Shepherdstown Register

Editorial Brevities,

Dr. W. H. James who was killed and eaten on the island of New Guinea or Papua, was a native of Loudoun county.

The Supreme Court of Appeals has concluded its session at Charleston, and will meet in Wheeling for the purpose of deciding cases argued at Charleston. The object the Court in holding an adjourned session is to have access to the State Library.

Thomas N. Ashby, Esq., Secretary of the Shenandoah Valley Railroad Company has just returned from Philadelphia whence he had been called on business connected with this road. We understand the news he brings is very favorable as to the prospects of resuming work early in the spring.

The Virginia Midland Railroad Company are rebuilding their bridge across the Shenandoah river, near Front Royal, which was carried away by the late ice freshet.

On Friday evening of last week, Jacob Funk's barn near Hagerstown, was burned by an incendiary, who, says the News, was humane enough to turn out the stock before firing the building. Loss, $3,000, insurance, $1,600.

One of the last acts of President Grant was an order to Gen. Auger to maintain strict neutrality between the dual governments in Louisiana.

Gov. Jacob has appointed Geo. W. Lauckmale, Esq., a trustee of Berkeley Springs, in the place of Mr. C. H. Hodgson, deceased.

It is stated that the engineers in the employ of the B. & O. railroad company have been divided into four classes, to receive respectively $3.25, $3, $2.75 and $2.50 per day-a reduction of 50 cents in some cases. The old firemen will be kept at their present figures, while new men will get but $1.25 per day.

Mr. John Tyler, son of the late ex-President, who has been hanging around Washington for sometime past, making radical speeches, has received his reward in the shape of the postmastership at Jacksonville, Florida.

Alexander H. Stephens, who is ill in Washington, is next door to the room in which Henry Clay died, and within a few doors of the room in which Daniel Webster died. Four doors off are the rooms in which Crittenden dispensed princely hospitality, and next is the room from which Buchanan went to his inaugural ceremonies.

The Rev. L. A. Mann, pastor of the Lutheran Church in Middletown, Md., confirmed seven persons at the Mt. Tabor Chapel on Sunday last, where a communion service was held on the same day.

Dan Voorhees at the St. Louis Convention charged that the New York Democracy had twice sold us out, and that they would do it again. Dan had the spirit of prophecy upon him.

Had Grant have done in any other Nation on the earth what he has done here under the banner of freedom, it would have cost him his head.

The 8 to 7 have robbed the ballot box of its purity and disfranchised 12,000 legal voters in Louisiana, and the weak kneed Democrats say "submit."

West Virginia has been counted for Tilden and Hendricks. It is well. She was not sent the Electoral Commission, or Tilden would have had five votes less. Our 16,000 majority wouldn't have been a circumstance in the eyes of that tribunal.

General McArthur, postmaster at Chicago, is a defaulter for $38,000. His bondsmen are believed to be bankrupt.

A democratic caucus of the Legislature of West Virginia passed resolutions and telegraphed them, instructing their Senators and Representatives in Washington to use all constitutional means to prevent the count of the Electoral vote under the decisions of the Electoral Commission.

To the weak and despondent we tender our sincerest sympathy and condolence; but Hayes, were he twenty fold worse than he is, would not be as bad as Grant, and so let us be not altogether disheartened. Hayes is but the legitimate offspring of Grant, but children can be better than their fathers.

Before the adjournment of Congress. Mr. Knott's resolution declaring that Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks had received the votes of a majority of all the electors legally appointed, and were thereby duly elected President and Vice-President for the term of four years, commencing March 4, 1877, passed the House by yeas 136, to nays 88, and this information was telegraphed to Mr. Tilden at New York, over the signatures of David Dudley Field and twenty seven others.

Country News.--We clip the following from the Charlestown Spirit of Tuesday last:

Notice.--Col. Robert W. Baylor will deliver an address at Wiltshire's School House, March 10th, at 7 o'clock. P. M. The public are invited to attend.

Mr. Wm. P. Henson, for several years past Jailor and Deputy Sheriff. Jas. W. Beller, Esq., founder of the Spirit of Jefferson, and C. E. Beller. Druggist, have been quite ill-all of them, at latest accounts, better.

CHURCH MATTERS.--The meeting at the Baptist church during the past week continued with unabated interest. Quite a number of persons professed conversion, seven of whom were baptized on Sunday. Rev. J. E. Hutson preached morning and night, with his usual marked ability. Rev. Jno. Pollard, a distinguished minister of Baltimore, has promised to aid the pastor this week, so that service may be expected every night.

The attendance of Mrs. Ella B. Washington, of this county-a grand-niece of General Washington, and great-grand-niece of Martha Washington-at a grand tea party at the Academy of Music and Nilson Hall, in New York, on the 22nd of February, is conspicuously mentioned by the New York papers. Among those present were the Russian Grand Dukes Alexis and Constantine--to the former of which Mrs. Washington gave a pinch of snuff from a snuff-box presented to Judge Bushrod Washington, of Virginia, by Alexander II., of Russia.