Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1881-04-02
Editorial Brevftics.

will get seven or elSul tiHcs Us h"N"
| when the old man dies. Whitelaw Is an
/ other OF those Ohio men.
! Charles Carskaden,a deputy Z. 5. Rev
! enue officer, with some aids, on tuesday
/ last, arrested Jasper Lee, residing on
Short Mountain, in Hampshire county,
! for Illicit distilling. The necessary ap.
paratus used in his unlawful business, OF
course, were destroyed. The prisoner
was taken to Keyssr and lodged In jail.
| In the clerk office of the United States
| Circuit Court, Baltimore, the opinion OF
! Judges Bond and Morris was filed III the
cases of Asahel Emigh against the balti-
more and Ohio railroad company, ana
/ Francis A. Stevens against the same Tor
! infringement OF the patent OF stevens
patent railroad car-brake by the railroad
! company. The suit has been pending
since February, 1864.
The Wheeling papers announce that
John II. Zeveley, seal and stencil cutter
I of that place, disappeared last Friday
night, after having been, it Is alleged,
/ detected in number of crooked trallSac-
ton, including forgery, by winch Il large
! number of persons were yictlmlzed. Lev-
e!ey formerly resided in Cumberland,
Maryland, where lie published postal
card bulletin.
Property is said to be changing hands
at a large increase at Newport News, Va,
the prospective eastern and deep water
terminus of the Chesapeake and ONO Kail-
road. Lands thata month ago was held
at $40 to $l2 per acre, are now heli IL sou
or 500 Quite town has been lald out.
The Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Rail
road transported in 1881 4O,O6o tons OF
-
minerals, against 2S,6SO tons III 1917, ali
increase of 10 per cent. Most OF these
minerals were from Virginia. Baltimore
received 4,O5S tons from this source III
1880, against COB in 1879.
Seven masked men entered the house of
Jno. Connor, aged eighty-onc, who lives
with his wife, at Catfish, Pa, about; fifty
miles from PittSburg, bound and gagged
both compelled the old gentleman TO give
the combination of the safe, and stole So
900 worth of government coupon bonds,
unregistered, and from $4,000 TO $4,000 i'll
cash. The old people were roughlyzhand-
led and may not survive the shock OF the
outrage.
John Z. Carney. cx-raShicr Of the Pco-
pies Bank. Wheeling, W. VA, shas been
arrested on charge Of cmbczllrment and
false entry.
Col. Thomas 4. Scott, of Philadelphia,
has made donation of $jO,0OO TO Wash
ington and Lee University.
Rev. Robert +. Jackson, of Macon, Ga,
has accepted Il call To Christ Episcopal
Church, RIchmUud, Va.
\ diSpach from JoncSvillc, Lee county,
Va, reports that Il desperate battle took
place OH Tuesday in the mountains be-
nt 81
tv-thrce moomShnrrS, near Miidlcton'S
still house. in which Joe, jake and BIZ
Middleton were killed. The revenue Off
GERS failed to dislodge the moonShincrS
from the balricadc in the still house and
sent for re-cntorcemcntS 10 take the house
bv storm. The moonshin"rS sailed out
and drouc the beSiegrrS away.
Under the Republican organization of
the United States Senate, as elected on the
18Th inst, we note that Senator Davis, of
this State is chairman of Nicaraguan
Claims. also, on Appropriations and Agrl-
culture committees, and Senator Camden
on Pensions, Transportation Routes TO. the
Snaboard, and Mines and Mining commit
tees.
On Friday evening, Lewis Hartman, son
of the late Col. VIM. II. llarman, of Starln-
James river, above LyuChburg. The de-
ceased was youth and employed on the
packet line, Of which his uncle. Major VI.
G.. Harmon, was lately proprietor. Pass
ing by the falls it WAS thought there WAS
danger of thCssbOat sweeping over, when
Hartman jumped out with rope To swim
ashore, but was entangled and drowned.
"Oll Abe" the Wisconsin war eagle,
h,-,l
sold to the Eighth Wisconsin Infantry in
1861, and was with the regiment four
wears in the army, and at the close of the
war was presented to the State. He has
been all over the nation since. In 1868, at
the great fair AT Chicago, his exhibition
Melted SIG 900, and NJ the milwaukee, fair,
the same wear, sc. 900. "Old Abe was on
exhibition for four months at the centen-
nial.
A hundred and twenty dollars in money
were taken from the residence of Mrs. ST.
san Claggctt, widow OF the late John Clag
gctt, on the Sharpsburg pike, near 81.
James College, Tuesday. A man who
lived on the place has disappeared, and it
is supposed that it is Inc who stole the
money.
A little child of Jackson Henry, of Win
chester, died last week, from eating about
half Il teacupful of salt. 1t was about
three years old.
The barn of Daniel Dcrr, near Middle
town, Frederick county, Md. was de-
stroyed by an incendiary fire Wednesday
evening, together with 800 bushels of
wheat, TWO horses, three cows, st.. Loss
about So, 900; insured for Il small amount.
Thomas NJ. Baker, a son Of Samuel Bal
kcr, of FunkStOwn Wash. county, Md,
who has been clerk III the dcad-lcttrr Of
flee at Washington for seven years, WAS de-
tected and arrested on March 9th for rob
bing dcad-lcttcr>. He confessed TO the
crime. of which he has been guilty for
some time.
Mt. Morris, Illinois, had snow on the
9Th of March which WAS 3 feet deep on
level and drifts and 10 feet, which COM
plptcly shut them up from the outside
world for 4 days before train of cars
could reach them. On the lth another fu-
rous snow storm visited them which
blockadcd the railroads again.
Before the days of DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup, n person troubled with cough
always consulted his physician. Now
he only invests % cents and is cured
after a few doses.
During the ~ months ending March
l, Chicago packed 5,752,l9l hogs, an
increase of l,O7l, 1854 over the proceed
ing year.
Hon. J. Randolph Tucker has accept
ed an Invitation TO deliver lecture in
Richmond, Va, IN May, for the benefit
of the Yorktown fund Of the Governors
Guard, First Regiment, Virginia Vol
unteers.
The recent food in the Platte Valley,