Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1877-05-19
Editorial Brevitfes.

Inc General mas lnree daughters now.
A bill has passed the Illinois Legis-
lature authorizing Railroad conductors
to stop trains and put off everybody
playing cards for money or using
obscene language.
Mrs. Sarah Reed Of Cambria county,
Pa, recently made an application for a
pension as a widow of a soldier OF the
war of 1912. The other day she re-
/ ceived over $1,000 from the govern
| ment.
A contemporary says that while all
the rest of the country is rejoicing in
the prospect of an abundant yield OF
wheat, California, promises scarcely
one-sixth of an average crop.
An Iowa paper tells of a smart wife
who helped her husband to raise seven
tv acres of wheat. The way she help
ed him was to stand in the door and
shake a broom at him when he sat
down TO rest.
In the Court Of Shenandoah CO., Va,
last week, in the case of the family Of
VIM. A. Wightman against the Is. d
o. Railroad Co, for damages for the
death of Mr.. Wightman in the Narrow
Passage disaster, ia March, 1876, the
Jury decided upon verdict for $4,000
in favor of the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs
sued for $4,000.
John Hopkins Baldwin, aged 81
years, native of Winchester, Va, and
son of the late DIR. Robt. +. Baldwin,
of that town, committed suicide in Bal
t:more, by shooting himself with pis
tol on 3rd inst. At the time of COM
hitting the deed he was regarded as
Temporarily insane.
c. +. Crittenden, doorkeeper of the
Virginia House of Delegates, charged
with raising pay certificates of mem
bers, was acquitted on Saturday last.
Argument was concluded at 7. L. d.,
Saturday, and the jury, after an absence
of less than ten minutes, returned 4
verdict of mot guilty"
The President says he has no idea OF
making a new party. He is too much
attached to the Republicans. But he
is determined to free the South. This
is the substance Of his last published
conversation.
The Baron Rothschild, who is at the
head of the Vienna firm, is said by the
papers Of that city to possess the trifing
annual income of S3O,000,000. This IL
the small sum Of $4,000 day.
On Saturday about one million
pounds of fresh beef were shipped from
New York for Europe. Large quanti-
ties of grain, amounting TO hundreds
of thousands of bushels, were also ship
on the same day. Ocean freights have
also risen Immediately.
1t is announced that John c. Deck
ard, Of Hagerstown, convicted o. PERU
ry in 1874 aud sentenced TO years in
the peni;entiary, has been pardoned by
Gov Carroll Oh consideration OF leaving
the State, and never returned 10 it.
Another large order for the manufac-
ture Of arms for Turkey has been re-
ceived in Providence, Il. l. Turkey has
been shipping arms from New England
for three years, principally sabres and
rifles.
Francis l.. Smith. Sr., prominent
lawyer of Alexandria, Va, is dead.
Or. WIN. D. jenkins, of Frederick,
who died in that city last week, is be-
lieved TO have been the Oldest Free
Mason in the United States, having
been initiated in 1915, and consequent
ly member for sixty two years.
The Carpet Dagger dies hard. One
Of his number has been preaching to the
colored people of Aiken, ). c., the COLI
Portable doctrine that Mr.. Hayes has
only put Mr.. Hampton into the COVER
ship for eighteen months on trial If
he doesn't answer, Mr. Hayes will then
de,hrone him and reseat Chamberlain.
The collection was then taken up.
The Rev. John Miller was arraigned
before the New Brunswick Presbytery,
in session at Trenton, n. j., last Fri
day, and tried for heresv in protesting
TO disbelieve the Immortality of the soul
and in the doctrine of the Trinity, the
same being inconsistent with his vows
as clergyman Of the Church. He was
found guilty and suspended from the
Minitry.
Under the amended constitution and
the law passed by the Legislature of
Virginia, in pursuance thereof, voters
must present receipt for their capita
ton tax of the preceding year, before
they can enjoy the privilege OF voting
for their favorite candidate. The couu-
ty district elections will take place the
oath instant.
The truth of the proverb "put beg
gar on horseback and he'll ride TO the
devil" was never more glaringly illus
lrated than i'll the case of the negro
Marshal OF the District of Columbia.
We see that last week, the Champion
Reaper and Moving Machine Company
shipped from the factory in Springfield,
Ohio, seveniy-two car loads over the
Central Railroad with 100 Machines,
valued at S27S,0O0, and most of those
were consigned and sold in Pennsylva-
MIA.
Packard says he is now convinced
that when the Psalmist said "put not
your trust in Princes" he knew what
be was talking about, and that by not
bleeding the warning, he (Packard) has