Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1874-01-17
Editorial Brevities.


accept from Boston, but when they talk
of fifty odd offers of marriage within a
year TO one young woman, with wooden
legs, we really couldn't.
Farmer William Allen, of Ross conn-
ty, Ohio, has shipped to the Eastern
cities $4,000 worth of the finest beet
cattle ever raised in the Scioto Valley
or Pickaway Plains. Farmer Allen is
squaring up his agricultural labors, pre-
paratory to taking upon himself the
Governorship of Ohio.
A young lady says that a gentleman
ought never to. feel discouraged when
the ssmomentous question is negatived
by the object of his choice, ''for in life,
as in grammar, We always decline before
we conjngate.
Governor Jacob has appointed A.
Hunter Boyd, Esq, of Cumberland,
Md, a commissioner of deeds for West
Virginia.
An English real estate Spectator re-
Gently offered a popular preacher So
600 a year to settle in the neighborhood
of his property, to send up its value
An Ohio youth who desired to wed
the object OF his affections, had an in
terview with her paternal ancestor, in
which he stated that although he had
no wealth to speak of, yet he was just
:'chock full of days work" He got the
girl.
The Maryland Editorial Association
in session in Baltimore on Wednesday,
adopted resolutions requesting Congress
to repeal that part of the postal law
which require newspapers to pay post
age on their exchanges.
Col. Forney predicts that before the
holidays of 1875 John G. Breckenridge
will be back in Congress, and speaks a
pleasant word for that distinguished
Kentuckian.
The st. Louis Republican says that
in all events the doom of the Republi-
can party, though delayed, perhaps is
already written in the book of fate,
A little daughter Of Mr.. Dorsey Wal
tiers, of Winchester, aged three years,
died on last Saturday from the effects
of dose of morrhia administered by a
mistake instead of quinine.
President Grant assisted at the Silver
wedding celebration of the Rev. Dr.
Tiffany and wife in Washington city a
few evenings since, DR.. Tiffany is
Pastor of the Church at which the Pres
ident and family worship.
On her dying bed, Mrs. Scott, of
Delaware, wrote, among other things
at is also my earnest wish that my
darling husband shall! marry ere long a
nice, pretty girl, who is good house
keeper. "
A fire in Forepaugh's menagerie at
Germantown, near Philadelphia, Satur-
day night, burned the stable, five valua-
BILE horses and all the wagons belonging
to the show.
Col. James NJ. Schley has sold his
'.Promised Land estate in Garrett
county, Md, to VIM. Price, of Ohio,
for $4,000. Mr.. Price will remove to
promised Land" in February.
What you do for Christ, do quickly.
The field is white, the sickle is sharp,
the reward is grand, the time is short,
the Judgment is near. What thy hand
fndeth to do, do it now.
1t is thought by next st. Valentine
Day, when the birds mate that there
will not be half a dozen manageable
young ladies left in this town.
When maiden lady is engaged to
be married to quite a young man, the
other girls say, "she is going to take a
boy to raise" which is very cruel.
Owing to John Robinsons circus
being in town the regular Thursday
evening prayer meeting has been post
poned," said a recent number of the En-
terprise, Dallas, Texas.
Robert Murdoch, living in Brooklyn,
New York, shot and killed his wife by
mistake, supposing her to be burglar,
as she was entering the house by back
door, after having gone out with the
intention of spending the night with
some friends.
Louis Kossuth, revolutionary Cover
nor of Hungary in 1S49, and now old
and poor, gives lessons in German, En-
glish and Hungarian. in Turin.
Judge Pearre, Of Cumberland, was
recently thrown from horse and Sc
verely injured.
A young man aged Is, in Greenbrier
county,the other day married his grand
mother, aged 40. He is thereby his
own grand daddy, and feels as proud as
if he had been so all along.
On last Tuesday John e. Page was
elected County Judge of Clarke and
Warren by the General Assembly, of
Virginia, for the term of ak years, to
fill the vacancy caused by the resigna-
ton of John T. Lowell.
Take care of your health and your
wife, they are the two better halves that
make a man of you.
Messrs. Jacob Eakle and Daniel
Stouffer, of ashington county, Nd,
died suddenly last week. They were
old citizens.
A former resident of Washington
county, Nd, returned from Kansas all
the way in his own wagon, and says
that if anybody owns a farm in Wash
ington county, they had better stick to
it, and not take Horace Greeley sadvice
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