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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-05-27

Procure your tickets, this morning,
pack your baskets, and take your wife
and little ones to the Schuetzen picnic.
In the early part Of the day, you can roam
about the beautiful grounds; and in the
afternoon and evening, Professor Buchar,
with his full band, will put you in the
hnmor to "trip the light fastastic." An
other feature will be attached to the
Schuetzen Verein picnic, which is to be
had at the platz to-day. A tip-top bar
becue will be served-such ns to tempt
the declining appetite of an invalid or
satisfy the cravings of n cormorant-
There will be no additional charge for
this additional feast-which is sufficient
guarantee of large attendance. Re-
member, So gives you all tho privileges
of the dancing hall, tho promenade
grounds and the full tables.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-04-17
g SATURDAY APRIL H. 1875 NEW VOL To-
The devil was opposed to that law, and

The devil was opposed to thst law, and
has been to all prohibitory laws, wheth-
er human or divine, ever since. He
procured the violation of the law, and
there is not much doubt but that he will
do all in his power to prevent the pas
sage or enforcement Of all other pro-
hibitory laws. Again, from the throne
of the Eternal, amid thundsrings and
lightninss, from the summit OF smoking
Sinai, another prohihitory law was pro-
mulgatcd, the object of which was to
check the vices and increase the virtues
of the human family. But that law has
been violated, every day of every year,
from the hour of its enactment TO tho
present. But is the law failure 7
Shall we repeal it, if We could, and
regulate by license the sins it prohibi.sr
"The law prohibits the sale Of what.
ever is recognized as productive Of
sickness and death. But all the dis
eased meat, and fish, aud vegetables
which have been offered for sale since
the day Adam was turned out Of Eden,
down TO the present hour, would not
have produced as much sickness ard
death, rs much misery and woe; as the
use OF Intoxicating liquors, as bower
age, has produced in one year
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-04-17
L HAVE LOVED THEEFONDLY.

Ihave loved thee fondly, truly,
With all my trusting heart,
And, like dove in search of rest,
Have wandered where thou art.
I've fingered round thee day by day,
Till, by thy hands caressed,
I've laid my weary aching head
Upon thy loving breast.
But now my dream Of love is Ger,
Its memories bright are past,
And recollection but recalls
The scenes that could not last;
Like snow-fakes, which descend
They melted one by one,
And disappeared like drops Of dew
Before the morning sun.
I would not cast reproach upon
That faithless heart Of thine,
For conscience must give pangs more
keen,
Than burning words Of mine;
And, as the hand of Time engraves
Its burrows on our brows,
May mem'ry bring before thy view
Thy false and perjured vows!
No, mol would not have thee think
That I a thought would cast
Upon the happy scenes of your,
Now buried in the past;
For, though I loved thee once, yet now
/ tear thee from my heart;
And to their fountain backward send
The burning tears that start.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-04-17
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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-04-17

BOUND TO SING.-Brother Glover
was pretty big man in cerain old
Connecticut village. He would sware
a little sometimes, but when he sub
scribed FIVE hundred dollars toward re-
building and reftting the old church,
that special act of charity covered a
multitude of sins.
Brother Glover had a big voice.
There was no time, tone or tune in il,
but he beloved as he pleased in church
singing. When the new church was
finished it had to be dedicated, and a
choir was carefully trained to do the
singing Brother Glover was TO rule
him out of the vocal exercises.
The choir had carefully rehearsed a
new dedicatory hymn, & everything
was ready for the interesting ceremo-
nies. The church was crowded, and
Brother Glover was in his place in a
front pew, as large as life. The new
piece was struck up, and Brother Clio
yer's voice rose loud above the organ.
There was a pause. The organ and
choir were mute and the latter mad.
The minister looking at a fly on the
ceiling, explained that it was new
piece which the choir alone had prac-
ticed, and requested the congregation
to join in the singing.
The piece was recommended, and
again Brother Glover's big voice broke
it up. The preacher then fixed his
eyes on Brother Glover and requested
him to keep silent during the perfor-
nance of the new piece, which he did
not understand, and Brother Glover,
looking at his beloved pastor with his
big round eyes, replied in big voice:
"Look-a-here, Mr.. Barnhart, paid
five hundred dollars towards repairing
this darned old gosple box and by
thunder / will sing.
The preacher gave up, and so did
the choir.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-04-17

