Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-04-24
Editorial Brevities.

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for fun, but after he ran several miles
and climbed a tree, with his pants about
all burned off. he concluded the sport
was little too violent exercise to De
INDUCED in oftener than once in a life
time.
A young lady in Indiana got up at
midnight, foddered the COWS, split
some wood and got the water on to
wash before she awoke. That's the
kind of a girl for man to marry.
Shed 90 ont Some nights and hoe two
acres Of potatoes
Adestruc;ive fire occutredin Charlotte,
n. C., yesterday destroying about three
thousand bales of cotton and the
depots of the North Carolina and Char
lotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad
Companies and a number OF private
residences. Loss about S25O,OOO;
about twothirds insured.
So numerous are the applications tor
divorces made " the Idaho Legislature
that bill has been introduced divorc-
ing all the married people in the Terri
tory, aud placing them in statu quo
ante matrimonium. The idea is that
those who wish may get married again.
A married man, hearing that the
eating of certain kinds OF animal food
would aid the same tissue of the human
body-as for instance calves brains
would nourish the eaters brains, or
beefs liver the eaters liver--immedi-
ately gave strict orders to his butcher
that no more tongue of any kind should
be sold to his wife or mother-in-law.
Oh!i woman, the true woman, see
ing in her sex the disposition to bicker,
to SANDER, would reprove by silence or
gentle rebuke, society would be based
upon higher principle, the atmosphere
of our homes would be purer, and lives
of mother, wife and daughter, would
breathe of the love that sis kind and
thinketh no evil =
A Danbury boy found a pockctbook
belonging to Mill Plane man, and
restored it to its owner, who gave him
five cent piece. The boy looked at
the coin an instant, and then handing it
reluctantly back, audibly sighed as he
said, 81 cant change it.
The world did not come to an eud
Monday night as confidently expected
by the saints of the Adventist dispense
ton in CHICAGO. 1t was great disap-
pointment, for they had their white
robes on and waited until nearly morn
ing for the glorious catastrophe.
Chicago evidently is not good place
to go to Heaven from.
Two of the most notable events to
occur in Virginia this year will be the
Inauguration of Valentine monument
to Lee at Lexington, when eX-President
Davis will deliver an address-and the
inauguration of Foley's statue of Stone
wall Jackson at Richmond, when it is
hoped Hon. Beresford Hope will be
present and give an unprejudced Eng
lishlnan's opinion of the great soldier.
Mrs C. L. Irwin, a highly-respected
young widow lady, of Hannibal, Mo-,
tied a clothes line around herself and
her little girl, six years old, and fas-
tened the other end TO stake in the
ground and taking the child in her
arms deliberately walked into Bear Creek
and both were drowned. Financial
embarrassment and disappointment ill
love is under stood to have been the
cause.
The legislature of Virginia has au-
thorized the city of Richmond to bor
row Sl,0OO,O00, to be used towards
completing the western connections of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad,
whose progress was suspended by the
panic of 1878.
A colored congregation in Dayton
have declined to forgive their clergy
man FOR betting on three card monte
and losing ninety dollars Of festival
money. One of the deacons remarked:
1--WE is human, and dc game is VERY
cnticing." .a. ...ar .f
Robson, who raised a check on the
Oldtown Bank of Baltimore from 800
to $500 and pleaded guilty, was yes
terday sentenced to the penitentiary for
two years. lie has already been in Jail
fifteen months. t a