Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1877-08-11

o, cease to be erratic,
And make but home thine aim
PAYING THE BILI-What the York
of Last Sunday WiH Cost The CITY Of
Piusburg.-The following estimate of
the Pittsburg riot by the New York
World does not take into account the
damage by loss OF life and the crippliDg
of score or more of persons, nor the
shattering of the social laws or order
that may bear fruit at any time:
"The taxpayers of Pittsburg would
have been less likely to allow a handful
of ruffians to convert their city into a
pandemonium if they had realized the
consequences to themselves of that
nights hideous work as fully as they
will now be made to do. Eight mill
ions of dollars is the lowest estimate OF
the loss caused by the mob, and many
place it at s1O,OOO,OOO. Already one
pawnbroker, whose place of business
was rausacked by the crowd, has sued
to recover $4,000; a leading lawyer
notifies the city that claims amounting
to Sl56,O00 have been entrusted to
him for collection, and so it goes.
ga Plttsburg paper estimates rudely
the liability of the county at $1l3 per
voter. The total amount being fun
ded at FIVE per cent, with the allow
ance for a sinking fund, the annual
levy of Pittsburg will be increased
from 100000 to sl,200,000. In
other words, for the next twenty odd
years every resident of Pittsburg who
pays taxes vii! have his annual burden
doubled because actively or passively
he aided last Saturdays rioting. In
accordance with the invariable rule
this increase OF the municipal burden
will fall upon the man of last resort
the laborer. When the property-holder
has to pay $1,000 year more in taxes
he raises the rent of his tenants each
800, and each of them taxes each of
bis ten individual customers 81 toreim-
burse himself These things indicate
the probable cost to the people of Pitts
burg of their practicle course in
political courage. 1t will be expensive,
but if they learn the lesson thoroughly,
it will prove to be cheap in the end.
DESTROYING THE STOMACH WITH Ice
WATER.-The Cincinnati Commercial
wisely warns its readers against ice wa
ter. Indeed there ought to be mis-
sionary sent along with every temper
ance orator to hold up the evils of ice
water as the opposite extreme to the
evils of more scorching fluids. 1t is
without doubt fact that the constant
and injudicous use of ice water causes
as much physical suffering as intoxica-
ting beverages themselves The use Of
the latter is largely confined to por-
ton of the adult male population, while
men, women and children quatf the for
mer, and almost always at times when
they should avoidiL. Ice water checks
the healthy activity of the internal or
gans, and, worst of all interferes with
the digestive apparatus, giving rise to
dyspepsia and its accompanying horrors.
Alcoholic liquors attack the brain and
ice water destroys the s:omach.-Poa.
The Third District has the largest re-
presentation in the penitentiary of any
district in the State, and, also, has
much larger population than either of
the others, with twenty-four counties
nearly one-half in the State.
The late Sultan's jewels have been
pawned by the Turkish government,
and they brought SlO,O0O,OOO. Quite
jewelry shop the collection must have
been.
Camphor placed in drawers or trunks
will prevent the mice from doing them
an injury.
A negro boy named John Gray went
in the canal at Mr. Samuel l. Piper's
last Sunday about 8 o'clock, with Mr.
Piper's little boy. The boy Gray could
not swim and in trying to swim across
the canal was drowned when he reach
ed the middle.
Unremitting application will induce
disease unless the blood be kept con-
stantly pure and rich. For all hard
workers the remedy to keep the blood
in the best condition is DR.. Bulls Blood
Mixture.
The married Womans Association
proposes to erect statue in honor of
the husband who empties the water out
of the basin after he washes bis face
and hands. But the Association has
not found him yet.
The Russians are rapidly marching
on Adrianople, taking the Turks by
surprise everywhere, while both sides
are fighting desperately. Yet so alb
sorbed is the nation in its big strike
that the people scarcely give the Russo
Turkish war a thought.
Place small saucer of ground cloves
where ants are troublesome, and it is
said, they will quickly disappear.