Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1872-11-23
Editorial Breyities.

laluEe VIII urge Din i0r eacn county
to support her own free schools. JEFF.
erson ought not contribute funds for
other counties, she has as much as she
can get through with in keeping up her
own schools.
During the late Presidential campaign
out West, Speaker James g. Blaine, of
the State of Maine, allowed his friends
to introduce him in the city of Milwau-
kie, Wisconsin, as the "next President
after Grant" Keep your eye on lovely
Mary Blaine"
Under the head of fashionable mtelli-
gence, an exchange gives the following:
''Ladies' bustles will be enlarged at the
end of the present month by the addi-
ton of one more newspaper
Always file away your newspaper.
1t will encrease in value the older it be-
comes.
An editor of the Chicago Inter ocean
was ore of Mosby's lieutenants.
The complete returns of the election
in Virginia have not yet been received.
SO far Grants majority, accordingtothe
Richmond Wing, is about 1900 with
nine counties to hear from.
If the horse disease could only be
snapped Tor dog disorder that would
clear off the supertluous CANNES, what a
blessing it would be.
Grants majority of the popular vote,is
over 100000. This is just about the
number of negro votes in the United
States. SO Horace Greeley spent 30
years of his life to give his colored
'.brudder" the club to break his own
head with "Sarves him right.
We learn from the Harrisonburg En-
prise, that young girl, Miss Hannah
Dixon, living about three miles east OF
Harrisonburg, was attacked and out
ragged by negro named Willis Gordon.
The negro was arrested and is in jail.
When Sherman and Sheridan were
burning down the houses of defenceless
Southern women and children, Chicago
and Boston fired jubilee salvos. They
forgot that there was an avenglng God,
that, sooner or later squares all human
accounts. The people Of these cities
attribute their misfortunes to other ma
terial causes, but it looks very much as
if Heavens wrath had visited them.
A rural miss stepped into a Troy drug
store, the other day, and asked for a
bottle Of '.jack of clubs" She wanted
jocky club perfumery.
A correspondent describing Miss
Winnie Ream in her studio speaks OF
her as "With her arms bare to the
shoulders and her ankles likewise.
Where the ankles are bare to ershould-
ers the expense of a toilet must be very
small.
The wool growers will be gratltied to
learn of considerable advance in the
price of wool.
1t is reported that Hon. John NJ.
Bingham is to be appointed Minister to
Russia to succeed Hon. A. G. Curtin.
Many citizens of Rockbridge, Va, are
moving West.
Never was party at a contested
Presidential election in the United States
so overwhelmingly defeated as has been
the National Democracy and Liberal
Republicans at the recent election. We
had an opinion that ''Uncle Horace"
would have made better, far better
race; but he appears to be no where IN
the fight.
Mrs. Lucinda Marrow,for many years
resident of Winchester died very sud
denly at her residence in that place, a
few days ago.
Thaddeus Stevens likeness is to be
stamped on one denomination Of the ma
tional nickel coin. Who not put Fred.
Douglass
On one lot of 20 acres, G. d. Peck,
of Giles county, Va, raised the past
season, 500 bushels of wheat, being an
average of 40 bushels to the acre, and,
on another lot of 20 acres, over GAO bush
els, being an average of over - bushels
to the acre.
Mamma, said little boy,who against
his will, was made to rock the cradle Of
his baby brother, If the doctor has any
more babies to give away, don't you
take EN-.
California will outshine her sister
States in novelties. The latest curiosity
from within her boundaries is a hotel
which consists of the hollow trunks Of
ten immense trees standing in a group
few feet apart. Nine of the hollow
trunks are neatly prepared and white
washed, and used as bedrooms; the tenth
is an office and bar-room.
The vote of Loudoun county, as actu-
ally cast, gives Grant a majority OF 80.
Athens, Ga, has paper named the
Cat, with the motto, Il can scratch.
Porkers are beginning to squeal i'll
town.
A lady tells us that when she was a
poor girl, living in the country, she
used to 4'rlaAt corn in her bare feet.
This imparts new idea in the origin of
those troublesome things-corns.
Hickory wood 81 and oak SO per
cord, here.
We hear people frequently speak of
the "gift of the CAB" IS they are pleased
to denominate the habit INDUCED in by
some men who have more brass than
brains.
There is just now little lively agi-
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