Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1881-08-06
Editorial Esreyiiics.

ana prOlltaDle investments so scarce lnat
ten capitalists of that city have subscribed
the necessary amount for sending party
OF experts to prospect for mining lands in
Arizona and New Mexico, with the oO-
ject of forming Il joint stock company for
developing such mines should the search
be successful. The party started from
there for the scene of their operations on
Saturday last.
The great centennial (main) building in
philadelphia is to he sold in August at
public auction, but some of the newspa-
pers are trying to have remain for the
200th anniversary OF the landing Of VIM.
Penn, which will take place in 1882.
The election of Lapham and Miller,
while restoring the republican control Of
the Senate, reduces the republican major
ity in the House by TWO votes.
The defeat of Conkling widens the
breach in the republican party in New
York. and henCeiorth we will have two
irreconcilable factions i'll the Empire
State.
If all that is heard can be believed the
attempted assassination Of the President
has wrought many wonderful changes,
among them the reunion of the divided
sections, the death of Grantism, Conk-
lingism and Mahonism, his sudden pos
session OF large fortune and his rcnomi-
nation tor the presidency.
Col. l.. Mott, who was killed at Colum-
bus, Ga. on Tuesday of last week, by be-
ing struck by Il locomotive, was near
relative OF DR.. A. X. Mott, of Leesburg,
which place he had recently visited.
The farm of IA acres, two miles south
west of White Post, belonging to the es-
tate of the late James Marshall, of Win
chester, has been sold 10 George Gardiner
at $l7.50per acre.
A man by the name Of Perks, living on
the farm of Mr. j. w. Grantham, Clarke
county, dropped dead from heart disease
on Monday OF last week. He had been
for some time afflicted with Bright's dis
ease.
The railroad connection between the
coal mines and the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal at Cumberland, and the proposed
enlargement of the locks Of the canal by
which its capacity for transportation will
be doubled at little or no extra cost TO the
boatmen, must greatly increase the coal
trade OF that canal.
Mr.. ConkIing has arrived at Washing
ton. He was at the Capitol Monday
morning, and took a bath and was shaved
there. lie visited Senator Jones, but is
stopping at his old rooms, on nth street.
lie tells his friends that he Is permanent
ly out of politics, and that he intends
from the present TO conBne himself to the
practice of his profession.
Ia spite of the prejudice existing against
the frogs, frog eating has now establish
ed itself firmly as an American institi-
ton. At Elgin, H., there isa man who
found it so profitable that he went into
the business Il few years since Of raising
apeculiar kind Of frog for the Western
markets. In the west they are served up
as fried frogs.
At the meeting Of the Virginia Historic
al Society, in Richmond on Saturday last,
a letter was read from w. W. Corcoran,
Esq, announcing that he had purchased
for the Society at The recent sale at Lon
don of the library Of the learned bibliO-
pole, Henry Stevens, the original maLu-
script records or entry books OF the Colo
ny of Virginia for five years, comprising
the period l752-57, Of the administra-
ton OF Lieutenant Governor Robert Din
widdie, which invaluable treasury Of his
tOric material has become Known familiar
ly to the public by recent frequent men
ton as the Dinwiddie Papers.
Albert z. and Charles Il. Talbot, who
were convicted Of the murder Of their
father, DR.. Perry II. Talbot, on the 18th
of last September, and sentenced TO be
hanged Oh June %, but respited until
July 22 by Gov. Crittenden, Of Missouri,
were executed at Marysyille, Mo-, yester-
day afternoon, in the presence Of 5000 or
10000 persons. They were both boys,
Charles, the youngest, being IL years OF
age.
Miss Clara NJ. Lowenstein, sister Of
Messrs. David and Isaac Lowenstein,
well-known merchants and citizens Of
Frederick, was married on Wednesday Of
last week, to Charles Fleshnsr, Of New
Haven, Conn. The marriage ceremony
was performed at the Hebrew Synagogue,
by the Rev. DIR. Hocheimer, Of Baltimore.
The will Of the lately deceased New
Orleans millionaire, John Burnside, being
opened, Oliver Beirne, Of the Old Sweet
Springs, Greenbrier county, West Vir-
ginia, was found TO be tue residuary lega-
tee Of an estate valued at about Ilye mill
ion dollars. Burnside was a New Eng
lander by birth. In leaving his estate 10
Beirne he was actuated by friendship and
HIalltuuc lOE ldbOEH cAleUucu NHcu nc
first migrated to New Orleans years ago.
Samuel B. Wickard, formerly assistant
postmaster at Cumberland, who Is cbarg-
ed with absconding with government
funds, has been arrested in Chicago. An
account Of Wickard's departure was given
last March. The amount Of the defalca-
ton was not quite 81 900, instead Of over
81, 600, as STAGED in the Chicago dispatch.
Postmaster johnson, OF Cumberland,
when questioned in regard TO the matter,
stated that he had been kept fully advised
of Wiekard's movements since the night
he abscOnded.
Mr.. George W. Carter, the new Ameri-
can minister to Venezuela, was formerly
professor Of law in the University Of Mis-
sissippi and speaks Spanish f1uently. He
was at one time minister or the Virginia
Conference N. l.. Church South. and "a
a native Of J.oudoun county, Va. During
the late war he commanded a regiment OF
Indians in the Confederate service in the
trans-Mississippi department., and after
the war embarked in Louisiana politics a
arepublican of the pronounced type.
You often gain more knowledge from
a shrswd though illiterate man than