Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1877-05-26
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We regret to learn that the fly is
damaging some of the wheat fields be-
tween here aud Kearneysvills.
Col. w. w. Forbes, native OF
Buckingham. Va, has been appointed
Postmaster at Richnond, Va, vice
Miss Van Lew removed.
Maurice Hopewell, colored bar
Der of Martiusburg, we'll known in
this community died suddenly last
week,
The Confederate graves will oe de-
corated here on Saturday next, 2nd Of
June, at 2 o'clock.
We invite attention to the card OF
DR.. d, W. Border. We are glad TO
learn he has been quite successful SO
far, in his practice.
Col. John W. Grantham, of this
County, has been appointed one OF the
Directors of the State Insane Asylum,
at Weston,
The Confederate graves at Charles
town will be decorated on Saturday the
9th of June.
Maj. S. w, Downer, who was clerk
at the narper's Ferry armory before the
war, died at Huntington, w. Va, a few
days ago. He had been the editor OF
the Advertiser there.
The Cumberland Alleganian says:
zone of our prominent railroad officials
is said to have asserted that within
three years the canal will be dry ditch.
We trust the wish is father to tho
thought,
Thursday, the 10th of May, was the
anniversary of the death of Gen, T. J.
Jackson.
All our exchanges represent the crop
prospects never better.
Linen coats and straw hats have made
their appearance.
Does anything in the world more
closely resemble a streak of lightning
than the flash of a woman's eye when
YOU tread OH the train of her party
dress.
Even if boy is always whistllng 4
want TO be an angel it is just as well to
keep the preserved pears on the top
shelf of the pantry.
Mr.. John Daily, of Oakland, is can
didate for doorkeeper Of the House OF
Representatives.
A youthful Granger about to be chas-
tised by his father the other day, called
for his grandfather to protect him from
the middleman.
The local editor Of the Wytheville
Enterprise has found woman who has
written letter and didn't put up. S.
to it, and intimatcs that she would make
model wife for any man.
National Decoration Day-h1ay 30th
is coming to the front. Let it be
properly observed.
Those who do wrong to their neigh
bors, do a much greater wrong to their
own souls.
The bright, warm sunshine, has
brought out the ladies in full force, and
many of them are investing in ga love
of bonnet"
Mrs. Stowe says We never know how
much We love until we unlove. Har-
riet, your head is horizontal,
Rhode Island will never be afflicted
with grasshoppers. There is not room
there for them to make more than one
jump.
A Russian colonel gets about s40o a
wear, about as much as a section man
gets on railroad.
Merchants who sell any kind of pat
cnt medicine must take out druggists
license.
Young man you must stop smoking
that cigar of an evening, when prom
enading with young ladies. 1t is not
gentlemanly, nor is it etiquette, it may
be fashionable, but it is not nice.
Mr. James 3. Washington, late Sec
rotary of the Wheeling, Pittsburg and
Baltimore Railroad Company, has been
elected to the position Of President of
that corporation. Mr.. w. is from this
county, and son of the late Col. Lewis
w. Washington.
Nobody drove Packard and Chamber
lain out The Federal authority step
ped from under them, and they dropped
out.
There are twenty-three Democratic
Governors in the United States.
1t would be well if our town fathers
were to take walk through some of
the alleys, and see their condition.