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

LII. FRANCIS L. OlIlullHS, .cuPe'ih'S"
dent of the Western Lunatic Asylum OF
Virginia, at Stanton, died in that city
on Thursday last in the Gath year oil
his age.
At Georgetown the receipts of wheat
on Monday, reached LOO bushels, with
sales at Sl.40 per bushel.
The acting Governor of Mississippi
has telegraphed for troops to prevent
anticipated violence at Vicksburg on
election day, August 4,
The Frederick city corporation tax
this year is $1.l5 on the 800, which,
added to the 80 cents State and county
tax, makes total Of $l.97 on the $500.
Six hundred buildings were burned
and three thousand people rendered
homeless by the fire in Oshkosh, Wis
consn, last week.
The Reformed choir, Of Sharpsburg,
have elected Miss Ida G. kretzer, to fill
the position of organist, in their church,
vice Mrs Lizzie Snowman, resigned.
A Kentucky widow has brought snit
for 100000 against lodge of Knights
Of Pythias for having caused the death
of her husband by their rough initiate
ry ceremonies.
Hon. Theron Metcalf, who was one
of the Judges at the trial of Prof. Web
ster, of Harvard College, for the muir
der of DIR. Parkmau, is still, though
nearly 90 years OF age, to be seen about
the streets of Boston.
a man named Howard, OF Delaware,
has been sent TO State prison for five
wears for stealing fiat boat loaded with
tar. A blacker crime was never com
mitted.
A returning emigrant wagon passed
through Cedar Falls, Iowa, last week,
bearing the expressive and euphonious
label "D-n the grasshoppers."
A minister once said ''Those nice
young men who stand outside the
church doors. waiting for the girls to
come out, will some day stand around
inside of hells doors waiting for the
girls to come inland will have a long
wait.
A northern newspaper thinks it is
safe to say that more persons were kill
ed or wounded by the use of gunpow-
der on the Fourth of July last, than in
any battle of the Revolutionary war.
The wealth Of California seems end
less. The Territorial Enterprise says
that according to present indications
'the State will harvest wheat enough to
load thousand ships, each of a thous-
and tons burden, and have enough left
for home consumption"
The champion COW of the season
turns up in Washington county, Tenn,
where che has given the immense yield
of 2,94Oi pounds ofhilk in thirty days.
The animal is Of Ayrshire breed, aud
the smallest amount Of milk given by
her in single day was found by accu-
rate weight to be 81 pounds.
We are authorized to.say that it is
rot true that Jefferson county farmer
has been stabling his COW in An ice
house to make her give ice cream.
A kind word spoken to n husband
will 60 farther than broomstick or
fat.iron, says a woman OF experience.
And the rule works as well the other
way, says man who has tried it.
The greatest object of curiosity to
woman is the dress Of another woman.
There are now 80 Protestant church
es in Mexico. Five years ago there
were but six.
At Memphis, Tenn, last Monday, two
colored butchers fought with cleavers
and butcher knifes, inficting mortal
wounds on each other.
The British government demands
$4,000, 900 from Spain for the massacre
of sixteen British subjects.