Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-07-09
Items of Interest.

has made an assignment. His hablli-
ties are estimated to be between $685.
900 and $4,000. He is son of Col.
f. V. White, who is one Of his credi-
tors.
There is a Kansas editor who takes
the right view. Recently, under the
headline I'VE Are Thankful, he pub
lished the following editorial notes 4:
1--WE slipped and fell the other day
and peeled our shin and nose we feel
grateful that we did not break our
id neck"
Mr.. W. F. Wilcox in an article on
the distribution of Sexes in the Uni
ted States" says that 81 per cent o.
children born are boys and less than
40 per cent girls. The white pepu-
lation has a male proportion of 5l.22
per cent, while among the colored the
women are in excess, being 50l3 Of
that race.
Joseph Cooking, who was awaiting
trial for the murder of his wife and
sister-in-law, was taken from jail by a
party of masked men and hanged at
La Plata, Nd, last Friday night
The people We're satisfied of his guilt,
and they hanged him as a matter of
economy--saving the expense of a
costly trial.
electric Bill" dropped in on Elk
ton, Nd, Saturday night with electric
belts for sale. He threw money among
the crowd and said he had money to
burn, He sold $50 of the belts at
dollar each when a confederate with a
buggy appeared little way off, and
the fellow ran into it and was driven
out of town rapidly. On examining
the belts they were found to be pieces
of leather with tin buckles
Mr.. B. F. Sheetz, editor of the Lees
burg (Va.) Mirror, died last Sunday
at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, aged
sixty-six years. He had been in bad
health for nearly year and about
two weeks ago went to the hospital for
treatment Mr.. Sheetz was born in
Charlestown, where his early days
were spent. He moved to Fredericks-
burg, Va, and early in the ffties went
to Leesburg where he had lived since.
He leaves wife and one son. The
latter was with him at the time of his
death. Mr.. Sheetz's remains were
taken to Leesburg for interment.
Thomas Hughes, colored, head jan
itor at Washington and Lee Universe
ty for thirty years, died at Lexington,
Va, last week, of Bright's disease Of
the kidneys. He was personally known
to the thousands of students Of the uni
versity who have attended lectures
there since the close of the civil war
as Uncle Tom and beloved by Off
Gals, faculty and students for his many
good points and fidelity to the inter-
ests of the university and his love and
respect for her alumni. He was Ches-
terfeldian in manners and will be re-
called by old students all over the
country. Strangers who have visited
the tomb and recumbent figure of Gen.
Robert Z. Lee in the mausoleum of the
university will remember him as guide
and guard to those precincts. He was
body-servant to General Lee during
the civil war and passed through that
great historic drama at the side ofthe
Confederacy's leader. He was a Sc
cessionist, although a slave, and after
the close of the conflict was as true to
Virginia and the Lost Cause in the
hours of adversely as he had been in
days of brightest promise His fdeli-
ty to Mars Robert and the cause he
fought for never faltered, and he was
always ready with story and remi-
niscences Of General Lee and the boys
in gray in camp, on the march-or in
battle that made him interesting to all
and a favorite with the tourist news
paper man, who secured many good
story from him. He was a true rep
resentative of the better side of his
race, that class Of colored men who pro-
tected the defenseless women at home
while fathers and brothers were in bat
tea race fast becoming extinct. "Old
Tom" has passed away with the re-
spect and love of the thousands of
alumni of the university and likewise
old Confederate veterans and the peo-
pie of the community
Mrs. Rhode Noah, of this place