Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1874-03-14
Editorial Breyities.

to hold prayer meetings In then par
rooms. We reckon the habitues of the
saloons are not less ''shaky."
On Tuesday the stages from Harri.
sonburg to Stanton, Va, were draped
in mourning, it being the last trip on the
road, on account Of the opening OF the
Valley railroad.
| Rev. Dr. VIM. +. Munsey las receiv-
ed call to church in Augusta, Ga,
at salary of $4,000 per annum. His
health has been entirely restored.
The people of Winchester are petit
tioning Congress to construct iishway
around the falls of the Potomac, in or
der to allow the salmon and others OF
the tinny tribe to ascend the river.
The Washington Manufacturing
Company, of Gloucester, n. Y, dis,
charged seven hundred men who asked
for higher wages. The men, accompa-
MED by their wives and children, sur
rounded the residence of the Superin-
tendent, at which they hurled missiles
of every description, and threatened to
fire the MILL
Martinsburg wants an iron furnace.
The Independent says that iron ere has
been found in Berkeley county in con-
siderable quantity and the people are
"prospecting" for more.
Ex-Gov. Augustus w, Bradford, of
Maryland, has petitioned Congress to
compensate him for the destruction Of
his dwelling house, near Baltimore, on
the 18th OF July, 1864, by the rebel
troops under Bradley II. Johnson, In
retaliation for the burning Of Governor
Letcher's house in Virginia, hy Gen.
Hunter.
A National Council of Independent
Changers was organized in Springfield,
Mass AT meeting OF the executive
committee of the New York and Dos
ton grange, declaration of principles,
constitution and ritual were adopted.
The members Of the order do not hest
tate to avow that it is political in its
nature.
The Communists in New York are
said to number three hundred. They
| don't want work but division Of prop
erty. The sooner these gentlemen ale
initiated into the mystery Of earning an
honest living, the better for the commu-
nifty in which they live.
The House has voted to the widow OF
| Gen. Meade and the mother of General
Mcpherson pensions of fifty dollars per
month each, and increased the pension
of the widow of Commodore Elliott
from thirty to fifty dollars per month.
In Mercer county, Kentucky, Sunday
night. John Brooks found George An
derson asleep in bed with his Crooks
wife. Brooks got an Ak and severed
| Anderson's head from the body. The
murderer fled, and has not yet been
captured.
The whisky war has not only reached
East Tennessee, but it first broke out in
Andrew Johnson's town of Greenville.
The praying band works away i'll front
of the saloons from sunrise till sunset,
and every man who passes is asked to
sign the pledge.
A Times Pittsburgh special says that
the anti-whisky crusade is extending
i'm Eastern Ohio. All the saloons i'll
Cadiz have surrendered except one, and
two hundred women are praying III 1t.
1t is stated that Bsmarck's opinion is
that another war with France is inevl-
table; that she will he backed by Rus
STA, and that all Europe will be involved
in the contest.
The Rev. James Peck, of the Wash
ington annual conference (colorcd) and
late presiding elder of Potomac dis
trict, who was appointed to Asbury NJ.
f. church in Baltimore by Rev. Bishop
Ames from the Washington conference,
held in Winchester, Va, February %,
1874, died at his late residence, in Bad
timore, March 9th, aged sixty years.
Mrs. S. Desney, widow of a member
of Congress from Ohio, has brought suit
for 100000 against the proprietors OF
a New York omnibus line, from one Of
whose stages, while getting out, she
was thrown violently to the ground, and
seriously injured, the horses having
been started too soon.
w. Underwood, of Cleveland be-
came enamored of Miss Anna Pridgeon.
of Detroit He offered marriage, but
was refused. Again offering himself,
and being refused, he stabbed her thro'
the heart, instantly killing her.
The sudden death of Mrs Sue Wilson,
the amiable and excellent wife of Col.
Thomas Wilson, formerly proprietor Of
the Montgomery White Sulphur Springs
is announced.
August Madison, Of Jersey City. \.
j., attended a ball on Monday night
last with a young woman to whom he
was engaged. Jealous of the attentions
paid her by former lover, ne went
home and shot himself. So much for
this masquerade ball business.
An Irishman called at drug store
to get bottle of Anodyne Liuiment
for the rheumatism; the druggist asked
him in what part Of the body it tloub
led him most. ''Be me soul, said he,
Il have it in every houl and corner OF
me-"
The Teachers Institute. of Rocking
ham county, Va. at its recent meeting,
held in Harrisonburg, struck the word
L.