Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-08-28
Editorial BreYities.


Hudson River Hospital for the Insane.
Congressman Chester w. Chaplin, Of
Springfield, Mass, was formerly stage
driver, and is said now to be worth
S1O,OOO,OOO.
Pete Diggs, negro of Fauquier
county, Va, beat his son to death last
week. He was arrested and lodged in
Jail. He says he is not going to spend
anything to get clear, and declares that
he sought to be hung, as both his broth
ers were.
A well known wealthy married man
by the name of Hates, of Philadelphia,
was arrested last week for a most fend-
ish assault on a young lady named
Pemberton whom he seduced when
only Is years old. She recently attend
ed picnic without his permission, and
for this he poured oil of vitriol all over
her and beat her in most brutal man
ner
Several cases of Inflammation Of the
feet, caused by the wearing Of socks
with orange red stripes, is reported. 1t
is supposed that the poisonous dye used
is corallina. The color is pretty and
fashionable, hence, if the report is cor
rect numerous cases of feet poisoning
may be imminent.
The Republicans of Ohio are trying
to keep up the game Of Drag but it will
not avail. All the reliable indications
are in favor of Billy Allen.
Gen. Joe Johnson's name is mentioned
as a good candidate for Governor of
Georgia.
1t is declared to be good ground OF
divorce for woman to tie her husband
to a gate-post during thunderstorm,
with patent lightning rod hitcbed to
his spinal column.
The old maids in Athens, Ga, recent
ly met in convention and resolved that
the Legislature ought to make it apen-
al offence for any widow to marry
again.
Atlanta, Ga, ism a very large city,
to be sure but it's large enough to
support hundred and thirty-fve law
yers, anyway.
Jesse Grant, the Presidents youngest
son, is to accompany Mr. aud Mrs. Sar-
toris when they return to England,
which they will do on the 2sth instant.
The elephant empress" of the 70
illogical garden, Philadelphia, is dead.
She was 80 years old, and weighed
eleven thousand pounds.
The Greenbrier White Sulphur
Springs have been leased to G. l.. Pey-
ton 81 Co. for two years at $l8,5oO
per year.
Col. James B. McCreery, recently
elected Governor of Kentucky, is not
yet forty years of age. He served with
distinction in the Confederate army.
where he attained Colonelcy. He is
spoken Of as a gentleman of rare ability.
The chief authorities of the Changers
are to hold a Convention at Louisville
on the 1st of October, and one of the
objects is to adopt uniform system of
business for all the Changers through
out the United States.
Hon. Reverdy Johnson has written a
letter liz which he declares in favor of
specie payments, and that Congress
has no power to make legal tender OF
an irredeemable currency.
The regents of the State University
at Morgantown have advertised for pro-
fessors to fill the chairs Of Astronomy
and Physics, Executive chair); Mod
ern Languages; History, Political
Economy aud Belles-Letters and Nor
NAL Instruction and Principal OF the
Preparatory Department.
Some workmen were tearing down
chimney in Pitrsburg last week, and
they found a bottle of whiskey inside
which had been there so years, and,
now it is as much as half the wives in
Pittsburg can do to prevent their hus-
bands from tearing down their Chin
MES.
Two COWS belonging TO Esquire Buck,
of Keedysville, Washington county,
died suddenly last week from the effects
of eating large number Of old cucum-
Der pickles which had been thrown on
the street. The cows were dissected,
and in the stomach Of one seventy-six
pickles were counted.
The "Rev" w. E. Copeland, cleric
al impostor, managed to ingratiate him
self into the affections of respectable
young lady Of Knoxville, Tenn, he be-
ing a boarder at her fathers house. A
few days ago. his character becoming
known, the young men of the city
treated him to coat of tar and teath-
er.
The ladies Of Troy Lave organized
boat club. The uniform is a neat white
waist and a broad-brimmed hat. The
club is known as "Wally-Wally.
Glendenning, the convicted seducer
of Mary Pomeroy, defes the judgement
and the Presbytery, and breaches reg
ularly in his old pulpit, to congrega-
ton of about fifty persons chiefly child
rem The respectable members of his
church have withdrawn, and he will
soon serinonize to the only audience he
is fit to stand before, the empty pews.
A correspondent of the Chicago Ev-
ening Post reports that Mrs. Lincoln is
pronounced well enough to leave Bell
vue Insane Asylum and visit her sister,
at Springfield, III. 1t is not likely that
che ,rill return to the aSylun, ne there IL