Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-06-26
Editorial BreyitieS.


happiness
There are rumors, as yet traced TO no
authoritative source, of an approaching
compromise between the Baltimore and
Ohio and Pennsylvania companies.
Bishop Johns and other members of
the Episcopal Church have just had an
interesting ecclesiastical reunion at
Lower Brandon, on the James river.
A destructive rain storm passed over
large area of country on last Wednes
day. All the railroads centering in In
dianopolis, are damaged in the loss Of
bridges and culverts, and the country
inundated, damaging crops and fences.
Richmond, Indiana, Columbus, o., and
Louisville, Ky, suffered from the storm.
Joseph Kelly, blind pupil in the
Asylum at Romney, while bathing in
the river with some of his companions
few days ago, died while In the water
from paralysis. A negro man was also
drowned near the South Branch bridge,
in attempting to swim some mules
across the river.
AS the shadow of the sun is largest
when his beams are lowest. SO we are
always least when we make ourselves
the greatest.
A. S. Abel, of the Baltimore Sun is
the wealthiest newspaper man i'll the
United States and, probably, the world,
his wealth being estimated at from seven
to ten millions Of dollars.
The Baltimore and Potomac Railroad
Company have commenced laying a
double track the entire distance between
Washington and Baltimore.
A couple were married few days
ago in Shenandoah county, Va, the
groom eighty years Of age and the bride
only sweet sixty-nine.
The Lynchburg (Va) Republican says
4 gentleman i'll Amherst county, has
been offered by northern company
S45O,00O for his farm, on which there
is supposed to be both copper and iron.
A difficulty occurred one evening last
week between Col Mosby and II. =.
w. Garrett, on the train from Washing
ton to Alexandria, during which the lat
ter was struck, but not much hurt.
An official order has been made at
Berlin prohibiting the circulation of CO
pies of the Catholic Gazette Germany
of Baltimore for two years within the
boundaries of the German empire.
Tom Mcclellan, a notorious despera-
do, made famous by the tragic end OF
his counsel, Hon. G. l.. Nallandigham,
who lost his life in explaining some
points in the trial OF Mcclellan for the
murder of a man named Myers, was as
sassinatcd in his saloon at Hamilton,
Ohio, on Sunday night.
The Sultan OF Turkey has seven hun
bred wives; and yet it don't cost him q
cent for spring bonnets. lie makes
them 90 bareheaded, he does.
The publisher Of q weekly paper in
Illinois, prints in each issue chapter
of the Bible, and upon being rldiculed
for it by his contemporaries, reports edl
t3rially: ave publish nothing but what
is news to our readers"
The Washington National Republic
an receives about 100000 for publish
ing the delinquent tax list of the Dis
trict of Columbia, which appeared last
week and occupied APO columns.
The bounty system has set the people
of Minnesota so vigorously at work de
stroying erasshoppers that at Mankatc
1870 bushels were captured and burned
in one day.
Captain Joe Green was stabbed Will
a pair OF scissors in Newark, New Jcr
scy, last Tuesday night by Mrs. Murray
who accused him Of leading her hus
band to drink. Green died.
The manufacture of alligator leather
has become an important branch Of in
dustry. About 20,O00 skins are tanneC
every wear. These skins come chiefly
from Florida and Louisiana, and arc
exported to Europe and France.
Dispatches from various sections o.
the country report very heavy frost dur
mo last week. In the lower portions Of
New Jersey the frost was so heavy that
it could be scooped NJ in the hand, and
fruit and vegetables have been material
" injured. In New York, Pennsylva
MIA. Massachusetts, Maine and New
Hampshire the growing crops have been
damaged, but to what extent has not
been asccrtained.
The New York Tribune says "tho
indications, as they present themselves
to thinking men, are that the political
revolution will be consummated in 1876
and the democratic party will come into
power in the nation"
Winchester Circuit, NJ. E. Church
South will hold a Camp Meeting on the
old and popular ground, belonging to
w. S. Kline, Esq, commencing Friday
August 18th.
The centennial celebration of the bat
tie of Bunker Hill took place at
Boston Thursday. The procession
numbered thirty thousand men, repre-
senting military and civic organizations
from almost every part Of the country.
The Democratic State Convention of
Ohio, convened at Columbus OH Thurs
day last. 1t was the largest political
body that ever assembled in that State.
Gov. William Allen was enthusiastical-
" renominated for the Office of Cover