Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-11-04
Editorial Brevities.

seven years ago.
The Russian Government has con-
tracted with a Springfield firm for 90
900 revolvers.
The man who paid $4,000 for the
privilege ofpopping corn and selling it
at the Centennial, is now clearing three
hundred dollars day.
Pat had been engaged to kill a turtle
for q neighbor, and proceeded imme-
diately to cut off its head. Pats atten-
ton was called to the fact that the tur-
tie still crawled about, though it had
been decapitated, and he explained
"Sure the baste is entirely dead, only he
is not yet conscious Of it."
In Baltimore on Sunday an un-
known miscreant went into a stable
and cut the tongue out of the mouth
OF valuable horse.
Willie Lyman, aoout 9 years ola,
was killed at Cumberland, Saturday,
by being struck by a telegraph pole
which broke from its fastening while
being put up. The boys head was
horribly crushed.
A lady in London got the idea in
her head that the devil was in her,
and hung hersef. If women go to
hanging themselves for little thing
like that, they are going to be scarce,
that's all.
DR.. Buckler Jones was arrested in
Baltimore last night on warrant
charging him with causing the death
of Matte Roberts, young girl resid-
ing in East Baltimore, by producing
abortion.
At a sale of short-horned cattle at
Winchester, kentucky, on Friday last,
full prices were obtained, ranging from
$1,000 to $3,40O each, aggregating
$4,000.
John Jones, of Pendletou, has un-
earthed in his meadow stone knife
about eight inches long, in the shape OF
an Indian arrow head. The News says
it resembles in shape the pike used by
John Brown and his band of fanatics in
their raid upon Harpers Ferry.
A sister of the late ex- President Polk
died few days ago,at Columbia, Tenn.
She was the last surviving member OF
her immediate family which consisted
of nine brothers and sisters, President
Polk being the eldest
Rev. C. NJ. Howard, the Evangelict,
is holding a series Of meetings at Front
Royal in Warren County.
Corcoran, the Washington banker,
has given five thousand dollars TO the
University of Virginia.
The census takers of the Young Mems
Christian Association Of Jersey City re-
ports that there are "thirty.fve saloons
to each church in that city" Why a
church should have so many saloons is
something we cant understand.
Where a bankrupt's assets, though
equal to 80 per cent. of his debts, were
ali covered by his homestead eIemp-
ton, the United States Circuit Court
for the eastern district Of Virginia de-
sides, reserving the judgment below,
that he is not entitled to q discharge.
Wasn't it rough on Ellen, just as she
was telling Fredrick, at lunch, how
ethereal her appetite was, to have the
cook bawl out, "Say will have yer pork
and greens now, or wait till yer fellers
gone :"
Ladies bet on horse races at Sarato-
GA. When they loose hundred dol
lars, they cry so softly and beautifully
that the winner refunds it.
We learn that the old "Buckeye
Blacksmith" is again on the war path
and hard at work, hammering nails for
Hayer' coffin.
When you see young man with
new plug tile, white necktie, and a
shawl on his arm, promenadiug with
a triumphaut-looking girl wearing
orange blossoms in her hat, you can
make up your mind that he is fresh
victim.
Partridge shooting is good about Mar
tinsburg. a whole flock flew into the
town last Tuesday among the houses,
being frightened by the gunners in the
country.
Mrs. Anne White was run over by an
engine of the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road at Locust Point, Baltimore, Friday
last, and instantly killed. She was 80
years old, and leaves six children.
A Welsh widow, as she was turning
away from her dead husbands open
grave, received a whispered offer OF
marriage but she softly replied that she
had already accepted another offer as she
was going into the church.
A witness for the prosecution of a
murderer WAS thus questioned By his
Honor: "You say you saw the man
shot at and killed ?" eyes, sir" 'You
said, think, that the charge struck the
deceased on bis body, between the dia-
phragm and the duodenum 7" "No, sir;
/ didn't say no such thing | said he
was shot between the hog-pen and the
wood-house ~
Monroe county was promised to Goff
by seven hundred majority. 1t goes for
Mathews by four hundred. A blunder
of eleven hundred in a vote oftwo
thousand is fair illustration of the
sagacity of the average West Virginia
Republican politician.
The best and most influential repub'