Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1881-05-28
Editorial Rrevities.

II ealing place near ClearsprinS, Nd.
an od some words with one OF his men,
l,nod SvitZer, who became so enraSed
n h,, he threw an axe which struck Cut
t na,y ON the arm, inficting very severe
end. Switzer was arrested by High
Constable Anderson and taken before
SIari.trate johnson, of Clearspring, who
fined him $50 and costs.
Hon. j. Randolph Tucker will deliver
an address at the Confederate flower
Strewing at Fredericksburg, early in
June.
The Richmond Greys have awarded
contracts for handsome new uniforms pre-
paratory to visiting the Yorktown CEN
tcrnial.
\ serious collision occurred at Monoca-
cav Junction, on the b. IL o. X. X. on
Tuesday morning of last week about
o'clock. As weSt-bound freight lraih
was watering Immediately west oI tI'c
bridge, with three of its rear ears on '!is
bridge, the freight train Just peh'hu II,
Allan Dorsey engineer, fuhili"S aV NV
rate of twenty miles an h"ur, u"Sic" 'n'o
the rear of the forward tr'ih' No ",e
was injured, but several cars were O""iS
mashed.
DR. Tanner, the faster, is out west sell
;,,r, 10 dentists amaChine for administer
Ing laughing gas.
The North Carolina Troops, il has been
definitely determined by Gov. Jarvis, Will
nr in camp four days at the Yorktown
ceIebration. Altogether their absence
,rom home will he for a week. They viii
ie at Yorktown on October II, Is, - and
on These will be the big days the
18Th being that on which will be held the
Grand reception of the French.
Urman nature was outraged last
ZOO, LIZ another prize fight between two
,'n,pJ DuciliSts, sullivan, of Boston, and
flood of New York city. There was
,,,,rse of 81 900, and Il boat carried load
If brutal spectators TO the scene OF action,
y few miles above New York, on the Hud-
.on river. The worst feature OF the
whole affair is that no arrests were made.
The long expected revised New Testa-
,prut has nj last been given to the public.
Vbc design of the new version l. precisely
the same rs the design of the version II l.
,.<rocted TO supplanJ-tO correct accord
inc 10 the best light and judgment of the
scholarship of the day the errors OF for
npr TRANSACTIONS, and to interpret the
scriptures more fully to the popular UNI
derstanGing.
Mrs. Catharinc Coffin, widow of the late
levi Coain, died near Cincinnati, on
Monday. She and her husband were
widely known during slavery times us
among the most active helpers of fugitive
slaves on their way TO Canada.
Rev. Joseph /. Clinton, senior bishop
of the \. NJ. +. Zion Church, died Mon
I,,- M his home at Atlantic City, y. y.
lie was born in Philadelphia, October ),
1923.
Gen. George II. Nancy, of Tennessee,
The new minister to Colombia, raised the
first Confederate regiment in his State
and rose to the rank OF brigadier- general
in The Confederate service. Since the
war ne has acted with the republicans.
Robert y. Shaw, formerly presiding
ipsrire of the County Court of Bucking-
nam county, Va, has Il cannon ball,
,yrirhinr eight pounds, which WAS
thrown into the American lines during
the Siroe of Yorktown, in ISL, and WAS
taken home 10y Mr.. Shaw's grandfather,
.nldier of the revolutions, who WAS present
~ the Sirgc auG surrender Of CORVALLIS.
II has been Il cherished relic' in the
shaw family for nearly one hundred
cars. and will be exhibited al the York
town centennial in October next.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee delivered lecture
before very large audience at Macon,
Ga. on Thursday evening of last week,
III. subject being the Battle Of Chancel-
Irr.yiIlc." and during which he paid an
rlomemt tribute TO the genius and bravery
of Gen. Stoncwall jackson. Whilst in
Macon. Gen. Lee accepted an invitation
to visit the grave, on Cumberland Island,
of his relative, ''Light-IlorSc Harry Lee,
of revolutionary rcnown.
Captain c. c. Hedges, of Cumberland,
and other members of the Hedges family,
of MARYLAND and West Virginia, have just
returned from a convention of the family
in Cincinnati, held 10 take steps looking
IN the recovery of an estate claimed To be
s16 600 600 10 $4,000, 900 in England.
The convention included members of the
family from nearly every State III the
Union. A business committee to confer
with London lawyers was appointed.
President Garfield, Secretaries Blaine,
Window and Kirl>wood, Gov. Kirkwood
and staff. with heads of Pennsylvania
state departments and members of the
J.cgisltiirc. will participate i'll Decoration
DAY exercises at Gettysburg. Hon j. {.
Burrows. of Michigan, will deliver the
address.
Gen. Grant. it is understood, will, on
hi, arrival in New Orleans from Vera
Cruz. proceed direct to New \ DIRK, where
bo * expected to arrive in time To put in
some bio licks for Conkling and Pl.tt.
'The rrIm0r has been started that i'll case
II il found that Mr.. Conkling cannot be
reelected Gen. Grant will be brought Tor
ward as a candidate.
Mrs. Garfield is improving, but slowly,
and will most probably not he in con-
dit,on to leave the White House for
week or two. Ii has not yet been decided
whether il will be better for her to 60
North when she can bear removal or to
the Soldiers Home, where the President
expect, to take up his quarters for the
Summer.
81 Sell, Bros. circrs performance in
Milwaukee, Wis, Monday night, in an
act where Butler shoots a potato from The
head of Baughman, Butler missed the
mark and the bullet struck Baughman i'll
the head jus: above the right eyebrow.
The ball penetrated the bone. The INJURY
is not necessarily fatal.
1t is rumored that the democratic SeHa-
torial caucus at Albany, which met on
Thursday, named Hon. ClarkSon \. Tot
Ter A. one of the democratic candidates TO
ill the vacancy occasioned by the reSiS-
nation of Senators Conkling and Platt.
Jefferson Davis has gone to Canada in
order to he on British soil on the day that
his forthcoming history appears in Lon
don. and thus have tie benefit OF the
English copyright laws.
Mrs. Hughes, wife of DR.. j. {. hughes
of Iowa, who were on their return from
Richmond, Va, where the doctor was III
attendance at the meeting Of the Medical
Association, came within an ace of being
run over by an opposite approaching tram
near Piedmont, OIL Saturday last. She