Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1881-08-27
Editorial Brevities.

| est physicians III the valley OF virginia,
! died ut Lexington last Tuesday.
The corn crop of upper Fauquier 1t Is
! said will hardly be half an average one,
, and farmers will not be able 10 feed their
! usual number Of cattle this fall.
Robert Beverly has sold 4 farm under
| the Blue Ridge, some four miles south of
| Paris. formerly owned by Cen. Corse, to
Mr.. Harrison, of the Valley for $l4, 900.
Judge Clifford, who was 4 member of
the electoral commission, prepared full
history of the acts OF that body, which he
said would produce sensation when pub
! lished. His wife has the manuscript.
Mrs. Kane, widow of Dr.. Kane, the
Arctic explorer, and one OF the Fox sis
tiers, noted for their CHICHESTER knock
iugs" of twenty-five years ago, Is among
the mediums of the Lake Pleasant Spirit
| ualists camp meeting.
The court in the cadet Whitaker case
have reported. They not only find him
guilty of cutting his own ear but of lying
about it. They recommend his dismissal
from the service.
Bishop Watterson, of Ohio, has issued a
pastoral letter to the Catholic clergy of his
diocese directing them to offer special
prayers for the suffering President.
4 meeting of the stockholders Of the
Valley Railroad Company was held at
Slaunton, Va, Thursday, and brief tel
ephone correspondence With Mr.. John
w. Garrett, a resolution was unanimously
adopted empowering the board OF direc-
tors TO issue bonds, not exceeding 81 ,000,
GOO, to be secured by mortgage upon
the road, to complete its extension TO
Lexington.
A Real Estate operation worth mention
ing was the sale in New ork last week of
10000 acres of woodland, situated in the
mountains of Georgia, to party of Eng
lish capitalists, fol-. $50 900. The buyers
Of the property are now i'll New York for
the purpose Of purchasing S5OO,OOO more
Of these lands.
On Wednesday, of last week, Hon.
John l.. Massey, State auditor, had the
misfortune to lose by death favorite
daughter, at her home in Albcmarle.
Gen. Hancock has forwarded to Secre-
tary Lincoln his acceptance of the invita-
ton to command the troops at the York
town celebration.
Mr.. Philip Pendleton, Of Berkeley
Springs, has invented and patented All
iron cross tie for use on railroads.
Wvman, the Wizard, who made his first
appearance nearly fifty years ago on the
stage of the old Baltimore Museum, is
dead.
Gen. Coombs, died at Lexington, Ky,
Monday, in the SSth year. Gen. COombs
was born in Kentucky in 1894, anL was a
soldier i'm the war OF 1872. lie was a law
yer of some note in Kentucky, but he was
best known as wing politician. lie was
nlnr aft ,nl
great distinction throughout the country
in the presidential campaign Of 1910.
Copperas is the dread of rats. In every
crevice or in every hole where rat treads
scatter grains Of copperaS and the result
is Il stampede OF rats and mice, and not u
football of either Will be heard about the
house for years. Every spring coat OF
yellow " ash is given the cellars, rs put
ritier as we'll as rat eXterminator and no
typhoid, dysentery or fever will attack
the family,
Virginia, says the Richmond State, is
soon to he in direct rail communication
with Pittsburg. The ride OF Senators Da-
Wis, Camden and Bayard, two hundred
miles over the mountains, from Pittsbuag
to the White Sulphur, means business,
and in Il short time VIC may expect TO see
TIC WORN ol COUStl
The New York Herald thinks in the
near future the advice to the thrifty and
industrious will not be Go West" but
GO South"
Open threats were made in Washing
ton on Tuesday last that if the President
died his assassin should not live 10 see an
other sun rise.
A Michigan girl has been arrested for
carrying revolver. This is right. No fc-
male should be allowed to wear bangs in
her hip pocket.
The s'Revisory Committee" who have
been working on the Code for month or
more, White sulphur Springs, adjourned
last week, To meet in Wheeling next
winter. The work in hand is nearly conf
pleted, and whom the Legislature meets in
extra session there will be little to do ex-
cept to legalize Judge Fcrgusson's TO
nance as the Code Of the State, adjourn
and go home.
The Baltimore Sun says: A writer in
Land and Water says there are from one
to two thousand English landholders in
Virginia, with farms Of from 100 TO loo
acres, and that they are remarkably hap
py. lie especially recommends Virginia
for gentleman emgrants with large fami-
lies. at offers almost the only genuine
country life with congenial surroundings
to the expatriatcd gentleman"
While Gems. Grant, Sherman, Sheridan
and Rosecrans will attend the reunion Of
the Army of the Cumberland at Chatanoo-
ga next month, the society will also num-
Der among its guests Gems. johnson, Cor
don, Wheeler, Colquit and Wade Hamp-
ton.
james O'Connor fell from an express
train, last Saturday, near Sir Johns Run
and was killed. lie was intoxicated.
1t is said that Mormonism is rapidly
spreading in Georgia and that people,
mostly women, are leaving the north
western part Of the State for Utah by the
carloed.
The liberal Use Of quor-dcalers-moncy
and the party lash have resulted in the
defeat of Prohibition in North Carolina
and continued upon that State tho curse
of traffic ever fraught with untold
crime, vice and misery.
The Cincinnati Commercials suggestion
Of one cent contributions to pay the fine
of G. A Cook, who slapped Morrison
mouth for saying he wished to God that
Garfield would die" took like wildfire.
The fine and costs only came TO S32, but
$50 was received the first day, and now,
il is said, contributions aggregate nearly
$1,000.
Guiteau stirred up the Washington peo-
pie considerably on Wednesday of last
week. 1t is alleged that one of the guards
found him with IN old knife in his posses
sion. A struggle onsued between the
guard and Guiteau for the possession of
the knife, during which the guards re-
volver was discharged. Guiteau is said TO
be very much excited over the Presidents
precarious condition and fears being