Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1880-04-17

day night last, and number Of tools
stolen therefrom.
AT the stockholders meeting of the
Bank of Charlestown, on the 9Th inst,
the following directors were elected:
John w. Grantham, Isaac H. Stlider,
John w. McCu:dy, Gustav Brown, NJ.
w. Burr, John S. Moore and VIM. ID.
Smith.
The funeral service of Willie II.
Sites. who died on Thursday morning,
the 9Th inst, in the 22nd year of his
age, took place from The residence ofhis
father, near Charleslown, on Friday
afternoon. The following young men,
selected from among the friends of the
deceased. acted as pall-bearers: Charles
Lock, John Sitter, WIN. Ramey, j. Cor
don, Archie Brown and J. Baynes The
interment was at Edge Hill Cemetery.
Rev. B. S. Highley officiated. The fu-
neral was largely attended.-Spirif.
REMOVAL Samuel Baxley for a
number of years resident of Berkeley
county, lately of Jefferson, started on
Tuesday last for lola, Kansas, intending
to make that place his future home. Mr..
3. has always borne the reputation OF
an honest handwriting man, and if any
one can get along in Kansas, he will not
stay far behind. When boy the wolves
freed him once in the woods, but he
tired them out and they skunk away in
the morning without making a meal out
of him. We wish him success and comfort
in bis new home, with no "varmints" to
disturb his repose.- MartinsJm States
man.
Windy Wilson, of Charleston, Ka-
nawha county, the man who talked the
West Virginia Legislature of 1877 10
death, the Intelligencer says, sis trav-
ersing the Third District, making
speeches and laying ropes. as candi-
date for the Attorney General on the
Democratic ticket Imagine delicate
person like Judge Okey Johnson being
compelled to sit day in and day out list
eping to Windy Wilson on a great con-
stitullonal point. No ordinary nervous
organization could endure it."-GrgfiOn
Sentinel.
a SELF MADE SENATOR see n
paragraph floating around the ,newspa-
pers to the effect that Senator Henry G.
Davis is the richest man in West Virgin
ia. We guess this is true, and like all
the rich men in Congress he did not in
herit, but earned his money. When he
was seventeen years old Senator Davis
was brakeman on the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad. He was promoted from
one position to another until he became
man of considerable importance upon
the road, when lie found more lucrative
employment "a superintendent of coal
mines in West Virginia. Here he began
to grow rich, until by able management
and wise foresight he has accumulated an
immense fortune. Senator Davis is man
of some oddities, and often annoys his
fellow Senators with the pcrsistency
with which he pursues whatever he I'M
dertakes, whether it be al ignis fatuus,
or something practical: but leaving his
hobbies out of consideration, he is an
excellent man and a useful Senator
Baltimore Bulletin.
Col. John S. Mosby, United States
consul at Hong Kong, in private let
ter to friend in Washington, in refer
ring to the victory of the Read justersin
Virginia says that this indicates that the
solid South is broken, and he has no
doubt that if Gen. Grant is nominated
for President he would get large vote
in the South, and would carry several
of the States of that Section. He says
he is glad to see that Gen. Grant is GO
ing South, and that he has no doubt it
is his highest ambition to restore good
feeling between the sections, and if re-
elected he will have the ''carpet bag"
element to poison his mind against
Southern men; that the South has now
the great opportunity again offered it
which it lost in 1872, and the Southern
people must be hopclcssly blind if they
do not seize this opportunity to retrieve
their fortunes.
SALE OF IRoN LANDs.-On Wednes-
day last, the 1850 acre tract of mineral
lands, belonging to the estate of D. D.
Dovel, deceased, lying principally in
Page county, was sold at public auction
in front of the Courthouse in this place.
1t brought 81. 10 per acre and was bought
by Gen J. Z. Roller, Jno. Donovan,
3. B. Bolts and others. Il is said to
lie valuable piece of iron land, aud
whilst the price is more perhaps than
was expected to be realized from it, yet
when the Shenandoah Valley Railroad
is completed through Page and passes,
as it will, through the tract, it will he
greatly increased in value and the pur-
chasers will doubtless realize a hand
some sum upon their investment.-Har-
risonburg Commonwealth.
The republicans held county conven-
tons in Virginia, Saturday, to elect del
egates to the Stanton convention
Dinwiddie elected Geo. Matthews, col
ored, and passed resolutions in favor of
Grant. Prince George elected E. D.
Bland, colored. Norfolk and Wythe
counties elected Grant delegates
The suit at New York of James A.
Whalen vs. Gen. Phil. Sheridan, for
$4,000, value Of property on the
Kellona plantation, in Louisiana, from
which Whalen was elected, has been
appealed to the United States Supreme
Court.