Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1877-07-14


and out of his mouth, and hold soon
ventions" on his nose.
1t is easier for camel to go thro' the
eve OF needle than to bust ur love
affair when both parties are agreed.
The Rev. II. G. Bowers, who has
been pastor of the Lutheran Church at
Jefferson, Frederick county, Md, for
the past twenty years has rendered his
resignation to the congregations OF mis-
charge. The resignation is to take
effect on or before the lst day of April,
1878.
The scarcity OF small change has be-
come a serious inconvenience.
The local editor of the Butler Eagle
reported a high toned wedding, and
said the brides trosseau was the love
Hest he ever saw. The printer set it
ND 'strowsers," and since that time
there has been two vacancies on that
paper,
The cucumber season has get in and
a man is walked up at two o'clock IN
the morning, after dreaming that an
elephant is sitting on his equator, to
experience ID regret that he had not at
tended church more regularly in his
youth.
Cincinnati had white whale and it
died. She has also white elephant III
the shape of sixteen million railroad
debt and no railroad to show for it, but
it refuses to die. 1t lives to plauge
her.
Man glories in his strength; woman
glories in her hair Butter glorieS in
both,
During the storm of Thursday even
ing of last week, the lightning struck
and killed five fine sheep belonging to
Col, Frank Silver, near Gerardstown.
The police of Kansas towns have
orders 10 shoot all potato bugs found
running at large without muzzle on.
A small dish of charcoal placed in
the meat larder will keep the articles
sweet and wholesome almost as well as
ice.
Mosquitoes are beginning to spend
sieepless nights, keeping company for
equally sleepless human beings-same
old song-same old look-same old
bite.
Ladies', the best way to beauty the
hand is to put a quarter in it and then
shake hands with some suffering fellow
creature.
Blessed is the man who never says
his mothers pies were better than his
wifes are,
Farmers all agree that TIE corn crop
is coming out most wonderfully.
a Detroit optician advertises eye
glasses that "curl carelessly and cutely
around the cookedest nose in creation"
The poorest girls in the world are
those who have never been taught to
work. There are thousands of them.
A little son Of Capt. John A. Russell,
boatman on the Chesapeake & Ohio
canal, was drowned in the Potomac
last Friday near Sir Johns Run.
The thunder storms so far this season
have eclpsed in destructive fury any
thing within the memory of that sagest
of weather oracles, the oldest inhabi-
tant.
Miss Lemon is the belle of an Iowa
town. All the young men are DESTROYS
Of squeezing her.
Our farmers are all done harvesting,
and look as pleasant as though they
had each discovered gold mine on
their farms.
Berkeley Springs will show her babies
on 25th inst. Those who are babyless
will leave town on that day.
Mosquitoes are looking over their
collection of hymns, psalms and spiritual
songs, preparatory to an early opening
of campmeeting exercises.
Mr.. Adam Fulk of Berkeley county
has a turkey hen that layed an egg,
which when Matched out brought forth
two turkeys, one white and the other
black.
On the farm of Robert s. Flagg, near
Vancleavesville, Thomas Flagg, Jr.,
and Geo. Henry cut "a acres of wheat
in one day and three quarters, averag-
ing over - acres each.
During the heavy storm of Thursday
evening of last week Mr.. Geo. Fuller,
of Berkeley, had two cows killed by
lightning, and many fields OF corn were
cut to pieces by hail in the vicinity of
Arden
There are three candidates for Coun-
ty Superintendent of Free Schools, in
Berkeley-W. b. Colston, c. U. Thorn
burg, and Capt. E. NJ. Walker.
The address delivered at the Com.
mencement of Capt. Kable's Academy,
Charlestown, last week by Hon. James
II. Grove, of this county, is highly spo-
ken of by the Charlestown papers.
According to the latest returns re-
ceived at this office, Major Harry Sheetz,
the veteran tramping jour printer, was
at Elkton, Md.
During a heavy thunder storm on
Thursday evening of last week, the res
| licences of Rev. J. s. Kieffer and Mr..
Thomas G. Robertson, of Hagerstown,
were struck with lightning. Very little
damage
Mr.. H. c. Gehr, prominent citizen
of Hagerstow and real estate agent,
died on Thursday of last week aged Sc