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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-08-19
Straw Hats.

HATS AND CAPS Of all kinds.
MISSES BONNETS of different styles.
Tobacco and Cigars, Pipes, DC.
Large quantity of button Caters.
Carpet sacks and gloves OF every de-
Scription.
Hosiery of every description.
Bu>tlcs Tor the Ladies', Umbrellas,
knitting Cotton, Paper Collars and Neck
Ties.
Corsets for the ladies.
OycrhalIS and Shirts.
spool Cotton and Thread of all kinds,
and Il thousand other articles not mention
ed.
Thankful for the patronage heretofore
extended to me, invite 4 liberal share in
the future.
What YOU don't see, ask for-at Head
Quarters Of the Shenandoah Valley Kall-
road StOrc-on reasonable terms.
Store on Moulicr's Corner.
|. W. ClIAPLINE.
April - If
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-08-19
BUCKS BRANDY.

| HAVE just received from the vineyard
/ of Marcus b. Buck, Front Royal. Va, 4
lot ofhi> PURE GRAPE BRANDY, for
medical purposes. Those who can appre-
cialo fine goods in this line may feel as
sured that they are getting an article that
i absolutely pure and at Il reasonable
price. ii. VI. BILLINGS.
May 20. 1876. II
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-08-19
ENTLER HOTEL,
SUFPUERDSTONN. w. VIRGINIA.

HAVING leased the Entler Hotel, t l.
I'll now open for the accommodation of
the Public. The Table will be boua!itui-
lv supplied with ali the Ia ,nrieS and sub
stantials that the city AMI country mar
Iets afford. None but polite and att"n-
tive servants will be employed, and Moth
ING shall be left undone that will contrib
ute TO the comfort and pleasure of guests.
.Tbe Stable will be attended by AN eXpe-
rienced Ostler. l.. l.. EICiilooN,
Proprietor.
january 30, 1875. II
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-08-19
TAILORING.

THE undersigned takes this opportuni-
" of informing tho citizens of Shop
herdslown aud vicinity that he has COM
mcrIced the TAILORING BUSINESS ut
his residence in Shepherdstown. lie Will
cut and make up garments ofall kinds i'll
the --latest styles and best manner. All
persons having clothing to make VIII
please give him call. ,
:. 7. IlUMRICKUOUSE.
Oct. %, 1875. IL
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-08-19
ONLY REMEDY
FOR
HARD TIMES.
CHANGE YOUR SURROUNDINGS.


YARDS, ORCHARDS ANDFARlS. can
now be seen.
LOCATION is only 81 miles south
Philadelphia. by Railroad, in mild, de-
lirhtful climate. andat tie very door, of
the New York and Philadelphia Markets.
Another Railroad runs direct TO New
York.
THEPLACE is already LARGE, Sue
CESSFUL and PROSPEROUS =. Churches
schools, and othr privileges are already
established. Also, manufactures of Shoes,
Clothing, Glass, Straw Goods, and other
things, at which different members OF 4
family can procure employment.
1t has been
HEALTH RESORT
for some years past for people suffering
from pulmonary affections, Asthma, ca
tarrh, Agur. and debility many thousands
have entirely recovered.
\ new Brick Hotel has Just been COM
pleted. 100 feet front, with back buildings,
four stories hiSh, including French roof,
and all modern improycm"I &, Tor the ac-
commodation OF visitors.
Price of FARM LAND $500 PER
ACRE payable 10y iu>tallmout~, within
the period Of tour years. Ia thiS climate.
planted ont to vines, ~ acres OF land VIII
count fully a> much Al, 100 acre, further
north.
Persons unacqulintod with Fruit Grow
iu%, can become familiar with n ina short
time on account OF the surroundings.
FIVE ACRE, ONE ACRE. aud TOWN
LOTS, in the towns Of LIudI,liil, and
Nincland, also for sale.
Whilst visiting the Centennial ENhibi-
ton, Vineland can be visited at -mai cN-
peuSc.
\ paper containing fun information,
will be sent upoa Application 10
CIlAKLEr Il. lands,
Nmclmi, sd.
free of cost
The following i-au extract irUm d",rrip-
ton of NimclLnd, published iu tn" NIw
YORK TRIBUNE, by the well known Agri-
cuturist, Scion Robinson.
All the farmers wore ui the 'Nril To do
sort, and some ofthcm, who have turned
their attention To fruits and market gar
dening, have gown rich. The soil /,
loan, varying from sandy and cllycy.aud
surface gently uuduldtiug, intrrsrctcl
with small streams nud occasional wet
meadows, I'm which deposit, of peat or
muck are stored. sufficient 10 fortiliZr the
whole upland surface, after il has been
exhausted Of its ndtura' fertility.
IL u certainly one nI I'D" most extensive
tracts, In an almost level position, ana sui
table condition for pleasant farming, that
We know of on this side Of a.. Western
prairics. We found some of the oldest
farms apparently ju,ta. prodtnbly produr-
tive rs when first cleared OF forest dlty cor
a hundred years ago.
The geologi~t would soon discover the
cause Of this continued fertility. The
whole country isa marine deposit, and all
through the soil wc found evidence OF
calcareOds substances, generally in the
form of indurated calcarcOus mari, show
ing many distinct form, Of ancient shells,
Of the tertiary formation; and this marty
substance j. scattered all through The SOL,
in very comninutcd form, and In the
exact condition most easily as'imilated
by such plants n the farmer desires 10
cultivate.
Aug. >, 1876. sm
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-08-19
FINE STATIONERY.

