Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1877-05-05

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bills then.
Mr.. Hartzell sent off several wagon
loads of axe handles, to New York, last
week, Business looking up.
We are glad to learn that Col. Ward
Lannon's chances foy Governor Of New
Mexico are exceedingly good.
John T. Welshans, of the firm oil
Rickard & Welshans, is in the city pur-
chasing new goods.
A Sunday School was organized at
Liberty Grove, on Sunday week; John
w. Holiday was elected Superintend-
ell, and w. n. Lemen, Assistant.
Wednesday, the 30th, instant, has
been appointed as National Decoration
day.
1t is said that Wheeling manufactur-
ers supply one-half the mails in the Uni
ted States.
An old bachelor wag intimates that
narrow-gauge dresses don't look well
on broad gauge women.
The present style of dress is so tight,
remarks the Wheeling Leader, that
nearly every fashionable woman has a
corn on her knee-cap. How you know!
The Spring is now fairly opening,
with great Towering CT our fruit trees,
indicative of fine crop, if no after dis
aster occur.
Samuel 3. Aver, living at one time
at or near Harper's Ferry, Va, will
confer favor by sending his present
address to L. Bursley, Washington, d.
Dogs are coming all the way from
Europe for entry at the dog exhibition
to take place at the hippodrome, New
York, early in May. A few could be
spared from this place.
Cardinal red parasols will be carried
this summer, and, contemporary says,
it will be difficult to distinguish wom-
an from a meteor three blocks away.
Lee surrendered twelve years ago,
but according to Ben Butler the New
England Methodists are still unwilling
TO make peace.
DR.. Mary Walker says she can kick a
chip off Anna Diekinsons shoulder
without blushing. Mary has never been
accused of being one of the blushing
kind.
Ross Winans who died recently in
Baltimore leaves an estate worth about
thirty millions.
Tennessee has already $4,000 dogs,
and there are not sheep enough to go
around.
a South Carolina mans nose was
kicked off by COW.
About 1000 stogies are daily manu-
featured at our penitentiary:
To clear colts, calves, or any stock Of
any kind of vermin, wash them we'll in
buttermilk two or three times.
Ex-President Davis is residing at
Mississippi City, Miss. Mr.. Davis is
enjoying good health and is at present
engaged in preparation of his Memoirs.
The West Virginia editors have got
the State Capitol of, its feet, and are
tossing it from one to another all over
the State.
a New York girl sang, Darling 1
am growing old" with an expression so
pertinent and truthful that her procras-
tinating lover left for good.
a well-moulded arm is prettier with
out bracelets; besides, they are liable to
scratch a fellows ear. One of our jours
says so.
The extra session of Congress will
commence June 18th.
Somebody writes to a rural paper to
ask show long cows should be milked?"
Why, the same as short COWS, of course.
You can hardly pass single house
without hearing the noise of tack
hammer or the housekeepers shrill voice
yelling 10 the help to hurry up with the
scrubbing brush.
Sheriff Baker and Deputy Sheriff
Morgan left Charlestown on Sunday
evening, 22nd ult., for Moundsville, hay-
ing in custody VIM. Colston, colored,
sentenced to Penitentiary for six years.
Mr.. A. G. Wynkoop, of HedgesyilIe,
who has lately finished his law studies,
intends to leave old Berkeley in a few
weeks, to take up his residence in
Frostburg, Md.