Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1874-02-28
Editorial Brevifies.

were William Keyser, OF Baltimore
General Sherman, Senators Cameron,
Scott. Thurman, Stevenson, Howe
Sherman, Cooper, and Fenton, and Rep,
resentatives Wood, Barnum, Randall
and Hereford.
Mrs. Cabell, Mrs. Col. Sherard and
Mrs. DR.. Stuart, Baldwin, Of Winehes-
ter,have all died within few days past
The first two, it is stated were brides
maids of the last.
1t is estimated that half million OF
dollars will not compensate Southslde
Virginia for the injury received by the
late snow storm.
1t costs S1Ol, 900 annually to sweep
out and guard the Treasury building at
Washington.
The Baltimore and Ohio company is
about to erect extensive car-bmlding
and repair shops at New Creek and de-
sires TO procure for that purpose seven
ty-fiye acres OF land in addition to the
fourteen acres now held by the compa-
nv. Work will be commenced in the
Spring.
The President has a new team, COM
posed of four handsome bays, with gold
trimmed harness. Very wide and very
white reins controlled them, ard the
team surpasses anything of the kind ev-
-.... -, NUoeb;p o,tnn
A petition has been presented TO
Congress for the extension of the mon
ey-order system to all the post offices in
the United States, which it is to be
heped will receive favorable consider
alton.
On Friday last, two children, aged
five and seven years, son and daughter
of William Akers, of Alum Ridge town
ship, in Floyd county, Va, got hold OF
q Jug of brandy and took drink, from
the effects of which both died.
Bishop Cummins continues his mil =
trations, according to the standards OF
the Reformed Episcopal Church, at
Steinway Hall, New York. AS the
seats are free the congregation, gener-
ally speaking, is quite numerous.
Punctuation will henceforth be re-
parded as ole of the essential points in
a thorough education. 1t is said now
that a comma in the wrong place has
cost this country S2,O00,0OO.
A butcher recently found shawl pin
in a COW he was cutting up into steaks.
1t is supposed the animal had swallowed
a milk maid.
Week before last, near Talcott De
not on the Ches. 81 Ohio Railroad, a
NEGRO woman gave birth to twins with
in the short space of eleven months
The Washington Conference I (colored)
Of the NJ. +. Church will meet iE Win
chester on the 25th inst, and will be
presided over by Bishop Ames.
A mutual Admiration Society is about
to be organized in this town. Ladies
will not be admitted as members. The
objects of the society are to admire eacn
other and keep secrets. or course that
excludes the feminine gender
Bishop Dogget, lately returned from
California, says he saw there a wheat
field seventeen miles long, and when
the owner plows it he starts the plows
on one furrow and goes all day, and
and when night comes, stops and camps
out, and plows back the next day.
Mr.. John A. Harner, living in the
neighborhood of Waynesboro, Augusta
having not long since, married
another woman, Miss Julia A. Doom
has instituted suit against him in the
Circuit Court of that county for breach
of promise of marriage, laying her dam
ages at $4,000.
Forty thousand dollars is now due
the county of Berkeley, for taxes, by
the B. & o. Il. r.
A girl at Green Bay has made bus
mess of taking the veil. She took two
hundred of them from a merchant at
once.
Old John Harper, of Woodford coun-
ty, Kentucky, the owner Of the race
horse Longfellow, is very i'll, and 1t is
said, cannot recover He is nearly eigh-
ty years old.
N.P. Trist, an American diplomatic
officer of great experience, and Commis-
sioner Of the United States in August,
1s47, for the negotiation of treaty OF
peace with Mexico, died at Alexandria,
Va, at the age of seveuty-four years.
The inaugural meeting of the Angus
ia Spring races. will commence at the
Baldwin Augusta Fair Grounds, near
Stanton, Va, on Tuesday, May 18th,
and continue three days.
Mr.. o. G. Billings and family, and
Mr.. Thomas Jackson, Of Woodstock,
will leave for Texas in few days. The
fever is growing, and there is no telling
to what extent it may reach.
Died at "Clavens," her late residence,
near Alexandria, on Saturday morning,
the I4th instant, Mrs. Eliza Chew Ma
son, relict of the late Hon. James M.
Mason, in the 10th year of her age.
The deceased had spent the first fifty
years OF her married life in Winchester.
The Town Council Of Charlestown
have passed an ordinance making it fin
able, from S25 to 800, for any one TO
sell kerosene or infamable oils that will
not stand heat test Of l40 degrees.
Job says his patience is nearly ex.
hausted by watching the woman Of the
ro~;oJ Ha mot Miss Fuss and Feafh-