Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1874-09-19
Editorial BTeVities.

co on the floor, or IL whip you. La
mother, why don't you speak properly,
You should have said-cease eJectInS
that offensive SALIVA upon the promen-
ade or will administer to you severe
castigation. That's proper, ma
Thomas II. Morris, senior Bishop OF
the Methodist Episcopal Church, died
at Springfield, Ohio. lie was born In
Kanawha county, Va, April 2S, 1874,
and was received into The Ohio Confer
ence as a travelling preacher in 1877.
The Interior says Thirty thousand
men die of MISUNDERSTANDING
to one who dies of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
SO we kill the dogs and caress the bot
tie. Curious logic, isn't it 2
NJ. Blot, at Cincinnati, spoke of
Spanish proverb about salad making,
which runs thus: 'To make good
salad requires four men; spendthrtt
for oil, miser for vinegar, sage tor
salt and pepper, and mailman to stir
it all up.
The Conference Of the NJ. +. Church,
South, for Winchester district, will
meet at Front Royal, on Wednesday,
September % Rev. DR.. Register will
preside.
Mr.. T. 3. Davis, Agent of Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad at New Creek, the
Tribune states, has been notified that
the freight on stock cars from New
Creek to Baltimore, from hence will be
S45 per cara reduction of Sl5 per
Gar.
From recent camp meeting sermon:
''Be not content with the hope OF mere
" getting heaven-of being driven on
to the heavenly shore, like battered
old hulk; but strive to go ON like
grand vessel, with every sail set, the
colors OF your Redeemer flying at the
mainmast and freighted with precious
cargo
Ten cents worth of quicksilver mix
cd with the white of two eggs, applied
to bedsteads will drive the bugs away.
During the prevalence Of the storm
on Tuesday OF last week, Mr.. David
Spccht, living near Doubs Switch, on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
Frederick county, Nd, was killed by
the chimney of his dwelling falling upon
him. He was 80 years of age.
The grasshopper plague in Kansas
has become so serious that Governor
Osborn has called an extra session of
the Legislature to meet on Tuesday to
devise means for the relief Of settlers
whose crops were destroyed by the
ravages of the insect.
The Republicans Of Vermont have
achieved a glorious victory, electing
their candidate for Governor by 10000
majority. The House is overwhelming
ly Republican, and the Senate unani-
mously so,
n grand harvest home picnic and
excursion to WiIlamsport, is talked Of
among the grangers, to come Oft somc-
time this month. The erangers of Car
roll, Frederick and Washington counties
i'll Maryland, are expected TO participate,
and also many from the adjacent coun-
ties in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
\ delicate lady who went to the
White Sulphur Springs on mattress
was so restored to health that she mar
ricd a man worth 100000. The
waters of those springs, then, are wealth
giving Us well as heaIth-giriug, it would
seem.
What sumblime courage was that
displayed by the Nevada woman who,
when the stealthy savage approached
her, just pulled off her hair and gave it
to him.
An old lady in Providence, aged 81,
after using spectaclcs for 40 years, has
given them ur, aud read every word of
the Beecher correspondence without
them. She says it has fairly opened her
eyes, and no spectacles could equal it
An elderly lady purchased one of the
Egyption mummies at the Niagara falls
museum the other day, for a parlor or
nament. She said it would seem better
to have q man around, even if lie was
somewhat advanced in life and a little
withered
The first snow Of the season fell at
Oakland last week 1t is needless to
say that it has since melted
An exchange, ridiculing County Fairs
which make no effort at good shows,
says that the Clear6eld Fair consisted
of calf, a goose and pumpkin. 1t
raiued so hard the first night that the
goose swan off, the calf broke loose
and ate the pumpkin, and athief prowl-
ing around stole the calf, and that end
ed the fair.
During the severe storm Of Monday
last, four horses and nine colts-thir-
teen in all-belonging to Col. II. b.
Boiling, near Upperyille, were killed by
lightning.
A dispatch from Brownsville, Texas,
states that the port Of Brazos Santiago,
situated on an island of that name, thir-
ty miles distant from Brownsville, is
entirely submerged, the houses, which
are built of wood, all floating of. The
inhabitants, who number about fifty
souls, took TO open boats, and their
whereabouts is unknown
Samuel Jones, colorea, died near
Turleytown, in Rockingham county,
recently, at the advanced age of 1873
years. The tact Of his age is well es-
tablished, and he was probably the old
est human being living. He was not
a. {. I.