Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-03-04
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E. j. Willis, of the Broaddus Female
Institute, Winchester, has closed that
institution, and transferred his boarding
pupils 10 Clarksburg, w. Va, where
he has Z very fiattering prospect OF sue
cess.
The Centennial bill was signed by
the President with a pen made OF
quill from the wing Of an American
Eagle"
There is yet hope for the women.
The Kentucky Legislature has elected
Mrs Bush as Librarian for the State.
The Changers now number l,45O,-
OO0 in the United States, at least halt
of whom are voters.
Look out, country Editors ! There
are counterfeit $500 notes IN circu!a-
ton. Who's afraid ?
1t is getting so bad in Washington,
that a bill has been introduced IN the
House of Representatives in Congress
to provide for al Inebriate Asylum at
that place.
"What do they always put d: G.
after Washington for 2 asked old Mrs.
Quilp OF MI Q. why, my darling,
don't you know Nv ashington, the
Daddy OF his Country"
The late Reverdy Johnson leaves y
children, about fifty grandchildren, and
several great. grandchildren, nearly all
of whom were present at the annlver-
sary of his golden wedding on Nov. 10,
1869.
A citizen of Berkeley Springs denies
that CROOKED whiskey" has taken the
place of 'snaiks. He says it basn' tbeen
week since he saw lots of the reptiles.
An exchange says, that amid the gen
eral reductions OF wages i'll these times,
there is one thing whose wages is not
in the least reduced-and that il sin.
The Wheeling Daily Evening Stan
dard denies that Hon G. J. Faulkner
has purchased controlling interest in
that psper.
A Vermont girl eloped in boys cloth
ing. She evidently pants" for matri
mony.
1t is rumored that Colonel MAIDEN
bousch has purchased the Stewart
House, Martinsburg.
Senator Davis has succeeded in dis
covering another ''irregularity" in the
system of book keeping in the Pension
Bureau, which promises to be larger
''mare's uest" than the one he found in
the Treasury Department.
General Gideon J. Pillow has filed
petition in bankruptcy at Memphis,
Tenn, assigning among other causes In
the petition The fact that he is held re-
sponsible personally for his acts as a
major general in the late war.
+. II. Eccles, missing New York
Broker, has turned up in Canada,
where he is collecting assets. 1t is
alleged that he failed to account for
the sale of bonds (S3O,000 intrusted to
him by bank in Wheeling, West va.
a meeting of the Democratic State
Executive Committee is called at Par
kerSbOrg on the 9th of March, when
the time for holding the State Conven-
ton will be fixed
Justice" in the Charleston Courier,
suggests Ex-Treasurer Burdett for the
House Of Delegates. ls.
The Democracy of the keystone
State are earnestly talking Of pushing
the claims CT Judge jeremiah 5. Black,
in the St. Louis Convention.
Gen. Babcock and Levi p. Luckey
have resumed their duties at the execu-
tive mansion.
The widow of the eccentric Peter
Cartwright, the Methodist Episcopal
preacher, died very suddenly in re-
iigious meeting in Pleasant Plains, Ill,
few days ago.
The matrimonial market is dull.
Boys are shy and the girls dent seem
to know that it is leap year.
John F. Wall, Esq, the veteran leg
islator from Frederick CO., (Va..) says
the dog law has been more destructive
to politicians than to dogs
The Parkersburg Times asks: "How
would w. Tweed do for President 2
Ask-us something hard. He wouldn't
do at AL, He was caught at his yillainy
too easy. 80 -, - =
~ A colored member of the Virginia
Legislature from Dinwiddie county,
has beer expellen fnr stealino. sbo. mar