Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1879-04-19
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trial, and Simon says wiggle waggle.
A black bass was caught in the Rap
pahannock river last week weighing IA
lbs. aud Dances.
No man can get rich By sitting aroopd
stores and saloons
Get your neighbor to subscribe for
this paper.
OF the 43 Democratic members Of the
United States Senate. the Soulh fGruish-
cs 80 and the rest Of the country Is.
Eight inches OF snow Tell in New York
on Tuesday Of last week.
There seems TO be, in New York,
strong growing seuiiment ia favor OF
Horaiio Seymour for President.
Spring goods are coning in. ConSnl,
these columns and you will know where
10 90 and find them.
General Hancock is said to bo tho
wealthiest general in the United States
army.
Hon. Wm. Mlnes, has gone North,
! in the interest OF his Iron Works, and
to look after the successful progress OF
work on the Shenandoah Valley Rail-
road, OF which be is President.
Work on the new wing OF the lussne
Asvlum a, Weston viii soon be begun
and vigorously pushed TO completion.
Some maleveIenl scoundrel poisoned
tie Young fish at The State hatchery last
week, at Romncy.
A colored boy sna,ched Mrs. Gen.
Gordon's pocket,book in Washington
one day last week. boy aud book were
both captured.
Mr.. Talmage the great Brooklyn
preacher is still on ,ria! TOR deceit aad
Justification,
4 destructive fire occurred in Phila-
delphia OH Sunday CT last week, lnvolv-
ing q loss, it is stated, OF S75O,Oo0, aud
one man was killed.
Old Deacon Dobson always boosted
,ha, he was "prepared for the worst,
aud his neighbors thought Ec got 10
when he married his second wife.
A friend of Wade Hampton in New
York has given him a pair OF silver
mounted rosewood crutches.
Tomatoes are selling al 25 cents n
bushel in Key West, Florida. Near
Gainesville, COO acres OF land are now
planted in tomatoes
An Ohio inau whipped his vito be-
cause sho looked into his pockets aud
found love letter that grl had writ
ten 10 him.
Farmers In the eastern part of Penn.
sylvaus fnd j, very profitable 10 raise
their own trout, and have large quantities
to spare for market. The trout poSd
on farm is becoming as common as
an orchard.
Bob Ingcrsoll made $4,000 10y abas
ing the Bible last year. and Toronto
clergyman died from starvation. Isn't
it about ,imo for another hoodf
Gait. w. y. Stuart, n noted engineer
under Kemper and Pickett, died at AL
exandria on the 9th of March.
The foolish man foideth his hands
and saith: "ThVre is no trade ! will
not sdverti.e.' But the wise man
whoopeth it up in tho newspapers, and
verify he draweih it from aiar of.
1t is conceded tha. Wet Virginia
contains iron ore fields equal in extent
aud quality to those oil Missouri What
the State needs is TO develop these
fields.
Last week the Cumberland cart steel
company vas organized will capital
Of one thousand shares Al $50 share.
Mr.. J. a. Gordon was elected president.
III there be man 40 kind TO me will
he shoot me in the heart or eat NY
throat T. was the cry raised by Nicholas
SchilIiugsr, rs be 10y in agony, TIE vic
tim Of an accident on tho Lehigh Val
ley Railroad on Tacsday week.
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris Is living
very quietly in England.
A chap in town says the pre,tieS girl
in town wears blue top stockings aud
she is bot afraid 10 show ON. lie saw
;hcm hanging on lire in The back
yard.
a very old lady on her death bed In
pepitcntial mood said: i have been
great sinner for eighty years, and don't
know it. An old darkey woman who
bad lived with her many ysars oxclair-
ed: Lorsl knowed il al the time.
About 3, 900 oolored people have left
Louisiana aud Mississippi for Kansas.
Many OF them are ia 81, Louis, unable
TO get farther for want OF money. About
500 had arrived a. Topeka, aud being
without work aud means Of support
were in q deplorablc condition.
Roswell S. Burrows, who died 10
New York Sunday, was precident and
half owner o. the Richmond, York
River and Chesapeake raiiroad, half
owner Of the Richmond street railway.
and owner OF the Mid Lothian coal
mines. Ills wealth was estimated 1t
from three TO ten millions.
The whole Of the revcnue for tho
year 1877, has been paid into the State
treasury. T'his is the only year tbst all
OF the revenue has been paid into the
treasury within The time preccribed by
law since the iorma'ios Of tie State,
and speaks well for tne administration
| of Auditor Miller.
CONsU3EPTEOS CURED.