Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1880-12-18
Editorial Breyities.

| nv, died In PORTSMOUTH, Va, TiN"y
aged IS years.
Rev. j. Dudley Ferguson, of Moore
field, w. Va, has accepted a call from
an Episcopal congregation at Denver
| Colorado.
When you hear q man sneer at the
honor and virtue OF woman, you may
be sure that he is not accustomed to
walk in high places and that his
boots are soiled with the mud of low
life.
Four Chicagoans, headed by Mr..
Keith, have paid out 500, 900 for lands
in Tennessee and founded town on
the Cumberland river, intending to col
ouize their tract with Northwestern
people. A number of the colonists have
already arrived, and are engaging in
the lumber trade.
Mr.. Z. d. Ludwig continues 10 10
cate IN occasional Swiss colony in this
State. He has been lately selecting q
location for new colony up in the
wilds of Nicholas county.
A fire occurred at Memphis, Tennes-
see. Saturday morning, two shanties
occupied by colored people, and
two children, aged three and four
years, were burned to death. Their
parents had locked them in the house
before going to work.
Miss Ella May Thomas, lately the
telegraph operator at Harrisonburg, Va,
died there on Friday last She was
only seventeen years Of age.
In johnson county, Arkansas, a man
was killed through mistake by special
Deputy Sheriff and his posse, who were
in search of one q. g. Richards. The
posse went to a vacant cabin where 1t
was supposed that e. &. Richards was
hiding, and finding man sleeping in
the cabin, attempted 10 arrest him. sup
posing he was the man they were in
search of, and in attempting to make
the arrest, Alfred 7. Johnson, one OF
the posse, shot and killed the mao.
Mr.. Charles D. Fishers residence, On
Charles street, Bait, was burned Sun
day morning the family barely escaping
with their lives, and two colored ser
wants a woman and lad, were fatally
Injured by leaping from fourth story
window, the woman having since died
and the boys condition being hopeless.
The loss Oh the house and furniture was
estimated at between $4,000 and $780,
600, with $4,000 insurance on the
house, and, 1t is said, $4,000 on the
furniture.
A Mrs. Gibson, Of Fairfax county,
gave birth last week to her fifteenth
Child, which upon examination, was
found to bc blessed with fourteen well
developed upper teeth. DR.. w. B.
Day, of Fairfax, says it is the first case
of that kind that ever came under his
observation.
Mrs. Theresa Reimenschneider, alias
Auerbach, alias Grau, alias Temple, a
prepossessing woman 25 years old, was
arrested on the night of the SOth ult,
in Brooklyn, n. Y, charged with biga-
my and grand larceny. 1t is said she
has married fourteen Germans in New
ark, n. j., and elsewhere, for the sim
pie purpose OF robbing them. She will
be taken to Newark tor trial.
A careless huntsman last week fired
at q rabbit near the residence OF Jose
plus Keedy, in Washington county,
Md, but shot two of Mr.. keedy's chill
dren, who was on his porch. One
shot was lodged Immediately below the
eye of one OF the boys, while the other
was shot in the upper lip aud in one
finger.
Ohio Wool growers are refusing
! forty-fve cents for their clips. Holders
of stock in the east are expecting high
err figures, and are very firm in their
views.
Col. John S. Mosby, consul at Hong
Kong, in letter to Dir. A. A. War
field, collectorot the por, OF Alexandria,
says he will certainly arrive in this
country about the first Of February.
The Grand Jury of the United States
Circuit Court, at Richmond, indicted
five more election judges, two from the
City of Manchester and three from the
town of Chester in Chesterfield county.
Mr.. Samuel Ellico,t, well-known as
the "blind farmer of Montgomery
county, Nd, died last week. AL.
though Mr.. Ellico,t had been deprived
Of sight since the age of sixteen years,
he was one of the most successful far
mers in the county, attending personal
ly to all the details OF the business Of
his plantation.
Miss Susan A. Clemmer has entered
suit in the Circuit Court Of Augusta
county, Va, against DR.. Jas. S. Buch
anan for $1,000 damages for breach Of
promise Of marriage. Eminent counsel
are engaged in the case.
1t is said that there will be some
twenty or more contested seats in the
new Congress chiefly from the South.
James A. Garfield is the third Presi-
dent of the United States who begun
life as q school teacher. The others
were Willard Fillmore and Frank
Pierce.
Owing to water famine, many iron
mills and other industrial establish.
men,s in Eastern Pennsylvania are
closed. Farmers are driving stock for
miles to water, and water for household
needs is hauled in barrels.
Mr. Jas c. Clarke, formerly Mary