Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1874-08-01
Editorial Brevities.

has Just decreed that legally adopted
child is, by the statutes, heir toproperty
the same as if it had been born in lawful
wedlock.
Independent candidates are so plenti-
full in North Carolina that, like I'M
wholesome weeds, they are choking out
and killing the regular Conservative
nominees. Oh, the pity of it
A Western member of Congress who
interpreted NJ. =. to mean More Cur
rency, was made to understand that 1t
meant Mighty Corrupt.
A gentleman in Staunton having oc-
casion to send circular to all the ply
sicians in Virginia, has already gotten
list of fourteen hundred, and that is tar
from being all, it being estimated that
number Will reach 1000. And yet we
still live
Bristol, Tenn, was visited by a VIC
lent hail and wind storm on Tuesday
night. The bridge leading from the
railroad to the Virginia House was
blown down, and the roofs of the Nick
les House and several private residences
were blown of, whilst there was a great
destruction OF window panes.
A young lady in North Carolina
town who had recently heard of a for
tune having been bequeathe1 her by a
bachelor uncle in St. Louis, hadthlrteen
escorts to church last Sabbath night.
Heretofore she had been accompanied
only by maiden aunt.
Larkius A. Beall, of Washington, has
entered suit against the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company, TOR running
over his child on the 18th of July, 1873,
and causing its death. The damages
claimed are $4,000.
A Dekota sheriff attached a show,
and while lacking up %sale notice on
the elephants headquarters, which the
official mistook for small barn, the AL
imal swung his tail around. There were
eight hacks at the funeral.
The Washington Chronicle says that
a friend who was recently permitted to
look upon the remains of President
Lincoln, says that the body is as natu-
raj apparently as tho day it laid in the
State House, with the exception that
the upper lip is somewhat swollen.
Gen. Robert Ransom, one OF the
most distinguished division command
ers of the Confederate army, has left bis
native State, North Carolina. purchased
the famed Drewry farm, in Chesterfield
county, Va, and settled down as Vir-
ginia farmer.
The Maryland and Virginia Boundary
Line Commissioners have appointed sx-
Governor jenkins, of Georgia, umpire,
by authority of the agreement between
the two States.
A correspondent of the Baltimore
Sun suggests the name of Hon. VIM.
r. Hamilton in connection with the
| Democratic nomination for Governor Of
that State.
Beware of eating green fruit. especi-
ally green apples. They may give you
the Mulligrubs if nothing worse.
We admit that zone swallow dosen't
make a spring." but We do know that
one pin ingeniously inserted in chair
by one of your hopefuls never fails to
make q spring. We speak from expe-
rience, and if you do not believe it, try
I it
Gen. Grant will visit the White Sui
phur Springs again this season, some
time in August-and remain week OF
ten days. The precise TIME has not yet
! been announced.
Fifty boats loaded with coal left Cum
berland on Wednesday last, which
shows plainly that business is picking
up OH that great thoroughfare.
Hams ars scarce in this town; SO are
new potatoes and beans. Tomatoes
have not yet made their appearance.
The gardens are pretty we'll ''scorched
up
The distinguished Redemptorist, Fa-
Their Wyrich, now stationed at Annapo-
lis, is named as the probable successor
of the late Bishop Whelan, of Wheeling.
Mr.. Henry Bergh, the staunch friend
of the brute creation, is aboat to COM
! mence war upon that popular amuse-
ment-horse racing.
A Veterinarian in the Prairie Farmer
thus advises q correspondent: Watch
the hog the first few days after the pigs
are born, and if she evinces desire to
eat her pigs, give her an emetie COM
posed of tartar emetic, three grains;
powdered ipecacuanna and powderd
white hellebore and of each eight grains;
mixed and throw dry into the mouth of
the hog.
The B. g. O r. r. Company expends
monthly to its employees on the so
miles of its line between Harrlsonburg
and Strasburg, not less than $50, 900.
From this statement an idea may be
formed of the vast expenditure neces-
sary in the active operations OF the
whole line.
Gov. Kemper, of Virginia, is said to
still suffer severely from the wound in
his hip, received during the late war,
and that the pain therefrom causes him
many sleepless nights.
A son of Admiral jenkins, Of Wash
ipgton, married Miss FranAe Chris
tie, ballet dancer at the Theatre Com
ique, in that city, and the admiral not
| onlx dieoune his how hut "a m ch orir1