Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1878-09-14
Editorial Brevftics.

Editorial Brevitics.
The two tramps who bound and gag
ped the Beltzhoover family and stole a
large sum Of money from the house, at
Butler Springs, Cumberland county,
Pa, several weeks ago, pleaded guilty
in court at Carlisle, and were sentenced
to nine years in the penitentiary.
Forty-fve years ago the best inform
ed gave the number of Indians in the
limits of the United States as nearly
half a million. Now the largest estl-
mate commonly accepted is not over
three hundred and eighty thousand.
An old Irish soldier who prided him
self on his bravery, said lie had fought
at the battle of Bull Run. When ask
ed if he had retreated and made good
his escape, as others did OIL that famous
occasion, he replied, BE jabers, those
that didn't run are there ylt
Two children of Mrs. Lewis, widow
of Edward Lewis, and living four miles
from Winchester, died recently from
eating toadstools which they mislook
for mushrooms.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad is
revising its present freight tariff, with a
view of reducing the charges in West
virginia. The new schedule will be
issued in October.
A strong-minded woman in New
York was heard to remark the other
day that she would marry man who
had plenty of money, though he was
SO ugly that she had TO scream every
time she looked at him.
The town of Miskolez, in Hungary.
has been almost entirely desolated by a
storm, occurring last Friday, which de-
stroyed over one thousand houses by
flood, and four hundred bodies have
been recovered, with two hundred still
missing. The town has population OF
twenty thousand.
David 4. Foutz, native of Carroll
county, but late of Baltimore city, and
well known as the proprietor Of"Foutzs
horse and cattle powder" died Oh the
18th ult., in Jackson county, n. c., OF
consumption, aged 40 years. lie had
gone to North Carolina to seek improve
mcnt of his health.
The editor Of the New York Advo-
cate, Walter H. Shupe, has filed a pc
tition to be declared bankrupt. His
liabilities are reported at S69, 52s, SO and
his assets 1887. His principal creditor
is Andrew Luke, of Ill Fulton ST., to
whom he owes $4,000 on two separate
claims.
A cheap fast train, crowded with peo-
pie returning from summer resorts on
the line of the London, Chatham and
Dover railroad, was wrecked by COLI
sion last Saturday. Eight persons were
killed and thirty severely wounded.
John S. Funk's livery stable and the
Waynesboro Hotel Stable at Waynes-
boro', Pa, were destroyed by fire on
| the night of the 10Th ult., together with
nine head of horses.
The bankrupt law expired on the LIST
so that the epidemic of bankruptcies
throughout the country are at All end.
At New York, on Saturday, 394 bank
ruptcy petitions were filed, at Philadel-
phia ga, Cincinnati 100, and Cleveland
nearly 100; 375 petitions were also filed
at Chicago and other points.
Many women have ruined their
health, and some have become insane
by the habit of eating arsenic TO clear
and whiten their compilations. Still,
( the list of arsenic victims does not d.
minish.
An exchange wants to know whether
insects Can talk. Can't say as to that,
but you can bet your last shekel some
of them can occasionally inspire the
very lireliest kind of conversation III
others.
R.P.W. Fauntleroy, farmer and
merchant living in Essex county, Va,
was found dead in his orchard one day
last week with bullet hole in his lett
side.
The Commissioner Of tue Land Office
at Washington has been forced by the
exhaustion of funds to notify about SIX
ty-five of his male and female clerks
that their services have to be dispensed
with.
One of the Eastern churches claims
that wealthy lady of their congrega-
ton saves them $4,000 year by the
example she sets her sisters III the sim
plcity and plainness OF her dress.
Bishop Allen McCoskrey, of Michi-
gan, who was recently mixed up in a
scandal case in that State, has been de-
posed from the ministry by the House
of Bishops of the Prot. Epis. Church.
The charges against Gov. Axtell, OF
New Mexico, have resulted in his sus-
pension from that Office and the APP
pointmeut in his place of Gen. Lew.
Wallace, of Indiana.
President Hayes and family left
Washington last Friday evening on a
tour to the Northwest, taking in his old
home, Fremont, Ohio, Chicago, and
Minneapolis, MINI. The party met
with an enthusiastic reception all along
their route of travel.
In Huntington county. Pa, few
days ago a man wounded squirrel,
which ran into the trunk Of large oak
tree. On reaching into the hollow Of
the trunk an old oven filed with doub-
looms, Mexican dollars, English sover'
eigus and other coins, all dated previ
Gus to 1920, amounting to several
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