THE Ladies English Note. the Lancet,
L the Laureat, the Edinburg and the
Bazaar. Papeteries, these papers are deli
catelv tintod and put in boxes. l have
also a full stock of plain white Note, Let
ter. Legal and Foolscap Paper on hand to
which / invite the public trade. Call and
examine my late styles of Paper; take
pleasure in showing them; ,u,p.r
Sent. IS, 1875. u
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-08-19
DOWN WITH HIGH PRICES

| HAVE returned from the Eastern mar
| kets with the finest Stock Of Goods in
my line of business. that has ever been i'll
Shcphcrlstown. had made to order i'll
the city all numbers of extra sizes Boots.
Nos. > 10 II. and Lady's shoes from Nos.
3to9. lean furnish all kinds that are
wanted. such a. Mems Boots, Boys Boots,
Ladv's Fine and Coarse Shoes, Men
Shoes. Boys Shoes, Children'S shoes,
Misses Shoes, and Notions Of every des-
rriDiiOu
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-08-19
STHTIONERY.

TUOSE in need of Stationery should not
L fail to examine my well selected stock
of English, Plain and Rep Paper in boxes.
Also the different styles of French and
fancy note in boxes. Prices in Keeping
with the times, at II. NJ. BILLINGS
Drug store.
April 10, 1876. Il
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-08-19
SCHOOL BOOKS.

7 HAVE just received full line of School
| Books and school material in general TO
which invite the attention of the public.
make School Book business speciality
and endeavor to keep {. full stock on hand.
/ ask therefore that the public give me
their support in this branch of the bust
ness. | am thankful for the patronage
extended to Inc in the past and ask con-
tinuance OF the same in the future.
JAS. L. BARNHART.
Sept. IS, 1875. If
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-08-19

AArN 4 NONTIl--Agcnis wanted evcrv-
IK1E' ;s;, $"%,5S. i 53s Is;
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-02
For the Ladies.

Small waists are evidently considered
by a majority of the Saratoga bellies as
the great desideratum, and the old story
of tying the corset-lacer to the bed-post
and walking rapidly away with the other
end attached to the corset, is revived in
description of the art of getting up a
fashionable damsel. doubt this,
chiefly because beds do not have posts
at the watering-place hotels now, and
the average belle possesses sufficient
avoirdupois to wrench the knobs from
doors or pieces of furniture if she at
tempted the above described maneuver
by using the handles instead of the bed
posts. On the other hand, know sew
eral ladies here who have discarded
corsets altogether for the dress-reform
waists. Last winter in Washington 1
thought there was revulsion in favor
of natural waists, for a dealer in corsets
told me that she suspected some of her
customers of padding their waists, b.
cause they insisted on having Their
measures taken for corsets two inches
larger than they had ever before worn.
1 think the women who strive to reduce
their waists must do so on the same
principle which animated her who de-
clared that she did not dress to please
the men, but to torment other women,
for 1 have yet to meet one man who
acknowledges to an admiration for small
waists.-MiSs Grundy, in NeU York.
Grnf,hic
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-02
A Fortified Marine Monster.

