Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1877-03-31
Editorial Brevitfcs.

! town had tnree lalIeuluE mugs loAou
out of the pen and butchered in one Of
his fields, and MIR. ]. Tabb. Snodgrass,
few days ago, had bis meat-house
broken open and number OF pieces
taken therefrom. rff 49,.
An exchange says: ait is not good
taste for young men to stay after ten
o'clock when visiting young ladies.
Most young men fail to detect the diff
terence in the taste after ten o'clock.
Rumors are current that negotiations
are in progress to compromise all the
ring suits in New York, and it is be-
! lieyed that Tweed will before many
DAYS walk out of Ludlow street Jail
! free man.
Negro entranchisement has turned
out TO be two edged sword. First 1t
was used to humiliate the whites OF the
South, now it is to them bulwark OF
strength.
A Kentucky editor remarks that
ninety-nine out of a hundred people
make great mistake when they cut of
dogs tail, in throwing away the
wrong end.
1t is announced from Washington
that the distribution OF seeds by the
Agricultural Bureau has ceased for the
season, except to those districts OF the
! West which were afflicted with grass
hopptrs in 1876, and for which a special
appropriation was made oy Congress
short time before the close Of the scs-
sion.
That little creature, the potato bug,
is just now occupying the attention OF
| Europe A dozen or so of them have
been discovered in Ireland, and the
whole British nation is in tremor for
fear that the Irish potato will become
lost crop.
Miss Edith May, who was saved
from drowning by Mr. Montant, when
the yacht Mohawk capszed last sum-
mer, is going to marry her preserver-
case of poetic justice She is sister
OF Miss May, the young lady about
whom duel is said 20 have been
fought.
"Why," said he, referring to Hayes,
''the id tool wouldn't have been
President at all but for me; it was |
that gave him the votes of South Caro-
lima, Florida and Louisiana" And we
think Zach spoke the truth.
Col. Fred. Holiday, of Frederick
county, is looming up as the next
Democratic candidate for Governor OF
Virginia. He is an elegant gentleman,
without fear or reproach, and would
make good Governor
The Ladies Memorial Association of
New Market, have invited Gen. John
Echols to deliver the address at the an
niversary Of the battle Of New Market,
which takes place On the 18th Of May.
The explosion of mogul engine
took place at Heyser The person killed
was Austin Spicer, the fireman. George
Ward, engineer, and Carol, breakman,
were all more or less injured, but not
fatally. Mr.. Spicer leaves wife and
one child
Mr.. John T. Ford, of Baltimore, and
Mrs Edwin Booth had very pleasant
interview of social nature onl with
the President and Mrs. Hayes, recently.
The President spoke in complimentary
terms 10 Mrs. Booth of her talented
husband-who has never been i'll Wash
ington since Lincoln's assassination.
Oliver J. Meade, a former Peters
burger, in writing to his friends in that
city of his marriage i'll California, thus
tersely describes his bride: "She has
head as red as woodpeckers, and
owns sheep until you can't rest.
r. S. Parks, formerly Common
wealth's attorney of Page county, who
was convicted in the United States
Court at Harrisonburg in May last on
the charge Of forgery. and who was
sent to the United States prison at
Moundsville, w. Va, last fall, was par
doned by President Grant just before
he retired from the presidency.
Mr.. James Irvine, the great sheep
farmer of Los Angeles county, Cal, in
tends to kill thirty-nine thousand sheep
on account of the drouth which prevails
in that region. He owns altogether
foIty-tive thousand sheep, and one hun
dred and seven thousand acres of land.
BREAKING OF REsERvoIR.-The
reservoir dam at Stafford, Connecticut,
gave way Wednesday morning, ard
the water swept everything before 1t.
Thirty houses were destroyed, ont the
inhabitants made their escape. Loss
one million of dollars.