Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-08-07

Mason & Co., sugar dealers, at Philadelphia,
have suspended. Liabilities about SOC, 900.
The officers of the Secret Service have
arrested, in New York City, four counter
letters for making and passing counterfeit
trade dollars, gold five-dOllar pieces, silver
half dollars, etc.
The Minnesota Republican Convention, at
its recent session in st. Paul, nominated
James s. Pilsbury for Governor, and james
B. Weakfield for acknowledgements. In
the platform, the national administrator
was Endorsed, and policy OF hnance that
steadily keeps in view return TO specie
payments, was favored.
Notes from Abroad.
The members of the American Rifle Team
witnessed the concluding shooting at the
Wimbledon meeting. Major Fulton received
the Wimbledon cup from the Princess
Louise The Americans were personally
visited by the Duke of Cambridge, Earl
Spencer, Marquis of Lorne, and the Earl
Kingston. . Don Carlos has written letter
to King Alfonso, reproducing him for allow
ing civil war to be conducted with such ex-
cessive rigor, and counseling moderation on
the side OF the Alfonsists, on pain OF reprls-
ais by the Carlists.. The text OF Don
Carlos letter to King Alfonso has
been published. 1t contains no threat
of reprisals oil the part Of the Carlists.........
Carlists attempted TO surprise the Alfonsist
troops at Guetaria, but were vigorously re-
pulsed. The losses of the Carlists during
the three weeks ending July %, In Killed,
wounded, and missing are estimated at four
thousand . Don Carlos in his letter TO Al
fonso declares the cruelty OF the measures
a.. LIZ emit & m
precedented, and will, like the bloods
of martyrs, raise up Carlists everywhere. He
himself, who comes to his country to be
King of all Spaniards, allows Alfonsists to
live peacefully within his territories. He is
confident of success......A dispatch from
London reports the death of Isaac Nj. Singer,
inventor OF the Singer Sewing Machine, In
the sixty-fourth year OF his age.
A great sensation has been created in the
British Parliament by Hon. Mr.. Plimsoll,
charging corruptions upon certain English
ship builders, who, as he charges, send rot
ten ships to sea to the great destruction oil
life and property; and also upon members
of the House for Withdrawing bill that
would have remedied these abuses. Mr..
Plimsoll was so severe in his discussion of
the question that he was regarded as hav-
ing abused the rules of debate. The public
sympathy, however, is warmly i'll his favor
A terrible storm of ice broke over Geneva,
Switzerland, early in July. The storm came
in the shape of an almost compact mass-a
sheet of ice driven horizontally before the
tempest blast. All the gas-lamps in the streets
were put out, houses were filled with ice,
and gardens and grounds were laid waste.
Three persons were killed by the fall of a
farm house. In the suburbs of the city the
tiles of many houses were absolutely beaten
to powder
Grants cotton mills in Glasgow, Scotland,
have been destroyed by fire. Several girls
aud two firemen were badly burned. Three
hundred employees effected their escape with
difficulty Loss five hundred thousand dol
lars ......... Thirty-one mills are closed at
Dundee and twelve thousand persons are
out of employmene. Both employers, and
operatives are resolved not to yield. If the
Oldham strikes should extend to all mills in
that district, thirty thousand persons will be
out of employment.