Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1881-01-29
Editorial Brevities.

itSfs III. DSHJaulu huttL, Suit"i
the Lutheran Observer, died at his
residence in Baltimore, on the 9Th inst,
in his 59th year. He was born in Ia
gerstown in 1922. During his life he
published O number of miscellaneous
and religious works, the latter mostly
in the interest OF the Lutheran Church.
To be a member of the House Of
Representatives is doubtful honor.
In addition to the recent pot-house
quarrel between Viewer and Sparks,
Representative Hooker, Of Mississippi,
last week, outraged all sense of proprie
ty by trying TO talk bill through
while in state of beastly intoxicatlon.
The will of James Z. Brown, Of
Kittanning, Pa, bequeaths twenty-five
dollars to every widow in the town and
twenty-five dollars to every wife who
shall become widow, and the same
to all the girls now living who shall be-
come wives. Large sums are given 10
charitable institutions out Of the 81
100000 of the estate.
The Ohio Editorial Association
reached Washington on Saturday, and
made Wizards, Ebbet House and the
Imperial Hotel their headquarters.
One of the excursionists, Capt. Henry
Is. Kelly, of the Lima Democrat, was
struck with apoplexy and died in few
hours. Soon after the party arrived at
Imperial he went 10 his room and laid
down to rest upon the bed.
a fire broke out in the dining-room
of the Metropolitan Hotel, in New
York, Monday at $50 a. M. destroy
ing the interior. The guests were
aroused, as a matter OF precautlon, but
rome suffered in person or property.
The stockholders of the Valley Rail
road met in Stanton last Wednesday,
and determined TO place a mortgage OF
500, 900 on the road and complete II
to Lexington, thirty-six miles south OF
Staunton. The road, it is said, vii!
probably be finished within year.
So-Pe, brave, convicted of murder,
in Montana, condemns his lawyer with
fine irony: TOO much talk; heap tool.
The Alexandria obel;sk was placed
over a pedestal in Central Park, New
York, Saturday, between 5000 and TO-
900 people Witnessed the operation.
Among those present were Secretary
of the Navy Goff, Secretary Evarts,
members of the park commission, Col
lector Merritt, and representatives, OF
the Masonic fraternity.
Lost time is forever lost. Absence
from school is often caused by a Cough,
Cold or Hoarseness, aud can easily be
prevented by giving DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup TO the children. Price 20 cents.
Mr.. Brady, of Berkeley offered bill
to punish the "willful firing OF woods. "
Singularly enough there is not on the
Statute books of West Virginia any law
for the purpose indicated, although tim
Der is annually destroyed and often 9th
er property, and even lives are endan-
gered. Mr.. Brady's bill imposes fine
of $500 and Imprisonment upon any vi.
olators of this act, should it pass.
The raid on Shoddy Butter in the
Ohio Legislature has taken an amusing
! feature. by bill just introduced it is
proposed 10 make any landlord or
boarding house keeper liable to fine
of $40 and ten days Imprisonment who
does inform his guests OF the compost
ton of the butter he sets before them.
This is rather hard on the hotel and
boarding house keepers, and the ques-
ton is how are they 10 know what the
butter is made Of!
Near Chattanooga, Tenn, a few
nights ago Henry Yarnall was shot dead
by incendiaries who had fired his hay
rick, and which he had just extingnish-
ed. His help, a man named Howe, was
fatally wounded. Next day two men
named Brooks and Giftey were arrested
on. suspicion and confined in black.
smith-sbop, where, during the night,
they were shot dead by some OF Var
nails friends.
The best physicians assure us that
DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup is reliable
and never failing remedy. All Drug
gists keep it. 25 cents bottle.
"The Rise and Fall Of the Conteder-
ate Government, is the title of new
book by Jefferson Davis. lie has been
engaged for the past five years in writ
ing the book. 1t will be sold at IS a
copy.
DR.. VIM. S. r. Brockenbrough, the
Youngest and only surviving son OF
Judge William Brockenbrougb, late
Judge of the Supreme Court OF APP
peals Of Virginia, died last week near
The Hague, Westmoreland county.
In New York, Friday, Mary Sum
mers, a young woman, who had forsak-
en- her home and husband to live with a
man whose home and family she broke
up,sprang out of the third story window
of the house in which she lived and was
instantly killed. The man with whom
she lived, a barkeeper, was arrested on
suspicion of having thrown her out, but
was released by the coroner.
DEATH OF Rev. EDWARD PURCELL
| Row Edward Purcell. a brother OF