Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1877-12-22
Editorial Brevities.

she has refused an offer Of 1000 for it.
Brigham Youngs grave is said 10 be
watched day and night by Mormons
living for the purpose in tents near the
spot,
Judge Jackson, in charge to the
grand jury in his court at Parkersburg,
this State, last week, said he had been
Judge of this court for seventeen
! years, and at no time since he had been
ON the bench has there been SO much
lawlessness and crime in the State.V
Before the war the fashionable styles
in ladies' dress reminded one of an UNI
brella hoisted, Now they remind us OF
an umbrella let down and buttoned.
A certain young lady in town was
heard 10 remark that "kissing man
without moustache, was like eating a
soft bpiled egg without salt / She
acknowledges that she knows all about
j.,
Fl. c. Baker and Rev, E. A, Wallis,
of Frederick county, Md, have Purchas-
ed the steam tannery of j. A. Lawen-
back, at Harrisonburg, Va, tor the
sum of $4,000.
The salary of the postmaster OF Win
chester, Va, has been readjusted by the
Postoffice Department and fixed at 81
900 per annnm instead of $500 as
heretofore,
A gentleman at dinner party was
seated next young miss. He asked
her if she was fond Of ethnology. She
said she was, but she was not very well,
and the doctor had told her not to eat
anything for dessert except oranges.
The bones of Christopher Columbus,
which were supposed to be resting in
peace at Havana in the ever faithful
isle of Cuba, have been discovered and
identified in San Domingo. and our
consul there has transmitted to the
State department an account OF their
discovery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wade, of Allentown,
Pa, has been blessed with eight chill
dren within IL years. All bore on the
nlrth of July. Patriotic.
The friends. of the silver bill are now
confident that the Senate as well as the
House will be able to pass the measure
With some slight modification even
without The approval Of the President.
This is good news
Trueman Pratt, colored, the recog-
niZed founder of Orchard Street NJ. Z.
Church, Baltimore, died last Saturday
night at the advanced age of 1902 yrs.
He was a former slave of Col. Howard,
of revolutionary fame.
Wells and Smith, commissioners,
will sell the Alexandria and Fredericks-
burg Railway, with all of its stock and
appurtenances, in Alexandria, Va, on
the 18th day of February next.
James OFT, aged seventy. four, and
Sedwick Wells, aged seventy. six, both
of Temperanceville, Allegheny county,
Pa, will run foot race of fifty yards
the day before Christmas, for purse OF
forty dollars.
Ballard Drake, postmaster at Ten
Mile, Lincoln county, West Virginia,
has been arrested and placed in the Bar
louisville Jail, on charge of robbing
the mails. The charge is that he cap
tured $500 package mailed by w. Il.
Thompson to parties in Chapmanville,
to buy stock with. The arrest was
made by United States Marshal Patton.
There was quite fight in the Vir-
ginia Legislature on Saturday over the
public debt. The forcble readjusters
are in the majority. and they propose to
say how the deb: shall be settled, if
settled at all. A personal difficulty
came near taking place between Messrs.
Daniels, Harrison and Anderson. No
blood was shed.
Col. Michael G. IIarman, of Stanton,
Va, died very suddenly Monday morn
ing of apoplexy, on the Chesapeake and
Ohio express train, ell route from that
place to Richmond. He had been in
apparently perfect health up to within
few hours of his death. Deceased
leaves wife and several children. He
was n prominent citizen, being presi-
dent ola canal packet line, railroad
contractor and head of a stage line in
the Valley, and held other positions of
trust. He was So years old.
John Muth, for many years an en-
ployee of the B. & o. r. r., at Martins
burg, and well-known to the citizens of
Martinsburg, died recently in California,
where he had gone about two years
ago in hope of lettering his worldly
fortune.
Congress proposes to appropriate
S65,000 to the rebuilding of William
and Mary College, Virginia, destroyed
by the Federal forces during the war.
Senator Hoar of Massachusetts, has de-
clared himself strongly in favor of the
appropriation.
The $50 members of the two houses
of congress include 239 lawyers. nine
teen bankers, seventeen merchants, fif-
teen editors, twelve farmers and plant
ers, twenty physicians, seven manufac-
lures, five officers of railroads, and five
school teachers.
CDR" Joseph Walker, the. vinegar
bitters man, who confesses to an income
of 100000 year, has been arrested
in New York tor refusing to support his
wife.
The verdict of Washington county
(Md) jury, imposing fine of 5000 on
John Nj. Mentzer, editor and proprie-
tor of the Boonsboro Odd Fsiiow, in ia