Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1881-06-25
Editorial HsrcYi.itS.

Senator Camden and Col. w. =.
Thompson, nave sold their stock in the
White Sulphur Springs. They togeth-
er owned about 375 shares, par value
500 each, which they disposed Of TO
some New York parties.
The recent nomination of Hon. VIM.
Pinkney Whyte for Mayor of Balti-
more was ratified on Wednesday night
of last week by a mass meeting at
Maryland Institute.
Last week a regiment was organized
in Charlottesville composed OF compa-
MES east of the Ridge, and Capt. Wer-
tenberger OF the Monticello Guards was
elected Colonel. 1t is the Sd Va.
The Revised New Testament has
made lis appearance and is being scat
tered as thick as autumn leaves all over
the land 1t made lis appearance May
2lst, and has pretty generally been
passed upon by the press and public
Eighty learned men were occupied ID
its revision for len years
The Scottsville Courier says, Buck
ingham beats the world! a lady resi-,
dent of that county gave birth, about
ten days ago to twins; one OF which
was born with full set Of ,eeth-both
upper and lower The case is without
a parallel, in our recollection.
Gen. Longstreet has been interviewed
concerning Mr.. Davis History of the
Civil War. For the most part General
Longstreet was non-committal, but III
some points conceded with Mr.. Davis,
and notably in his opinion that Wash
ington could have been captured after
the first battle of Manassas.
Rev. Daniel Steck, D. d., prominent
Lutheran minister, died last Friday
evening at Gettysburg, Pa.
Adam Forepaugh has had disagree
ment with his professional beauty. lie
thinks she costs too much.
The soldiers monument now being
erected on Capital square, at WeeIing,
will, il is said, be unveiled on the 18th
Of July.
Franklin A. Knott, a prominent cti
zen of Frederick county, Md, died at
his home, in Petersville district, last
Sunday, aged 70 years.
They have raised the green flag in
Ireland, and matters appear TO be RAPID
ly proceeding from bad 10 worse. 1t
looks as if England might soon have a
serious revolution on her hands.
The Clarksburg and Harrison county
people are going to indulge in an oil
fashioned 4ih Of July this year. Gen.
Coli is to deliver the address.
Married in Romney, on Wednesday
evening of last week, at the residence
of the brides mother, Mrs. +. i. Lup-
ton, widow of the late DR.. Samuel Il.
Lupton, by Rev. G. w. Finley, Mr.. G.
w. Schaffer, teacher of Music in the
Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institution in
that place, to Miss Kate Lupton.
Coroners jury in Rockingham coun,
", Va, has found a verdict involving a
Miss Elizabeth Schultz in the death Of
her child, which was found in a field
under some brush and briers, where 1t
was born.
The first new wheat of the season,
offered on the ST Louis market, was on
Thursday OF last week. 1t was shipped
from Fort Wayne Texas, graded No. 3
Red Winter, and sold at public auction
for $3.50 per bushel.
Mrs. Jacob Keedy, widow of the late
Jacob Keedy, died at the residence Of
her son in-Iaw, Mr.. Daniel Thomas, in
Mt. Morris Ogle Co., ILL.,, on the goth
of May, in the S0Ih year of her age:
Mrs. Keedy, nee Miss MaysilIas, was
born in Washington county, Md, WAS
married 1918 to Mr.. Jacob Kecdy, and
moved to the west with her husband,
from Boonsboro, about 1869.
BY intelligence received from the
Warner Observatory, Rochester, n. Y,
it appears that still another comet has
Just been discovered by DR.. Gould, Di-
rector of the Cordova Observatory, Ar
gentine Republic, South America.
This comet seems to be the great com
ct of 1897, and is located in the Con
stcllation of the Dove, Right Ascension
6 hours and Defamation South 80
degrees.
a destructive fire occurred in Brook
lyn last week, the loss being estimated