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

The annual conference of the United
Brethren at its last session, appointed
Rev. A. NJ. Eyers TO continue in charge
of the Martinsburg mission station and
Rev. VIM Beall to the Berkeley circuit.
Every time it is proposed to go be-
hind the reports OF the Returning
Board and the certificates Of the Gov
errors of Florida and Loui siana, the
Republicans cry out, "Oh, that will
elect Tilden !"
Jonathan Thomas has sold his farm
of GO acres, near needysville, Washing
ton county, TO Abraham Hammond, for
$1,000.
O,ho \. Grant, colored, was last week
arrested in Baltimore, charged with
stealing four horses from persons living
in the neighborhood Of Leesburg, Va
Three OK the horses were identified,
one as belonging TO A. T. NJ. Rust, one
to George A. Ball and the other to f.
G. Minor. Grant has already served
nine years in the Maryland peuitentiary
for stealing six horses.
The father of Abraham Lincoln is
buried in a rural cemetery, ten miles
southeast of NATION, Ill. The fathers
name was Thomas Lincoln, aud it is
proposed to put monument over his
grave.
The man who introduces an imported
hustle is sure 10 strike richer bonanza
than he who invents boss washing
machine. Every woman must have the
best hustle, but they can worry along
with an old-fashioned washing machine.
4 half pound Of powder in a chest
nut log demoraized an Atlanta negro
family the other night. The wood was
borrowed without the owners consent.
West Virginia's State debt is S7O,-
900. Better pay this before contract
ing 100000 more i'll the way of Capitol
removal expenses.
James Pelletier, of New Orleans,
testified that he was waiter at the
restaurant where on Sunday, Dec. 3,
the members and clerks of the returning
board dined, and that he overheard 4
conversation between Wells, Anderson
and Llttleield. He heard Wells say in
reply to a question by Liltlefeld that
no matter it Tilden had 100000 MAORI
ty in the State the vote would be given
to Hayes any how, and that he (Wells)
did not care what would become Of the
State.
The Keyser Tribune is informed that
the demand for lumber, on Messrs.
Davis & Co., at Deer Park; has been
heavier within the last few weeks than
for several years.
Twelve men await execution in the
iails of Schuylkill and Carbon counties.
Penn. They are Known as the Molly
Maguires and as richly deserve their
doom as if they were the thugs OF India.
The Pennsylvania and West Virgin
ia State Oranges are said to be con-
templating the erection Of supply
house somewhere on the upper Ohio,
for the storage and handling OF wool,
tobacco aud provisions, and for articles
used 10y farmers
United States Fish Commissioners are
now stocking the Potomac with thous-
ands of small perch; about two thousand
FIVE hundred were put in at point be-
tween Cumberland and Martinsburg, on
Thursday. Some time since there was
a supply put in opposite Keyser.
Dir. Albert Peyser. one Of the Demo
cratic Electors of w, Va, who was
thought TO be ineligible on account of
not being uaturalized, was examined by
the House committee and declared eligi
bic, he having found his naturalization
papers in Baltimore city.
II is broadly asserted now that in the
Florida decision the Republicans OF the
commission went back upon their pre-
viously asserted opinion, that the pre-
visions of the electoral bill expressly
admitted the right TO go behind the
rrturus.