Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1881-03-12
Editorial EsrcVities.

Joseph Ii. Pendleton, Esq q proml-
nent. citizen Of Wheeling, died on
Wednesday, February I'd. lie was u
lawyer of ability; and at one time had
been editor of the Wheeling MteiH-
geacer.
Travel in the West has been great
~ interrupted during the past week by
reason OF the damage to railroads which
was occasioned 10y the heavy rains and
swollen streams.
Diptheria has been prevailing for
some time with great fatality along the
western base OF the Blue Ridge IN
Rockingham county. a few weeks
since four children in one family died.
On Monday week, the funerals OF six
children were preached at Mt. Pleasant
church. In one family two children
died III one night, and were buried in
the same coffin.
Trains are still weathcr-bound in
Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa and
in Northern Illinois. The Chicago ho-
tells, restaurants and private houses are
badly Inconvenience by the showing
up of the milk and butter trains which
supply that olty.
The fast train north from Washing
ton over tht Baltimore aud Potomac
Railroad colded with a south bound
train, consisting of two engines and ten
der, near Severn station, fifteen miles
from Baltimore, on Saturday afternoon
last. J. Weimer Young, merchant, Of
Shamokin, Pa, aud John Oliver, OF
Baltimore, were killed, and twenty
eight passengers and railroad employees
injured, several of them seriously il not
fatally. Ex-President Hayes and tam-
" were on the north-bouud train, but
escaped without injury.
Charlotte Thompson, the actress, has
been mys,eriously robbed in st. Louis
Of $4,000 worth Of diamonds.
Rev. J. G. Whitley, of West Virgin
ia Conference NJ. Z. Church South, has
been chosen chaplain OF the University
of Virginia for Two years from Octc-
Der !.
The presentation ceremonies in cen
.neclion with the portrait OF Mrs. Hayes
by the Ladies Temperance Union, took
place in Washington, Monday night,
when the portrait was unveiled. Adj
dresses were delivered by Miss Willard,
Mrs. Woodbridge, Mrs. Foster and
Rev. Frederick Merrick, of Ohio. The
portrait was taken 10 the Executive
Mansion and presented to the President.
1t is designed to he hung there with
those of other ladies who have presided
at the White House.
A fourishiDg colony Of Northern
families have settled at Claremont, Snr-
ry county, Va, and have now laid of
site tor a town on which number OF
houses will be erected this season. The
Claremon. property was surveyed IN
April, 1879, there being then but four
families in that locality, but at present
the settlement has twenty two families,
the population now numbering over
100 persons, all white. Claremont is
equi distant between Richmond aud
Norfolk.
There is in the Federal Treasury at
Washington fourteen hundred thousand
dollars of unclaimed interest on govern
ment bonds.
Mr.. J. S. Brown, who has for some
time been the private secretary OF Gen.
Garfield, will, it is said, succeed Mr..
Rodgers as private secretary to the
President. Mr.. Rodgers will, however,
remain for some time.
The noble army OF otiice-seekers has
already taken mp the line OF march on
the White House. Included in this
crowd is a score or so OF eX-members OF
Congress who think it the bounden
duty of the new President to provide
for them.
Mrs. Elizabeth II. Churchill, well
known woman's rights speaker aud
writer, died in Providence, Il l., Mon
day.
The annual Southern claims bill pas
sed the Senate Saturday in about three
minutes. 1t covers more than seventy
pages, and provides for the payment OF
thousands of claims for quarlermaster
and cOmmiSsary stores provided during
the war by citizens of Maryland, West
Virginia, Pennsylvania and other states.
In the United States Senate, Monday
Immediately after the reading of the
journal, Senator-elect Malone, Of Nir-
ginia, escorted by his colleague, Senator
Johnson of Virginia, advanced to the
Vice Presidents desk and was sworn in
subscribing to the modified oath. lie
took his seat upon the republican side,
in the rear row next to Senator Mitchell
OF Pennsylvania.
CABINET Gosslr-Every member Of
the Cabinet is married.
Only two out Of the seven are college
graduates.
Secretary of the Navy Hunt is living
with his fourth wife.
There is only one OHIO born man in
the Cabinet, Secretary Window.
Hon w. L. Chandler, OK New
Hampshire, will be assistant Secretary
of State.
Simon Cameron said of his sonin-
law, few years ago, that the best he
could say Of him was that he was a
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