Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-07-10
Editorial Brevities.

strictly business principles, without re-
gard to politics. A new departure.
We like the little wings that the Ia
dies now wear on their hats this season:
but our Imp says that nothing can make
them more like angels than they are
without them.
Ex-Governor Bigler expects 10000
visitors at the Philadelphia centennial,
July 4, 1876, and at least 9,OOO,OO0 en-
frances while the exposition is open.
The fifth reunion of the Twenty
eighth and one hundred and forty
seventh regiments Pennsylvania volun-
teers and Knapp's battery, took place
at the Gettysburg Springs Hotel Satur-
day.
Robert Lincoln, son of Mrs. Abraham
Lincoln, has been appointed guardian OF
his mothers estate under bond OF
Sl50,000.
On Thursday George King, a fireman
on the Chesap eake and Ohio railroad,
was run over aud killed at Staunton,
Va.
Mrs. Matthews, a sister of Gov. KEN
per, died at Culpepper Court house, Va,
on Saturday.
The supposed heirs of the Lawrence
Townley estate in Englrnd, worth I'M
told millions, have been summoned to
meet at Cincinnati on the It'll.
S. b. Blair, of Pittsylvania county,
Va, with the aid of lad to whom he
paid $40 per year wages, raised crop
of tobacco, which Melted him over ST.
500. OF this the product ofthree acres
returned him 81 ,s0S and few cents
clear of all expense of handling, selling,
&c. This was in addition to the crops
of corn, wheat, oats, &c, made by the
same force.
Captain II. C. Derrick Of Virginia,
for some time on the engineer corps OF
the Washington City and st. Louis
railroad, has received and accepted an
appointment of colonel of engineers in
the Egyptian army, and will sail tor
Egypt Ill u lew oays'
The Marine Bank of New York has
recently lost a mail containing about
$4,000 in drafts. 1t has been ascer-
tanned that the letters containing the
checks and remittances from the banks
correspondents, and due OIL Saturday
last, reached the New York postofiice,
Int bevond that no trace of them can
be found.
The Patrons of Husbandry in Saline
county, Missouri, propose to start bank
at Marshall, with a capital of 100000.
The Missouri Farmer thinks this good
move, as the bank will lend only to
farmers, and at less rate of interest
than is customary there. The Farmer
thinks the high rate of interest is eat
ing the farmers up faster than grass
hoppers or chinch-bugs.
At the hippodrome in New York,
one evening last week, Mr.. Shook en-
tertained A. Il. Stewart, Commodore
Vanderbilt, II. l.. Cutting, John j.
Astor, August Belmont, Cornelius II.
Garrison, Jay Gould and Robert Hutch
ms. These gentlemen hold anG repre-
sent $35O,OOO,O00.
California, which is always early with
the wheat harvest, is already gathering
it in the southern counties. A general
review Of the yield of .whnct,s s srat
State shows thot whist THIS year crop
viii 10 Leiow that of last year, it is not
failure excepting iva few special dis
tricts. 1t is rather 70 be classed among
good haryests, there being no rust and
no smut, and The grain being reported
from all quarters Of good quality.
The value of the cattle stolen from
Texas by the Mexican raiders since
January lst. is estimated at over two
million dollars.
The suicide mania has again set in,
and self destruction appears to rage like
an epidemic all through the land. Our
exchanges are full Of reported cases.
The California State Temperance
Reform Party Convention met We'd
nesday and nominated full ticket for
State officers, headed by w. (. Lovett
for Governor.
Capt. Chas. q. cambridge died sud
denly at Portsmouth, Ohio, on Monday.
He surveyed the route for the Valley
Railroad several years ago, and last
year was Chief Engineer Of the Wash
ington, Cincinnati and St. Louis Rail
road.
J. Dixon Roman, son of the late
Hon. J. Dixon Roman, of Maryland,
and student of Harvard university, died
suddenly at IIagerstown, Md, July I'd,
aged 81 years.
Mrs. n. b. Lutes, nee Cronice, of
Tiffin, the first lady lawyer admitted
to the bar of Ohio, has retired. Cause,
a baby.
The reorganization of the Treasury
Department, which took place July LIST
under the law of last session of Con
gress, necessitates the discharge of about
one hundred and fifty persons.
The Beecher jury were dismissed on
Friday last. They could not agree on
a verdict. They stood for acqu!ttal
and for guilty.
E. Boyd Faulkner, of Martinsburg,
was appointed trustee of Berkeley
Springs by Gov. Jacobs. VIM. Baker,
the former incumbent having been re-
moved nv the trustees.