Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1880-10-16
EDITORIAL ISreVitics.

The Board OF Directors of the Bank
Of Charlestown have declared a dividend
of three per cent tor the past six months
payable on demand
A Hancock and English pole wss
erected at Leetown on Saturday last.
Frank Beckwith and Cleon Moore, Esq,
delivering addresses on the occasion.
The 1IagerSiown Mail says that early
in November, somewhat similar ex-
cursion 10 the recent one 10 Philadel-
! phia, will be gottenup to Ha3erstewn
from the Shenandoah Valley.
A colored man from Loudoun county,
Va, in the employ OF some OF the sub
contractors on the 5. V. railroad, IN
Page county. Va, had one OF his ieet
so badly injured by passing train on
Sunday night aweek, as 10 render am
pu;aton above the ankle joint necessary.
The "Tnrf. Field aud Farm" for the
benefit OF sporlsmen says TO take Red
Rust out Of guns, use the following mix
ture: "a quantity of olive oil, quarter
of its bulk OF camphor aud few shay
iugs of lead. rsf,-
Mr. Geo. w. Rohrbsek, son OF the
late Col Jacob Rohrback and brother
OF Ar. B. L. Rohrbsck OF Sharpsburg,
died a, his residence in Phiiadelphia,on
Thursday last, OF Bright's disease ofthe
kidneys, iu the 53rd year OF his age.
In the Hagcrstown Presbyterian
Church. on Tuesday of lasl week, Miss
Clara Fahrney, eldest daughter of DR..
d. Fahrney, of ilsgerStown. Rev. }: "A.
Roudthaler officiating, was married TO
DR.. Charles A. baldwin, OF Baltimore
county, Nd. Miss Lille McComas OF
that town, and Mr.. Jas. G.. Kane, OF
Baltimore county, acted as bridesmaid
and groomsman. ..
One Of the young gallauts ofour town
with some down on his upper llr, re
marked the other day: ~ Kiss without
a moustache is like an egg without salt,
and want the girls TO know IL! lhis
is progressive age Of ours. .e
David Henderson a freight brakeman
on the &. v railroad, was killed at
Kerrsyille, Tuesdny morning Iy falling
from the top OF car. E.. ....G...
A gentleman 10y the name of Onion
is the Greenback candidate ior Congress
in one of the districts OF Maryland. II
there's anything III name, this should
prove a strong nomination.
Jesse Grant, Gen. Grants third SON,
was married TO Miss Lizzie, daushtcr of
w. 5. Chapman, at the Palace Hotel,
San Francisco, on Tuesday evening OF
last week. The affair was very qre',
only few friends being present.
The mention of DR.. Tanner did very
well for stage ''gag" for few weeks,
but the old man himself doesn't draw.
He will abandon the lecture field IN dis-
gust, the field having abandoned bin
in the same sentiment. .......
The proprietor ola boarding house in
Wythvllle, and about dozen Of his
boarders were taken violently sick ono
day last week, the result of having used
cream posned with milk-weed, on which
the cows had been ieedlpg. All recover
| ed
The republican caudidate for railroad
| commissioner In Missouri, Howard Bai-
ncs, II the first colored man placed on
State ticket there. lie was born n slave,
but bought his freedom before the war,
and has accumulated property OF $780,.
600 by Keeping restaurant at Jefferson
City, Missouri. d. '''. ..'''N
Two Reading men, named Fisher and
| Lidmuth, have made an election bet
which provides that the loser shall fast
ten DAYS. II Hancock is elected Fish
er is 10 abstain from food Tor that pc.
Rod, driukiug nothing but beer, but II
Garfield is elected, Lidemuth will fast
for ten days drinking nothing but milk.
If you would be pungent, be brief,
for il is with words as IL is with SUI
beams, the more they are condensed the
deeper they burn. E''anHc1
II you wish to appear agrceablsIin
society; you must consent ~ be taught
many things which yon know already.
lie who truly wishes the happiness Of
anyone, cannot DC long without discOy-
ering some mode Of contributing 10 il.
A lady says her baby has a soro
mouth and the editor Of the Burlington
"Hawkeye' tells her TO take equal parts
| Of burnt ALUM, burnt borsx, nutmeg,
loaf sugar, burnt leather, oil of cloves,
powdered chalk, ginger, burnt 1anDcl,
goose grease, vine, vinegar and q pinch
OF snuff, and rub il on with sdf tooth
| brush.