Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1877-05-05
Editorial Brcyieics.

saving off the stocks, before evacuat-
ing the State House at New Orleans
Such vandalism should be punished.
Ann Eliza may continue on her lee
turing tour as the courts have decided
she has no legal claim as Brighams
wife. being only in the nature OF SER
want. This will be dampener on the
zeal of the polygomous wives.
In the German Parliament, Won
Moltke insisted on the necessity OF an
increased grant for the army. lie SAID
the time was not far distant when every
government would be compelled to
show its strength to secure its existence.
He looks with d;strust on France.
Gold goes up under the influence OF
the European war, and if long contest
should intervene, specie payment might
be temporarily postponed. AS the
bonds OF European governments go
down, however, our own should go up.
Women are getting their rights at
last. The Legislature of Minnesota has
lust passed bill authorizing women to
practise law in all the courts of that
State.
A strong effort is being made to have
Mr.. G.. w. Patton, United States Mar
shall for the District of West Virginia,
removed from office in order that GER
tain Rollyson, hailiug from Braxton
county, may have an opportunity to
sacrifice himself for the good Of his
country.
The Grafton Sentinel states that on
Monday morning last boy between
four and Eve years OF age passed
through Grafton in a pistol car duly
mailed and registered from Cincinnati
to Washington.
Col. S. S. Taylor, of Cairo, has car
ried in his valise for many years when
travelling a rope ladder and thick pair
of gloves At the burning Of the
Southern Hotel at st. Louis, where he
was a guest, the ladder and gloves saw
ed his life.
Miss Georgiana Boutwell,, daughter
of Senator Boutwell,, is at the head OF
an organization which is established a
normal school for the instruction Of the
colorcd teachers, and large building
for this purpose is to be erected imme
diately at Washington.
The Southwest is waking up TO the
necessity of pushing through the Texas
Pacific Railroad. The Texans are TAX
ing steps in that direction.
Fred Douglas, the colored Marshal
Of the district of Columbia, has appoint
ed some of his own relatives to office in
the courts there.
Hon. Stanley Matthews does not take
much stock in prospects for Republi-
can organization OF the House. lie be
lievs Randall will be made Speaker
again.
There is a class of young and old men
in almost every village in the country,
who toll not, neither do they saw wood
and yet they drink more beer and ware
better clothes than those who work six
days every week. How do they do it?
An effort is being made to convert
the Manassas Branch of the Virginia
Midland Road into Narrow Gauge,
complete the Independent line from
Alexandria to GAINESVILLE and extend
the road from Strasburg via Capon
Spring to the coal fields III West Nirgi
MIA.
There was no less than twenty appll-
cations to the Board of Public Works
in session at Wheeling on the l7th in
slant, for the position Of Jauitor of the
Public Buildings. The Office was award
ed to Mr.. g. w. Wet eel, of that city.
A Canadian firm are endeavoring to
get an order filed in Charleston, w.
Va, for 100000 feet of sawed lumber,
TO be used for lock gates OF the Wei
land canal.
Among the callers at the White
House on the oath inst, was Mrs. Sarah
Davis, who has shaken hands with ey-
cry President from Washington down.
John High, of Lancaster county Pa,
is eighteen years old, six feet three aud
a half inches high and weighs 203 lbs
Pretty good for high.
Onions in New Mexico grow to the
size of an ordinary water pail, and one
is sufficient for several meals. Turnips
have been grown there weighing TWEEN
ty-fve pounds.
The New York Tribune is authority
for the statement that out OF the 43O
convicts in the South Carolina Peniten-
tiary 400 are blacks.
On the 18th inst, son OF Abraham
Holbert, who resides on the waters OF
Buffalo Creek, in this State, accidental |
ly hung himself on rope swing. The
child was about three years old. When |
found, the child was dead, its feet touch
ing the ground and its neck looped in /
the swing.
Col. Ward Lamon has applied to
President Hayes for the position of
Governor of New Mexico Territory, the 1
present incumbent, Governor Artel, will
probably be removed.
-Four hundred thousand pounds of
mustard seed were harvested during the
past summer in the Salinas Valley of
California, where Chinese farmers make
the cultivation Of mustard their sole
pursuit.
When Chamberlain gave up South
Carolina to Wade Hampton, it was the
first bit Of stolen property returned TO