Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1881-05-07
Editorial Esrevitics.

Mexican war-Gen. Harvey, aged ST.,
and Gen. Robert Patterson, of Philadel-
pbia, now in his Goth year.
Thos. Dejarnette, acquitted of muir
dering his sister, Mollie Dejarnette, on
the plea of insanity, has been placed in
the Luuatic AS! lum at Raleigh, n. g.
Thomas Brady, assistant Postmaster
General, has been removed. Great
frauds have been discovered in dis ras-
caly mauipulations of the Star Route
Service. It is said the Government
was robbed last year OF not less than
S2,O0O,OO0.
The Editors of the newspapers pub
lished in the Cumberland Valley have
been invited by the officers of the Shen-
andoah Railroad Company to make an
excursion to the Luray Caves and other
points of interest OH the line Of that
road.
The Luray Cave Company has been
chartered tor the purpose of acquiring
and holding the now famous Luray Cave
and for building and conducting hotel.
The capital stock was fixed at 100000,
in 800 shares, the company may hold
1000 acres of land.
The Natural Bridge propdrty in Bote-
tourt county, Va, has been purchased
for the Allegheny Coal and Iron Com
pany. The purpose Of the purchasers
is to make tirst-class summer resort,
and to this end extensive improvements
will be at once undertaken. Price,
$4,000. This property was assessed
at $4,000.
An Arkansas girl refused to mar
ry her lover, until he should do some
thing heroic. He eloped with her
mother.
Thirty thousand men are now at
work in Texas, building new railroads,
and it is estimated that fully one thousand
new settlers enter the State daily.
-Four thousand landlocked salmon
were placed in the Nortl, Branch OF the
Potomac, near Fort Pendleton, last
week,
TIE C. & O. CANAL-Although nav
igation upon.th Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal has been resumed the full length
Of the time, and there is a pressing de-
mand for coal at the lower end, the
boatlnen, as a general thing, are doing
but little business in the form of ship
ping of freight This state Of affairs
has been occasioncd by the disputed
railroad crossing at Cumberland.
Messrs. Goodloe & Newcomb have
contracted to build three miles OF the
extension OF the S. V. Railroad, begin
ming at Wayuesboro'. These gentle
men commenced work OIL Saturday
morning last
Col. Peyton lost his family residence
near Leesburg, Loudoun county, Va,
last Saturday night by fire. 1t was one
OF the finest old family residences III
Virginia.
The Atlanta Bridge Company, Of At
lanta, GA, now employs over 600 men,
and is supplied with orders winch it
will require four months to complete
running on full time.
Sixty thousand emigrants are coming
to this country FROM Sweden and Nor
way.
A few Florida farmers who have
plarted arrowroot make as much as
$1,000 on an acre.
There will be four eclipses this year,
two of the sun and two of the moon.
The moon will suffer q total eclipse on
tbs 18th of June.
Sixty-eight millions of dollars have
been invested in railroads and mining
enterprises in Mexico within the last
seven months by the capitalists Of the
United States.
The Kansas State Board of Emigra.
ton states that up to the present time
fully one hundred thousand freedmen
have left the south. Many were turned
into other States by the Kansas authori
ties. An cndeavor on the part Of the
Board to check the exodus has resulted
in failure. They also report the move
ment is again about to set in, and the
coming summer and fall will witness
hegira equal to any in the past.
DR.. VIM. Barrow, formerly State
Senator Tor Northampton county, n.
g., tell dead few days ago.
a dispatch from Columbia, S. c., an
nounces the death IN that city, On Sun.
day last, of Hon Jno. S. Preston, one of
the most distinguished citizens of that
State.
John Go,hard, elias Sandy Smith,
colored, was hanged at Towsontown
on Friday last for the murder of Mr.
Joseph Wood, in Palapsco Neck, Bati-
more county, December ,, 1880, the
victim lingering between life and death
until December 8, when he died.
Florida is rapidly becoming North
ernzed. 1t is estimated that nearly
one half of its real estate is now owned
by Northern capitalists.
The total loss by the food in the
Missouri river and its tributaries be
tween Sioux City, Iowa. and Bismark,
Dakota, is estimated at S2,5O0,000.
Below Sioux City, including the dam.
age at Omaha, Council Bluffs, Kansas
City and the great oveIfows on both
sides between these cities and St. Louis,
the amount of loss is computed at ST.,
100000.
THE POLICY DERs.-We stated
last week that policies amounting to
100000 had been taken ont in the
Southern Pennsylvania Mutual Relief
Association" of Hanover, Pa, and the