Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1877-11-24
Editorial ISrevities.

House the other day to invite Mrs.
HAYES and the children to the show,
and took occasion TO say that he would
rather be circus than President; but
Barnum is a notorious humbug.
The civilians Farm in Washing
ION County, Nd, PIG acres, has been
sold to Nathaniel Mumma for $4,000.
Charley Valland;ngham, the only son
CT the late brilliant Clement L. Vallan-
dineham,is after the scalp of Hon. Geo.
I II. Pendleton, in the Ohio Senatorial
race. His father was once a candidate
for that position, aud Pendleton didn't
help him.
W. Levin Powell, of Berryville,
Clark county, Va, has been appointed
d doorkeeper of the House of Represen-
tatives and will have in charge the
Diplomatic gallery.
Mr.. Ferguson, fish commissioner,
shipped Monday, by the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad 10000 California salmon,
in fine condition. for the waters of the
/ Upper Potomac. Many of these will
be placed in the neighborhood of Fort
Pendleton; they will be transported by
rail to Oakland and waeoned across.
This is the first shipment from the lot
Of 100000 eggs received about the lst
of October from Prof Baird's camp on
the McCloud river, California.
The Providence Journal, abiding TO
the coming baby show to be held in that
city, says: "a large number of babies
are now ID preparation for the exhibi-
ton" The show probably don't come
off until next fall
Mrs. Francis Alexander, the young
and pretty wife OF Michigan farmer,
eloped with q circus performer named
Dale. After travelling some distance with
him. she was overcome with remorse
and committed suicide by taking pois-
on. a good example.
The Keyser Echo notes that Judge
Armstrong recently charged the grand
jury of the Mineral county, West Vir-
ginia, court that the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad company, like any individual, is
Liable to indictment for laboring at its
usual calling on Sunday.
Two great discoveries have been made
in social science. The woman who
does not know how 10 hold baby does
not deserve to have one. And the same
is true Of her tongue. But who ever
heard of woman who did not know
how to hold both to perfection.
Charley Ross father has expended
100000 in his searches, and made about
800 fruitless journeys lie is now poor,
his business having gone TO naught
through neglect, and he has engaged as
travelling salesman.
1t is stated that the conyicts in the
penitentiary Of this State are in a turbu-
lent condition, plot having been dis
covered for a general uprising. Up
wards of 800 couvicis are in this prison,
many of them the most desperate char
acters, and to keep these prisoners in
check a guard of only seventeen men is
employed This force certainly seems
inadequate tor the safe-keeping Of the
convicts.
One of the finest limestone farms in
Clarke CO., Va, was sold the other day
at $50 per acre, not enough to cover
expenses Of putting up the buildings by
which it was improved.
Theodore Tilton, who swore in court
that Beecher had debauched his wife is
now said to be making overtures for a
reconciliation. They have strange
condition Of society in the moral North.
1t is stated that ten thousand people
who left Louisiana during the infamous
rule of the carpet-bag scoundrelS, have
returned to take up their permanent res
idence.
Lloyd Logan, Esq, who was one of
the delegates from the Presbyterian
church of Winchester to the Synod,
which lately met at Alexandria, visited
the latter, his native city, for the first
time in forty years.
The dead body Of a negro infant was
found enclosed in pine box on Tues
day morning last, near the 9. V. depot,
in Martnsburg. The infant was sup
posed to have been day old and had
bled to death from the navel.
William /. Vaughn, principal Of
public school ir Covington, Ky, lectur-
ed on The Duty Of Good Example
On the following day he was arrested
for bigamy, deserted wife having ar
rived from Canada.