Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1878-10-19
Editorial Isrevi1ieS.

Editorial Isrevities.
Just before the Rev. A. Ii. Aughe
died on the floor of the evangelical
Lutheran Church i'll Miffiin town, Pa,
during the session of the synod, he laid
an envelope on the window sill, says
the Democrat and Register, and pencil
ed the words: THE sting OF death is
here" lie had placed the envelope IN
a side pocket of his coat and was just
sitting down when death struck him.
During the past week there were
some fifty persons before the United
States Courts ClarkSburg for illicit dis
filling. The Court decided that all
who chose TO give up the apparatus
with which they carried on the manu-
facture Of crooked whiskey, and promis-
ed to abandon the business, would be
ucrmitted 10 return to their tCmes, and
be exempted troy, punishment.
The railroads, especially the trunk
lines running east and west, are dong
AN enormous freight business. TIE
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company, 1t is
said. could easily fad use for one thous-
and additional freight cars. Over 2,ODO
loaded cars passed through Harrisburg
iii one day recently.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says that
at no period siGce 1873 have the pros
meets Of Il renewal of the countryS pros
perity been % bright as at present, and
Philadelphia merchants also state that
bnsiness is much more brisk and prom
ising than it has been since the begin
ming of the panic.
The report from the many yellow
fever districts in the South are still very
untavorable. The death list in the
cities of New Orleans, Memphis and
Vicksburg has diminished somewhat,
bat there are still very many sick and
the suffering is very great, while IN
many small towns untold suffering AID
misery and restitution exist.
The children of Mr.. David Repp,
who lived near Indian Spring, Wash
incton county, were deprived recently
of both father and mother inside OF
twenty-four hours by typhoid fever, Mrs.
Repp dying first aud Mr. kepp lew
hours after.
The Hacerstown News thinks 5000
persous visited Barnum's show at night
IN lIaperstown last week, and fully tour
Thousand IN the day exhibition. And
doubtless some who went aud TOOK Inc
,.wh,le family" will be begging bread
before next Spring.
President Hayes short time since
contributed to the yellow fever sufferers
500. MIR. Tildeu saw him and raised
him $3.50, and now General Grant sees
that and goes $3.50 better, 1t VIII cost
President Hayes s40O to come in.
President Hayes was sc years old
Friday.
Mrs. Mary Glew, the widowed occn-
pant of miserable garnet III Newark,
\. J., is the supposed heiress to five
million property in England.
The Great Eastern, it is said, has been
bought by company for use as a ca'tie
boat TO carry Texas meat TO England.
Her capacity will be 1920 head OF cat
tie and 5000 sheep.
Levi Letter, of the great dry goods
house of Field, Letter d Co., Chicago,
is erecting Reformed church at his
native place, Leitersburg, Washington
county, Md, at a cost Of $4,000.
l, is estimated that the yellow fever
has lost to the people ct the oou'h
s2O0,000,00O.
That old martinez, Gen. Tecumseh
Sherman wanted his son 10 become an
epauletted ''soer," out as Mrs. Tecum-
sch wore the trowsers, she had her way !
and the young man is now studying tor
the ministry.
Rev. II. &. Mcdaniel, Pastor of the
Nj. +. Church at Sharpsburg, Md, re-
ceived a ''surpris ing pounding" one
night last week, by members of his own
church, assisted 10y Lutherans Episcopa-
lians, Reformers, and members of no
church. The pastor and family were
pounded, ham-ed, potatoed, sugared,
sailed, peppered, mustered, and every
thing else in the pound liue, and COM
pletely 'done for.
The oldest woman in the world has !
been heard from. Her name is Mary
Benton, she lives in Elton, Durham
county, England, and is said to be in
her 14oth year.
Mrs. Albert Coleman, Wabash, Ind,
has given birth to a baby Weighing just
a pound and halt, but perfect III every
respect.