Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1881-06-18


IS The following stauzas we take
from the Washington National Repub
lican. 1t is said to be the production
of a young lady OF this county under
Is years of age, daughter of Mr. John
Ii. Strlder -
MY DENTIST.
Who seats me in his easy chair,
And hurts me more than | can bear,
And pulls my tooth and doesn't care?
My dentist.
Who laceratcs my gums with files
OF different shapes and different styles,
And coolly takes them out and smiles:
My dentist.
Who twists my lower jaw awrY,
And sticks his thumb into my eye,
While seeking cavities to spy:
My dentist.
Who thrusts his steel deep in my tooth,
Which makes me howl, Il then forsooth
Tells me 'the nerves exposed, in truth 7
My dentist.
Who, when the teeth are iillcdand ground
And tenCcT oriiiCeS found,
Puts in burr and twists it round?
My dentist.
Who always finds a tooth to fill,
\ root to pull, a nerve to kill,
And then sends in his "little bill ?''
Ny dentist.
DEATH OF AN Ex- CoNFEDERATE OF
rIcER.-AN INCIDENT OF THE LATE
WAR.-The Charleston Is. C) News
and Courier in announcing the death OF
Capt. +. Is. Hewe,son, who was a
member of the First Confederate Regi-
ment South Carolina volunteers during
the late war, relates the following Incl
dent:
ut was while he was regimental
quarternaster that Capt. Hewetson,
with the inspiration of the born com
mander, organized a small force which
repulsed the enemy and saved Gen.
Lees army. The circumstances are
these: Capt. Hewetson was at Will
Transport, Md, Immediately after the
defeat of the Confederates at Gettys
burg. The Potomac was too high for
fording, and the reliance of Gen. Lee
was on the pontoon bridges. AS soon
as the Confederates fell back from Get
tysburg, a strong body OF Federal cav
airy was pushed towards Willamsport,
where there was believed to be no con
siderable number of Confederate troops.
In truth, there were no soldiers there
except some stragglers, and the sick
and wounded with the wagon trains.
There seemed to be nothing to prevent
the Federals from occupying Williams
port, destroying the bridges and bar
ring absolutely Gen. Lees retreat.
Seeing the danger, Capt. Hewetson
gathered together the teamsters of the
army, armed them with muskets found
in the wagons, and with this impromp-
tn force, aided by a handful of en-
feebled and manned soldiers, checked
the enemy's advance, and gave Butords
cavalry SO warm a reception that the
Confederates were supposed to be in
full strength that the advance was
abandoned. The Battle of the Team
sters, as it was called, was the salvation
of the shattered and worn army of
Northern Virginia, and of that battle,
so momentous and so little known,
Capt. Hewetson was the hero"
The Lynchburg News says that
valuable deposits Of lead have been dis
covered on the lands of J. l.. Coffee, in
Pulaski county, who has sold them to
Northern parties for $4,000.
Memorial day was observed at Fred
icksburg last week. Owing to the rain,
Gen. Titzhugh Lee, who was expected
to deliver an grafton, did not arrive,
but the Hon. John l.. Marye was call
ed upon and made a short but very ap
propriatc address.
DIR. Geo. Quinby, OF Loudoun coun.
ty, one of the officers OF tho Virginia
Society, produces and
sends to market once a week, seven
hundred pounds of butter. This is
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