Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-11-11
Editorial Esreviffes-

VIM. Il. Jones was Killed by DelnS run
over by a freight train on the b. & Q.
railroad, near Martinsburg, w. Va.
A deluge of rain has flooded Orleans,
Orange county, Ind, destroying house.
held goods, barns, live stock and other
property to the value OF about 100000
The Governors of Minnesota, Iowa,
Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota,
met at Omaha last week to discuss
modes and means OF ridding the conn
try of grasshoppers.
Two colored men quarrelled at st.
Louis, Missouri, Tuesday, when one
drew large pocket knife and plunged
it into the left breast OF the other, caus-
ing instant death.
Michael McGinn, aged IS, convicted
III New York of murder in the second
degree, for killing Patrick Ready dur
inc a street fight, has been sentenced
to the State prison for life.
w. J. Lewis, superintendent of a
colliery near Pottsyille, Pa, was run
over and killed last Saturday, and sixty
cars passed over his body before the ac-
cident was discovered.
A passenger train was thrown from
the track by misplaced switch near
Evona, n. J., Tuesday night week,
and three men were killed and fifteen
others injured. 1t is supposed the
switch was purposely turned by strlk-
ing engineer or fireman.
"Bright of my exisIOce give me
an NJ" said printer , his sweet
heart. She made - at HIM, ana
planted her Ras- between his , i's,which
made him & ***
\ large number of cotton seed oil
factories are being erected in Georgia,
Alabama and Mississippi.
One of the chief results Of the elec.
ton is to convince large number OF
young men who made bets that it isn't
going to be a very cold winter, and
that an umbrella trimmed with fur will
be very comfortable substitute for.
winter oyercOat.
Several months ago the practice of
shaving the heads Of prisoners in the
San Francisco Jail was resisted in the
courts by Cinnamon, who preserve their
queues as a part of their religion; but
the judicial decision is in favor OF the
officials, and the hirsute desecration
goes Oh.
a travelling printer says that one OF
the Omaha editors writes his editorials
with an old dinner fork dipped into
cranberry sauce.
"IIain't 90; cent to-day" is proba-
bly one of the oldest lies on record.
In answer to the question whether
any full-blooded negroes had died OF
yellow-fever, the Savannah NeWS says:
The result of our observation and IN
quiries on the above subject is to the eff
feet that the pure blooded negro is not
a subject for yellow-fever. Those color
ed people who have died here without
exception, have been of mixed blood.
A mans wife is his best lawyer, his
best counsel, his best Judge, his best ad-
wiser, and also the cheapest and most
reasonable.
An applicant for the position Of teach,
er of penmanshp, when asked for spe-
cimen of his skill, wrote in most elegant
style this sentence: "Sorrer don't kill
folks as fast as green guze burys."
"If / were in California" said a
young fop, The other evening, " instead
of working in the mines, | would way
lay some miner with bag of gold,
knock ont his brains, gather up the
gold, and run" Il think you would
do better to gather up the brains,
quietly responded yonug lady. "a
man should always secure that which
he is most in need OF.
-Four years ago Carl Schurz said iof
Grants administration: 'The adm n
istration has this peculiar merritt is
SO grossly corrupt as to satisfy any
mind, even the most stupid, that re-
form is necessary.
lie said: "Will you excuse me sir?'
and the gentleman addressed excused
him. lie continued, 81 am not in the
habit of begging And the gentleman
said he was id glad to hear 1t, and
walked of.
The number of visitors at the White
House in Washington averages about
1000 daily.
1000 persons were naturalized in
New York city during the months of
September and October.
Occasionally BARRIERS get hold OF
poor quality of bay-rum, and when such
is applied to the face of a man just
shaved, it smarts like fire for a few mo-
ments. a case Of this kind occurred
in one of our harber's shops the other
day. "Whoop! Hold Blazes y
yelled the man, springing wildly
from the chair, and clasping his
burning checks with both hands. You
NAV skin me-thats all right but III
be essentially cussed if In going to
have pepper sauce rubbed on it after
ward. Now, you hear Inc !!
Levi Taylor, of Iowa, has, at Phila-
delphia, perhaps the smallest steam en-
CINE iu the world. 1t has for its fOun-
dation a twenty-five cent gold piece,