Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1874-04-04
Editorial Brevlties.

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Mrs. Green, a Kansas woman, wants
to marry again. and as q recommends
ton, she says she has used one broom
for fourteen years.
4 man fell uuder the cars at Virginia,
Nevada, last week, and had both legs
cut off. A young man who witnessed
the accident tainted, and his hair, which
was black, instantly turned gray. 1t is
probable that neither will i've.
The city council of Steubenville has
passed sweeping prohibitory ordi-
nance in relation to the sale Of liquors
in that city. 1t is to take effect on the
lst of April next. 1t imposes fine OF
$50 or Imprisonment for thirty days, or
both at the discretion of the mayor, up.
on any person who keeps beer saloon.
For repetition of the offense fine of
500 may be assessed.
Thankfully received at the Register
office-"greenbacks' and "local items. "
There was less snow this winter than
ever before within the memory of the
"oldest iuhabitant."
Don't whisper no soft things to your
sweetheart in church.
John Brady, an engineer Of the Balt;-
more & Ohio Railroad, died suddenly
at his residence, in Wheeling, w. Va,
on Saturday week.
The Corning Gazette says that there
are at the present time but four young
men in that town who part their hair in
the middle. One year ago they num-
bered over twenty, but death aud the
lunatic asylum and pen;tentiary have
cut down their numbers to the present
figures.
The Senate of Virginia has passed
the bill appropriating $4,000 for the
encouragement Of immigration, and
providing for the appointment Of three
commissioners to visit Europe to induce
immigrants to come to Virginia
A bill has been introduced into the
California Legislature making it mis-
demeanor to invite any person to take a
drink, or to accept an invitation to
drink at any public bar This will ruin
those persons rulgary known as dead
beats.
An exchange correctly remarks that
when man gets mad and stops his pa
per, he borrows the next number Of bis
to see if the withdrawal of
his subscription has not killed the edi-
tor.
Senator II G. Davis, Of this State,
addressed the Senate on Wednesday on
the financial question. lie takes ground
against imitation, and is eminently right
in his position.
A young lady of this place says she
wouldn't care about belonging to one
of the praying bands, but she'd like
most mighty we'll to be jined in the
bonds Of matrimony.
Andrew K. Stake, Esq, of Hancock,
member of the Maryland Legislature,
was convicted at Hagerstown on Mon
day, of giving away liqnor on election
day, and was fined $50 and costs.
Senator Brownlow. passed through
Lynchburg on Friday evening, en- route
for Knoxville. He required the assist
ance of two men in going from one car
to another. u-J mo-
Tulle dresses will be fashionable for
summer, worn over light colored silks.
They are made without overskirt, and
caught up behind in an elaborate pouf.
The wedding cake of a couple recent
ly married weighed forty pounds, and
was in the form of three-story house,
with sugar bride and bridegroom
coming out of the front door, and like
the real couple, too sweet TO last.
The women OF Iowa arc rapidly pre-
pairing for the ballot by instruction in
parliamentary debate and general bust
ness. There are nearly 1900 oranges
in the State, in which 25,009 women
are entitled to vote.
The volcano in North Carolina won't
90 off The latest reliable information
from Bald Mountain is to the effect that
the reports heretofore sent abroad are
greatly exaggerated. The demonstra-
tion is not volcanic, but the result of an
earthquake.
Frederick Douglass has been elected
President of the Freedmen's Savings
Bank in Washington, which has branch.
es in nearly all the Southern States.
f A destructive fire occurreed in In
dianapolis, Ind, Sunday week, by
which property valued at three or four
hundred thousand dollars, was destroy
ed.
The Detroit Free Press in a fit Of
cold water enthusiasm, talks about the
'little stars that twinkle like cats eye
in a wood box"
Mrs. Alice Mason Sumner, the di-
vorced wife of Charles Sumner, has Pc
titioned the supreme court Of Massachu-
setts for leave to marry again.
. An Oswego woman adyertises that
she has purchased shot gun, and will
shoot any man who gives her husband
liquor.
Some people might make fortunes if
they would go to work and earn them.
Judge Dent, the brother Of Mrs.
Grant, died in Washington on Sunday
last, after protracted illness. i't
b A Martinsburg girl broke of an en-
gagement because her lover wanted to
borrow five dollars of her. The tickle
creature
General John McCausland and Albert