Sonoma County abounds in vegeta-
BILE, animal and geological wonders.
The latest notable development is the
discovery of the partly petrified remains
of monster of the deep on hillside
on Watson's ranch, on the line OF the
Marin narrow-guage railroad, between
Valley Forge and Freestone. While at
work, three days ago, in a cut, a gang
of men, at a depth of fourteen feet,
came upon a peculiar formation, which
presents almost certain indications that
it was once the body of a whale. II
lies lengthwise of the cut, and is about
fifty feet in length. Alexander Wander
moot brought to town specimens sf the
bony part of the creature. They are
soft and porous, and there can be lit
tie doubt that they are parts of the body
of a member of the finny tribe. At the
same place were found petrified shells
of different kinds, and a substance two
inches long and about one inch in di-
ameter at the base, which had evident
ly been the tooth of some animal. A
bone, four feet long and about eight
inches in diameter, sharp at both ends.
was also found. Bowlders nearly
round, and weighing from one hundred
to six hundred pounds, are numerous
in the cut.-Petaltmna (Cal.) argus.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-02
A Practical Joke on Himself.

A Charlemont (Mass.) marketman,
when delivering goods one morning,
discovered on leaving the house of a
customer custard pie sitting in a win
dow where the lady of the house had
placed it to cool for dinner. He at once
appropriated it and driving directly to
the store of the lady's husband, called
him out and told him he had " hooked"
nice custard pie, and if he would get
some cheese they would have a nice
time eating it. OF course the cheese
was forthcoming, and after satisfacto-
rily disposing of the pie the question
arose what to do with the plate. The
merchant said he would take care of
that, and, suiting the action to his
words, dashed it against the wall.
When the merchant went home to din
ner that day his wife apologized for not
having any dinner, saying that she made
a custard pie for dinner and sat it in the
window to cool, and she supposed some
boys must have stolen it. Her husband
wasn't pie hungry, and seemed quite
pleased about something, but kept
"mum." Next morning the merchant
meeting the marketman cried out
"Pie!" In reply the other said:
"Cheese! And whose plate was that
YOU smashed?n
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-02
renominated for Representative in Congress
by the Republicans Of the Nineteenth Ohio

renominated for Representative in Congress
by the Republicans of the Nineteenth Ohio
District.
Hon. JOSEPH II. UNDERWOOD, ex-
United States Senator from Kentucky, died
at his residence in Bowling Green, ON the
23d, in the eighty-sixth year of his age.
Hon. j. ID. WILLIAMS, Democratic
candidate for Governor of Indiana, made
his first speech for the campaign at Green
castle on the 23d.
Hon. VIM. A. WHEELER, Republican
candidate for Vice-President, made speech
at st. Adams, VT, on the 18th.
Gov. G. c. WALLER has been nomi-
mated as Conservative candidate for Con-
gress from the Third District of Virginia.
Mrs. PAULINE WRIGHT DAVIS, wide
ly known from her connection with the So
called woman's rights movement, died at
Providence, r. L., on the 25th.
THE Prohibitionists of Connecticut
have nominated ticket of State officers,
headed by Joseph Cummings, d. D., late
President of Wesleyan University, for Gov
ernor. fre--- ..-r9 ..f, ..n -.,l.
THE President has appointed John
Tyler, Jr., United States Attorney for the
Southern District OF Florida, and w. B.
Redman Marshal for the Southern District
of Mississippi. W. A. Knapp, Of Column
bus, Ohio, has been appointed Chief Clerk
Of the Post-ofice Department.
! The Colorado Republican State Con-
vention, held ON the 25th, nominated for
Governor John L. Routt, the present Ter
ritorial Governor. - n#
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-02
WIT AND WISDOM.

"SwEET extract of tannin" is what
Pulaski On. " boy calls his strict bu
pretty school-marm.
The peanut is symbol of American
independence quite as much as is tn
eagle.-MfaO York Post.
THUS, one by one, the blessings thai
make Earth beautiful depart. Tn
tongueless woman has just died a
Bootstown, Ohio.
PERsoNAL.-Does lady in bronze
CATERS and a green umbrella, who rode
down Montgomery Avenue this morning
on dray, remember gentleman ly-
ing in the gutter who waved his cravat
to her? Can he hope for her acquaint.
ance? Y. NOT.
THERE is nothing more beautiful in
the whole range of animated nature
than the spectacle of lovely city girl
standing under an apple tree and won
dering if she could climb it and get
down again without any persons de-
tecting the complexion of her stockings.
THERE is a baseball club in Hartford
called the Potato Bugs. Another nine
has sprung up who call themselves the
Exterminators, who have challenged
the Potato Bugs. The farmers in thu
neighborhood are anxiously awaiting
results. They hope that the P. BIS viii
be exterminated, but they don't be-
lieye it.
OVERRIDING IT.-Bashful Spooner
Con his honeymooD: Larry, my wife
and have both noticed that the towns
people stare at us very hard. hope
you haven't been telling any body that
we are newly married. Larry (the
faithful factotum): Me tell 'em, SORT
Is it loikely old go agin my express
ordhers? Why, whinever ony body
thryed to pump me, sir, olive towld 'em
you wasn't married at all.
PROF. HUXLEY had heard of the
American interviewer, and when bed
time arrived he congratulated himself
on having escaped him, but when-h he
turned down the gas and climbed in Je-
tween the sheets, he was somewhat sur.
prised to find himself in bed with four
affable and inquisitive young men, who
introduced themselves as the represent
atives of four newspapers, and began
to PROFOUND the usual queries. He
thinks, however, he will get used to it,
if he lives long enough.-HawE-eye.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-02
A "Reminiscences of the Clusters

