Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1881-06-04
Editorial Brevities.

from danger Of fire. The wires NAV h.
brought in contact with the most in.
tiammable material, he says, wi,hop.
igniting it.
Trout fishing is a favorite pastins
around Oakland, Md. Three angler,
caught l23 of the speckled beauties Oh,
day last week.
The Philadelphia Aae Centenui,l
building which originally cos. SI7,4s7.
50, was disposed Of at public sale on
last Thursday, at Philadelphs, for thu
paltry sum of $500, the purchaser being
| Mr.. VIM. Fl. Mckinley, proprietor Of
the Montgomery House, Chambers.
burg, Pa. Mr.. Mckinley will remove
1t at osee to Mont Alto Park, where i,
will be re-erected and made to do s.r.
vice as dining place.
The government printing Office 6.
Washington, the largest in the world.
is TO be still further enlarged this sum.
mer. 1t now covers q space equal 20
eight acres were it all on one door
Sixty-three steam power presses are a,
work oil the time.
Col. Woodford, of Lewis county. thi,
State, sheared 450 sheep, and finished
the shearing of them few day. $50.
He thinks the Merino sheep are be.,
adapted to this State and more profit
able than any other kind.
On Tuesday of last week, the Ere
large Barn and Stable belonging to
Gen. G.. S. Mcem, near Mt. Jackson.
Va. were burned. The loss is abcu,
$500 dollars, insurance about 5000
dollars. 1t was suspcioned, that dis
! charged hand, Jacob Thomas, colored.
| committed the act lie took the trsin
the same day the burning took plsce,
and on telegram, sent by Gen. Moem,
he was arrested by the chief OF police.
Mai. Dalrymple, the great Minpesot,
farmer, will seed 10000 acres of his
land in wheat this season. The oues.
ton ia, how many grssshoppers will
this crop feed
Richard Mooney, brakeman, fell
from the cars ut Webster Switch on
Tuesday of last week, and was almost
instantly killed. Three cars and a ca
boose passed over him. He lived in
Piedmont with his parents, being sin
gle man. He was about rs years old.
Dennis Ksarpey is building 10000
dollar house in San Francisco. Dennis
was evidently thoughtful enough -
save a little something while he VA
running around the country blsckguard.
ing every thing decent.
Mrs. Garfield. senior, who often S.
sisted in sriffening the Presidents youth.
mi backbone with a slipper, says; III
they think they can tire ont my son
James, they don't know him. that's sll.
Jefferson Davis, in speaking Of Stone
wall Jackson, says: He lived for his
country, never duubring the justice
Of his csuse. Believing it Wa right
cons and trusting in il he died, - |
live to-day, feeling that the Confederscy
ought 70 have succeeded"
General Grant at banquet given
him in the city Of Mexico 3 few days
ago, assured his Mexican frieeds that
hs WIS.,, to Mexico Was sole y 10 the in.
terest of railroad he wss connected
with, and not ~ supposed by many,
| with the intention Of bringing about
the annexation Of that country 70 tho
! United States.
They do some remarkable things cot
West. Ths IL" notable happening is
the elopensnt OF a boy OF fourteen and
q girl OF thirteen to Cincinnati, where
they were found living together -
brother and sister Both cried bitterly
when separated, svoving ,hsir deter
mination Of getting married some day.
A cattle disease has made it's appear
ance in the vicinity of Onshs, Hebr"-
ka, and is reported to be very violent,
proving fatal in few hours after ~.
tack. 1t is highly contsgiou. to human
beings as well as animals.
There is = poor woman in Southern
Indiana who religiously believes thst 8
snake IL residing in her stomach, and
her mental suffering 10 increased by tho
fact that her husband pities the snake.
Some of the Republican papers ofthe
North have been sbnsing the South, be
cause the people OF those States prefer
separate schools for the whites. II il
singular that these same newspapers do
not insist upon the same rules being
enforced in the North also.
"Commodors" George Washington
Morrison Mutt, the dwarf, died on
Wednesday OF last week, in New York
city. "Commodore' INIT was 81 yesr,
old and 3 feet 7 inches 10 height He
was married about three years ago and
his wife survives him.
Mrs. Louisa O. Allan, the foster
mother OF Edgar Allan Poe, died in
Richmond, Va, recently. she W. I"
cousin Of General Scott, and in 1888
married Mr.. John Allan, well-knovn
merchant Of Richmond. Poes parents
lost their lives at the burning Of tho
Richmond theatre, and after this calarn-
ity he was adopted by Mr.. Allan.
It is said that Ben Butler is about TO
form law partnership in New York
with Gen. Roger A. Pryor Seventeen
years ago Pryor was looking for Botler
TO get a reward Of $4,000 dollars for bis
head. Thoy are now fast friends.