Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-07-03
Editorial BreyilieA.

Henry Ward Beecher was sixty two
on Thursday.
A Schenectady girl at spelling school
sat down on "pautaloons."
At recent spelling match one man
spelt it "pasnip" and got beet.
Hon. Hester Clymer, of Pennsylva-
MIA is spoken of by some as a Demo
cratic candidate for Vice. President.
The latest hopper outrage was the
stoppage OF mail train in Nebraska
by locusts that broke open the mail
sacks, and ate the postage stamps OF
the letters.
Among the graduates at West Point
last week was Willard Young, son of
Brigham Young, the Mormon chief,
who came out fourth in class of forty.
FIVE.
The Irish potato crop in Louisiana is
immense, and large quantities are being
shipped to ST. Louis, for which hand
some prices are being realized.
A woman may be of great assistance
to her husband in business, by wearing
a cheerful countenance. A mans per-
plexities and gloominess are increased
a hundred fold when his better-half
moves about with continual scowl
upon her brow.
The grasshoppers have accomplished
wonders i'm Missouri They have in-
duced the people to fast and pray.
The new building OF the New York
Tribune is nine stories high. When a
man comes in and wants to know who
wrote that article, he is told that the
author is on the floor with the elevator
broken.
Paper is now used very successfully
for making buggy-boxes, baskets, betting
for machinery, boats, clothing, house
hold utensils, ect.
AT Staunton potato bugs are selling
at from SO to 60 cents per peck. They
are used tor making blistering plasters.
J. b. Johnson, a champion swimmer,
and Thomas Coyle, of Chester, Pc,
have made arrangements to swim a
match in July for $1,000 aside, in the
Delaware river, from Chester to Phila-
dephia; distance Of sixteen miles.
The heaviest snorer we have heard
of is the man whose wife woke him up
the other day, during tempest saying
she did wish lie would stop snoring as
she wished to hear the thunder.
w. II. Deeves, of New Orleans, Of
fers to give s25 each ($5,oOO), or one
of one hundred to give 800 each ($lO,-
OOO). for the relief of Mrs. Stonewall
Jackson.
Several years ago Hungarian grass
was introduced into Morgan county,
this State, & the farmers are now SO
well pleased with the crop, it is said,
that large scope of land will this sea
son be given to it, some declaring that
for hay it is equal to best timothy.
A political compaign in the old
Southern style, has been inaugurated in
Kentucky. Colonel James B. Nc
Creery, the Democratic candidate for
Governor, has challenged john NJ. Har
Ian, the Republican candidate, to meet
him upon the stump.
Gen. Joseph f. Johnston ia being
strongly urged for Governorship OF
Georgia.
Advices have been received at Wash
ineton that the Asiatic cholera has
made its appearance on board the L. S.
steamer Saco, of the Asiatic squadron,
four out of five cases having proved IA
tal
The earthquake season opened in
Ohio, and other parts of the West, last
Friday, in mild way, though in some
instances severe enough TO cause a de-
molition of chimneys, crack the walls OF
houses, disturb the goods on shelves in
stores and jar buildings to their founda-
tons.
The various labor bureaus in New
York are overrun with applications for
work, with an urgency rarely if ever
known before, and not only from one
class of persons, but from all trades and
all industries.
During the prevalence of the thun
der storm near Raleigh, n. c., on Sat
urday, Miss Martin, a young lady some
eighteen years of age, was struck and
killed by lightning.
The Louisville Courier-Journal says
that the utmost want prevails in the
counties of Lee, Elliott, Pike, Floyd,
Johnson, Carter, Magofiin, Perry and
Letcher, Ky, and starvation stares the
people in the face unless aid reaches
them without delay.
The Egyptian pleagues seem to have
fallen upon the fair fields of the West.
Millions of loads have appeared in
Lafayette county Missouri, coming in
the track of terrific storm.
The Firksburg Herald estimates
that the wheat crop of Mississippi this
year will be equal to the crops OF the
last ten years combined.
Hon. J. NJ. Hagans, ex-member of
Congress, of West Va, has removed to
Chicago to practice law.
At the late term of the Circuit Court
for Washington county, Md, Chas.
Miller was sentenced to the peniten-
tary for six years for stealing chickens.
Belle McFadden two years for larceny,
and Thomas Howard Is months i,r
petit larceny.