Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1874-11-28
Editorial Breyities.

Editorial BreVittes.
The authority Of the State Govern
ment in Louisiana has been so far re-
stored that is no longer deemed neces-
sary to keep a gnard of United States
troops at the State House,
Salt Lake Mormons are earnestly
praying for the recovery of their chief.
Late advices state that Brigham Youngs
health is very critical, and that he may
die at any moment.
Gen. Butler, although defeated, says
he will rise again. He will rise in his
seat in Congress this winter, to urge
the passage of the Civil Rights Bill, land
if he is defeated on that clay out, he
will retire to private life.
The Littlestown Pa.) News, very
good paper published by Preston o.
Good, has suspended because its social
! ed patrons !" did not pay up their sub
scription. ~ very good reason.
The Cumberland Daily News of the
10th instant, says the Catoctn Furnaces
near Mechanicstown, last month ship
ped four hundred aud eighty tons Of
Pig Iron, principally to the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, and for use at the
rolling mill in that city.
Rev. James NJ. Haines, pastor OF the
Nj. f. Church South, in Port Republic,
Rockingham county, Va, died on the
18th instant. lie was formerly mem
Der of the Methodist Protestant Church,
but when the church in Virginia united
lust after the late war, with the South
ern Methodist Church, he united with
the rest.
The Cincinnati Price Current Of last
week gives the figures of the hogs
packed at the six leading Western pack
mo points, viz: Cincinnati, Chicago,
St. Louis, Milwaukee, Louisville and
Indianapolis and puts the number OF por-
cines slaughtered from November to
20 al $4,000; same date in 1878 6l5,-
600, and in 1872 to 100000.
Now that the third term business is
gone up, the New York Herald and
( Tribune are preparing veracious mar
rative that President Grant is engaged
in q plot to abdcate the throne in favor
OF Susan b. Anthony, who will reign
as military dictator, supported by an
army dressed in chemiloons.
There is a set Of malicious, prattllng,
prudent gossips, both male and female,
who murder character to kill time; and
will rob young fellow OF his good
name before he has years to know the
value Of it.
The Piedmont Independent favors
Hon. Charles James Faulkner as the
Democrat candidate for the next Presi-
dencv, declaring that Mr.. Faulkner
would ''grace the position with all the
honors of true craftsmanship.
The Baltimore Conference, NJ. f.
Church, will be held in Winchester,
Va, commencing on the Sd day OF
March next, and be presided over by
Bishop Peck.
An old man of 60 out West stepped
into a pan of milk his wife of So had
Inadvertently left on the cellar steps,
and the pan was tipped over and the
milk spilled, and quarrel inaugurated
that has resulted in an application by
the husband for divorce. That old
fellow has lived years enough to know
the folly OF crying for spilled milk.
The New York Herald of Monday
says: Twenty barrels entered as salt
meat and Australian beef were seized
at Portsmouth, England, October 20,
and in each barrel wa. found the corpse
of a full-grown negro. They reached
England from the United States and
were intended for dissection in London;
but who sent them, and where did the
sender get them ;"
On Tuesday last the farm. III l-2
acres, of the late Gen. kenton Harper,
on Middle river, 7 miles from Staunton,
was sold at $3.50 per acre. Miss
Nancy Harper and Mrs. Mary Leyman,
daughters of the former owner, were
the purchasers.
Girls, as you value your lives, don't
get up and get breakfast in the morn
ings. A young lady attempted it one
day last week, aud was burned to death.
Show this to your mammas.
The farm of Mr.. James kayser, on
James river, about ten miles below
Clifton Forge, was sold on Monday of
last week to Major Ewd. McMahon, Of
Stanton, for $500.
Dir. w. W. Wright, q wealthy banker
of the CITY of Buffalo, n. Y, has just
purchased about six hundred acres,
part of the original Gunston estate, in
Fairfax county, Va, Immediately on
the Potomac, few miles below Alex
andria, and adjoining the fine home
steals of Col. Edward Daniels and Col.
James NJ. Lewis, for the sum OF S2O, 900.
Simon Milan, residing in Putnam
county, West Va, on the 18th instant,
was held for the action Of the grand
jury on a charge Of rape preferred
against him by his daughter Annie,
aged Is years. The circumstances, as
related by correspondent of The Sun,
are atrocions, and unfit tor publication.