Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-02-27
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and her husband has stayed home every
| night since.
A friend suggested to us to give Ep-
som salts to fowls to make them lay;
he had tried it two winters with sue
cess. We thought it very nonsensical,
but we tried it, and the hens common
ced laying vigorously forthwith. 1t is
cheaper to buy salts than eggs.
Mr.. VIM. r. Ogden, the railroad
millionaire of Chicago, is 20 years old,
but he is going to marry Miss Marian
ne E. Arnot, of Elmira, n. Y. Her
friends say to Der, "Arnot you happy,
deari"
Daniel Little, of Lee county, Va,
was shot and killed few nights since,
it is believed by his own son. Both
were drinking heavily at the time OF
the shooting.
One of the most interesting and hot
" contested law suits ever known in
Michigan arose from the fact that two
women claimed the same waterfall.
A gang of eight thieves escaped
from the Jail at Wheeling, w. Va, on
Monday night last, during the progress
of FIRE, by burning n hole through
the floor Of the Jail. They are still at
large. ~.,>.
Judge Gilmor, Of the Baltimore City
Criminal Court, decided last Monday
that a married woman, though she
might carry on other kinds of business,
could not obtain license to sell liquor
A California man pounded his wife,
and was fined 800, and she sold her
silk dress to pay the fine.
The Frederick Examiner runs up the
name of Speaker Blame, for President
in 1876. 81. ---
Rev. Thos. Ebenezer Thomas, D. D.,
at one time, President of Washington
College-now Washington & Lee Uni
versity, died in Cincinnati, on the End
| of this month.
A Brooklyn woman remarked to a
friend few days ago: 81 don't feel
very well this morning l do hope
I'm not going to have spell of sick
ness until the Beechsr trial is finished. "
A Pennsylvania bull caught sight of a
circus elephant going to water and
charged him. The man who owned
the bull said that there was nothing
worth saving except the ring in the
nose, and that was badly bent.
President D. c. Gilman of the Uni
versity of California has accepted the
presidency of the Johns Hopkins Uni
versity at salary Of $4,000 per an
mum.
Colorado is once more knocking at the
door of Congress for admission into
the Union as State, and unless her
case is neglected amongst the pressure
of business towards the coming close of
the session, it is quite likely that she
will soon be enrolled as the thirtyeight
star in the galaxy.
Mr.. H. w. Williams, agent of the B.
& o. Railroad Company at the Point
Of Rocks, was struck by a passing
train on Monday, and severely cut and
bruised.
During the trial of civil suit at
Huntington, w. Va, on Saturday,
while G. Donnella, witness, was tes-
tifying, DIR. Butler, one of the parties
to the suit, called him liar, whereupon
Donnella struck Butler, and was instant
ly stabbed by the latter in the bowls.
H. Crawford Black, who killed Nc
Kaig few years since in Cumberland,
was married OH Tuesday last to Miss
Ida, daughter of the late Judge Perry,
of the city named.
A Vermont widow of Sc has for Is
years supported eight children by lay
ing stone walls, harvesting and other
heavy farm work. ---'
Mrs. LYDIA Bradley of Peoria, Ill.,,
has just been elected first Director of
the First National Bank of that city.
She is wealthy widow, and large
stakeholder of the bank.
An elephant is l,227,3S6 times larger
than flea, but there are women who
growl at paying two shillings to visit a
menagerie, and will turn feather bed
over half a day to hunt flea.
Although the civil rights bill was de-
signed to harass the South and work
up another pretext for another "rebel-
lion," the leading newspapers of the
South decline to irritate.
Three Chicago girls are about ope-
ming BARRIERS shop in that city. One
is to do the latheriug, another the shay
ing, while the third, a beautiful blonde,
is to sit on sort of throne and play on
harp and sing. The outfit of this es-
Enlistment, it is said, will cost tl2.-
900. ~.
A Montana paper thinks there is an
awful fuss being made over the Beecher
trial. why, it says, right out here is
Bill Casey. He went into a family,
married one girl, spoiled another, and
has run away with the third; and yet
there is no trial, no statements, mo moth
ing, only just the old man with rife
looking around after Bin.
Capt. Moore, an old citizen OF Rock
bridge, and a lawyer of some distinc-
ton, died at bis residence, in Lexing-
ton, on Saturday morning, the goth ult.,
of dropsy of the heart, He was aged
81 years - 4::iss
John Randolph Tucker, Jr., is repor.
ri