Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-05-08
Editorial lsrevitics.

Western papers say the cold weather
so late in the spring is a providential
interposition to kill off the grasshoppers
and the potato bugs, and to rid us of
other vermin.
A new postoffice is established at
Morton Grove, Morgan county, on the
route from Berkeley Springs to fingers
Store, with Isaac Speelman as post
master.
The West Virginia Editorial Asso-
citation will hold its next annual meet
ing in Piedmont, on the 3rd Thursday
in June next.
The State Medical Society meets at
Point Pleasant this month.
The Third Georgia regiment of Con
federate soldiers have agreed to hold
their next reunion at Portsmouth, Va,
where they were first encamped when
they came to Virginia. The 4th Of
August has been fixed upon as the
time.
Alas, alas! the garden sass we plant
ed out in rows. Caught by the snap.
the total crap was caught out on a
froze. The beans and greens and early
rose, the inguns, salsifa, alas, are not,
they've gone TO pot, but quite another
way.
Summer will pounce down upon us
one of these days in all her sweltering
fury. We're not a prophet, but that
we are an aspirant no one will doubt
after reading this.
To-day, from present appearances
will not be healthy day for pic-nlcs;
but the Charleston-ians will have jol-
ly one. But that is the land OF 'per-
ennial spring"
At a spelling bee in Pennsylvania,
the word "irreconcilable" was spelled
.'earwreck onsileabill, and the speller
still lives.
According to the Moorefeld Aduerti-
ser, Miss Mary Z. Baker, of Wardens-
vile, in Hardy county, can "drive the
centre" with rifle every time at from
twenty to forty yards.
Fashionable catechism just now
among the ladies la Ollendorf-"Have
you your spring bonnet? Have you the
plaid suit of your husbands mothers
choice"
Captain w. l.. Bridges was appoin-
ted Superintendent of the Penitentiary
at Moundsville, on Wednesday of last
week. Governor Jacobs gave the cas-
ting vote in his favor.
Judge Brooks and Deck recently, in
their respective charges to the grand
iuries in North Carolina, declared the
criminal features of the civil rights bill
unconstitutional, on the ground that no
law can declare that men are socially
equal.
A collision occurred on last Monday
on the Baltimore, d Potomac railroad,
near Washington, between passenger
trains. Fifteen passengers were injured
some of them seriously, two have died
since. The trains were a complete
wreck. A very handsome lady, blonde,
had all of her hair torn off her head by
the roots, and ran away from the scene
shrieking. She was met some distance
away and her head properly bandaged.
She was the only lady known to have
been seriously injured.
So at last the defense rests. Now
Ti,tou will rebut; then Beecher will re-
contradict; then Tilton will re-rebut,
and after little more contradiction,
probably the case will go to the jury
who will disagree.
That frst-class paper, the Richmond
Enquirer, says: The coming bonnet is
to have q hurricane deck and a bell
tower, and will also have signal light,
birds of paradise quail, and Weleh rab-
bits. Architects are planning higher
doors for its accommodation.
City Council meets on Monday next.