Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-05-29
Editorial BrcYifics.

ing bis wife, and the job was so well
done that he hasn't been able to split
wood for four weeks.
We learn from the Piedmont Inde-
pendent that very interesting son of
Mr.. Jno. II. Steger, aged eight years,
was run over in attempting to cross the
track at that place on last Saturday, and
so horribly mangled that he died in a
short time.
There was disastrous fire at Waco,
Texas, Tuesday. A hotel and several
stores were burned. Loss $135,000;
insurance $4,000.
The New York Herald has a report
that Mr.. Bcecher intends paying visit
to the Holy Land next year.
Twenty-Five buildings were destroyed
by the fire at Lexington, Sunday. The
total loss is about 100000. most of
which is uninsured.
Mr. John Hall, OF the canal boat
Adam Norris, was drowned in the canal,
Dear Cumberland, on Wednesday last,
while endeavoring to save his mules
that had fallen into the canal. One Of
the mules was also drowned.
The new Augusta National Bank,
Stanton, Judge IL. w. Shetfty, presi-
dent, n. L. Catlett, cashier, and ID. e..
McGuffin, teller, Will commence opera
ton on Monday morning next.
A woman in Raleigh insanely be-
lieved that she was juryman in the
Deecher trial, and went right off and
hanged herself.
Mrs. Gaskins, of Carteret county,
North Carolina, weighs GAO pounds,
aud one Ter stockings can hold bushel
of shelled corn.
Tessimqn4 IL the Beesssr t ana Was sns
case is now being argued by counsel.
The wheat in Botetourt county is
looking well and farmers spirits are up.
A Harrisonburg merchant is paying
25 cents per hundred for potatoe bugs.
The mining troubles and outrages
still. continue in Pennsylvania. The
strikers still adhere to their determine
lion not to work unless their demands
for higher wages are complied with.
Judge Jeremiah S. Black will deliver
the Grafton at the unwilling of the bust
Of the late Bishop Campbell, at Bethany
college, West Virginia, in June next.
The supreme Court OF Louisiana has
given Judgment, with $4,000 damages,
against Samuel Hastings, druggist,
whose clerk made a mistake IN prepar-
ing a prescription, and which caused
the death of Mrs. McCubbin.
The Milwaukee Sentinel says that OF
the eighteen men who have occupied
tho presidential chair, twelve have been
LAWYERS. FIVE soldiers and one states
man The honor of being the last
named is given to James Madison.
Seven brothers and sister were buried
at the same funeral at Sandlake, near
TROY, New York, one day last week.
They all died of diptheria.
The democrats carried the city OF
Cumberland, on last Monday in the
election of municipal officers, carrying
four out of the six wards, giving them
majority of two in the council.
Mrs Senator Sumner that was is, 1t
is stated, soon to be Mrs. Henry Jones
that is Jones is a clerk IN the New
York custom house.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad
COMPANY on Tuesday last paid over to
the State Treasury of Maryland the sum
of s424, 239.S1 under the Judgment OF
the United States supreme court.
Memorial services at "Stonewall
Cemetery" Winchester, will take place
at 1880 A. NJ. on Saturday, June 9th.
Charles Bodmann, native of Ha-
perstowu, Nd, and founder OF the Bod
mann leaf tobacco establishment, In
Cincinnati, died in that city OIL Monday.
His life was insured for 100000.
General Banditti Sheridan will be
married to Miss Rucker early next
month. The occasion will be graced
by His Excellency and Mrs. Grant.
The Governor of Missouri has desig,
mated June 3rd as day OF fasting and
prayer because of the threatened grass
hopper plague and the consequent des-
truction Of crops and possible famine
w. T. Williams, Commissioner, sold
700 acres of Mountain land in Powell S
Fort, Warren county, Va, last Satnr-
day, to VIM. Boyers at $l.35 per acre.
"Elder Randall, Chief of Sinners,
as be styles himself, is nightly holding
forth to the citizens of Wheeling. The
Wheeling papers give him a good
"hist"
Wheat crops in great Britain during
the last nine years have yielded, it is
asserted, on an avarage twenty-nine and
q half bushels per acre.
If the staff be crooked, the shadow
cannot be straight.
Circuses have to pay license tax OF
$1,000 per day for exhibiting in North
Carolina. This was adopted by the
Legislature as reform measure. The
members counted on paying the State
debt by this circuitous means until
it was found the clown would not come