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

majority In Virginia. we WIZ NC apie
to give the official report OF West Nir-
pinia about next Christmas year.
CITY editors have been racking their
brains for several days past for scientific
terms to properly describe the horse
disease, but the "Courrier des Etats
Unis, we think, deserves the palm for
this, the very last coinage: 'L'Epillary-
ngorrhippodemic." How can such a
disease prove other than fatal
Severe white frosts and rain floods
have been the "topics" of the weather
clerk during the week.
The "epizootic" among the horses
and the 'inhuenza" among the human
kind are the prevailing epidemics.
Purify your stables and avoid the
"epizootic."
This is the time to fix up the chm
MES and look after defective fues or
rusty stove pipe. Proper attention to
these ''trifling" matters may save the
building ola new house.
The annual hunt for tenement houses
will soon begin.
A Western editor being asked to take
tea with lady friend, accepted. While
at the table the lady observed that he
had no spoon. as it possible" said
she ''that forgot to give You spoon !
| could not have made such mistake"
Il have no spoon, madam, said the ed
itor, rising from his seat, "and if you
don't believe it you may search me.
Query Was he any relation to b. +.
/, Butler
Run in the ground-Sewing Ma
chimes. 1t is computed that there are
10000 Agents for Sewing Machines in
the United States, and the inventive
genius of yankees is not yet exhausted.
Farmers will soon go into winter
quarters Thanksgiving and Christmas
turkeys will next claim attention.
Sulphur matches burned under the
nose of an epizootic horse is reported
good for the disease.
The Shenandoah papers are Boosting
of ''some pumpkins" weighing from 10
to 50 pounds
The great tobacco marts of Va, re-
port first arrival of the new crop in small
lots, and pronounce it good.
An inquisitive stranger asked pa
tent at the w. L. Asylum, the other
day, ''what he was there Tor ?" "Noth-
inc, replied the patient, II only stole
mill and then went back for the dam,
and they brought me here" The stran
ger, is still puzzled as to what the man
did with the mill, but there are hopes Of
his recovery.
In many places in the United States
at the recent election the Democracy
permitted the Presidential contest to go
by default Considering General Grants
reelection foregone conclusion, they
suffered the tail to 90 with the ''hide y
A society to arrest horse-thieves
has been organized in the West, which
operates in Illinois, Iowa and Missouri.
1t has fifty-six tributary societies, and
1000 members Only two horses be-
longing TO members have been stolen
during the year; and is both cases, the
/ horses were recovered, and the thieves
arrested and handed over to the law.
The poultry cholera is said to be ra-
ging with great violence in Augusta
county. One gentleman alone lost fifty
four out of seventy-twO turkeys by the
disease.
The Portland high school girls have
bonded themselves to plainness in dress.
Shepherdstown girls should do the same.
A meeting was held in Washington
City last week, in aid of A. p. Ander-
son, said to be the last survivor Of the
John Brown raid, and now destitute.
Rev Father Ryan, the popular 'poet
priest as he is sometimes called, Of
the South, has started on a pilgrimage
to the Holy Land
Pork has been selling in the Win
chester market at 81 per hundred, and
at Leesburg at Sc.
VIM. A. Britton has sued Ben Butler
to recover $4,000, money, captured
from him by Ben, in 1862, in New Or
leans.
''How are you on epizooty ?" is the
popular query among those who own
horses now days.
We read of the marriage of Miss
Marian Emers, age sc, to Mr.. John G.
Hinston, age 81, at Hamtramck, Michi-
gan. 1t is added that neither had ever
before been married, and that they have
| known one another for more than 40
years.
"The melancholy days have come,
especially for those who have no new
Fall style oyercoats.
The presidential Electoral College
consists of 500 members; necessary fora
choice 1874. The State colleges vote
respectively at the State capitals, and
special messenger is sent with the result
to Washington, where Congress counts
the votes and proclaims the result.
There are two things in this world
that are not safe to trifle with-a wo-
mans opinion and the business end of
wasp.
Full election returns from the whole
State give Mr.. Greeley a majority OF
l,064 in Maryland against 15;OSS demo
ocratic majority for Governor in 1871,
If this is a borrowed paper You are
reading drop it." Your neighbor don't