntleroy, son of
DR.. J. +. Fauntleroy, of Leesburg, Va,
has been recommended at large by
President Grant for a cadet midshipman
in the Naval Academy at Annapolis.
Twenty-one colored hands arrived at
Front Royal, by Wednesdays train and
passed on through to work on the Shen-
andoah Valley Railroad,in Page county.
Mrs. Maria Parker, of Stamford, Vt,
is the happy mother OF ten sons andsix-
teen daughters. She might be termed
a woman of the period, if there was any
indication that she had come to full
stop.
The City Council of Richmond taxed
the lawyers according to their reputa-
tons, as known to them, putting first
class lawyer for 500 The Circuit
Court decided the Council was wrong,
but the Court OF Appeals decided they