Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1878-10-12
Editorial BreYiiies.


Reb. A. C. Gearhart, of Hardy coun-
ty, formerly of the Baltimore Confer
ence, M. Z. Church, South, has been, by
that body, reduced to the ranks. lie is
not authorized to preach or solemnize
marriages.
A party of forty or fifty northern cap
italisis have arrived at Richmond, Va,
with view to looking out for invest
men,s along the line of the Chesapeake
aud Ohio railroad.
The daughter of Major VIM. Drew,
of the Fire Department, an interesting
young lady, about twenty years OF age,
is lying dangerously i'll at her home in
Georgetown, from the effects of cat
scratch, received few days ago.
1t is estimated that up to Friday last
the total amount of sIhscr ptions raised
throughout the country in aid of the
yellow fever sufferers, aggregate nearly
one million of dollars, of which New
York has contributed over $20O,OOO;
Baltimore S5O,OO0; Boston $4,000:
ST. Louis $4,000; Philadelphia s75 200;
and Washington about $1,000.
A very thin man, from somewhere up
in Maine, stepped into Broadway
clothing store; and asked tor linen
buster. The clerk took in his figure at
glance, and brought an umbrella COW
er, saying they could put the sleeves on
it in half an hour.
The temperance party and the green
back party in the Third District, have
both nominated Joseph Thompson, the
Baltimore blacksmith, for Congress.
More than 1000 persons have already
died from the present yellow fever cpl
delnic. Memphis has suffered most in
proportion to her size, her death list
amounting 10 2,42S. New Orleans,
where the number of deaths was great
est, has lost 2,700 So far.
The Commissioner of Internal Reve-
nue. has ruled that persons who sell the
articles known as Hostetter's Bitters
and brakes Plantation Bitters, either
by the drink or in unbroken packages,
are liquor dealers, and liable to special
taxes AZ such from and after November
LIST, 1878.
A man walked into the Philadelphia
yellow fever relief Office, gave $1,000
to the Treasurer, and refused to tell his
name, and walked out unrecognlzed.
The latest yarn about fast time is to
the effect that on certain road a young
man put his head out of car window
to kiss MS girl good bye, when tho train
pulled ont so rapidly that he kissed an
old African female at the next station.
Fact.
If you are stung by bee, use harris
horn; if bitten by snake, get drunk.
So physicians say. o, hang bee sting!
give us a snake bite.
Moody, the celebrated revivalist, will,
with his family, spend the winter in
Baltimore, where he will from time to
time endeavor to revive the dead souls of
those Baltimore sinners.
On Wednesday, the 23d inst, Rev.
Henry Ward 3eccher will deliver the
annual address at the Allegany County
Fair, in Cumberland. Let US pray for
Cumberland.
Speaking of dancing, clergyman
hits the nail on the head with the re-
mark that "people usually do more
harm with their tongues than with their
toes"
Milton was asked by friend whether
he would instruct his daughters in the
different languages; to which he replied:
"No, sir, one tongue is sufficient for a
woman"
Edward Cooper, son of Peter Coop
er, has been nominated for mayor OF
New York by the national greenback
labor party.
How unreasonable people are! Here
they are complainingof hard times, when
the fact is times never were better-for
public plunderers.
Within the last seventy years New
Orleans has lad twenty severe vista
tions of yellow fever. The most deadly
of the number was in 1855, when the
greatest mortality Of one day was
2S3.