Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1877-10-13
Editorial Brevities.

Sluid UdlloOluS, 10 g" tSO
statistics for the temperance reformerS:
The Richmond bell-punches registered
in seventeen days 25a, 900 drinks. What
a thirsty city!
\ loan of 100000 has been pegotia-
ted by Governor Mathews for The use
of the State, with the bank OF Wheel
ing, for the term of six months, at Z $40
per cent.
Tuesday last Mr.. Silas Corbin of Par
is, Kentucky, sold at Hagers,own, Md,
a herd of Durham cattle, consisting OF
a COW, FIVE heifers and eight bull calves,
the cow bringing Sl65, the heiters from
S775O to 500 and the calves $49,5O
to 500.
II is estimated that 100000 persons
have died from the effects of the famine
in the Madras presidency, India, during
the present year.
1t is said about thousand squirrels
crossed the river several miles below
Cumberland one day last week, and
disappeared in the woods of this State.
Eighty thousand cattle are to be
shipped in one lot from Tyler, Texas.
A child in Pepperell, Mass, who had
a sure on the lip caused by diptheria,
was kissed by two little girls recently,
one of whom died of the disease in a
few hours, and the other soon after.
A terrible cyclone has been prevail
ing in the Gulf of Mexico. The rice
crop is damaged thirty per cent and in
Louisiana houses aud barns have been
blown down, and the sugar cane much
injured.
An exchange says the woman who
has the moral courage to appear in pub
lie clad in a dress of suitable length
ore that she does not grab by the bot
tom and hold up, is deserving of honor
able mention.
The visit OF the Indian delegation to
Washington cost the country $4,000.
1t is very questionable whether that
much good will he derived from it.
A very large export trade in fresh
beef has sprung up this year, besides
butter, cheese and lard, ard now de-
mand is made for eggs. England i'm
ported eggs last year to the value of
thirteen million dollars. There is evil
IDENTIFY good times ahead tor the
farmers and stock raisers.
A correspondent of the Germantown
Telegraph claims TO have raised nine
hundred and ten bushels of Early Rose
potatoes on two acres of ground.
. William g. Schley, prominent law
YER Of Baltimore, aud man Of high
social standing, has been arrested aud
held in bond to answer the charge OF
rape, committed on sewing girl in bis
house during the absence OF his family.
Col. David II. Armstrong, wheel
horse Of the Missouri democracy, has
been appointed United States Senator
to fi!l the vacancy created by the death
of Mr.. Bogy.
A woman's Congress is to be held in
Cleveland, Ohio, on the 10th inst. The
object is woman's interests and womaDs
rights. Look out for strong Dlinds,
baritone voices, pin-backs, and boomers.
Old bachelors and whisky stand from
under. Mrs. Tom Ri-Jon and Mary
Walker, dressed en- suite, will, no doub:,
be there. Give us liberty or give US
death.
A farm near Warrenton Junction sold
last week for two dollars an acre, and
one near HopeweU for four dollars an
acre. With such cheap lands, so eligi-
bly, situated for health and the advanta-
ges of markets, we don't See the neces-
sity for people out of employment to
emigrate either TO the West or South.
Men who complain of hard times,
wtep asked TO subscribe for home
paper, should bear in mind that those
from whom they borrow it also feel the
hard times.
Mrs. Eliza Mosber, motber-in-law Of
the late Hugh Caperton, died at her
residence, in Georgetown, last Satur-
day evening, aged 81 years.
Samuel Stickney. of Waterloo, Iowa,
Rugged a girl so hard that revolver
in his pocket was discharged, seriously
wounding boy who was passing the
gate where the pair stood.