Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1874-09-26
Editorial Breyities.

more papers that the law in regard to
the shooting or having in possession
cartridges prior to the 10th OF October
will be strictly inforced.
At meeting yesterday of the Grand
Lodge of Good Templars of the State OF
New York, resolution was adopted
strongly faYoring legal prohibition OF
the manufacture and sale otintoxlcatlng
beverages. 4 new political organlza-
ton in the interest of temperance was
also favored
! Thomas Swami was .renomlnated as
the candidate of the Democratlc-Con-
servative party of the Fourth District
of Maryland. This will be Mr.. Swami
fourth consecutive term when returned.
The Convention was presided over by
Harry Gilmor A ballot was dispensed
with and Mr.. Swami declared the unan-
imous choice OF the Convention.
Two fine limestone farms belonging
to Nathaniel Burwell, were sold under
court order in Clarke q few days ago.
One was bought by Mrs. Burwell, and
the other by John Burwell. The latter
brought fifteen dollars an acre.
The public schools of Staunton open
cd last week will. an attendance OF
GOO scholars. The city council have
appropriated $4,000 to secure addition
al school accommodations, as it is esti-
mated that the number of scholars will
soon number 1000.
In the last issue Of the Hagerstown
Free Press the Announcement is made of
the withdrawal of Mr. A. G. Boyd,
senioreditor andproprietor Of that paper.
Mr. NJ. w. Boyd taking sole control
and continuing the business at the old
stand.
In his prospectus, announcing his
determination to resurrect the Knox
vile Ting. Senator Brownlow says /;
Il shall war increasingly upon the in
famous Civil Rights Bill, now before
Congress, o. any other like odious sec
tional class legislation
On Friday last, says the Hagerstown
News, boy fell from a canal boat near
Weverton and was drowned. The body
was soon :lter recovered. Deceased
was son f Mrs. Bonner, who resides
in the neighborhood of Keedysville.
It is said hat "a home without chill
dren is like heaven without angels.
but we don't believe word Of 1t.
An old gentleman who died recently
in Allentown, Pa. was married on his
fortieth birthday, and after that made
it practice to get married on the same
anniversary every ten years, nature
helping him by taking off three wives,
the fourth being left a widow.
The citizens of New Creek, at q
meeting held last Saturday, resolved to
change the name of the town to "Key-
ser City," in honor OF the second ' I.
| of the b & O Railroad.
The Greencastle Valley Echo says
that Mrs. Col Schnebly, of Washington
county, Md, now in her l03d year, Wis
tied that town few days ago in her
carriage, and called on several old ac-
quaintauces.
A remarkable meteorological phenom-
enon is reported from FL Paso, Texas.
The Collector of Customs writes that
up to the 10Th of August no rain had
fallen in that vicinity for precisely a
year Vegetation is scorched and cattle
have died Of starvation.
The Warren Sentinel says: "Mr.
! Thomas Is. Kenner has threshed the
wheat grown upon forty acres OF fine
bottom land of Major James Il. Rich
ards, which yielded, by actual measure
ment 1000 bushes-averaging 25
bushels per acre.
1t is reported that large combination
| of capitalists, grain dealers, bankers
and railroad men is being formed for
transporting grain from the West to
the Atlantic seaboard and Europe, and
protecting the sales Of wheat in London
on commission.
A KALAMAZOO woman raised to the
third power of widowhood has the pho
tographs of her three departed lords IN
a group, with vignette OF herself IN
the centre, and underneath is the inscrip-
ton, ''The Lord will provide.
The young ladies of Spencer CITY,
Iowa, had party OF their own, and IN
vited young men The merriment ran
so high that a jolly deacon and hlla-
rious Sunday school superintendent got
to dancing and now the church is ter
ribly shocked.
CAIRO, ILL.,, has COW destined for
more celebrity than Mrs. OLeary's
Pretty Mrs. Sands got unified at her
husband, and, exclaiming: off You
wasn't the father of my children Id
serve you this way J" kicked her favor
tie COW to death.
The fires reported during the past
week embrace the court house of Sum
mers county, w. Va, with the county
records, a store and dwelling, loss $50,
600; pork house at Pittsburg, Pa, loss
$4,000; railroad repair shops at Zaleski,
Ohio, loss $4,000; stores in Charles
ton. 5. c., loss $4,000.
Henry Benjamin Ste. Marie, the cap
tor OF John Ii. Surratt, for whom the
government had offered reward ofS25,
900, died suddenly in Philadelphia on
Tuesday a week, from heart disease.
Gov. Brown, of Tennessee, has writ
ten letter to the President, in which
he complains that the United States
Marshals are arresting parties charged
with offences that will be punished I'M