Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-03-13
Editorial Rrevitics.

York, on Thursday evening last. caused
by the falling of iive-storv wall upon
the roof of ST. Andrews Catholic
Church, corner Of Duane street and
City Hall Place, crushing in the root of
4 that building, in which Il large conyre-
cation was assembled at vcSpers, ani
causing the death OF five persons aud
the wounding of twenty-Six others.
\ circnlt preacher in Missouri pray
ed for rain one night at farmers
house, and the farmer, who had horse
race arranged for the next day. WAS 50
mad that he turned the good man out
of doors.
y small boy who has been studying
current history by looking at pictures
in Fn-k l.eslies paper, says Andy
! Johnson is president now.
y young man OF Wheeling, who is
away at college, and who is noted for
steady habits, indnstry anJ study, aud
lack Of that element in our nation
which eliminates in jokes, writes to his
father The height of my ambition is
to become good mathematician, and
to be able TO cultivate fine looking
mouStache.
In Washington, one day last week
saloon keeper having lost two pet dogs,
went TO his mistressrs room and avcn-
ted his rage by shooting her and then
himself
Bogus Charley, of the unfortunate
| ModocS who were troubled with mill
! tary interference short time ago, has
succumbed to the march OF civilization,
! and now wears n broad brimmed hat, y
! paper collar and red neckt!e. lie
is not with the Buffalo Bill party, how
/ ever.
The i. & O. Il. Il. Company have
reduced the fare from Wheeling TO BAL
timofe from SO TO 1915.
Blobbs, hearing that whisky in bond
is TO be exempt from taxation, proposes
To have his stomach classed rs bon
dcd warehouse.
For making - button-holes and sew
ing - buttons and 30 "stays Oh ilan-
mel shirts, a sewing girl in New York
gets % cents.
a great many of the citizens of
Washington county, Md, aud OF the
Cumberland Valley, in Pennsylvania
are taking advantage Of the reduced
rates of fare, and going West. Over
one hundred persons left Greencastle
on Monday for different points in the
, West
Don't tell us any more about tho
good women OF old. An observer who
wrote hundreds of years ago said:
Nv is a necessary evil, a natural
temptation, a desirable calamity, a do
nestle peril, deadly fascination and II
painted ILL.,
The Pennsylvania Company has an
nounccd Il reduction of freight rates
from New York aud Philadelphia to
Frederick, lIagelstown, Martinsburg,
Cumberland aud the coal region, 10
each of which it has nj independent
route.
Ii there's place for everything
where is the place for a bolli IL has
been said that the best place for such
an ornament is OH some other fellow,
and we don't think better location
can be discovered.
The Bait. IL Ohio Il. X. Co. have
paid 81, $50 county taxes due Morgan
county, for the fiscal year ending June,
1874.
Great excitement now exists in Bath
on account OF recent Developments
made in the coal business, just outside
the corporate limits, Oh Hancock grade.
Mr.. Michael Edwards, Of New York
county, Pa, who is now in West Nir.
pinia OH a visit To his son, is lOS years
vld. and in the enjoyment OF good
health. When at homc he walks two
mikes on Sunday TO church. lie is
widower, but has 40 immediate inlcn-
ton Of marrying again.
That Old Clay Pipe is all the time
doing mischief. On the 18th inst, the
residence of Mescliack Frost, OIL tic
Potomac River, near Cumberland, was
entirely destroyed by tiie. The fire
originated from an old lady lighting
hei pipe. a coal falling on solue cloth
inc Loss, S2,.iOD-no INSURANCE..
The Shippensburg A,w, don't brae
of the size OF the babies in that town
but says they have an uncommon sure
crop.
Three Saginaw girls Of the Metho
dist persuasion, having met together
concluded TO pray for the welfare u
their lovers, but the first one had no
got very far along in her petition wheI
; il was discovered that they were all
engaged TO the same man. The rrlig
ious ceremonies were at once brouSh
TO a close. Vot gals, dem.
Where's the moIasses, Bill!' sai'
a red headrd woman sharply to her son
who had returned with an empty jug
= Nope in the city. mother. Ever,
grocer has big black board outside
with The letters chaiked Oh tn. %
MOlasses.
Death was the result OF foolish wa
per in Paris, recently. a young MAI
made a bet that I've would smoke twelve
ciyars. one after another. At the en-
of the eighth he began 10 feel uDwell
and when he had finished tie ninth b'
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