Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1879-10-18
Editorial Brevitie$

our thanks for photograph of herself.
She must have sent it, as il came to us
from England, and she is ;he only per-
son:there that We have any personal &C
quaintance with except the Queen" We
were just going TO make the same &C.
acknowledgement.
Gen. Grant reviewed the children of
! the pablo schools of San Francisco on
Monday of last week. 1t is estimated
Ss,e9e passed in review.
The Supreme Court Of Pennsylvania
decides that Allegheny county ia respon-
sibe forpropersy destroyed at Pittsburg
during the riots of 1877.
The fine for punching holes through
coin is two years Imprisonment.
! The city of Deadwood, Dakota Terri
tory, on Friday of last week had
S2,O00,000 fire. Almost the entire busi
ness portion of the city was destroyed.
A FIRE in Carroll, Iowa, last week de-
stroyed Sl50,000 worth OF property.
Godfrey King, who in a fit of jealous
ly attempted TO kill his wife with ham
mer as she lay asleep at home, in Bal
timore, last June, has been sentenced to
FIVE years confinement in the peni:en
tiary.
The Massachusetts strai ghtout demo-
cratic State convention met in Fanuiel
Hall, Boston, Tuesday, and after some
lively speeches nominated for Governor
John Quincy Adams.
When can you say farmer works
like a piano tuner' When ho uses Il
| pachIork.
Some mea are captiva,ed by womans
laugh, just as some men predict pleas
ant day, because the sun shines out for
a moment They forget the chances
for squsll.
Miss Jennie Flood, who according 10
report, is betrothed 10 u. 5. Grant, Jr,
is the only daughter OF James {. Flood,
the head OF the Bank of Nevada, and,
next TO Mr.. Mackey, the richest man on
the Pacific slope. Miss Flood is about
"a years old, has dark brown, luxuriant
hair, blue eyes, full face, beautiful teeth,
and tall, handsome form.
The proposed entertainment Of Gen.
Grant in Chicago includes an address
of welcome from the Hon. +. Il. Wash
burne, poem by Mr.. Swing, aud a
great military procession. The 18th
and 18th of November are the days
named 70. the ceremonies.
1t is reported that near Urbana, Mid
dlesex county, Va, last Sunday, TN
eight-year old colored gill being refused
permission TO accompany her parents 10
church, awaited their departure, and
then taking her infant brother to tho
woods, short distance oil, she cut its
throat from ear TO ear with knife,
causing It's death. She first declared
that a "ragamufiin" had taken tie child
from her, but when pressed confessed
her crime.
Francis Bradley, dissolute young
man, who had been wandering about
Johnstown, Pa. entered a hardware
store and asked the price OF n revolver.
lie requested the clerk to load tho
weapon, and Immediately stepped back
and discharged one barrel into bis heart.
Edward Crowley, a wealthy merchant
of Bermuda, who started from New
York for Trenton, n. j., week ago,
with $4,000 in his possession, TO pur
chase large quantity Of crockery for
the West Indies, has not since been
heard from. 1t is believed lie has been
murdered.
There are I,25O,O0O miles OF tele-
graph wires in the world. They cost
5000, 100000.
United States Senator John T.. Nor
gan, Of Ala, who arrived at Washing
ton monday from California, met with
an accident at Big Tree Station, Cali.
fornia. In attempting TO walk over n
plankway he fell into an excavation,
breaking his collar bone. He still suf.
ers considerable pain.
At Erie, Pa, one day last week, El-
len Deering. an inmate Of the aims.
house, deliberately chokol her little
daughter to death in the hope Of send
ing it TO heaven. The woman las been
crazy for some time.
He was told to remain after school,
when the teacher, trying to impress
upon his youthful mind the siDfnlncss Of
not speaking the truth, asked him il sbr
did not tell him in the Sunday school
where bad boys went who told falsehoods.
Choking with sobs, he said: ayes,
maam; it's place where there is Gre,
bat don't just remember the name Of
the town"