Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-07-10
Editorial Brevities.

Passenger fares to the West o'ei 'i'
Baltimore and Ohio and Pennsylvania
Railroads were last week advanced W
the old rates. Let's have another War'
McCulloch, the eminent American
political economist, says forty millions
OF Frenchmen will subsist on that
which forty millions of Americans VIII
throw away.
Thirty two car loads of watermeions
passed through Atlanta, Ga, Yesterday
enroute from the highlands OF FLORIDA
to Chicago. A delegation OF thirty
one Floridians go with them to make
permanent arrangements tor trade 10
and from the Northwest.
The Valley Virginian learns from the
farmers that the prospects for an unuS-
ual yield of wheat in that section-afe
very ffattering. The heads are hnely
filed and the grains large and plump;
The corn is also in fire condition ana
should the month Of August prove as
seasonable as June, the crop Will be
large.
The Page Courier says: 1.-THE har-
vest is, in great measure, over IN TINS
county, and from conversation with
some of our most successful farmers we
learn that the quality of the wheat this
year is first class-unsurpassed. The
yield, too, is very good-much better
than the most sanguine anticipated some
weeks ago"
The Fredericksburg Herald says:
Gan old shocker in the vicinity of the
Hague, Westmoreland, county, who
has been accustomed to handle grain
for twenty-five or thirty years past, says
he never saw heavier wheat than that
which he has handled this season.
Willie Wolf, aged six years, stoleE
from his home in Scranton, Pa, some
months since, has been found at Maha-
noy City, i'll charge of an intoxicated
woman.
Accounts from numerous points in
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Ne
braska, Iowa, Missouri, and Southern
Illinois state that the storm which passed
over those sections from Saturday till
Monday night killed much live stock,
tore down barns and houses, inundated
whole farms and injured crops to large
| extent.
The Cumberland News states that
Hon. S. b. Elkins, of New Mexico, who
lately married Miss Halle, daughter OF
Hon. H. G Davis, has been renomina-
ted by the Republicans as delegate in
Congress for that territory.
General Sherman is a grandfather.
The dispatch read, "Minnie has son.
She is doing we'll" Tecumseh is almost
as happy as if he were burning Atlanta
or Columbia"
c. Suthard of Berkeley county was
arrested last week upon the charge OF
having committed rape upon tho per-
son OF little daughter OF Mr.. Lewis
Sencindiver's. Suthard was discharged
by the Justices who held the eXamina-
ton upon the ground ofinsutlicient testi
mony.
An old lady in New York particular
ly desired that certain cushion on
which she sat in church should be
buried with her, and as it was difficult
in getting it into her coffin, it Was
luckily proposed to cut it when several
\ Thousand dollars j. green backs came to
light. me old lady was clearly resolv
ed that if she did bring nothing into the
world, she would at all events, as far as
possible, take something out of it.
Hereafter Postmasters will have to be
very careful about money packages re-
ceived by them. A package valued at
5000 was recently sent to the Boston
Office and was lost. Mr.. Burt, the post
master, wrote to the Department to
know what to do about it. He received
reply that it had been decided that
Postmasters were responsible in such
cases, and he must charge it against
himself in his next account.
Two fendish attempts have been
made lately in Wheeling, by two ras-
Gals to murder man oy the name of
Defrabaugh.
Rev. DR. Hoge, Of Richmond, has
been appointed one Of the delegates
from the Southern church to the Coun-
Gil of the Presbyterian Confederation to
be held in London July 2lst.
Twenty-four States are Democratic
and eleven Republican, as represented
by their delegations in the next Con
gress. A few years more and the Dem
ocrats will have the Senate.
TIE GRAssnorrER PlAGUE.-In ad-