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


To cure eorns, lap piece of raw fat
pork upon them. The corn will disap-
pear in few days.
Florida alligators are getting so dain-
ty about what they eat that when
baldheaded Nor,herner falls overheard
the reptiles sniff around him and wait
loag time before taking him in out Of
politics.
Mr. Caleb Eakle, Of Tilchmanton,
Washington County, Nd, has institut-
ed suit against the Baltimore and Ohio
r. Il. Company 10 recover damages
/ for injuries sustained 10y him in getting
of the train at Breathedsyillr, some
time in last February. General Thos.
}. Mckaig is his attorney. -
An editor is ,Sstribed'as. n mm who
is liable to grammatical blunders, tooth
Ache, typographical errors, and lapscs
of memory. and has twenty-five thous-
and people watching 10 catch him
/ tripping-a man of sorrow and acquant
ell with grief; poorly paid, poorly
estimated, yet euyied by some OF tho
great men he has made.
Six tenement houses at Moore's Sta
I tioa, OH the Connellsvlle railroad, br-
| longing to Moore's mines, were burned
Tuesday night Loss about $4,000.
Fires supposed to have been the work
OF the Molly Masuires."
Hon. Godlove ). Orh feeling satisf-
cd that he Will not receive the undivid-
cd support of the republican party III
Indiana. he withdraws as \ candidate
for Governor.
There is said to be great Indignation
in Boston over the failure of the Cover
nor OF Massachusetts 10 atiix his name
to the warrant for the execution of the
boy murderer, Jesse Pomeroy.
At hotel in Denison, Texas tho
other day, waiter with two pitchers
in his hands fell down stairs, smashing
the pitchers, and n sharp fragment OF
the crockery entered his neck, complete
! ~ severiug the .iugular vein, and ho
Jled TO death in five minutes.
An Essex farmer is obi sed TO chalk
his nose every time he takes walk
round the farm, to save himself from an
old bull which has strong anlipathy
to red.
VIM. Gray, well known citizen Of
/ Berkeley county, hung himself last
week, in Mr. Barker's house near
Berkeley Springs. lie had previously
tried to cut his throat with Barkcrs
razor. When found the body was in
sitting position hanging from cato
hinge. Cause, intempcrancc, and being
sent to the poor house.
Mrs. Carr, of Quebec, hanged herself
with her false bair last week. The
Ccroners verdict was that the Carr
was demolished by a mispIaced'swiich."
The resumption act was finally rc.
pealed in the House on Saturday last,
by vote of ,0G ayes TO SO nays, the
voted being nearly n party ore, the
Democrats voting tor and the Republi-
cans against the repeal. The rag baby
has trIumphed.
AT the theater the other evening,
gentleman sarcastically asked man
standing in front of him if he wasn't
aware that he was not transparent, aud
the latter said that he ought 10 be, for
he had pane in his stomach.
In the Boston Custom House, recent.
~, coin check for one cent was issi.
ed. 1t is directed 10 the Assistant
Treasurer Of The United States, and
bears the signatures Of the Collector
and Deputy Collector.
Henry Clay, grandson OF "ITarry
OF the West. is announced as candidate
for Prosecuting Attorney of tho Louis.
willie City Court.
The Presbyterian Church of Mcrcers-
burg, Pa, has bad but three pastors in
the last one hundred apd seven years.
Rev. DR. Thomas Creigh has been ats
pastor for the past forty years. .,
The recent addition Of 100000 TO
the sum already bestowed upon Van
derbilt University by Mr. Vanderbilt is
said to make that the best endowed in.
stitu,iOn in the South.
A conscientious farmer in Berlin,
Wis, wiped the mud from bis cart
wheel before permitting his load Of hay
TO 20 on to The scales 10 be weighed.
But such men never go 10 the state
Legislature
( Vast beds of almost pure chalk have
been discovered in Western Kansas.
OH the Kansas Pacific railroad. They
are building houses Of it ip Trego.
What 10 you think OF an unbrokcn
furrow, six miles long That is what
you can see any day by going 10 Elm
River. Cal, where Messrs Dalrymple
and Grandin are breaking prairie.
The teams start in the morning and
make one ronnl across sn entire town
ship aud back Twelve milcs) before din.
ner, and the same in the aiternoon,-
twenty -four miles truyel tor each team
every day. All for wheat next year.
The Oldest "pair Of twins" in the
! United States are said to reside in
Plaitsyille, in the persons Of Messrs.
John aud Michael Stevens They arc
over seyenty-nine years Of age, and arc
still bale aud hearty with the prospect
of living many years.
Don't talk about Your war record
where there are young boys An old
r.,eran ,raa r..iafiu0 l,s ax,lo;,s A..