A DISCOUNT IN TRApE.-A few years
since, one of the Boston divines was
called upon to unite a jolly old couple
in the bonds of matrimony, and just as
they were pronounced man and wife
another couple entered to be joined
likewise. The moment the two latter
entered they were somewhat surprised
at seeing the divine receive the splendid
ransom of new bright halt-dolar from
the hands ofthe bridegroom. Our emf
nent divine Immediately thrust the
money into his pocket, then congratu-
lating the happy pair, bade them adieu,
and at once commenced his duties in
performing the marriage rite for the
remaining couple. Being pronounced
man and wife, the youthful husband
thrust his hand into his pocket and
pulled out at the very same moment,
an equally bright half-dollar, and pre-
septed it to the divine, whereupon the
GOOD man looked with profound aston
ishment on the Insignificant amount and
remarked:
"My customary fec on such occasions
is FIVE dollars"
"You married the last old couple,
said the indignant bridegroom, 'for
fifty cents, and now you dare tax me
ten times that amount, merely because
we are a young couple" The good
divine, placing his g lasses several inches
above his nose looked tie young man
full in the face and said:
81 have never married you but this
once, while 1 haze married the former
man five times and on such occasions
duty demands liberal discount to the
tradel" Suffice it to say the remaining
four dollars and half were forth-com-
ing, aud, with smile, the bride and
bridegroom took the nearest way to
the door.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-04-17

DoN'T SwARE Boys, don't sware.
If your kite won't fly; if Charley hits
you too hard with the ball, or you hap
pen to lose your place in the class at
the school, don't use bad words. il
will not help the matter one bit to dc
so.
When anything goes wrong at work
or play, when anything happens, to vex
or annoy you, watch your temper and
don't sware.
Some boys and young men too, we
fear, think it manly, and shows "spirit
or .'smartness' to sware, but that is a
very great mistake. To be sure, some
very estimable persons will occasionally
make use of profane language, but they
lack that much (and it is a great deal, }
of being true gentlemen.
A gentleman hearing young man
sware in most fearful manner, said 10
him, 81 will give you ten dollars if you
go TO the graveyard tonight at The hour
of one, there repeat the words you have
just now used, when you are alone with
God" The young man accepted the
offer, and repaired to the graveyard at
the hour appointed; but the words
"alone with God" struck such terror tc
his soul that he could not utter word
He returned to the gentleman, and con-
fessed all. This little incident shows
that man may be coward although
he can sware.
Swearing is very poor recommends
tion for any one, unless it be to 'roughs'
or "off.scourings" of society, and we
hope that none of our young reader,
will ever decend so low as that.
God himself has said, that He evil
not hold him gultless that taketh Iii:
name in vain" and it is fearful thing
to fall into the hands of the living God
Good UW.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-04-17
An Astounding Discovery.

An unfortunate luratic who died IN
the Prestwitch Asylum on September
Is, seemed to have lived "not wisely
but too we'll" A post-mortem exam:na-
ton led to the discovery of no fewer
than 1,S41 articles in his inside, namely,
1880 shoemakers sparables, six four
inch cut-nails, nineteen three inch cut
nails, eight two and-a-half inch cnt-n.
eighteen two-inch cut nails, forty y"
inch cut nails, nine three quarte
cut nails. thirtynine tacks, five D..-
nails, eight brass brace buttons, twenty
pieces Of buckles, one pin, four'
bites of glass, ten small pebbles, TO,
pieces of string, one piece of leather
three inches long, one piece of lead
four inches long, and one American peg
eing awl, the total weight being eleven
pounds and ten ounces. 1t seems strange
that any mans state of mind should be
such that he could take as much pleas
ure in eating the contents of rag and
bottle shop as of butchers or a pastry
cooks establishment; but the story
shows that if, as is often alleged, the
equilibrium of the mind is to great
extent dependent upon the digestion,
so the converse is true, and the appe-
tite is, more than we are aware OF, de-
pendent on the condition of the brain.
This poor lunatic, who gormandized on
rusty nails, broken glass and other rub
bish, was probably little more mad than
many other persons who habitually eat
food, il not "unft for human consump-
ton" at least so injurious to the constl-
tuition, that it causes premature death.
If an alderman, for instance, were in
his right sences, he would not live on
turtle and punch; it is because he is
guided by appetite rather than by rea-
s Son that he is SO often afflicted by gout
and dies, universally respected on
doubts but still before his time. The
guests at any large dinner party areas 8
rule, equally ''crazed." They do not as
rule, swallow their knives and forks, or
feed in quite such an extravagent
fashion as the Pastwitch lunatic, but the
difference between them in the manner
of sanity as regards their appetites and
diet is a mere question OF degree.-PoH
Mall Gazette.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-04-17

