Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-01-08
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counsel from 100000 to S700.00O
within the last year or two, and accord
ing to the Tribune, ran away, not from
his jailors, but from his lawyers.
Peter Horde Esq, of Williamsport,
has just built large and handsome
church and furnished it in the most ele-
giant manner, with organ and all other
matters complete, ready for worship, at
cost of 100000, which he proposes
! TO formally present to the Protestant
Episcopal Church, Of Williamsport
Christmas Day, clear of all encumbran-
| ces.
Hon Thomas Swami has indicated to
the Secretary Of War his intention of
giving to the United States a deed of
! the land to the Balls Bluff National
| Cemetery free Of cost. This is the only
national cemetery in the country to
Which the United States is not now pos
sessed of absolute title.
An aged widow lady named Rose
Doonan, whilst picking up coal along
the railroad track at Cumberland was
struck by the car bumper and thrown
under the wheels, eight or ten of them
passing over her body rnangling her
fearfully.
The Nj. E. Parsonage of Boonsboro
was sold a. Sheriff's sale the other
week, and knocked down at 5000.
The building alone about seven years
ago cost near $4,000.
The largest Touring mill in America,
! it is said, is owned by Hon. G. Z.
| Washburn, of Minneapolis, Mimi. 1t
is seven stories high, and crowded with
machinery from top to bottom. Its
cost was 100000, has 40 run of burrs,
and turns out 1000 barrels OF flour per
day.
At one of the colored A. NJ. Z.
Churches in Columbus, Georgia, the
other night, a woman screamed,
Celery! Ise jest like soda water! lse
bilin' over!"
The Mobile (Ala) Register states
that the negro does not produce half
the cotton which he produced before
the war, and credits white labor with
the production OF the crops: and the
State Gnzen says that hree-fourths of
all the cotton produced in Texas is the
result of white labor
The Baltimore papers state that there
was more dissi patton IN that city on last
Christmas day than perhaps was ever
before seen. The police made Ala ar
rests from Christmas eve to Christmas
night, APO of which were charged with
being drunk and disorderly.
When a Chinese hank fails all the Of
ficers have their heads cut off and flung
into corner with the assets, and 1T has
been five hundred years since there was
bank failure in that country.
A severe shock Of an earthquake was
felt at Richmond, Va, about midnight
on Wednesday night of last week. Bull
dings were shaken and many people
rushed Into the streets in , great fright.
The shock was also felt at Petersburg,
Lynchburg, Alexandra, and Baltimore.
In the Circuit Court of Shenandoah
county, Va, on Saturday a week, Mrs.
sherman obtained a verdict OF $4,000
damages against the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company for the killing
of her husband by the companys cars in
1874.
The Brooklyn scandal is to be revi-
we'd, Mr.. Frank Moulton, the mutual
friend, having brought suit against MIR.
Beecher, laying damages at $4,000,
for having set on foot the prosecution
which resulted in an indictment against
Mr.. Mou!ton.
A gas main in a thronged street of
Boston mysteriously exploded on the
evening Of the 22nd inst. Over $50
feet OF pavement was thrown into the
air, and several persons were killed and
others injured.
A few weeks since, Mr. Charles P.
Harmar, young Washington lawyer,
took cold and died. a few days after
wards his sister died OF grief at the loss
of her brother, aud last Friday another
brother died also.
Bishop Cummins writes that Rev.
Mr.. Stevens, of Charleston, South Caro-
lima, will open in January a training
school for the education of colored can
ddates fer the ministry. The colored
churches have agreed to give 500 all
nually to support each Of four students
of divinity.
Virginia has refused to appropriate
$4,000 toward the Centennial, because
her Legislature thinks she should pay
her old debts before she assumes new
ones.
Girls why don't you swear off from
awkward bustles, false hair, powder,
striped-Oh, no, we don't mean them,
but the other things, you know.
Come, now, aud resolve.
There is a bulfrog farm in Southeast
ern Wisconsin, 80 acres Of swamp
fenced in, and the proprietor sends
thousands of these featherless birds TO
New York.
In the Criminal Court of Baltimore
city, Judge Gilmor fined Robert j.
Slater, Charles Hipsley and Frederick
Pullman, who had plead guilty OF keep
ing gambling houses, each $500.
The ladies use a pin now invented
purposely for pinuing back dresses.
They are provided with sort of cap
over the point. SO that if she sits down