MoDcure D. Conway writes as follows
from Paris to the Cincinnati CONNER
ctal:
At the Chatelet the dramatic version
of Ground the World in Eighty Days"
is running on to its five hundredth rep
resentation, and found the theater still
very full. There is one scene which,
stree the piece began, has turned to
irony-that in which three white tour
lists conquer and exterminate pictur-
esque and wellarmed troupe of Sioux
There are about thirty savages to the
three whites, and the red men are all
killed. The scene was received with
silence, except when the Sioux chief
delivered harangue concerning the
wrongs which his race had endured,
and his eloquence elected a round of
applause. 1t is doubtful whether the
Sioux side of the battle that followed
would not have been represented some
what differently if the piece had been
mounted since the recent tidings from
America. TO me it brought back a
once pleasant, now painful, remem-
brance of a dinner-table conversation
with Gen. Custer, at St. Paul, in Febru-
airy last, when he was on his way to
the frontier. I asked his beautiful
young wife whether she did not feel ap-
prehensive or nervous at going so far
beyond the borders of civilization. She
replied cheerfully, "Not in tie least"
and seemed to look forward with almost
girlish delight and expectation to the
new scenes amid which she was about
to reside. But her husband looked
grave as he listened to her answer.
The tragedy which has since occurred
has awakened deep and widespread
interest in France as well as England:
1t has been for some time a prevalent
belief among the geographical and an
thropological Swans of both London
and Paris that the white Americans
have moderated the difficulties of their
Indian problem. The hostile Indians
are said to be only few hundred
thousand in number, but even so many
are declared by some good judges to be
too numerous for determination, when
their ferocity exceeds their love of life,
and when they are intrenched in wild
regions difficult of access
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-02
Didn't Affect His Lease.

A medical student rents room from
a clearinghouse keeper, who makes it a
special condition in the lease that nc
skeletons, skulls, bones, or anatomical
preparations whatever shall be prough,
into the house. some time afterwaro
the student meets him and says: CIVIL
Won step over to the house? l have
some thing to show YOU" The land
lord, thinking that perhaps some re
pairs or alterations were needed, follows
him without suspicion. The tenan
draws n curtain.
"What, complete skeletonP" erie
the landlord, whose hair stands on end
"Yes, it is well put together, is i
not? l did it all myself. 1t is sh'
skeleton
"Wretched man! You remember the
terms of your lease?"
"Pcrfectly. Don't be- afraid. 1
brought her here alive! "-PartS FtSaro.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-02
Wagner's Musical Triumph at
Baireuth.

