Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1881-10-29

A Kentucky man has been married
in the same house and by the same min
ister TO four sisters He is looking
around for another able-bodiei family
when he runs through the one now in
hand.
The depo. Of the Washington and
Ohio road at Leesburg, Va, was brok.n
into one night last week by three men,
the agent, Samuel Corkrell, bound aud
gagged, aud the drawer robbed OF
small sum OF money.
Rev. Newton Z. Mable, minister Of
the Episcopal Church and formerly
professor in the Petersburg, (Va) Clss-
steal Institute, died recently in Connec-
ticut
Rev. Cotin Stokes has accepted call
TO the pastorate OF the Presbyterian
Church at Amherst Court House, Va.
The colored Bsptists OF Lynchburg,
Va, have just completed very hand
some church at cost ot $4,000.
Capt Ewell Baker, clerk of The CONT
ty and Circuit Courts Of Warren coun.
~, Va, died last Friday. lun
Gen. John Q. Fremont, Governor OF
Arizona, has resigned. 1t is rumored
that Gen. Banks is to be his successor.
As Charles Jones aud his wife were
walking along a road near their home,
six miles from Wytheville, yesterday,
Henry Crocket met them and, presum-
ing upon long acquaintance, addressed
Jones wife in jocular manner, which,
however, gave ofl.nse aud she com
planned TO her husband, who wen, iItJ
the house, got gun, aud shot Crockett
dead.
DR.. J. G. Holland, the distinguished
American author. who has been since
1870 connected with Scribuer's Msga-
zine, died suddenly in New York. on
"Wednesday last. l2lh inst. DIR. Hol.
land was born ip Massachusetts, in 1872.
The Fincas,le (Va) Herald says:
"Workmen ~ the Shenandoah Valley
railroad in making cut On the White
more (Langhorne) farm, near Cloverdale
3oleioup county, have come across n
vein of coal of superior quality, as
proved by actual trial. John Drisber
has also found n large vein Of coal at
the foot Of the mountain, about 6 miles
northwest OF Fincastle. These veins
are OF course near the surface OF the
ground, and we have no doubt that in.
yesiigation will prove that Botriourt
county is rich in this valuable article"
Several days since Judge Alvey of
Hagerstown, signed decree, divorcing
Anna NJ. Ranels from L. Homer Ranels
and allowing her To assume her maiden
name aud to remarry again, il she is so
disposed. Her maiden name WAS Anna
NJ. Post
1t is though by some Of our excban-
ges that the only loophole through
which Gutesu can escape !. by an issue
ui jurisdiction. Some lawyers claim th,t
the assassin should be tried in New Jer-
sey, where the President died. aud that
# he is tried and convicted in Wash
lDgton, and bis counsel then appeal To
the Supreme Court on question Of
jurisdiction, that tribunal will decide
that New Jersey is the proper place for
The trial. Guiteau would Then escape,
the Constitution providing that mans
life shall not be twice jeopaidized Tor
the same crime.
The Rev. Francis Chevenix Trench, =
who is connected ia some manner with
the iDducement Of emigration from Ire.
land, has written letter To Col. Boy
kin, commissioner Of immigration for
South Carolina, in regard 10 that State
as q home for Irish settlers. lie states
that he seeks a warmer climate for them
than Manitoba or Minnesota, aud IL
necessary can come TO Columbia 10
prospect.
The Richmond and Allegheny Rail
road was fully completed on Friday
afternoon Of last week st Lexington,
Va, and the formal opening ceremonies
occurred st Howardville, Albemarle
county, Va, 80 miles from Ricbmoud.
Gov. Cornell, Of New York, was one
of the guests, and addressed the assem-.
blage. The line extends from Rich.
mond up the James river to It's head.
waters, $50 miles. and is built mainly
on the towpatb Of the canal. A copsol-
idation with the Ohio Central Railroad
has recently taken place, and when
completed the line will extend from
Richmond, Va, TO Toledo, Ohio, with
bratch to Pittsburg.
Some one wrote TO Horace Greely In
quiring if guano was good 10 put on po-
tatoes. He said IL might do for tbase
whose tastes bad become vitisted with
tobacco and rum; bat be preferred gra-
Wy and butter
Every day yon can see large num-
Der of young ladies promenading onr
streets, sDd Dioe.testbs Of them are
walking along NJ II they are looking for
pins. What looks worse than TO see
young lady SO stooped that she would
be taken for an old woman Of seysnt,f
Study the Hindoo practice, snd cure
yourself at once. The girls Of that
Ii