Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1874-05-16
Editorial BFeVities.

said, Will De commenced IL 81 carry
day in this month.
OF l25 members of the lower branch
of the Legislature of South Carolina, 50
are colored, and three,tourths OF the
Senate are colored; IS Of the 50 report
says can neither read or write,and that
few of either branch possessed taXab!s
property when elected.
Col. Slaughter Bradford, of Cuipepper
county, has just sheared his flock Of
Merino sheep, Numbering four hundred
and thirty head, and got the enormous
Weld of two thousand and eight hun
dred and fourteen pounds OF wool. Over
one hundred Of bis flock were last years
lambs.
The Richmond papers speak in com
plimentary terms of the Legislature
which adjourned last Tuesday. The
WING saws I'VE never saw Legis.
lature more wiling to stand up to It's
work. nor have we since the war had
one more free from corruption, scandal
or suspicion.
A check for $l62 800 was handed to
the City Register of Baltimore last Fri
day in payment of a semi-annual divi-
dend on the stock held by that city in
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
What n magnificent investment for Bal
timore that railroad has 0een aud Will
continue TO be.
Captain II. II. Robertson, an ex.
member Of the Virginia Legislature,
and gallant officer in the 9th Va.
Regiment during the late war, died
near Stanton. Va, on the Goth ult.
Commodore Vanderbilt has added
another Que hundred thousand dollars
to the Gift of half million dollars for a
University Of the Southern Methodist
Church, to be located near Nashville,
Tennessee.
David Mellish, member of Congress
from New York, was arrested at the
Chronicle Office in Washington on Mon
day night, having become maniac on
the finance question.
The editor OF Western paper, who
is now seyenty-six years old, says he
likes to set up with girl just AS well
as he did when he was twenty, though
he owns it is little hard on his eyes
after o'clock in the morning.
Mrs Mcclure, wife Of DR. J. NJ. G..
Mcclure, of Berryville, and daughter of
DIR. VIM. d. McGaire, departed this
life on last Sunday afternoon, after a
weeks illness Of pneumonia.
A Boston man was cursing an editor
the other day when he fell dead. Sew
eral similar instances have been lately
reported. Men should be careful in
speaking Of anything sacred.
A down Easter believes there is moth
ing like advertising. He lost his pock-
. etbook recently, advertised his loss in
! the local newspaper, and next morning
went down into his own cellar and
found it lying on the floor.
Mr. David. a tax collector Of Scott
county, Va, who was shot while levy
ING on COW, lived just long enough to
prepare a handbill Offering reward Of
500 for the capture of his murderer.
Within a Year twenty-six vacancies
will occur in the Senate Of the United
States.
Rev Dr. Poisa, of Baltimore, has
been elected to preach the annual ser
mon before the Wesleyan Female Col
leee, at Stanton, at the commencement
June Sth.
J. w. Bear, the buckeye Black
smith," of the Harrison campaign of
1910, and who took daguerreotypes in
Lancaster about thirty years ago, is
now seventy four years old, and is en-
gagged in selling a book descriptive of
his life and adventures. His home is
now in Baltimore.
The annual Floral Decoration Of the
Confederate graves in Stonewall Gene
terry, Winchester, will take place on
Saturday, the 9th Of June, at 10 o'clock
A. NJ.
The young lady in Wisconsin who
received ~, 900 damages for kiss. is
reported as spelling for some more dam
ages.
Daniel w. Syester, very prominent
citizen of Williamsport, died in that
town last week, in the 47th year of his
age.
The next Baldwin, Augusta county,
Va, Fair will be held on the 18th, 18th
and 5th days of October next.
The Episcopal State Council for the
Diocese of Virginia meets at Charlottes
vile, Va, on the goth inst.
Mr.. Chipman's bill to provide for the
completion of the Washington monu-
ment, provides an appropriation Of
S225,O00, to be expended under tho di-
reotion of the President, the monument
TO be completed before July 4, 1876.
Gen. John G. Breckenridge, was ia
ken seriously i'll with hemorrhage of the
lungs at Lexington, KY, few days
since, and for time was in very crit
ical condition.
Wages in Chicago, according to the
Tribune, are not more than one-half of
what they were year ago. First class
carpenters who were then employed at
SO per day, are now glad to get Sl.50.
For The Register.
IrFTOW-S. Nav I3. 1874