Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1874-01-17
Editorial Brevities.

land to be presented to the Legislature
in favor of the enactment of the Local
Option law.
The trial of J. NJ. Resley for the
murder of L. L. Clary, editor OF the
Cumberland Daily Times, will be called
in the Circuit Court of Allegany county
on the 21st inst.
A girl of Youngstown, o., broke ner
arm the other night, while striving to
kiss young man at spelling school'
State prison is too good for her.
A company of English gentlemen
will commence the manufacture Of por-
celain and terra Gotta, near Waynesoo-
ro', Va, next week.
We regret to learn that MIR. X: ).
Eichelberger, local editor of the Mar
tinsburg Statesman, is i'll and unable to
attend to his duties.
Some of our Oldest inhabitants GO
away back to 1916 for parallel winter
to the prevailing mildness of the present
season.
A Nevada Postmaster has written to
Washington to know if he can rent part
of the office for faro bank.
A bill has been recently signed by
the President removing the political
disabilities of Z. J. Harvie, Thomas 5.
Bocock and Daniel Trigg, of Virginia,
and John III. Reagan, Of Texas. This
pretty nearly completes the list.
The Richmond, Va, Enquirer says
"The North and South are together
again, and forever They are depend
dent upon each other. They are peo
pied by the same people. They~ have
fought, made peace, and shaken hands
Miss Nellie Grant is to ofliciate as
first bridesmaid at an approaching we'd
ding in Philadelphia.
Carriers with monogram clasps are
now all the fashion with pretty girls
The style is said to be convenient and
elegant and we hope to see more OF it,
An old lady who has six unmarried
daughters started out few days ago
on search for the patrons of husband
~. ooh, what is home without moth
er 2
January takes its name from Janus,
the guardian OF the gates OF entrance OF
Rome.
a Rochester editor went hunting the
other day. for the first time in twenty
two years, and was lucky enough to
bring down an old farmer by shot in
the leg. The distance was sixt! six
yards.
Upon the arrival Of the train an old
lady affectionately greeted a stylish
young lady as follows We'll, how'd
do, Marian Why how funny ye look!
Didn't hardly know we Got your false
teeth, amt We p
The Rothschilds are worth about one
thousand millions of dollars, rs a firm,
twelve of them, including their individ-
ual fortunes. They need not cry for
soup.
We see it stated says the Cumberland
News, that there were shipped last year
principally for the use of the Baltimore
aud Ohio Railroad, from Catociin fur
mace, 1925 tons, $4,000 worth OF pig
iron.
We advise the young man in this
place who received letter from his la
DIV, also from this place, through the
post office, to abandon the folly of that
way of counting, but buck up and go to
her in person and ten chances to one he
will win her.
Mrs. Deacon Smith, Of Collinsville,
Conn, is slowly starving to death from
an inflammation of the throat, produced
by a fish bone which lodged there some
time ago, and which prevents her tax
ing any nourishment.
Some 1000 head Of choice cattle have
recently been sold in Baltimore and
neighboring markets, from the Peters
barg Gap region Of Virginia They
were all fattened upon "corn grown on
a strip of Hardy county lands of from
:
twelve to fifteen square miles.
The preliminary organization Of n
new secret order to supplement the far
mers' oranges, bat to receive all classes
of citizens interested in transportation
and other questions affecting industrial
pursuits, was effected in Albany, New
York.
Ex-President Johnson declares him
self in full accord with the grange move
ment, and says the time has arrived for
good men of all parties to associate and
bring about such reforms as the exigen-
cies of the country require.
Ex-senator Graham. defaulting presi-.
dent of the Waikiki National Bank,
New York, was sentenced to ten years
imprisonment in the Albany penitentia-
ry.
Mrs. VIM. Stamps, sister Of Jefferson
Davis, died at Woodville, Mississippi,
recently. Mr.. Davis is now the only
survivor Of the family.
The annual sale at Beecher's church,
in Brooklyn, occurred Tuesday, and the
whole amount realized was $50, 430, Of
which $4,000 were for premiums alone.
On Saturday last little daughter of
Mr.. John Boogher, residing near Fred
erick city, Md, was scalded to death By
her mother accidentally upsetting the
contents of a coffee pot upon her.
The strike of the locomotive engineers
on the Pennsylvania railroad and its
branches on account of 10 per cent. re-