MADAME LIE VERr.-She is already a
historic figure in Washington city, as
was her father before her. Her grand
father, George Walton, signed the Dec
laration of Independence, married the
daughter of an English nobleman, was
Governor of Georgia, and millionaire.
Her father, Colonel Walton, succeeded
General Jackson as Governor of Florida.
He was handsome, accomplished and
noble, and lost his fortune by endorsing
for his friends. He spent many OF his
latter years in Washington; genial, full
of anecdote, sunshiny to the end, never
arraigning the tickle world that so quick
ly forgot him and that he 80 long
adorned. His daughter, Octavia Wal
ton, was born at Pensacola while her
father was Governor of Florida. In
early youth she accompanied her father
to ashington, and became famous
belle of successive administrations. She
married DR.. Pierre lie Vert, OF Mobile,
and as a young wife accompanied her
husband to Europe She was favorte
at the Court of Victoria, winning the
personal friendship Of the Queen. AL
though Protestant, she received the
blessing of the Pope at the Vatican,
She spent years abroad, and her "Sou-
venirs of Travel are graceful record
of European life. For many years her
home in Mobile was the centre OF the
most generous and elegant hospitality.
She entertained there many OF her Euro
pean friends. Lady Emmeline Wortley,
in her "Notes on American Life" makes
special mention Of her visit at the beau
tiful home of DR.. and Madame lie Vert.
She, beyond question. is socially and
personally the most famous woman the
South has yet produced. Never pro
found, she is simply marvellous in her
grace, versatility, and in an outlaying
radiance of being which neither time
nor misfortune has found possible to di-
minish. The Madame LIE Vert who en-
tered the title and distinguished in her
Southeran home, and who, till the first
year Of the war, gave grand levees to
the wealth and fashion of New York,
wherein she would carry on sparkling
conversation in halfa dozen languages
at the same time, and the Madame lie
Vert of to-day, "penniles', no longer
young, trudging over the long spaces
of the Capital on the little feet that, till
of late never had need TO touch the
ground, an umbrella for staff, and her
pockets full of tickets, that are to earn
her bread, are one and the same. Moth
ing could be more changed than the
condition of her LOT, while she is utterly
unchanged, urdimed, loving, enthusias
tic, ever delightful. 81 saw you list up
your little finger to stop a car, said
her friend, Mrs Paran Steven, to her
not long since. "As you got into the
car, yon smiled as if you were perfectly
happy, and l asked myself what in the
world does she find to smile about-this
woman who has lost fortune, friends,
everything that makes life delightful.
Tell me, want to know. Were you
as happy as you looked1 1t seems i'm
possible"
81 was" said the little lady, Gust as
happy as looked. 1t was 40 delight
full to have Just FIVE cents left to take
me home in car"
Is not such a nature the fortune be-
yond price, after all,
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-04-17
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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-04-17

