Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1882-04-15
Editorial Esrevitics.

The woman who didn't go to church on
Sunday didn't have Il new bonnet.
Don't take off your fannels too hastily.
You have no right to toolishly make your
friends neglect their business to attend
your funeral.
About this time take an occasional cup
of sassafras tea to purify the blood.
Young man, the first thing you should
do after getting married is, TO subscribe
for the Register, and Cont you forget it.
Never fill lamp when it is burning;
never smoke over Il key of powder; never
try to kick an express train of the track;
never tell a red-headcd woman she isn't
pretty.
Five boats on the G.. & o. Canal loaded
with $40 tons of coal, left Cumberland on
Wednesday, 357 tons Of which weae des-
tined for WilliamSpOrt. Unless the mines
strike is soon ended the shipments will
soon become "smaller by degrees and
beautifully less"
The anti-polygamy bill will interfere
with President Arthur'S private arrange
mcnts, inaSmuch rs rumOr credits him
with contemplating matrimony with
dozen young ladies.
Hon. Thomas Allen, member Of con-
rrcss. of Missouri. residence st. Louis,
deid at the Arlington Hotel, Washington,
on Saturday last. lie was the wcaIlhlcSt
valued at SIS, 900, 900.
Daniel Belts, the liOn-tamcr of COup's
Circus while about 10 enter the lions
cage for the street procession ia Augusta,
Ga, on Saturday, fell dead of heart dis
ease.
Some of the Virginia papers are Won
dcring if it paid Governor Cameron TO
fit OUT an expedition to hunt down the
oyster pirates just 20 pardon them rs soon
as they were put in Jail. Some neWSpa-
perS are too impertinent.
While wheat sells for SLIGO per GENITAL at
san Francisco, corn and rye and oats are
sold at the same figure, and barley tetcheS
$50. Ships never were more plenty, at
IS shillings to Europe. Wheat is unusu-
ally abundant. and 50 are the merchant
ships on the way to that port for grain.
There is so much money in tibet. States
Treasury that call OF bonds has been Ge-
cidcd npon. The people are pouring their
taxes into the country's cofleis at such 4
rapid rate that the temptations before the
do not wonder that millions are being
voted away as if they were of no account.
A Methodist clergyman, who had been
assigned to Il congregation that began to
criticize his preaching, said that they only
ridicued themselves, Because. beloved
friends, if l could preach well do you
think would have been sent here TO min
lister to lot of lunkhcaded ignoraluuses
like you?'
Mrs. Mcclure, wife of the Rev. VIM.
Mcclure, of the Reformed Episcopal
Church, died at the residence of her hus-
band, in Tapahannock, Essex county,
Va, Wednesday evening last. She
had been in feeble health for some
months.
Mrs. Sarah Bruce Seldom, widow Of
Hon. James 4. Seddon. ~ Virginia, and
at one time Secretary of War Of the Con-
federate States, died in Philadelphia on
Tuesday last.
The will of Nine. Autran, widow of the
French poet, has just been opened at
Marseilles. Mime. Autran, who was twice
married, desires in this document that
her heart be buried with NJ. Autram, bur
that the rest OF her body should be laid
10 rest in The tomb Of her first husband,
an American, named Fitch.
While other Legislatures are wrestling
with the liquor question, that of Missis-
sippi has tackled tobacco. The Lower
House having already passed a bill pro-
hibiting the sale Of the weed in any form.
to minors. without IN order from their
parents or guardian. This is I whack 1T
the root of a growing evil.
Elihu Gregg, who was once sentenced
to death for burning the Preston county
w. Va, Court House. has been living in
Pittsburg for some time with his daugh-
ter. Mrs. Alfree. Some time ago, while
peddling "tea'' which was a smallpox
cure, as he alleged, he contracted yerio-
loid. carried it home, and since then his
daughter has taker smallpox and rhe
other day his son-in-law died from the
disease.
The steamship Ohio, which arrived at
Baltimore, Monday, from Bremen,
brought l.35l steerage passengers. The
immigrants went West over the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad. This road has
mace arrangements TO send 1900 immi-
grants to the West this week. TIey were
started for the West in special trains !
few hours after the steamer reached the
pier. The steamer Strassburg, from Bre-
men. is due on Friday with 200 more
immigrants. The movement OF this class
of travel TO America has commenced in
unexampled volume, and the Baltimore
and Bremen line will have = steamer