Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-04-22
Editorial Brcvities.


trils of the horse on which Is placed
Crawford's statue of Washington.
The West Virginia products to be
exhibited at the Centennial have been
shipped. Prof Maury, State agent, will
90 TO Philadelphia this week to arrange
them for exhibition.
The Kentucky Legislature has passed
bill taxing all dogs over three years
of age 81 each. Dogs refusing to give
their ages will be dealt with summarily.
An OHIO exchange says that a babe
born in that State on the 22nd OF Feb
ruary, had red, white, and blue hair.
The Winchester Commandery of
Knights Templar are drilling to 60 to
the Knights Templar celebration at
Philadelphia, May 3lst.
1t is not to any mans credit, particu-
larly, to be the son of an honored faith
err. The credit lies in proving worthy
of the distinction.
We regret to note in our recent ex-
changes that Father Ryan, 1.-The poet
priest, is lying dangerously i'll at Mo-
bile of congestion OF the brain.
The Grand Army Of the Republic of
Pennsylvania will adopt neat blue
flannel uniform for the Centennial, and
it is expected that there will be upwards
of five thousand veterans from the Key
stone State in line on the Fourth Of Ju-
ly, 1876.
John E. Owens keeps On acting, he
says, mot because he cares Tor money, but
because he wants to See show much of
the derned stuff he can scrape together.
Ida Lewis, the animated lite saving
machine, has received divorce; or,
rather, her husband has. He says "shes
got too much muscle"
Rev. Macduf Simpson, pastor of the
2ud Presbyterian church Of Stanton
Was married in Scotland, on the 5th
inst, to Miss Mary Henderson.
The Greenbrier Independent cautions
all Democrats and Democratic papers
in the State TO support whatever nomi-
nations are made at the State Conven-
tion for State offices.
The Executive Board Of the Freder-
lex county, Va, Agricultural Society
has resolved to hold the next Fair on
the 10th, 18th, 18th aud 18th of Octo.
Der next.
s. NJ. Sheetz, commonly known as
''the grizzly BEAR" has been arrested
and committed to Jail in Cumberland,
Md, On charge of forcible incest with
his daughter who is but thirteen years
old.
Jefferson Davis will sail for Europe
on the LIST of May. He will pass some
six or eight months in London and on
the continent to promote the establish
ment of a direct trade with the cities
of the Mississippi valley.
Mrs. NJ. w. Mcclure died at her res
idence, "The Cottage" near Millwo cd
on Sunday, the goth ult. She was
daughter of the late BENZ. Harrison, of
Berkeley, and widow OF the late Rev.
Frank Mcclure of Mechlenburg coun-
ty.
We learn from an exchange that the
potato bug or Colorado beetle is likely
to give trouble again in the coming
season.
A Pennsylvania printer who is the
father Of twenty-six children is puzzling
himself to account for the hard times.
1t is pretty generally conceded that
James G. Blaine is the coming Repub-
lican candidate for President. His
prospects were never brighter than
now.
A sign of SPRING. woman with her
dress pinned up, a brush in her hand,
mischief in her eye and splotches of
whitewash on her face.
1t is asserted that we have reached
the bottom of the panic, and that unless
the bottom drops out business matters
will take turu for the better. Hope
50.
Two foolish young men, said to be
connected with the first families of Vir-
GINA, met last week at New Providence
Church, near Rustburg, in that State,
to adjust difference in the manner
prescribed by the code. One is dead
and the other dying. The difference is
adjusted.
J. J. Burch, OF Weston, who received
a bullet in the head, twenty-one other
gunshot wounds and seven sabre cuts
upon his body during the "late unpleas
antness" between the States, is still
hearty and hale, aud hard working, and
thinks Of challenging buzz saw.
The Westminster Advocate says that
four families in Carroll county have
lO2 children-three 26 each, and one
"a. And We suppose the fathers are
not yet happy.
A 6rst-class fish story comes from
Winchester, Indiana, by telegraph. 1t
announces that, on the 18th in ST., about
10 o'clock the sky being clear and the
sun shining, acres of living FISH were
raiued from the heavens, some four
feet long aud weighing as much as
thirty pounds.
Pierrepont, Grants U. s. Attorney
General is now said to be the coming
man for the republican nomination for
president.
Gen. John Mcdonald, Of "crooked"
whiskey no,oriety, has been sentenced
at st. Louis, Mo-, to three years impris-
onment in the psnitentiAry and $4,000
fine.