Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1874-08-08
Editorial BreyitieS.

A standing antidote for poison by
oak, ivy, etc, is to take handful OF
quick-lime, dissolve it in water, let II
stand half an hour, then paint the pois
oned parts with it. Three or four ap
plications will never fail to cure the
most aggravated case.
These new parasols are described as
looking like smashed porcupines on q
stick.
The Constitutional Convention of
Arkansas, now in session at Little Rock,
it is said, will declare all State offices
vacant, and order new election.
A Lebanon (Ky,) gent, in ardently
greeting long parted wife, broke one
of her ribs.
A sensitive girl has broken off the
match because he said she had a foot
like raisin-box.
A Brooklyn girl has just rejected q
suitor because his arm wasn't long
enough to so ronnd.
There is hotel in a city in this State
that has the reputation of not having
single bed bug in it. The fact is they
are all married and have large families
Luther NJ. Kibler, aged eighteen, &
son of Rev. Andrew Kibler, of Page
county, Va, VI hs thrown from horse
and killed ou the 2Sth ult.
A young man by the name of Hoff-
man. from Madison county, was arrest
ed at Rapidan and lodged in Jail at
Orange C. II. on Wednesday last,
charged with placing ties and other OBJ
structions on the Railroad track be
tween Rapidan and Mi,chell's station.
The Salary Grabbers' out in Iowa
who want to get back into the Halls OF
Congress have hard row to hoe. They
are endeavoring to make various make
shifts to 'dodge the issue"-but the
people say snary time.
Steam on the Erie canal in New York
is now an accomplished fact, and by
this time next year one hundred steam
boats are to be blowing the "raglng
canal from Buffalo to New York, max
ing the trip in fourteen days, including
ordinary detentions.
Last Saturday during the storm five
sheep belonging to Mr.. T. Hillery, in
Petersville District, were killed by
lightning, and about the same time a
COW belonging to Mr.. VIM. Kolb, on
his farm on the Monocacy, was also
killed by lightning.
During the thunder storm of Friday
evening last, the lightniog struck one
of the largest tanks in the oil yards of
the Erie Railroad Co. at Weehawken,
N. J., and 10000 barrels of oil and
much other property was destroyed.
Loss about S5O0,OQp.
A Philadelphia gentleman advertises
a soap that is destined to wipe out the
national debt. There is probably some
"lye" about that soap.
Out West they want Cinnamon train
ed to eat grasshoppers.
Pay down, and You will never be
dunned to pay up.
The Rev. Douglas Forest, of Wythe-
Vile. has received call to Grace Epis-
copal Church, Richmond, and it is
thought he will accept.
Rev. DR.. Swazey, Presbyterian di-
vine of Chicago, produced sensation
among his congregation last Sunday by
advancing the theory that ''the virtuous
heather will be saved.
Anselm Rothschilds, member of
Rothschilds family died in Vienna on
the 9th of July.
The potato bug has by industry and
perseverance done his work, as tar as
the potato is concerned, and is now di-
recting his attention to the tomato crop.
Rainey, the negro Congressman from
Sonth Carolina, tried to force himself
into the dining room of Barrett's Hotel,
Suffolk, Virginia, on Wednesday last.
The clerk stopped him at the door, and
told him that negroes could not eat with
white people, and he would send his
breakfast out to. Rainey became 30
violent in his expressions that the clerk
took him by tn. collar and showed him
out.
The Indians are engaged in active
hostilities on the Texas frontier, and
the Comanches are again upon the war
path. The news from the plains indi-
cate that the trouble Is general, and re
ports Of numerous, cutrages combats
and depredstions are published else
where.
Il is 80 hot down in Texas that they
want to die, and they sing.
,sShoot me dead with crowbar.
Stab me to death with hoe
Batter my brains with . sunfower,
And get me rid Of this woe