Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1874-02-21
Editorial BreYities.

ia, Ga, with salary OF SIO,OOU.
Thomas T. Cropper, Esq, a promi-
nent member of the Norfolk bar, died
on Monday last. He commanded a COM
pany in the Confederate army during a
portion of the war.
Henry S. Foote was born in Eau
quier county, Va, in 1900: Jefferson
Davis was born in Christian county,
Kentucky, in 1908.
The wheat fields in Virginia are rep
resented as appearing very promising at
this time.
The Shenandoah Valley is informed
by Judge Asbby, the president of the
Valley Mining and Manufacturing COM
, pany at Luray, that they are about to
commence the erection Of furnaces,
FORCES, etc., near their mines in Page
county; and that they have some of the
very best deposits of magnetic iron ore
which can be found in the United States.
VIM. Ballard, father of the Billiards.,
the we'll known Virginia hotel proprie-
tors, died in Albemarle recently.
! Mr.. John Randolph, Sr., respected
citizen of Augusta county, Va, aged 90
years, died on Friday last, near Angus
ia Springs. He leaves widow sc years
of age, ~ children, y grand children,
and 40 great grand children.
Col. Peter B. Borst, of Luray, was in
Richmond last week looking after the
interest of the Washington, Cincinnati
and St. Louis Narrow Guage Railroad,
and reports the prospect for the COM
pletion of the first one hundred miles
westward from Harrisonburg within the
next twelve months good-indeed fix
ed fact.
A man named Peck has recovered
$4,000 from the New York Central
Railroad for being put out Of palace
car when he could get no seat in the
other cars. 1t seems that the rights of
passengers to seat they purchase
a ticket, must be regarded.
The equal Rights Union" is the
name of secret society in Montgome-
ry, Alabama, which admits none but
colored people, and pledges its members
never to vote for democrat for office
under pain of expulsion.
It has been discovered that four drops
of strong sulphuric acid in three-fourths
of a tumbler of water for adults, and a
smaller dose for children, is an infalli-
bic cure for diphtheria.
The dry goods house of G. B. Rouss,
81 Broadway, New York, together
with several other establishments, was
destroyed by fire on Monday morning
last-total loss estimated at 100000.
Mr.. Rs loss reported at s9O,00O-insur-
ed for $4,000.
1t is stated by the New York Price
Current on the authority of the Secreta-
nv of the Treasury, that number of
prominent English manufactures con-
template the removal of their manufac-
tories and capital to the United States.
The venerable Adjutant General, W.
II. Richardson, tripped and fell down
the west steps of the Capitol Thursday,
severely cutting himself over the left
eye, at Richmond.
Mrs. Attorney General Williams,
says the Philadelphia Pa.) Press, by
virtue of her beauty and brilliant con-
versational powers, is one OF the reign
ing queens in society.
B. X. Bruce, the new United States
Senator from Mississippi, was formerly
a slave. After the war he became a
porter on steamboat, subsequently he
attended school for time at Oberlin,
Ohio, entered politics as sergeant-at-
arms of the Mississippi Legislature and
when elected was serving as sheriff.
1t appears from the Morgantown Post,
that 81. NJ. Hagans," who occupies the
seat in Congress from this district, to
which Hon. b. F. Martin was elected,is
a son-in-law of Waitman T. Wiley, ex
U. S. Senator.
Mr.. Horatio L. Whitridge, promi
nent business man of Baltimore, died
on Wednesday night.
Telegraphing in England is only one
cent word for seven hundred miles.
1t is double that for one hundred miles
! here.
The proposed centennial buildings at
Philadelphia will be, it is said, perma-
nent structures, to cover two acres, and
cost S7,O00,000, OF which Uncle Sam is
requested to subscribe five.
Mr.. John Need, a well known citizen
of Frederick, Md, died of dropsy, on
Monday last, aged 80 years.
1t is stated that new disease is af-
fectiug street and car horses i'll New
York city.
A fire occurred in London and Fri
day evening last, destroying fifteen mil
lions of dollars worth OF property.
Thomas Curtis and Martin Ricken-
baugh, old citizens OF Hagerstown, died
last week
A boiler explosion at Catoctin ore
bank, near Frederick, Md, took place
on Tuesday, killing five men and woun-
ding others Limbs of those killed were
scattered in all directions.
Twenty-six houses were burned on
Tuesday, at Sing Sing, New York.
Garrett G. Banta, of New York. was
married on Saturday last, and on Sun
day hanged herself in barn, the cause
is unknown.
Henry Knepp, an employee in saw