Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1877-12-03

lipoer on a phaze of my topic SO lntl-
mately connected with thier dearest In
terests for time, not 10 say highest
hopes for eternity, duty to my audience
REQUIRE me to advance,
The speaker then dwelt upon two
other potent toes to integrlty,-obscene
pictures and immoral literature,-both
of which he denounced with unsurpris-
ing severity OF the latter he said that,
! rerhaps, there is no more widespread
evil, nor one more surely undermining
virtue and removing all support from
integrity, than these conscience -deaden-
ing, character corrupting, life polluting.
soul damning, immoral writings and
plays; for whether read in the privacy
o. the family circle, or acted On the
stage in the crowded theatre, the effect
is the samoa moral paralysis, aye,
more, moral putretaction.
pa BRIEFs,-Mr David Billmyer
purchased on Tuesday last, Is head OF
young cattle, from a drover, for which
be paid $500.
If YOU want TO buy bran new Piano,
the best ever manufactured, at several
hundred dollars lower than can be had
elsewhere, call at this office.
| A short discussion was had in the
Senate as to who should be admitted as
a member from South Carolina, Butler,
dem. or Goblin, rep.
AT the old Hampshire dump, near
Piedmont, w. Va, Mrs. Bridget
Hyanes, 65 years old, was drowned
during the recent freshet while attempt
ing to rescue her son, the latter escaP-
ing with his life Mrs. Hyanes's body
was found in the stream about one
mile from Piedmont.
A dispatch from Wheeling, West
Va, says that barge belonging to
Gray's iron line, having on board nearly
nine thousand kegs of nails, struck
pier OF The Bellaire bridge yesterday
and sank.
Mrs. Sayres, the victim of her hus
bands attempt at murder in the Church
of the Ascension, Philadelphia, on Sun
day of last week, still lives in the Penn
sylvania, Hospital.
The South Carolina Legislature met
Tuesday. Owing 10 the large namber
of designations of republican members
and the election of democrats in their
places. both branches of the Legislature
will be strongly democratic. The regu-
lar session of the Virginia Legislature
and the extra session of the Tennessee
Legislature will begin on the 9Th Of
December.
There are between 5000 and 1000
girls making cigars in New York now,
owing to the pending strike Of the
cirgarmakers. The manufacturers de-
clare that the success of the girls is
marvellous, and that if the strike con-
tinues there will not be work for the
strikers in a very few weeks.
Bishop Marvin, one of the prominent
divines in the NJ f. Church South died
at ST. Louis on Monday, aged 60 years.
The Agricultural Fair ground at
OlauutOu IL W W SoIu III tue oeuehe vi
its creditors.
Very little news from the European
war for several days. Both armies are
quiet.
Much damage has been done to the
c. & O. Railroad by the late freshet.
Mr. Culbertson of Williamsport, lost
seventy thousand feet of lumber and
four canal boats by the freshet.
We give a large amount of space this
week to the great freshet. Next week
we will insert our usual variety of read
ing matter
Twenty colored persons were drowned
tn the freshet at Buchanan, on the
James river.
Ifyou want to purchase 4 celebrated
Durham Short horned Bull ( Duke of
Bedford,) years old, which received
certified pedigree premiums at the Mar
tinsburg and Frederick Agricultural
Fairs, at low price, call at this office.
Letters for Miss Jennie Bare, Mrs.
Emile Green, Victoria Howard, &. w.
Mcneil, Miss Maud Malin, Bette Tur-
ner, are in our Post Office
The extra session of Congress is to
hold over until the regular session,
which beg ms on Monday next.
Two children and the sister-iu-law of
John S. Houser, of Mason's Island, near
Leesburg, were drowned by the freshet
which swept over the island Monday.
Two colored men were drowned at the
same time.
Business was generally suspended
here on Thanksgiving Day, and servi-
ces held in the Lutheran Church by
the Pastor Rev. II. G. Holland
From the decisions rendered in the
Supreme Court of Appeals, at Wheel
ing, on Tuesday, we copy: "Strode
VS.. Boteler, Jefferson county, super
sedeas allowed. Bond 1880"
BY fall in the roof Of the Borden
mine, near Frostburg, Nd, Monday,
two miners were imprisoned. Hundreds
of men have been engaged in digging
for them, and On Tuesday evening were
supposed to be very near them.
During the gale on the New Jersey
coast last Saturday twenty barrels OF
coal oil were picked up near Fullerton.
The Commission of Agriculture has
returns which indicate that England
will have to bay lO0,000000 bushels Of
b,ot The yaap nuin., N lioannnint.