Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-03-20
Editorial Brevitfes.

lis understood that the President
has stated that he will not call an extra
session Of Congress.
Up to Saturday night forty-nine APP
plications had been filed with the Presi-
dent for official positions by ex-mem-
bers Of Congress
General John G. breckenridge IS
again dangerously ill at his home IN
Lexington, Ky.
This year began on Friday and will
end on Friday, and the same thing Will
not happen again in fifty years to come
Under new arrangement in the
revenue Department, the storekeeperss
and eaugers will be changed around
from point to point every sixty days.
1t is very evident that Butler means
to make desperate effort to get back
to Congress, to fill the vacancy occa-
stoned by the death of Mr.. Bufhnton.
From such an intiiction, good Lord de-
liver usi
Tweed's counsel are unremitting in
their efforts 20 get him out of the peni-
Tertiary. They have now got the le-
cal proceedings in such shape that on
the 22d tie Court et Appeals is to hear
argument on fhe question OF releasing
him on a'haocas corpus.
The appointment clerks at the de-
partm .nis agree lint there has never
been such ii demand for oifices as now,
and the Government Printing Office is
besieged with applicants Tor places.
A Dubuque DO. was rather troubled
for fear that he would not know his
father when they both reached heaven,
but his mother eased him, remarking,
"All YOU have to do is to look for an
angle with red nose on him."
A Covington lady started "Mat-
rimonial Intelligence Office" recently,
and managed to marry to herself the
first man that applied, which procee-
ding brought the institution to an end
The Hon. Schuyler Colfax is now the
vice president of the Indiana Reaper
and Iron Company, which has large
foundry and machine shops at South
Bend, Ind.
AT the recent swearing in of the new
" elected U. S. Senators, those who
had served the Confederate cause, and
who were unable to take the iron-clad
oath, were Messrs. Caperton, OF West
Virginia: Mr.. Cockrell, of Missouri; Mr..
Jones, of Florida; Mr.. Maxey, Of Texas;
and Mr. Withers, of Virginia. All OF
these gentlemen took the modified oath.
Joshua Bailey, of Cohoes Falls, N.
Y, promised the bulk of his fortune to
whichever of his nephews raised the
largest family OF boys. W: W. Bailey
of Waverley, Iowa, raised five boys
and got $2,OOO,ooO at the death OF his
uncle.
A fearful tornado passed over the
lower part of Richland, South Carolina
A house was blown down, two persons
killed and several badly wounded.
Trees were torn up and twisted.
! There is strong talk in Ohio, of run
ming the Hon. Il. +. Wade, against
"Old Bill Allen" for Governor.
An Illinois Granger is about leasing
5000 acres of land in Monroe county,
Mississippi, upon which fifty ILLINOIS
families will settle when the negotla-
tons are completed.
An old maid, aged sixty seven, has
been sent to prison in Paris for an at.
tempt to burn a nelghbors house and
herself. She admitted she so acted "be-
cause she had none to love her.
Pause, young man. You want to
get married, and it is about time you
did. But recollect that unmarried men
don't have to sit up all night once
week with a shot gun, watching the
clothesline.
The Republican Citizen, live demo
cratic paper published in Frederick,
| Md, by Baughman 81 Brothers, has
commenced its 54lh volume. May 1t
ever flourish.
The invention for making paper bar
rels was patented about six months ago,
and there are two factories now work
ing, one at Winona, Minnesota, and
one at DEBORAH, Indiana, the latter
turning out 1000 barrels per day.
A ninety-nine years lease of '22O
acres of land in Baltimore has just
elapsed, and the Chilcotes are the OWL
ers of the fee, while there is every pros
pect Of their getting SSO,OOo,OOo in
England. The Baltimore property is
said to be worth s7O,OOO,OOO.