Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-08-05
Editorial Esrcyitics.

Michael Kenney, formerly of Frost
burg, says the Cumberland NeWs, was
one Of the victims who fell in the late
battle between Custer and Sitting Bull
on the Rosebud.
Robert lincoln, only surviving son of
the late President, has declared his in
tention to support Tilden.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee is said to have
been great Indian fighter in his early
days, and has had the honor of an arrow
shot through one lung.
Heavy wagers are being offered that
Tilden and Hendricks will be the next
President and Vice President of the
United States.
When physician deserts his profes
sion for the pulpit the inference is that
he can preach better than he can prac-
tice.
Captain T. A. Manefee, a prominent
Knight Tempar, Director of the Au-
gusta (Va.) National Bank, and lead
ING railroad contractor, died at the Ca
pom Springs, Va, on Thursday night
last.
The scheme for admitting the Terri
tory of New Mexico into the Union as
a State has been abandoned until the
next session of Congress, when. it IS
hoped, conflicting interests can be com
promised.
While gang of fifty convicts, trans
ferred from Sing Sing, were enroute to
Auburn, n. Y, last Friday one Of
them leaped through the car window
while the train was running at the rate
OF forty miles per hour and was in
stantly killed.
The United States Circuit Court,
SAYS the Parkersburg Times, which was
to have session at Parkersburg on the
first Monday of August, will, at the re-
quest of the bar and the assent of the
Honorable Judges, be adjourned to the
20!h of September next.
A fashion journal says 'waists are to
be longer this year," but as long as they
are not broader, young men will man.
age to get around them.
A town in Kansas is called "W oman's
Waste" because an Indian legend says
that an Indian once killed his wife
there for wasting buffalo meat.
The Parkersburg Times, noticing a
recent political meeting, says: "Bishop
Kain graced with his presence the in
teresting occasion. He delivered an
inspiring address, abiding somewhat
also to politics, exhortlng the Catholics to
stand by the st. Louis nominees.
A girl was killed near Danville, Va,
the other morning while milking a COW.
If girls would only learn to play the
piano and make worsted dogs such &C
cidents would never happen.
A man by the name of Hogg has an
nounced himself as a candidate for
Sheriff of Mason county, in this State.
He ought to make greedy collector.
The President has signed the bill re-
moving Tue poIlliGai ulSdoHlties vi Neu'
B. T. Beauregard.
Female BARRIERS are to be introduced
in Baltimore at an early day, and al
ready several good wives, uneasy at the
thought, have purchased razors aud
s.rops for their liege lords.
The Democrats of Hagerstown have
Termed a Tilden and Hendricks Club,
z. A. Wilmer, Esq, being its Presi-
dent, with a number of Vice Presidents
ard other officers.
A dissipated old negro in Montgome-
ey, Ola, while watching the monkeys
in the menagerie in that city, spoke
thus: Dem children got too much
sense to come outer dat cage; white
folks cut dar tails of and set EN- to
votin and maxim considerations.
Mrs. Tyner, the wife of the new
Postmaster General, was, before her
marriage about three years age, Treas
ury clerk.