Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-10-16
Editorial Brcyifies.

At Strasburg, on Tuesday night, the
bars of the window of the depot were
broken through, and 5000 stolen, of
which s136 was the Adams express
Co.'S money, and the balance belonged
to the 3. q o. II. Il. Co.
The West Augusta Guard, of Staun-
ton, have determined to attend the cele
bration at Richmond, Va. They will
be accompanied by the Stonewall Bri
gade Band.
A number OF convicts at work upon
the w., G. & ST. L. Narrow Guage r.
r., near Monterey, attempted escape a
few nights ago, and guard by mistake
fired upon p B. Borst, Esq, President
of the road but FORUM ately without eff
feet.
Lord Grantley, one of the few surviv-
ing officers who had been present at the
battle of Waterloo, has just died in the
SOth year of his age. An old gentle
man by the name of Miller long resi-
dent of Berkeley county, but now living
in the West, hale and hearty, is sur
yivor of that memorable battle.
A bankers daughter has created So
cial sensation at Sedalia, Wis, by mar
rying sightless music teacher. Her
love was blind.
A young lady asked a book, store
clerk, the other day, if he had "Festus."
"No." replied the clerk, "but I'm afraid
a boil Is coming on the back of my
neck"
AT Lawrence, Mass, Saturday night,
Bernard Bradley, while drunk, beat his
wife over the head with bottle. and
then poured boiling water over her.
She cannot recover. Bradley was ar
rested.
Charles Ehring, tailor, at Railway,
N. j., attempted to commit suicide by
stabbing himself nineteen times in the
head and five times in the breast. He
then tried to hang himself with sus-
pender, but was prevented by the police
and locked up. He was under the in
huence OF liquor at the Time.
An Illinois physician, having success
fully removed one half of a lady patients
tongue, has been overwhelmed with ap-
plications from suffering husbands for
miles around to operate upon their
wives. We know some men that ought
to be operated upon, for they have very
unruly members.
Two dead babies, or their remains
were found in a house from which q
family lett recently, at. Martin Ferry
near Wheeling, and now there is troub-
lie and scandal enough in that commrni-
ty to last six months.
A despatch from Columbus, Ohio,
under date of October Z, states that the
Hog disease is playing sad havoc in that
neighborhood. The number that have
died within a month in the county is
estimated at 5000.
The Winchester manufactures are
running to their full capacity, having
more orders than they can fill.
Grant and JEFF Davis were In St Lou
is the other day at the same time. A
local paper complains rather because
they didn't shake fists.
On Friday night John Archibald, a
well-known citizen of Wheeling w.
Va, was found lying dead on the track
of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, his
body being badly mangled.
Alfred Caldwell Esq, democrat, was
elected on Thursday last in the Wheel
ing State Senatorial district, to gil the
unexpired term of the late Gen. PannelI.
He was opposed by Mr.. Wilson an in
dependent democratic candidate.
On Friday lrst the large estate OF
Col. Benjamin Morgan, lying near the
Shenandoah river in Clarke county, Va,
was sold and the sale of the whole
amounted to $35,672,l2.
The epizootic has made its appear
ance among the mules on the Chesa-
peake ard Ohio Canal, and number Of
the animals are disabled thereby.