Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1880-04-17
Editorial 7frevifieS.

/ the Board OF Visitors 10 the Naval
Academy at Annapolis.
The Reading and Baltimore and Ohio
railroads are to build and inish by 1882
a new railroad from Philadelphia to
Baltimore at the cost of SS,000,00O, of
which the stock is already taken. 1t
will cross the Susquehanna river about
three miles above Port Deposit, near
the old CONVINCE Bridge.
Mr. Is. f. Burlingame, the man who,
at Carrick's Ford, shot General Garnett,
the first Rebel general killed in the civil
war, has just died in Indiana. Mr..
Burlingame was a volunteer in the
Seventh Indiana regiment.
In the Circuit Court, Judge Cox re-
fused the motion of Senator Hills coun-
sci to strike the case of Raymond VS..
Hill from the docket. and held that in
asmuch as Miss Raymond had stated in
open court that she authorized the in
s,itution of the suit, the case must be
tried.
\ Telegram special from Reading,
Pa, says: An inu-keeper ofNew Hol-
land, named Marks, who died Monday,
made a confession that himself and a
neighbor, named Weldeller, murdered
and robbed the pediler whose body
some time ago was found in a creek.
The authorities are looking for Welded
Ter.
The Furnace property which was
erected some years since at Buffalo Gap,
y miles west of Stanton, by the Butfa-
10 Gap Iron and Steel Company, and
which was sold to the New York and
Virginia Iron and Steel Company, and
which was recently put in blast, caught
fife from sparks on the roof last Tues
day aud was burned, iuhicting heavy
loss.
n good story comes to The surface at
the expense OF Bob Toombs of Georgia.
During the war JEFF. Davis visited tine
'front.'" and was at once assailed b.
Toombs. Said Bob: MIR President, |
am il BrigadieI- General and senior in
rank to Brigadier General McLawS Yet
he has 10000 men under his command,
while have but 1000. Is that so 2
said jeff Il will rectity it at once"
And that very hour lie commissioned
McLaws a Major.General.
On Tuesday last there was an exodus
of fifty Mormon converts from Dalton,
Georgia, bound to Utah, under the man
agement Of Elder Morgan. The party
consisted principally Of women, and
most of them of tender age The elder
expect TO make five hundred converts in
Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama
this summer.
Harry Williams, q youth of fifteen,
was thrown from horse near Upper
vile, Fauquier county, last Sunday
morning aud instantly killed. His faith
er, James Williams, was killed in the
streets of Uppervile about ten years
ago BY being dragged to death, his
foot becoming fastened in his stirrup.
Two ladies of Wytheville have been
out to see CDR Miller, in Scott. One
of them considers herself greatly I'M
proved. She says that dozens ofcrutches
are laying around the old "healer's'
house, which were used by the lame
aud halt in getting there and not need
ed TO get away.
The Keokuk, Iowa, city election Mon
day last, resulted in a Democratic victo-
ry. This is the first time the city has
been carried against the Republicans for
years.
According to the new treaty propos,
ed, the Utes are to get S1,00O,000 cash,
$4,000 annuity tor ten years, and 100
acres of land each. Who wouldn't be
a Ute under such conditions?
Mr. George Palmer has purchased
the Bertha Zinc Works, in Wythe coun-
ty, Va, at a sum between $4,000 and
100000. The same gentleman has just
imported a pair of Clydesdale horses
from Scotland, the pair costing $4,000.
The Powhatan Iron Furnace, situa
ted On the canal, some distance above
Richmond, has been sold to the Phila-
dclpha and Reading Coal and Iron
Company. 1t will soon be put to work.
The veteran Zouaves, of Elizabeth,
n. j., Gen. J. Madison Drake, CEN
handing, are arranging to visit York
town, Va, in October, 1881, to take
part in the centennial anniversary there.
The Zouaves will take with them their
battery of Calling guns and brass
cannon capturedby Washingtons army
at Stony Point. This historic piece of
ordinance was presented by Washing
ton to the troops from Elizahethtown,
n. j., vino took part in that bat;le, and
by them TO the town.
A colured cadet at West Point was
subjected to unusual indignities one
night this week. Three persons dis
guised with masks and unknown 10 him
entered his room about o'clock in the
morning and after tying him securely
proceeded, as one of them said, to ''mark
him as they do hogs down south, by
cutting a piece off of one ear and max
ing two murderous Sits in the other.
Extraordinary efforts are being made to
ascertain the identity OF the perpetra-
tors of the outrage.
The law and order candidates in San
Francisco appear to have been elected
over the Kearneyitcs at the municiple
election held on Tuesday. When it is
remembered that at the last election the
Sand Letters swept everything before
them, it will be seen that the citizens OF