Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-01-30
Editorial Breyities.

Twenty-Five counties OF old Virginia
have refused to grant license for the
sale of intoxicating liquors,
About 24O towns in the State of Hi
nois have voted no license the last year.
Mile. Jouvin, who pleaded guilty of
smuggling dress goods, laces, &c, into
New York, was sentenced to hne OF
$4,000 and three months Imprisonment.
At Niagara, Ontario, Friday night,
Michael Murphy and two children were
frozen to death, and third child Is not
expected to live from the effects OF the
cold
In New York, on Thursday last, a
broker, named Stephen I. Hubbard,
was horscwhipped by young woman,
who was closely yelled. 1t is said Hub
bard had trihed with the young woman's
affections.
Thirty-fve brakemen on The Pittsburg
division of the Pennsylvania railroad
had their hands and feet so severely fro
zen on Sunday night week that they
will be incapacitated for duty for the
balance OF the winter.
Andrew Johnson was elected I. S.
Senator of Tennessee, OH the iity-hith
ballot, which as follows johnson 50,
Henry II, Stephens %, Key 3, Ewing
0. The excitement was great. john
son made speech to ten thousand peo-
pie, at Nashville.
The President on Wednesday last
sent special message to Congress 10
vlting the attention of that body to the
importance of preparing for war in time
of peace and the necessity of providing
proper ornaments for our sea coast de-
Tense.
The Bullion in the bank of England
increased 291, 900 pounds during the
past week. The bullion withdrawn
from the bank on balances was 10000
pounds. The proportion of bank reserve
to liabilities, which last week was As
1-S per cent is now Al 3S per cent.
A few days ago, the Louisiana Legis-
Iature reelected Lieutenant Governor,
Pinchback United States Senator.
Great alarm exists among the people
of the mining towns in Pennsylvania
owing to the turbulent disposition of
the miners now on strike. More than
twenty thousand men are pennies
and idle, with starvation staring them
in the face. At miners meeting on
Thursday of last week, resolution was
passed calling on the men to arm and
help themselves to bread.
Weddings supply tremendous lot
of sstalk" for the ladies. They would
sooner talk weddings than eat.
No humane man should leave his
horse "unkivered while he steps in to
see man." Horses are perfectly justl-
fled in running away, under such cir
cumstances, in cold weather.
The election of Mr.. Cockrell, Con
federate General, as e. S. Senator from
Missouri, vice Mr. Schurtz, is creating
good deal of comment. The New
York Herald abiding to it says, 1--WE
can welcome the rebel from the South;
but are hardly prepared to do SO from
the North"
Old valentines are being brought out
OF drawers and off the top shelves OF
stores, and the dust being blown off OF
them.
The Beccher Tilton suit has already
occupied fifteen days, and yet the first
witness, Moulton, has not been finished
with. 1t is said that q long line OF
equally important witnesses are yet to
testify. So the chances are that it VIII
| drag its weary length along for some
I tune yet. ,Apd then there's The delight
FIJI anticipation that the jury will dis
i agree. I
A wild duck was shot last Friday on
the Potomac, near Brady's mill, Allie
pany county, which wasfound to have
inside of it a sunfsh weighing four
ounces and measuring seven inches IN
length.
We read that Sheridan boards at a
leading hotel in New Orleans; dimes
and wines to his hearts content; goes
to the opera, and has agood time gener-
ally. Yet all this time, according TO
! his own statement "the very air is i'm
pregnated with assassination" But
then he's "not afraid"
We learn from the Palmyra, Mo-.
Spectator, that the heirs of the late Col.
Angus w. Mcdonald of Romney, w.
Va, have brought suit for possession OF
the property occupied by the River
side and Hebrew cemeteries at Hanni-
bal.
The 3. & o. r. r. Company trans
ported. for its own use, from Sandusky,
Ohio. to Winchester, hundred tons Of
ice. A gentleman who saw and meas
ured some of the blocks says il was Is
inches thick.
The bill for the relief of Dr. T. Boyd
Pendleton, formerly collector of the
| fifth Virginia district, has been inde6-
-nitely postponed by the congressional
committee on claims, and his sureties
must pay SIG, 446 &c, the amount stolen
by his deputy, r. w. Hobson, two
years ago in Lynchourg, Va
( The Hagerstown Gas Light Company
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