WAITING FOR DINNER When tho
Union Pacific Railroad was finished
and the cars commenced running, there
was a lofty feeling among the pecple'ot
Omaha 1t was to be the biggest city
ont side of the planet Neptune. and
they wanted everything--theatres,
operas, circuses, dog fights, aud bull
rings. There were restaurants at vari-
GUS corners, but "Le Grande Restau-
rants" was on the "Euro-p.G ma plan
and conducted in high style. The best
walters at hand were produced, not all
from Ia bella France, but there was a
mixture of red, black, and '.yellow bor-
der ruilian."
A gooi-looking stranger, with stamps
to invest, stopped over at Omaha ooe
night. He went to the "grande" eating
house. "Can you bring me good din
ner.'
Waiter-Yaas, sir. What lee haavof'
Gnest-"Haye you roas, besil'
''Yaas"
"Bring me n feast for one, with
boiled potatoes, coliflower, cold baked
beans. and pint of claret.'
"Yaas, sir; all right.
The guest waited twenty minuets,
and became impatient. He cried out,
"Waiter, where's my dinncrf
"On zee stove. bakin."
"What's on the stove, bakingf
"Roas beef, sar; finest beef ever see;
sixteen pound piece, out Of that ar tear
rifllick bull"
"Whati"
"Out of ecr Texas bull, what cum
down roarin, Tuesday, and was shot.
Thaim's his harms J
The stranger looked mp, and over the
doorway, sure enough, were pair OF
s,ubbed horns, on which he counted
thirteen rings.
"Oh!" said he, "ycsl got it on, eh--'
all roasting, nice'"
"Yaas," said the waiter.
"Tben," said the stranger, "I'll takb
the train for Chicago, and return next
week, Thursday. | am going over 10
get my teeth set-havc il all ready and
hot when | return"
Waitcr-"Yaas, sar; I'll DO ready
and hot"
"Farewell, and forever farewell" !"
said the stranger, grating his teeth,
and casting bas,y glance at the stub
bed horns Of the ''iearrilllick bull" lie
didn't locate any lots in Omnha.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-04-17

A young lady of Bellarat, England,
about contemplating matrimony, was
asked by her friends what kind of wed
ding presents she would like, and re-
piled that she preferred useful to
ornamental ones. Her wedding journey
con sisted in going from the house of
her parents to cottage in the vicinity,
and upon arriving thre she found a bar
rel of flour, a jar Of butter, complete
set of cooking utensils, "a piece of merton,
a set of crockery ware knives, forks,
spoons and glassware, enough household
groceries to last six months, and a
years ent for the cottage, with two
fI0 notes pinned TO paper, or which
was written, 'to purchase something use
full" Was not this the right kind of
utilitarianism for a young couple of
limited means, about starting out upon
their matrimonial career, and was it not
more beautiful than duplicate plated
fish-knives, and other trash usually
given upon like occasions.
Tba oy;oinal oreopbscks-frooss
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-04-17
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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-04-17

An old lady was recently inquiring
the way to third story room in the
Moffat building, when man pointed
down the ball and said: ''There's the
elevator. Good sakesl' she exclsim-
ed, giving a sudden start, Il had a bro
ther bit in two by one O. them alligators,
and don't want to go poking around
here if that reptile is loos."
The colored people af Winchester, at
mass meeting few days ago, under
the auspices of the Grant and Wilson
club, passed resolutions relative to the
civil rights bill, indicating that they
had no design TO be intrusive, though
valuing their rights, and desire TO live
in peace and harmony with the whites.
This is the proper spirit.
D. Al
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-04-17

TnE YANKEE OuTwIrTEp. "A Yam
kee and Frcnchman owned pig in
copartnership. When killing time came,
they wished TO divide the nest The
Yankee was very anxious TO divide 20
that he would get both hind quarters,
and persuaded the Frcnchman thst the
proper way to divide wss to cut IL
across the back. The Frenchmsn
agreed to il on condition that the Yam
kee would turn his back and take choice
of the pieces after it was cnt in two.
The Yankee turned his back, and the
Freuchman asked
"Vich piece will you hayc--zs piece
wild &c tail on him, or 20 pieco vat amt
git no tail!"
"The piece with the tall replied the
Yankee.
Den, by gar, you can take him along,
and take &c oder one, said the pleas
ed FrencbmaD.
Upon turning around, tho Yankee
found that the Freucbman had cut of
the tail, and stuck it into the pigs mouth.