Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-05-15
Editorial BrevitieS.


counties, and Samuel N. Brown Chap
ter Lecturer for the Seventh Royal
Arch district.
Norwegian woman in Minnesota
lately gave birth TO four healthy babies,
while the husband stood in the next
room, slate in hand, mournfully chalk
ing them down as fast as they were re-
ported.
How sweet is perfect understanding
between man ard wife. He was to
smoke cigars when be wanted them,
but he was to give her 10 cents every
time he INDUCED in one. He kept his
word, and every time she got so cents
ahead he'd borrow it and buy cigars.
We notice from the proceedings OF
the Trustees of Berkeley Springs, on
Monday of last week, that Capt K.
BOYD Faulkner of Martinsburg was
unanimously recommended Trustee
in place of Mr.. Baker.
Married, in Washington, Delaware
Tanner, aged l6, and Hattie B. Deal,
aged II. They left home in hurry,
reached Washington only halfdressed,
had ter cents change to free the parson,
and returned,to their home in Culpep-
per, Va, muchthe worse for wear.
If the strike continues few weeks
more in the mining regions of Pennsyl-
vania, many of the merchants who have
credited the miners will be completely
bankrupt. The sheriff has their prop
erty ready to post, and it can only be
stopped by general resumption OF
work.
The 9th of June coming this year on
Sunday, the memorial services at Stone
wall Cemetery, Winchester, will take
place on Saturday, the 9Th, at the usual
hour in the morning
The Hon. Robert Y. Conrad died at
his residence in Winchester on Wednes-
day last, of typhoid pneumonia, in the
69th year of his age.
The Ohio democracy are preparing
for .heir State campaign. The State
convention will be held at Columbus,
June II, and will be followed by a
grand ratification meeting and glor6ca-
ton.
Rev. Henry NJ. White has accepted
a call to the pastorate of the Loundon
Street Presbyterian Church, Winches-
ter.
Willie Baker found small tin box
under the Lutheran Church, at Win
chester, containing $1,000. 1t was Con
fed. Poor boy!
Seventy-two years old-Mr. Mason
Carter, Of Clarke county. Heart dis
ease.
A minister of the Gospel for 10 years
Rev. Joseph Carson Of CulpePper.
Died at the age of ninety-one.
Several California ministers have
been prospecting near Carlins Spring,
in Fairfax county, Va, and are satisfied
that the gold deposit in the hills in
that neighborhood is rich enough to
warrant the expense of attempting to
mine it, at least i'll a small way.
The peach and apple buds may all be
frozen stiffer'n poker, and cherry
trees may be split into kindlin' wood
by the frost, but wont we have soda
water and ice cream left, and cant we
60 huckleburyn, said a street arab the
other evening.
News from Europe gives indications
greater than ever, of a threatened war
between France and Germany, which
may become general.
Hon. John w. Garrett, President of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, has
presented Col. George r. Dennis,
President of the Central National Bank
of Frederick, with handsome Alderny
calf e.
A french butcher who was on his
dcath-bed said to his wife: "If l die,
Frahcoise, you must marry our shop
boy. lie is good young man, and
tue business cannot be carried on with.
out man TO look after it," Il have
been thinking about that already said
his wife.
While the ladies of Oneida, New
York, were working at the polls for
the election of q no.license Board OF
Excise, one of them received the follow
ing note: "My dear wife: ! have wash
ed the baby, put her to bed and stirred
up the pancakes. What shall l do
next? Your loving husband" Such
a man is handy to have in any family,
especially one in which the female head
has taste tor politics.
The Cumberland News says: "The
shipments of coal by canal on Saturday
were up to those of the corresponding
day last year, when more companies
were shipping coal by the waterway.
The Oakland Gazette Gays that the
steam sawmill at Deer Park, belonging
to Messrs. Davis, known as mill No. !,
was burned, together with 100000 feet
of lumber, on Saturday last.
There were 10000 bushels of Yves
tern corn sold in Baltimore last Satur-
dav. nj A. ,
Tons Of postal cards, it is said, are
destroyed every month throughout the
United States, because the people write
their messages first and then forget to
address the card. Always write the
address first; then the card will be sure
to 90 whether the message is written
or not. .e,z