Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-10-28
Editorial BrcyifieS.

Carl Schurz said Indiana would go
Republican by 5000. Carl shoulder t
be SO Carless.
The Attorney General has decided
that gold aud silver watches worn upon
the person are TO be considered as wear
ing apparel and not subject to taxation.
The Democratic roosters all over the
country have been busy for the past
week or two growing over the prospects
of the redemption of the country on the
| 7th Of next month.
The Georgetown IS. c. Comet, which
has hitherto supported Chamberlain,
now advocates the election of Hampton
for Governor, believing that his election
will save the State from ruin.
A German miser, named KNITTED, who
died of starvation at Fond du Lac,
Wis, the other day, left $4,000 TO be
divided between three nephews in Ger
many.
G. II. Moultor, a leading and pro-
minent real estate agent of Washing.
ton, has decamped with 100000 OF
other peoples money in his pockets.
A monster excursion, aud the last
that will take place, starts from Canada
for Philadelphia on The 4th OF Noyem-
ber
General Hooker predicts that the
State of New York will give Tllden
fifty thousand majority.
New England farmers are feeding
their apples to COWS, rather than make
J them into cider at current prices.
The claims tor sheep killed by dogs
in Rockingham county and audited by
the board of supervisors amounts to over
nine hundred dollars.
Hotel clerks are exceedingly polite
to all guests since the man who was
poorly dressed and kindly treated by a
hotel clerk, left the latter legacy of
S25,OOO as a reward for his courtesy.
The Republicans before the elections
last week were going TO carry Ohio, In
diana aud West Virginia. Now they
are very jubilant over having carried
Ohio by the skin of their teeth. 1fthey
cannot carry Hayes own State, what
can they carry?
Mr.. Marion NJ. Hite, a worthy young
man. late of the firm of Hite and Wall,
at Winchester, died at the Western LII
natic Asylum, Stanton, Va, on Tues
day last.
One of our adopted citizens seeing a
bunch of bananas the other day, stood
in silent establishment for about mill
ute, and then broke out : "Begorra,
them Yanks beat the devil, and now
they nail pickles TO stick"
A white man by the name of John
Berry was arrested in Norfolk last
Saturday afternoon charged with the
awful crime of poisoning his wife and
three children.
Col. 7. A. Scott has donated $4,000
to the Centennial Endowment Fund Of
the Washington and Lee University.
Mr.. Charles NJ. Peyton, Of Rappahan-
mock county, Va, lost four interesting
children within the last two weeks with
diptheria.
John Dove, for more than fifty years
great secretary of the grand lodge OF
Masons of Virginia, is dead.
A Hartford negro's feat is to drive a
nail into wood with his forehead.
In one part Of Norway the longest
day is three months. What a fine
chance for lazy man TO start a daily
newspaper.
A German, in New York, being ask
ed how much sourkrout he had put up
for winter use, replied, as not got
much little more as ten barrels, shust
for sickness.
1t may be we'll to say as to the Ohio
and Indiana elections, even if the same
ratio of losses is kept up throughout
the North it will still give the next
House to the Democrats by from ten to
fifteen majority.
Louisville, Kentucky, was visited by
a destructive fire on Tuesday morning
last, involving all estimated loss of over
100000.
Gen. Wade Hampton addressed a
crowd of 1000 persons at Rockhill, S.
G. There was also an immense torch
light procession. Mounted clubs OF
blacks We're in the procession, and wo-
men, both white and black, rode with
their male relatives on the same horse.
All the stores were closed. and business
was suspended for the day.
The Parkersburg Times is out OF hui
NOR because the Peter Cooper strength
petered out in that city, at the election
ON the 10th.