The great Baireuth festival is finished
The great world-talked-of opera house
has been dedicated and thrown open to
the public, and the mammoth under
taking of Richard Wagner, the genius
of the musical age, the forerunner of
the music of the future, has now passed
into the hands of the historians and
critics. 1t is feeling of relief to know
that the people who have thought of and
awaited the event, have witnessed its
fulfillment, and can rest in the satisfac-
ton that it was successful, or compla-
Gently admit that it was not, at least, a
failure. The reports came in folios
from Baireuth, and are colored, as cor
respondents delight in touching these
sign-board notices for careless readers !;
but the careful musicians have not yet
spoken, and not for several weeks can
artists know of the success or failure of
Wagner's scheme.
At seven O'Clock upon last Sunday
evening eight trumpeters blew fanfare
from the front of the new opera house,
and simultaneously the music within
the house commenced and Her Wag-
ner's longdreamed-of hour had arrived.
The house, as the selection from one of
the reports already telegraphed said,
presented splendid appearance.
Wearers of regal crowns and ducal cor
onets were present; in another part of
the auditory were seated List and
Gounod and all the leading musicians
of Germany. The effect of the house
would have been greatly heightened
had Wagner made a sacrifice of his art
principles and appearance and
permitted the auditory to
be lighted. This concession
he did not make, and, that the atten-
ton of the audience might not be di-
verted, the reign of darkness was COM
plete except upon the stage. The
scenic effects all reports agree in pro-
nouncing superb, and in no particular
did there appear one obstacle to inter-
fere with the easy movement of all
parts in making a complete whole.
Herr Wagner has been a wonderful sue
cess in the accessories of his musical
drama, and all who have watched his
progress are ready to applaud this por-
ton of the work, reserving a more
sweeping approval until it is fully deter
mined that it is merited.
The stage of the Baireuth Theater re-
quires 3,247 gas jets. Wagner's work
demands extraordinary scenic effects,
such as rising mists and gathering
clouds. For these two large engines
are placed at short distance from the
theater and the steam is carried by
pipes to a reservoir, from which it can
be distributed by a network of tubes
over the whole stage. By means of q
special apparatus this vapori is rendered
as dry as possible. Every possible pre-
caution has been taken against fire. In
the corner towers of the theater are two
enormous cisterns, each holding about
1900 gallons, from which water can be
obtained at very high pressure in case
of need. The gas and water works of
tho theater have cost $4,000.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-02
Stung by a Scorpion.

Yesterday countryman from Ses-
sions Settlement brought into the city a
little girl aged about eight years, who
had been stung by Il scorpion. The
parent had dosed the child with whisky
until she was insensibly drunk there
fore, when she was taken to DR.. Whites
Office, all that could be done was to add
minister some antidote for the whisky.
The countryman, after getting a pre-
scription, placed the child in the bottom
of the wagon-box, with q bunch Of
green clover under her head, and drove
ulI.-SuN Luke IEiLaLlle
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-02

The great turret ship Koning der
Nederlanden, which has been construct
ed at Amsterdam, is ready to be
launched, but unfortunately it was for
gotten to think of the means of floating
her to the sea. The North Holland Ca
nal, which goes to the Helder, is not
deep enough, and the new canal, which
puts Amsterdam in direct communica-
ton with the North Sea, is not yet com
pleted. An attempt will, however, be
made to bring the Koning der Nedcr-
landen through this canal, precautions
being taken to prevent her running
aorOlud
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-02
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL,

GEORGE 7. IsBELL, a well known
newspaper man and for several
years q resident of Atchison, KS,
committed suicide at Pueblo, COL, on
the 18th, by taking laudanum. He had gone
down there to goto work, but, having been
drinking heavily, he became temporarily
deranged, and imagined that the officers
were after him for riding over the road on q
pass issued by the Chicago Inter- Ocean,
for which paper he had been an occasional
correspondent. He leaves a wife and one
child.
CAMILLE CLAUDE, French Repub-
lican Deputy, was killed by lightning at
Paris on the Goth.
THE Texas Legislature adjourned on
the 21st. a
GEN. HARRY T. HAYES, a Mexican
war veteran, Confederate General, and a
prominent lawyer Of New Orleans, is dead.
The Rev. w. A. CORNELL, who lived
ut Freedom Plains, Duchess County, N.
Y, hanged himself on the 18th. He is sup
posed to have been temporarily insane. Mr..
Cornell was 4 minister of the Reformed
Church.
JOHN E. ALEXANDER, the leading
cattle dealer of the Mississippi Valley, died
at his residence in Morgan County, Ill. g,
on the 21st. He held life insurance policies
to the amount Of $50, 200.
Col. A. P. FIELD, Acknowledgement
of the State Of Louisiana, died on the 18th
Col. Field was the first Secretary of the
State of Illinois, Secretary of Wyoming
Territory under President Harrison, and
served as an officer in the Black Hawk war.
A NUMBER of Molly Maguires at
Port Richmond, Pa, made an assault upon
two miners on the 21st, killing them bath a..
They were beaten with bludgeons, stabbed
and cut with knives and finally riddled with
bullets.
Hon. JAS. F. LEGATE has sued Col.
d. K. Anthony, of the Leayenworth (Ks.
Times, for an alleged libelous publication
regarding Mr.. Legate's daughter. DAM
ages are placed at SIC, 700.
BANCROFT DAVIS, United States Min
lister to Germany, has arrived home on a
visit.
GEN. BRIsTOw is stumpiDg Vermont
for Hayes and Wheeler.
Hon. JOHN A. GARLAND has been