Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-08-14
Editorial Brevitics.
Wheat is selling at Georgetown, {
1854 per bushel.

Broad guage. narrow guage ana HioiE
gage,
Governor Allen, of Ohio, in converse
ton with representative of the Clncln-
natl Commercial, a few days ago, said Il
| entered political life in 1884. OK htty
two United States Senators then living L
am to day the only survivor.
\ fish-way for the ascent of sea-fish IS
! to be built at the Great Falls of the Poto-
| mac. In the opening OF this great river
for the ascent of fish, four States, West
Virginia, Pennsylvania, Virginia and
Maryland are deeply aud directly intereS-
ted.
A slate-pencil was lately extracted from
an indianapolis lawyers ear after having
nestled in his head for seventeen years.
! The slate has not been found yet, but 1t Is
barely possible that the man lost the PEN
ell while doing q sum in his head.
The census of Martinsburg, was taken
! in 1871 by W. ii. Mathews, Esq, and
the population of the city was 5000. The
census rs just taken by DR., \. X. Long,
is 6l95 showing an increase OF 100.
We learn that Hiram Mckown has sold
his farm lying near Bunker Hill, Berkeley
County to Daniel Wright, for $50 per acre.
4 difficulty occurred in Barboursville,
West Virginia, OH Monday, between +.
w. Peyton and j. b. Baumgardner, i'll
which Bauingardner, received three dam
gerous stabs. Peyton il the son-in-law
of Baumgardner, and Il man of twenty-SiX
years, while Baumgardner is iifty-three
years of age.
An exchange thinks that Eve must
have been very unhappy woman.
There was no other woman TO pass her
on the street that she might look around
and see how that dress fit in the back.
Rev. DR.. Richards, the pastor of Pres
byterian Church, in Charleston, West
Virginia, dropped dead at railway sta
ton in Edinburg, Scotland, Il few days
ago.
Rev. James Dabney MeCabe. d. d.,
of the Protestant Episcopal, died in
Baltimore on the lst inst, i'll the sixty
eight year of his age.
Dr. Hugh Holmes Mcclure, died at
Winchester on Monday last, aged 10
years.
Rev. John Neff, of Mount Jackson,
Va, or the TINKER denomination, died
on Thursday last, aged GO years.
The census of the city Of New York
just taken shows the population to be
l,O50,000.
Col. Richard Bland Lee, a first cousin
of Gen. Robert Z. Lee, died in Alexan-
dria, Va, on Monday, aged 70 years.
The County Court Of, Brackston
county has offered 4 reward of $500 for
the murderers of Jemima Green. y
petition, signed by many citizens and
officers, will be sent to Governor Jacob,
asking him to also offer reward for the
perpetrators of the outrage and murder.
Barnet Cashwa, Esq, the Land AS
SCISSOR for Berkeley county, has about
completed the Assessment of the county,
and his books will be ready III short
time for transmission TO the State Audi
tor.
In the past six months the financial
failures in the United States have
amounted to nearly S-5,0000)0. This
indeed is a startling exhibit Of the shaky
bushes condition of the country.
This is the situation: Seven hundred
million of currency to float debt CAPT
tai of twenty-five hundred millions Of
dollars in bonds and pay taxes, Federal,
State and local, of at least eight hundred
million of dollars year. Is there any
reason why money should not be scarce
and interest high ?
United States Senator Robertson, of
Of h, 60
with his family, including a son who
has been at Georgetown College.
Monday was the young mans twenty
first birth day, and on raising his plate
at breakfast he found check from his
father for $4,000.
A letter from Rockingham county says
the wheat crop in that section is turning
out wcll-much of it yielding thirty
bushels to the acre. The corn season has
been fine and the prospect is very Hat
tering. The Norfolk Virginian says
throughout that section the corn crop
promises an unprecedented yield.
A Virginia man recently ate ten pine
apples at meal, and didn't pine for any
more. But his coffin is pine.
A Russian provcrb says: Before going
to war, pray once; before going to sea,
pray twice; before getting married, pray
three times"
The personally of NJ B. Buck at Front
ROYAL, is advertised for sale by his truS-
tee, Among the numerous articles adver-
tised, we see 10000 gallons of wine and
5000 gallons of grape brandy.
A man named johnson with his wife
and five children in Il wagon, drove into
Coosawattee river, in Gordon county, Ga,
Sunday, and getting into deep water, the
wagon bed floated OIL. All the children
were drowned.
\ coloreG congregation in Dayton,
Ohio, have decided to forgive their clcr-
gyman for betting on thrcc-card monte
and losing 800 of festival money. One Of
the dcacons remarked that ave is all
human, and de game is VERY exciting"
The terrible visitation at Geneva, Swift
zerland, surpaSSes most Of the horrors
which have been recorded during this
eventful summer. Rain, wind and flood
are bad enough, but when from unseen
agencies comes crushing discharge Of
ice, sweeping everything before it, the
horror of the situation may be family re-
allied.
When you see a boy fondly fold his
hands over his front wrist button and
meekly bow his head you may know that
the presence Of green apples are receiving
due respect.
IsSac Merritt Singer, whose death in
London was announced by telegraph on
Sunday, had an income of 81 ,00Q, 900 from
the sales of his sewing-machines when the
extension of his patent expired