Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1877-09-15
Editorial Brevitiess

knows DOW many enhoien ~ o
lis loss.
The papers relate a beautiful anec-
dote of a beautiful young lady, who
had become blind, having recovered
her sight after marriage. 1t is no I'M
common thing for peoples eyes to be
opened by matrimonSe IL sas-
egsSnow tell in Bland 1Cnnty, Ma one
day las: week.
The Augusta, Va, Agricultural Fair
will commence the 9th of October and
continue four days, at Stanton.
"Youug man, keep away from the
large cities" was the advice OF Horace
Greeley during his lite. His words are
particularly applicable just now. The
cities are oyercrowGed, and men seek
work in vain.
Brigham Young did not have one
really handsome wife. The old man
evidently had better health than taste.
Mrs. Samuel Tyree, OF Charleston,
w. Va, has consented to take the
Roanoke College Boarding House, at
Salem, Va.
Rev. J. W. Dungee, of Richmond,
Virginia, colored, has sold 1900 copies
of the Southern history Of Anderson
vile prison.
A man who had scolding wife be
ing asked what he did for living, re-
Piled that he kept hot house.
The Cincinnati Saturday Night init
mates that the death of Brigham \ Dung
has glutted the widow market.
The Main election which took place
on Monday, resulted in q republican
victory by reduced majority.
Anderson Shiffiet, who is to be hung
on the 18th OF September, was married
in the Jail on Monday last, to Susan
GLADDEN..
The Deer Park Hotel was closed
Wednesday, but the Oakland Hotel
will be kept open until the hrst OF Dc
tober.
There is some talk OF drawing AL the
arms to which this State is entitled from
the general government and storing
them in the State Armory, for convent
ence Of distribution. 1t is sand that
nineteen volunteer companies are now
in process of organization.
Brigham Young might have saved
deal of trouble by leaving all his pro-
perty to 90 toward founding an orphan
ASYLUM. Then they needn't TO have
gone ontside of his own family to find
the orphans either.
A Tilton subscriber writes to ask if
we know how TO prevent hogs dying
with the ,olcra. We do not, unless il
is to kill the pigs before the cholera
comes round.
Young men who are afraid TO marry
in consequence of the expense of house
Keeping, should reflect on Brigham.
who died worth two millions, in spite
of nineteen wives and sixty children.
Young men, getting married is like
voting-commence early.
Mr.. John w. Horror, of the Par
kersburg Sentinel, who died last week,
was one of the best known Of the news
paper men of the State, having taken
prominent part in politics before and
since the war. He was man Of kind
ly and generous impulses, and number
ed many warm friends among his large
acquaintance.
Alvin Adams the Express man, was
not worth dollar in 1910. lie then
employed one man and a boy. The
business now employs fifteen thousand
people, and last week carried III one day
$27,O00,000 in money.
The reunion of the Smith family at
Peapack, n. j., took place the 9Th.
There were FIVE thousand persons pre-
sent, all presumably Smiths, and every
thing passed off in the most pleasant
manner. The day was bright, the din
ner long, and the speeches short.
A Washington dispatch to the Rich
mond State announces that President
Hayes, on Wednesday, informed coIh-
mittee from Richmond, that if agreea.
BILE to the authorities and citizens he
would make visit TO that city at the
State fair, which takes place in the last
week in October.
The McCue farm, near Mt. Scion,
Augusta county, Va, has been pnrchas
ed by J. ii. Todd at $92.5O per acre.
Z. L. Stanton, son of the late Secre-
tary Stanton, died in Washington city,
a few days since after brief illness.
Simeon Garnett, a colored man, who
made an assault on Mrs. Kingrey, a
white woman, at Oxford, Ohio, on Sat
urday, was taken out of Jail, and shot
by the mob, on Monday. All the lynch
ing Of negroes, it appears, is not in the
South.
The Baltimore Gazette would like to
see the courts definitely settle the ques-
ton whether mob of communists has
any right to forcibly close up the work
shops CT an entire city just because it
doesn't want to work itself.
On Saturday last, the fine farm own
ed by Gen. James II. Carson, west of
Newtown, near Winchester, containing
some three hundred acres, was sold at
public auction in Wincherter, at s35. so
per acre. Purchaser, Mr.. White.
In Louisa county, Virginia, last week
Miss Kunckles died after a painful
illness. Her sister came into the room
where the body was lying and threw
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