Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-08-28

The army worm has made Its appear
ance in Mineral county, and is playing
havoc with the oats fields.
Mr.. Horace Holman, an old and res
pected citizen of Williamsport, fell dead
upon the street in that town on last
Monday, of heart disease.
James Milholland, formerly Presi-
dent of the Consolidation Coal Compa-
ny of Allegheny county, but lately a
prominent citizen Of Reading Pa, died
last week at the age Of sixty-three.
Edwin Booth, the great tragedian,
was thrown from his carriage, Monday,
in New York, and seriously injured.
DIR. Benjamin Taliaferro, a. young
and promising physician of Amherst
county, was drowned on Friday even
ing in shallow creek near his resi-
depce.
Dispatches from the West state that
heavy frosts have prevailed in that sec
ton during the pas. few nights, doing
great damage to corn, tobacco and 9TH
er unripe crops
At the Races at Rochester, n. Y, on
Saturday the renowned trotting mare,
Goldsmith Maid was beaten by another
called Lulie. Time 2:15 l-2
James V. Weir, of Clark county, re-
allied 900 bushels of wheat from 10
acres, over "a bushels 10 the acre. He
used phosphate at the rate of 200 bush
els to the acre.
The only thing that will discourage a
California flea is sledge hammer blow
on the head, but he is ready for bust
ness the next day.
The Kuklux are committing numer-
GUS murders in Illinois, with Sheridan 4
thousand miles away and not afraid.
Said a doctor to young girl, who
was consulting him, "You need little
sun and air." The girl blushed and
said she guessed "she would wait until
she got married"
General Pickett's life was insured for
$4,000.
An exchange says that "pull back
dresses have this good effect: "They
do not permit the girl to kick" One of
our compositors says he hopes the fash
ion will hang on till he can get around,
as be.never waited OH girl yet that
did not kick him.
The LOO Mormon recruits lately
passing through Chicago are described
as "dirty, ragged, and mostly middle
aged men and homely women" Brig
ham is so depressed in consequence
that it is thought he will not revive
until an improved lot arrives.
Rev. DR.. r. II. McKim, rector of
Christ Church in Alexandria, has de-
clined the call he lately received to the
rectorship of Holy Trinity Church,
Harlem, New York.
Gen. Jubal A. Early is in Warrenton,
and the guest OF Gen. Fitz Lee and
family took rooms at the Fauqusre
Spring last week.
Sunday morning James Burns, who
had worked in the mines of the North
Branch Coal Company, near Blooming
ton, was found dead on the railroad
track near Swanton, having been run
over Ly a train. When last seen he
was intoxicated, and it is supposed that
he laid down on the railroad track and
fell asleep.
Capt. Kenny, B. & o. Railroad
Agent at Piedmont, has moved 10 Key
ser, and the Tribune accepts the fact as
a harbinger of the early transfer of
much of the railroad business from
Piedmont TO that place.
The young lady, Miss Alice Morris
sey, who was SO badly burned in Cum
oerland last week, by the explosion Of
a coal oil can from which she was pour
ing oil, died the next day.
Roger A. Pryor has the reputation
of being the first gentleman at Saratoga
for fine courtesy and attention to the
ladies.
A Boston dispatch announces the
fact that a new National party has
been formed in Massachusetts with
General N. P. Banks as President, and
L. Q. c.. Lamar, of Mississippi, as
Vice President. The resolutions
adopted, declare both the Republican
and Democratic party to be too parti-
ian, but the platform generally express
es pretty good Democratic doctrine.
The Washington Star says /: The
Postoffice Department is prepared to
issue postal cards of the new design.
Postmasters are prohibited from ex-
changing the new for the old style
cards that may have been INSTRUCTED
or spoiled in printing, and it will be
useless TO apply to the department for
exchange or redemption.
1t is said that the late Andrew John
son was a strong advocate of imitation,
and that he had intended taking the
stump in Ohio in that behalf this tall.
There reside in Georgetown, Beaver
county, Pa, family consisting of ia
Their, mother and six children, all of
whom were born aud still continue deaf
and dumb. The parents were educa-
ted in a deaf and dumb asylum, and are
said 10 be intelligent. The father is at
present engaged in the shoelnaking bu-
siness, aud is educating bis children at
the institution which he and his wife
attended many years ago.