Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1878-01-12
Editorial BreVitics.

Tycnty-one little graves dot the sur
face of the churchyard at Trextlerton,
Lehlgh county. Pa, the children all
having fallen victims to diptherla with
in the last two mouths.
About $50 of the recent emierants to
Kansas from Maryland have returned
to their old homes, disappointed and
disheartened. Some of them walked
back, begging subsistence on the way.
The agricultural fair grounds at
Cumberland, Md, were sold Wednes
day, to Jacob Brengle and others, for
$4,000. 1t is stated that the purchas-
ers will make an effort 10 organize q
new society for the county.
Charles Waters, a well-known drover
of Linden, Va, has been missing for
about three weeks. and as he had
large sum of money on his person when
last seen, at the American Hotel, in
Washington, his friends fear that he
has been toully dealt with.
a Virginia sheriff asked murderer
if he wanted TO make speech Oh the
gallows. and he replied. "Gucss not;
il looks like rain, and | don't want to
get wet. Go on with the hanging.
DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup is recommend
ed by all druggists as being purely
vegetable and reliable preparation for
Babies. Price 20 cents.
Carl Mas and his wife, living in
Crawford county, Iowa, locked their
three young children in the house and
went 10 the barn to shuck corn. Dur
ing their absence the house caught fire
and the children persisted.
The Mornons continue their viola
tons OF law by solemnizing poiygam-
Gus marriages. On Thursday morning
the Endowment House III Salt Lake
City was packed with parties intending
such unions. Sixty five complies were
united, and as many more sent away 10
await their urn the next day.
Hon. X. =. Blard, author OF the sill
yer bill, has been confined 10 his room
with sick pretty much ever since he
has been at home, at Lebanon, Mo. He
contracted cold in Washington city,
with which he is still afflicted.
Miss Lizzie Caperton, the eldest
daughter of the late United States Sen
ator Allen +. Caperton, Of Union. Mon
roe county, West Va, has obtained a
cIerkship in the Treasury Department
at Washington.
1t is said that the great rock AT North
Elba, beside which John Brown is bur
led, and which bears his name carved in
large Letters on the solid stone, is now
much defaccd by other inscriptions
made by chance visitors, for whose use
a Ratchet or chisel is kept conveniently
near the foot of the rock.
England is being forced into war by
her hull healed rulers We are sorry for
her, and We will see she don't staryc-
so long as her money holds out.
Another strike is imminent on some
eastern roads %" ing TO the orders issued
to the locomotive engineers, directing
them TO sever connection with the
brotherhood. Ii is arooI time OF year
10 strike.
United States Judge Parker, Of Ar
kansas, has decided that when Indians
can trace their ancestry back to white
parents on either fathers or mothers
side. they are not Indians, and that the
United States Court has Jurisdiction
over them in any and all cases.
The Atkinson QIansas) Patriot says:
"Jim Blaine has been blazing away at
his enemies from behind the petticoats
of Gail Hamilton for long time, but,
becoming tired of that ambuScade, will
soon open fire from beneath the coat
tails OF Senator Conkling.
Mrs Hayes, at the Ellis reception in
New York, wore handsome white silk,
with overdress of white ribbed silk,
trimmed with heavy fringe. Save a
rich gold locket, she wore no orna-
mcnts.
The fine estate of the Randolphs, in
Fauquier county, Va, known as East.
ern View" aud containing 1925 acres,
was sold recently for S. an acre to one
Of the heirs. Before the war this estate
was valued at $4,000.