Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-05-01
Editorial Br-evities.


gong in small hotel.
A Rhode Island woman says that
she'd rather have the nightmare seven
straight nights than tell her husband
that the four-barrel is empty.
Captain John w. Heard, an esteemed
citizen of Frederick, Gied on Tuesday
last, aged SO years.
The agricultural hall tor the Centen-
NAL Exposition at Philadelphia cover"
ten acres.
The Practical Farmer says six quarts
to the acre of clover seed is the proper
quantity to be sown.
A Covington lady started Matrlmo
NAL Intelligence Office recently, and
managed to marry herself to the first
one that applied, and then the ONCE
closed.
Nevada brides wont stand much of
foolishness at a wedding. Recently
one of them, while going up the aisle OF
the church, stopped short and kicked the
skin off the shins Of a groomsman who
trod on her trail.
The Presbytery of New Castle, Del,
has rejected the overture from the Gen
eral Assembly concerning rotary elder
ship in the Presbyterian Chuic Oh, by a
vote of 46 to IA.
The Postoffioe Department yesterday
ordered postal car service on the entire
length of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road extension from Grafton, w. Va,
to Chicago.
The Indiana Methodist Episcopal
Conference lately decided against Ii.
censing women to preach, on the ground
that discipline and usage forbid it.
A prosperous merchant has for his
motto; 'Early to bed aud early to rise,
never get tight, and advertise"
A policeman in Lynchburg drew one
fifth of the fifty thousand dollar prize
in the Greensboro lottery.
1t is said that Gen. Grant will make
his Western visit next week. He will
90 to St. Louis and look after his stock
farm near that city, for the purpose OF
selecting some cattle and horses for his
recently purchased farm in Prince
Georges county, Md.
AT the last spelling bee in Hagers-
town, last Friday night, DIR. Ilarman
was declared the victor and received
a gold pencil and pen holder.
Miss Jennie Keller, lately resident
Of Hagerstown, died in Funkstown last
Saturday.
The Hagerstown News says that
Mrs. Josephine f. Reese, of West
minister, daughter of the late Commo-
dore Foote, is building an elegant cot
tage in Hagerstown, to be used as q
summer residence.
Mrs. Kitty Herr, half-sister to the
widow OF the late Abraham Lincoln,
died suddenly OF heart disease, at the
residence of her husband in Jefferson
county, Ky, last Sunday.
Tho Cumberland Daily News says
four or five inches of snow fell at Frost
burg on Saturday, two inches at Pied
mont, and slight falls are reported at
other places.
What an eventful month, April!
Lexington and Concord fight i'll the
last century, Fort Sumpter fired upon
in the present, Lincoln's call for S,-
600 men, Richmond fell, Lee surrender
ed, Anderson again in command OF
Sumpter, President Lincoln assassina-
ted. All in the month Of April.
Young shad are being caught in the
Kanawha river They are supposed to
be the progeny of the two million that
were placed in the Few River, about
two years ago, from the Alexandria
hatchery.
J.F. Welshans, ofthe firm of Rick
ard & Welshans, is now IN the city
purchasing Spring Goods.
. The Catholic Church in Boonsboro
is for sale. 1t has been offered to the
Episcopalians, but owing to their weak
ness, financially, the offer has been re-
jected.
Henry Young, n soldier of the war of
1912, died in Winchester, Va, on
Wednesday of last week, aged "a.
William Henry says he wonders if it
is so in all cases. Before they were
married the billet doux were very sweet
indeed, but now it is Billy do this and
Billy do that, aud there is nothing
sweet about it.
Said a colored Georgia preacher:
"Dar's Robin and stealth all around.
Oars de Beecher business, de Wood
hull business, Summer is dead, lorna
does come whoopin' around, de Freed
mans Bank has busted, and it pears
as if de end was nigh, mighty clus at
hand"
The Hon. Daniel w. Voorhees, re-
ceived the rite of confirmation in the
! Episcopal church at Terre Haute, Ind,
on Sunday last
MARRIAGE AND DEAr1L-On the ev-
ening OF March 30th, Mr.. John +.