Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-07-17
Editorial EsreyificS.

DR.. G.. 5. Grimes, died suddenly of APP
poplcxv at his home in Pughtown, Fred
erick county, Va, on the 81 inst, aged
IS years, months and II days. lie was
a gentleman of culture and fine profess
sional attainments and beloved wherever
known,
A lady, returning from an unproitabie
visit to church, declared that when she
saw the shawls on those Smiths, and then
thought of the things her own poor girls
had 10 wear, if it wasn't for the consola-
ton ofreligion she did not know what she
should do"
DR.. :. A. Niche, of Albcmarle county,
Va, has set out 400, 900 hills of tobacco
which will be worth $4,000 if they come
out all right.
white man has sued colored hotel
keeper in Washington under the Clvll
RIGHTS bill for refusing him accommoda-
tons. He evidently thinks that what is
sauce for the goose is sauce for the gan
der.
A would-bc prophet down South said
lately in one of his sermons, that he was
sent to redeem the world and all things
therein. Whereupon native pulled out
two Confederate five dollar bills and asked
him to fork over specie for them. lie
didn't do il.
Workmen are now engaged building
fish propagating house III Druid I'LL
Park, Baltimore, which will be finished
bv the lst of October. The establish
nient will be under the management Of
the State fish commission, who will pro-
pagate salmon, bass, carp, &C., for stock
ing Maryland waters.
There is to be grand tournament at
the Agricultural Fair Grounds at Win
chester on the 18th of September, the
last day of the fair. Col. Skinner, OF
Staunton, will deliver the charge TO the
knights, and Gen. Payne, OF Warrenton,
the coronation address.
The editor of the Kansas City journal
has returned from a trip through that
State, and thinks that Kansas Will have
ten million bushels of wheat to export
this year.
A Covington man died and they put
him OH ice. but he awoke in the night
and yelled out: why don't You put some
wood in the stove.
Gen. Frank p. Blair, died at st. Louis
on the 9Th instant. He had been sick a
long time. He was the first Colonel OF
the old first Missouri regiment in the Fed
eral army.
Hon. Shepherd LETTER, the Democratic
candidate for Governor of Iowa, is, we
believe. a native of Ohio county, West
Virginia.
The Norfolk (Va.) Day Book, republic
can. is assured by colored voters that they
have rot through with the carpet-baggers
and are anxious to establish better rcla-
tons with "ole massa.
In recent address to the alumni and
student. of Harvard College, DR.. L. ID.
Woolsey, eX-president of Yale College,
stated his opinion of unrestricted voting
in these words: LAS for universal sut-
fragc, | do no believe i'll it, neither as 4
right of the citizen nor a method of
government; but it is upon us, and we
are to make the best of it.
A watering place correspondent writes
that very few bathers battle at West End,
whereupon Mrs. Darlington says she had
an idea they bathed all over
If you want to get around \ Boston
girl tell her that you understand her
grandfather was killed at Bunker Hall.
She will neither dcspisc the lie Eor hate
the liar.
Hon. Asa Packer. of Mauch Chunk,
Pa. is said to be worth $50 600, 900. There
are few larger fortunes in the country.
He was poor boy.
David W. Mccoy is appointed postmas-
ter at Funkstown, Washington county,
Nd. vice Mrs. Elizabeth GrOsh, resigned.
4 writer on dress says: short and
podgv women should not wear belts.
Now what is the use of advice like that
Il tl,at .lt.4
short and podgy?'
Miss Ihling, niece Of Professor Wise,
of balloon fame, made an ascent alone IN
balloon last Monday from FairmOnnt
Park, Philadelphia, and when in the Vi
cinity of Germantown the air ship col
lapsed, severely injuring the lady i'll the
descent
An exchange says the potato bugs are
on the rampage. In this section the in
fernal things are OH the potatoes.
The Mormons have established branch
of their Church and a newspaper called
the Advcnturer at Clarksburg, West Nir-
ginia. The Paramount Index says:
There is quite number of this sect in
Warrington district, in this county, and
in the neighborhood of Shinnstone."
The Loudoun Enterprise says: ''The
wheat harvest is pretty well wound up in
Loudoun, and the general opinion of our
farmers is that there will be more wheat
made than last year. The corn is very
promising, and the hay has been greatly
improved by the late rains"
Lloyd Lowe, favorably known and res
pected as one of Cumberland's best citi-
zens. died there on the 18th ult., in the
Gath year of his age. In 1870 Mr.. Lower
was elected mayor of Cumberland over p.
Philip Roman,
Rev. Leonidas Rosser, of the NJ. E.
Church South, will conduct a protracted
revival meeting in Alexandria sometime
during the latter part of the month of
August.
Aman in Ohio has had his house set on
fire by tin milk pan. The pan was turn
ed bottom upward to dry, on the western
side of the house, and reflected the rays of
the sun against the Notwithstanding set
ting ii or fire. This is new incendia=
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