Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1880-02-21
Editorial ESrcvities.

j lie IT lTSl NdllOu1l Vi S'ioitSh
has been incorporated. One of the first
deposits made was two months old
baby on the door step of the Cashier.
He declined to receive it On the ground
that they were not receiving special
deposits.
Mr.. Dalrymple, the great Minnesota
farmer, intends TO cultivate 10000 acres
of wheat this year. He will have TWEEN
ty steam threshers in operation, with
1875 reaping machines Last year he
employed 600 laborers, aud this year
will increase The number to 100
Hon. Joseph II. Sherrard, ST., has
been unanimously elected by the Va,
Legislature the Judge Of the Corpora
ton Court OF Winchester for the ensuing
constitutional term.
There are about 10000 Mennonites
10 America They have 500 meeting
houses, one eighth of that number being
in Canada. They abstain from taking
the oath; do not infict punishment, DO
not accept public office and never got
law. They are nearly all farmers.
The Senate Sub Committee on Rail
roads has agreed to recommend the pas
sage of bill granting the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company six years
more time iL which TO complete lis
main line and branches, provided the
company will open its land to settlers
for $3.50 per acre. 1t is believed the
bill will pass.
Leading Pi,tsburg manufacturers are
quoted as expressing the opinion that
the price of nails, which has been rap
idly advancing for some time, will reach
81 per key by the middle of March.
The reason for this is that the nanutac-
tuers are without stock and many are
thousands Of kegs behind their orders,
whilst there are Tut few nails in stock
in this country.
The snit of Randall vs.. the B. u 0.
Railroad for the sum Of $4,000 damages
alleged to have been received by the
plaintiff from the loss of limb on the
B. q O. Railroad at Grafton came up
before the u. S. Court at Clarksburg,
last Tuesday, Hon. Geo. O. Davenport
and Black Dovener for plaintiff; Hon.
John A. Hutchinson, Gen. n. Coil and
Caleb Borgess. for defendant Under
the Courts instruction the jury found
for the defendant
CouNr RoCnAMBEAU,a descendant OF
Lafayette, has signiied his intention OF
coming over TO take part in the York
town centennial observance. The Uni
ted States government will send invita-
tons to the French government and TO
the French societies in New York TO
ioin in the national ceremonies. AT least
one French vessel and Que French regi-
ment will be at Yorktown to help The
celebration out.
On Friday and Saturday Of last week,
above Hancock, Md, company own
ing a sen went up the canal fishing,
they had fair success, although no very
large specimens were taken. On the
day following they seined the basin,
catching an abundance OF fish, among
which were some very curious specl.
mems, one in particular that resembles
the Young Shad. 1t is not long since
shad were put into the head waters OF
the Potomac. Now the question is
whether this catching fish by the whole
sale should be allowed when We are
trying to stock our waters with this
choice variety.
The Lee Association of Mobile, Ala,
celebrated the anniversary of the birth
of General Robert E. Lee, Monday of
last week, by grand parade, in which
the foreign consuls and the city officials
took part. Later in the day banquet
was given, at which ex-of(icers OF both
Union and Confederate armies were
present. The best traternal feeling
prevailed. At night the celebration
closed with a masked ball which was
we'll attended.
PENNSYLVANIA iron manufacturers are
making things lively in Virginia. The
Lyncbburg correspondent of the Rich
mond Dispatch says that capitalists from
Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Pottsville aud
other places are arriving in that city
every day, and are making investments
in the ore lands on the upper waters OF
the James river A Pennsylvania COM
pany has set the large rolling mills four
miles above Lyuchburg in operation
and other important enterprises are in
progress.
The Boston Ginbs published state
ment to the effect that a MIR. Ball, who
recently died in Maryland, bequeathed
to Mr. ii. l.. Smith, colored sign-paint-
er and printer Of Boston, $4,000, as
reward for saving the formers children
from drowning in the Potomac river in
1877. Smith, according to his own story,
was born in Stanton, Va, in 1853 and
was educated iu Boston.
The fund for the relief of the Hood
orphans now amounts to $l0,963, of I,
which $40, 500 have been invested in
United States bonds: II