Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-11-13
Editorial Brevftles.

stands nineteen hands, or six feet four
inches, measures twenty feet from tip
to tip, and weighs 5000 pounds
Jefferson Clyne, who lives near
Wytheville, Va, is only three feet six
inches high in his boots, which are No:
lis. He is seventy years old, weighed
twelve pounds at his birth, and now
weighs forty-seven pounds
VIM. Miller, living near Boonsboro',
Washington county, this year raised
over 700 bushels of potatoes from a
little over three acres Of ground.
General Benjamin F. Butler has pur-
chased gold mine near Fredericks-
burg, Va
Jacob Ecker's farm of SO acres, situa-
ted at the edge of Sharpsburg, Wash
ington county, was recently sold at
public sale to Jacob T. Miller for $40
05 per acre.
Six deaths have now occurred among
the members-elect to the Congress
which meets in December, an unusual
mortality.
The explosion of the boiler of a
locomotive attached to a gravel train
| on the New Jersey division Of the
Lehigh Valley Railroad, near Bound
Brook, on Monday last, killed the en-
gineer and two brakemen, and injured
about rs laborers, two Of whom have
since died. 1t is thought several more
will die.
At Scranton, Pa, on Sunday night,
a boy named Henry Kelly stabbed to
the heart aud killed a young man NAM
ed Anthony Scanlon. Kelly was one
of party of boys who were INDUCING
in the Halloween practice Of stealing
cabbages and pelting the residents
doors with them. Upon Scanlons re-
monstrating with them for assaultibg
his house, Kelly approached him and
committed the murder.
Judge Foreman, Of the District Court
of Salt Lake City, has ordered Brigham
Young to be imprisoned until he pays
Ann Eliza SO, 500 alimony according to
the judgement standing against him.
Brigham is sick at home, but under ar
rest by the marshal.
The Presbyterian churches of West
Virginia contributed s16,6S for benev.
client purposes during the year ending
September lst, 1875.
The body Of a young and beautiful
woman, aged about twenty-five years,
and richly dressed, was found in the
Missouri river. at Leavenworth, Kan
sas, last Friday. In pocket OF the
dress was found sl75, also card case
containing cards bearing The name of
NJ. NJ. Blackwell, a check for baggage
to Leavenwortb, and a pass from Chi
cago to Kansas City.
Two brothers named Goodrich re-
Gently married two sisters in the village
of Worcester, N. Y, and went on a
wedding trip to Unadilla to visit friends.
Here the bridal parties in company with
two friends, went boat riding on the
Susquehanna aud becoming frightened
the boat capsized, and the two friends
and the wife of one of the brothers were
drowned.
| A young man named Crops, brake
man on the b. g. o. Railroad, was
knocked off train going West Satur-
day evening by bridge two'miles west
of Oakland, and fatally injured.
Robert Hance, boy of IL years, was
accidentally shot and killed by his
brother Abraham, aged l5,at Pt Pleas
ant, New Jersey, on Friday.
A man named H. o. Johnson was
shot and killed in Cincinnati on the
morning of the 9th nit, by police
man, while being conveyed to the sta
tion-house.
An unknown man stabbed John Ga
lena in drunken row in Chicago sa-
loon. Galena ran out Of the saloon and
died on the street. The murderer esca-
ped.
A father and son who had been drink
ing together in New York one day last
week, got into a difficulty, when the
father shot and MORALLY wounded the
son.
Over 1000 miners in Cape Breton
will depend on charity for food and
shelter this winter.
The Palo Alto iron mill, Pottsville.
Pa, idle over year. have resumed
work with over 800 men, at reduction
of wages of twenty-five per cent.
The demand for laborers in the lower
Mississippi cotton fields, aud the wages
paid, are so great that the river boats
are troubled 10 keep their hands.
A single boot and shoe firm at North
Broon6eld, Mass, employ this month
seven hundred men, women and chill
dren, besides four hundred men who
bottom shoes at home, the whole pro-
ducing $500 pairs of boots and shoes
per day:
Gen. Longstreet has purchased a hall
interest in hotel in Gainesville, Ga,
and it will now be seen whether he
"knows how to keep hotel"
1t is said that the second brigade
New York National Guard, will escort
the German crown prince to the cen
tennial exposition.
Timothy Kelly has been arrested in
Boston on charge of manslaughter
He had quarrel with his brotbe: Pat
rick received injuries from which be
died yesterday.
At South Kingston, Rhode Island