Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1879-08-02
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\ ShcpherdstOWn bachelor says Wo-
men are so full Of their own secrets that
it is absolutely impossible for them to
keep the secret Of another.
lie put his arm around her waist and
swore an awful sworc, remarEmg as he
drew it back, I've felt that Pinafore.'
The dear girl who read thrilling
essay, IIow to Get Along in Life, when
she graduated last summer, is getting
along nobly. She is now the mother
Of triplets.
The latest rendering of the proyerb is,
'People who live in glass houses, and
who want to throw their arms around
the girl, should pull down the blinds,
An Iowa man furnished his wife with
fifty dollars to buy 4 silk dress, but in
stead of so doing she put the money in
the bank, let i. remain there eighteen
years, added to it whenever she could,
and the other day paid off the mortgage
on the farm. Is comment necessary!
The immigration West continues on
a grand scale. In 1878, 100000
acres Of public lands were taken up and
for the year 1879 it will probably be not
less. 1t is estimated that half million
people have emigratcd West the past
year.
The computation at the bureau of
statistics for the eleven months ended
Nav so, 1879, discloses the fact that,
for the first time in the history of the
country, the expectation of breadstutfs
has exceeded in value that of cotton
and tobacco, the two staples Of the
South combined.
Daniel Is. Seibert, Of Clearspring,
Md, has recently obtained patent for
Improvement in Tanning Mills, which
can be attached to threshing machines
hullers, for the purpose OF cleaning all
kinds of grain and seed. 1t is said TO
be a complete machine.
The Pittsburgh Female College,
whose advertisement appears in another
column, has five buildings, seven dis
trict schools, and twenty-three teachers.
1t has superior musical advantages, and
in every regard ranks with the best
schools on the continent. The charges
are very moderate. Ifyou have a daugh-
ter to educate, by all means send TO the
President, Rcv. I. G. Pershing, ID. d.,
Pittsburgh, Pa, for catalogue. Fall
term opens September 3.
Eight new cases and four deaths from
yellow fever were reported from Mem
phis Tuesday, and an old colorcd man
who was left in charge Of a dwelling
was found murdered, for what or by
whom has not TRANSFERRED. One more
case is reported at New Orleans, and
there are vague rumors OF others, caus-
ing the unacclimated TO leave in conSid-
cradle numbers.
L. L. Earnest, conductor Of the Pull
man sleeping coach Chattauqua, was
killed at Rocklield Station on tic Rich
mond and Danvile railroad, two miles
south of Richmond, Va, Tuesday,w lille
en- route for Atlanta. lie was leaning
from the platform examining the track
when lie was struck by cattle guard
fence and knocked off.
John Kranz, of East Pennington,
Polk county, Wis, drove into the lake
with six children IN his wagon to water
his horses. The horses becoming fright
cned ran into deep water, the wagon
was upset, and Kranz and five of the
children were drowned. One boy es-
capped by swimming. The eldest child
was a girl of Il.
Morris and Ken Grubh, colored, have
been committed to jail at Wytheville,
Va, pending the action of the grand
Jury, on the charge of abductinga white
girl named Betsey Grub, who says she
was married to Ken Grub in Tcnnes-
see, but of which fact no evidence has
been produced.
Judge Robert Ould and Dr. J. S.
George, who were arrested in Rich
mond, Va, on a charge of being about
to engage in a duel, have been dischar-
ged, it appearing that they had peace
ably settled their controversy before
their arrest.
Sunday night a freight train on the
Cheat river grade of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, going from Grafton TO
Piedmont. got beyond the control OF
the train men. The engineer, George
Reynolds, jumped off aud had two ribs
broken.
A clergyman at Methodist camp
meeting at Bucyrus, Ohio, prayed that
God would kill one member of every
anti Christian family in the county.
This excited the wrath Of the sinners in
the congregation, and they tore down
the tent, whipped the minister, and
would have tarred and teathered him ii
he had not fled.
Jefferson Davis, ex.president of the
South onfederacy, it seems, is not to
be permitted to enjoy the recent wind
fall, in the shape OF S250,000 bequeath-
ed him by the widow Dorsey, OF Missis
sippi, as her relations are about to III
stitu,e proceedings to break the will.
Business is booming with unprece-
denied vigor all over the South. The
recent rise in the price of cotton has
sent Sl5,O0O000 or S20,000,000 into
that section, most of which has reached
the hands and pockets of the producers
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