Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1877-05-26
Editorial Brevlties.

brisk. There are 240 men employed
in rebuilding six engines and construct
ing a lot of new hoppers for the bai'i-
more road. There is said to be enough
work to keep the hands busy through
the summer and fall.
Valentines bust of General Albert
Sidney Johnston, ordered by his son,
Colonel William Preston Johnston, OF
Lexington, has attracted good deal OF
attention from those interested In art.
1t is pronounced fine portraiture as
well as strong production of fine art.
A lot of 800 lambs were shipped
from Winchester, Va, to New York
last week, and the average weight was
So pounds.
A decided advance has taken place
in England in almost all United States
railroad bonds recently, and they have
been firmer in tone than the Govern
mcnt securities.
Robert H. Crittenden, son of the late
John j. Crittenden, the old leader OF
the Wing party after the death OF Mr.
Clay, has just been appointed United
States marshal for Kentucky.
A phenomenon is reported from
Naples, Italy. 1t is that for three whole
days in one week there were no births
out of population of 100000 souls.
1t is said by chewing and swallowing
a few leaves of parsley after eating
onions, magic sweetness of the breath
will be obtained.
a ticket from Wheeling to San
Francisco is worth S129.
Besides having to I'll a place (that of
Mr.. Davis on the United States Su-
preme Court bench, the President will
be called upon, by the death on Friday
last, Of Judge Emmons, to appoint
United States judge for the sixth jndlci-
al circuit, composed of the States OF
Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennes-
see.
The Chicago Inter Ocean announ-
ces that it has secured the service of
Mr.. Jesse L. Grant, son of ey-President
Grant, who accompanies his father to
Europe in the capacity of private secre
tary, as correspondent tor that paper
All patents on sewing machines ex-
pired few days ago. Any pcrsoe who
desires can now manufacture any make
of machine. This puts an endto ar i'm
mcnse monopoly.
Forest fires are raging along the
Hudson, in Northern New York, and
in parts of New Hampshire and Penn
sylvania. Much damage has been done
and many families rendered homeless.
The Old Virginia House" that stood
on the Centennial grounds at Philadel-
phia has been taken down, loaded on
cars, and will be sent to Richmond by
its owner Mr.. E. G. Bos,he who has
presented it to the Agricultural Society
of the State, for erection on their
ground.
A widow in Iowa, whose husband
was burned to death while under i'm
prisonment for drunkenness, has obtain
ed a judgement for $4,000 against the
man who sold him liquor.
A report comes from Richmond that
a lioness is believed to be at large in
Hanover CO., and an active hun. is be-
ing made for her 1t is supposed she
escaped from some circus. The animal
is said to have been seen, and much
CONSERVATION prevails among the in
habitants.
a general order TO the Grand Army
of the Republic announces that Gcner-
al Grant has been mustered in as
comrade of George G. Meade, Post, No.
A man innocently spoiled sermon
and prayer by exclaiming, while the
tears rolled down his checks, Lord,
thou knowest | have been an awful sim
ncr-the chief among ten thousand and
one altogether lovely"
The cornerstone Of the monument At
Chattanooga, Tenn, to the Confcder-
ate dead, was laid last Thursday, n de
tachmcnt Of the United States troops
participated in decorating the Confed-
crate graves.
The Russian Telcgraphic Agency
says the American officers in the ser
vice of the Khcdive have refused to
bear arms against Russia. They will
remain in Egypt.
The coming Decoration Day at Get
tysburg promises to be an occasion OF
unusual interest. Gen. Slayton, of that
place, and Gen. Vanderslice, of Phila.
delphia, will deliver orations, and Col.
Ingraham will read poem.
Mr.. Cyrus Ruebush has sold TO Rev.
J. w. Carricofe of Washington Co,
Md, his farm containing 50 acres at
S35 per acre. This farm is about two
miles East OF Stribiug Springs in Au-
gusta Co., Va.
One of the results of the St. Louis
hotel fire is the. proposition that land
lords be compelled by law TO furnish
every room with rope long enough
to reach from the window TO the ground
and strong enough to sustain the weight
of the most corpulent guest.
The will of Anna NJ. Wood, daugh-
ter of Zachary Taylo the hero of the
Mexican war and President of the Uni
ted States, was put on file in the New
York Surrogate's Court Saturday. Mrs.
w God made her will in Halifax, Nova
SCOTS, Nov. "a, 1869, and died in New
York Dec. 90, 1875. The delay in the
probate is owing 10 the fact that the