Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1881-05-07
NEW VOL. l6--N0. 3S.
Editorial Esreyiiies.

June. Several military orgaAaIl3ns
and a number OF distinguished eakers
ale expected TO be present.
With the close of this week local OPP
ton goes into effect in five of the TWEEN
ty election districts of Washington
county, Md, viz: Williamsport. Sharps-
burg. keedysyiile, ChewSyll!e and
Rohrcrsville At the election last fall
in Antietam and Cavetown, two OF the
largest districts in the county, IL was
only defeated by three votes i'll each.
In Fuukstowu district, where no liquor
Was sold, local option vas defeated and
there are now in the place two saloons.
On Tuesday, at noon, little girl
named Grace Ditto, aged six years,
living with Mr. John Horst, near Gear
foss y Roads, Wash. county, Md, was
dragged to death by horse. The lit
tie child had been placed on horse
and sen, out 10 notify the farm hands
that dinner was ready.
Miss Hattie Duell. OF Iowa City,
Iowa, died Tuesday, that day being tho
49ih Stree she lad tasted food Uf any
| kind. \ post mortem examination
made Immediately after her death re
yealed the wonderful fact that thore
was not a drop Of blood in her body.
Her weight at death was 10 pounds
\ company Of immigrants, Polish,
German and Hungarian, passed through
( Stauntru on Thursday last, en- route for
Lowmoore, near Ly nchburg, Va They
were about eighty in number, and will
be put to work at once in the Low
moor mines This is said TO be- bat the
advance guard. The immigration this
year is expected 10 DC heavier than
ever before known.
Mr.. Barnum says it is surprising how
many good parents come 10 lis me-
nageries 10 show little Jonny the ami
mails Little Jonny hcas the band
playing, and is soon missing. The par
euts go into the circus 10 hunt liItIo
Junny and come out as soon rs tho
. circus is over.
/ Down in Arkansas they call an or
! duarv man, who drinks but little,
"Cap,aiu." a Colonel is one who can
stand the racket pretty well, and
General" is the title given 10 man
who must have "suthin'" once in so
often or perish; but the picked old to-
pers are all called ''Jcdge."
! Isaac y. Dement,, emigrating from
West Virginia to Louisiana with his
wife aud four children, in two wagons,
| encamped on mountain in Stone coun
| ty, Ark, and while himself and two
| boys were fishing al the foot of tho
mountain forest fire surrounded the
camp, destroying one wagon, all the
/ household effects, aud burning his wife
and two children To death. Dement,
was badly burnt trying to rescue them.
Charss S. Darlington, Of Richmond,
has obtained the option OF purchasing
the whole of the Splint Coal Company's
property in kanawha county. w. Va,
! up To the lst of October next. Tho
price is to be 100000 The Chcsa-
peakc and Ohio Railway passes through
the property, which consists Of nearly
5000 aUes.
NJ. Adam Forcpaugh, the Snowman,
has instituted suit against his rivals,
Barnum, Bailey & Hutchinson, laying
damages at 100000, on the charge OF
conspiracy, one Of the causes Of com
plant consisting in the alleged circuln-
ton in Baltimore, three weeks ago, Of
a number small bills 10y Barnums men
stating that certain show, al that time
in Washington, had an epidemic pre-
vailing among its employees, and warn
/ ing persons against visiting II.
"Don'L waste your time IN clipping
off the branches, but lay your axe at
the root OF the tree, said the woUdmAn
to his son. An the young man went
out and laid his axe at the foot of the
tree, like a good aud duliIul boy, aud
then went fishing.
In the recent Brnkley sale IN New
York the famous Gutenberg Bible,
the first ever printed by movable types,
was sold for eight thousand dollars.
Two hundred horses were sold by
Rockingham county, Va, farmers at
IarrisoGbnrg last Monday, realizing
about 10000. Over one hundred Ot
these horses were bought for use H.
Maryland and PenDsy lyania.
Rev DR.. Leo Rosser, Of the Vir-
ginia Methodist Conference, has deyo-
ted Fifty years Of his life 10 the cause OF
Christianity. Seventeen thousand per
Sons are said 10 have beer converted
under his ministry.
! yourg fellow in in thcse parts
wrote his girl a tender letter d, claring
his Preference, etc, 10 which he re-
ceived the following reply: Dear VII.
lie, you asked if ! return yonr love.
Yes, Willie, have no use for il AID
return it with many tbarks. By-by
Willie.
1t was an Itishmsn who remarked Of
a miser who had died and was treated
to rather a pretentious burial. "Faiifl
aud il he'd lived 10 see how moigh'y
axpinsiye q thing it was TO dCie himself
he'd Diyer been born.
Seven thousand people are destitute
aud homeless, whose residences weIe
along the Missouri river in Dakota,
ice having gorged the streams, aud
whole villages were swept away.
Their suffering is said 10 be terrible in
the extreme.
John B. Whitehead, OF Norforlk, G..
Arthur johnson, Of Petersburg. Charles
w. Staiham, Of Lynchburg, and Floyd