Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1877-02-17
Editorial Brevitics.


possesses the carriage that formerly be :
longed to Stouewall Jackson. I
Labor is the law of the world, and he
who lives by other means is of less val
ue to the world than the buzzing busy
insect.
Grasshoppers were discovered skip,
ping about on the snow and Ice in Har-
lison county, of this State. last week.
The President has commenced alrea
! dy to pack his papers and private effects
preparatory TO leaving the White House,
where he has reigned supreme for eight
years. Let us give thanks.
The office of special Agent of the
Post Office department in this State,
held by I. P. Shallcross, has been abol-
ished
The Legislature of Florida has pass
ed bill TO pay the Democratic electors,
thus recognizing them as the lawful
electors OF that State.
Whittier thinks fifty dollars year
ought to dress any woman. Certainly.
Eve dressed for less than that. But 1t
was before the fall Set in.
Francis D. Mouten, of Henry Ward
Beecher notoriety, offered i'll the lobby
of Wizards Hotel TO bet $500 that
Hayes would never be iraugurated Pres
idenl.
The averge annual importation of or
anges into Great Britain amounts to
about 100000 bushels.
A nurse dozed by the fire in Shelby,
Ky, aud baby tell off her lap..aud was
burned to death.
All the colored insane in this State,
fourteen in number, nine males and five
females, are now confined in the asylum
at Weston.
II take my tex dis morning" said a
colored preacher, "lrom dat part oh de
Scritpters whar de Postal Paul pints his
pistol TO de Fesion."
a young lady in Texas, who advertised
for husband, says she can talk philos-
ophy as well as rock the cradle. She is
"balsam apple"
Major General B. F. Kelley, of this
State, has been appointed to the posi-
ton of Register of the Land Office at
Santa Fe, New Mexico.
1t is said that Mr.. Clinton Browning
of Hancock county, this State, has in-
vented and patented a machine for
making horse shoes. 1t is capable of
making sixty horse shoes per minute
and is said TO be perfect success.
The House OF Representatives on
Saturday last passed the Legislative APP
preparation bill 1t fixes the pay of the
President of the United States at S25,-
900 per annum and that OF Senators and
Representatives at $1,000 per annum
The Ministerial conference of the
United Brethren Church which was in
session at KeedysviIic adjourned last
week 20 meet in Mar,insburg, West
Virginia, tie 4th Tuesday in July.
Bad luck attended Robert Hayden, of
Pulaski, Ky. In one week bis house
burned, his wife eloped, his son died,
and finally he got under an over hang
ing rock just in time to be crushed TO
death by its fall
Many persons from the anthracite re.
gion of Pennsylvania are emigrating 10
Texas Rev. Father James Brehony,
of ST. Joseph.s Catholic Church, Sum
nit Hill, Carbon county, started this
week with one hundred men from that
region who are going 10 Texas to pre-
pare homes for their families.
The U. S. Senate passed the bill
authorizing the laying of telegraphIc
cable between Baltimore and Europe.
Aud thus the Monumental City makes
another stride towards the object Of her
ambition-the commercial metropolis
OF the country.
The Reform Club of Worcester,
Mass, to which "high or low, rich or
poor, black or white" were at first in
vited, has voted to reject colored ap.
Pile all for membership. .
The Mar.insburg ladies have taken
Capt. Faulkner's company of Light In
tantry under their tender care and are
preparing a fair and festival for their
benefit.
A man is 1880 times as large as the
common honey bee, and yet it is use
less TO try to argue the matter with the
bee.
The Welton district Mineral county,
w. Va..) debating society, decided some
days since that free schools ought to be
abolished. This district gave Repub-
lican majority last fall.
Edward Fox, Of Titusville, after
twenty-five years of struggle in the
State and United States Courts, has re-
ceived a verdict of damages to the
amount of s95, 900 against the b. 90.
railroad company.
Don! you put the point of your lead
pencil in your mouth. The frequent
practice has. resulted in the ruin of
health and in many cases in paralysis
and death.
Five millions of people are starving
in India with very little prospect Of
relief
What will the harvest be. A pre-
meditated verdict.
ES COUNTY NEws-We clip the
following from the Charlestown Spirit
of Tuesday last
Mai. Jas. Law. Hooff returned home