Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1877-03-03
EdiforiaI llreVitics.

"snowy brow" caught severe cold, anu
has been laid up ever since. ~
A temperance service is in progress
in Cumberland. Two hundred and
seventy persons have thus far signed
the pledge No town never needed II
more.
A Pittsburg firm have built a lime
kiln near Msrtinsburg, and if The pro-
duct suits, the capacity will be increas-
ed to 1000 bushels per day. The lime
is intended fer use in the manufacture
of glass. CO., III rryr
Labor is the law of the world, and
he who lives by other means is of less
value to the world than the buzzing
busy insect.
Pulitzer, the brother-in-law of Carl
Schurz, calls them "the eight eminent
perjurers, constituting the majority of a
packed jury called the Electoral Com
mission
Mr.. Bayard, replying to some sug-
gestion that the Democratic. members
should retire from the Electoral Com
mission, said: NO, sir, they may de-
feat us, but they can't disgrace us.
They may bring us misfortune, but
they cant bring US into contempt.
Bradley has son who is clerk in the
Attorney Generals Office. Does that
son shine on the tribunal? This qucs-
ton is asked by contemporary, whose
name we do not know, and We are
equally ignorant as 10 who will answer
it.
In Mexico the same party that BAN
ished the Sisters of Charity from that
country is interfering with Protestant
church worship. They are queer set
these Mexicans.
Breckinridge's elegant house in
Washington was bought by Alfred
Lee, negro, who deals in feed, and
who paid $4,000 for it.
Simon Cameron going about smash
ing the hearts OF widows in his old age,
is still another evidence of the decline
of the republican.
Young man 90 South Get into
a Returning Board There's millions
in it." Take rothing but carpet-bag.
We propose that the Constitution of
the United States be so amended as to
provide for the selection of President
of the United States hereafter by draw
ing straws, as the votes OF the people
amount to nothing with Returning
Boards.
Rev. J. McKendree Kelley, pastor of
the Fourth street NJ. f. Church of
Wheeling, has been transferred back to
the Baltimore Conference.
The people of South Carolina, when
forbidden by the government TO cele-
brate ashington's birthday, did very
appropriate thing in displaying flags at
halEmast and trimming the stars and
stripes with Grape. 1t would be on APP
pro- rate thing for the people of the
whole land to do, in respect to the
memory of our departed liberty.
1t would be an abomn able spectacle
to see an American president and vice
president placed in office by four ad-
mitted Louisiana scouudrels.
Radicalism is doomed to die, ere
the next four years come to an end.
Let her sleep in ''her little bed. 1t is
purging as fast as circumstances will
permit.
Judge John w. Brockenborough, of
Lexington, Va, died Monday last, aged
70 years.
Jonathan Tyson, prominent citizen
of Frederick, Md, is dead, LACED rs years.
Ex-Governor Johnson, of Virginia,
died near Bridgeport, Harrison County,
W. Va, Tuesday morning, aged "a
years
DR.. Thomas Page, a well-known citi-
zen of Martinsbnrg, is dead.
Gen. Dennison, Postmaster General,
of Baltimore, died on Monday morning
last, of apoplexy.
Hon. Daniel S. Biser, of Burketts-
vile, Md, died on Tuesday, aged "a
years. lie was one of the directors of
the &. e O. Canal, ard filed many i'm
portant positions during his life, in
Frederick County, Md He was elected
eight times in succession to the legisla
ture Of Maryland, and was Speaker OF
the House of Delegates at one term.
DR.. Lovick Pierce,of Georgia, is said
to be the oldest living Methodist
preacher in the United States he is
now ninety-two, and filled preaching
appointment for his son, Bishop Pierce,
the other day.
They tell of New England family
burial ground, in tho four corners of
which sleeps the four successive wives
of one man, while a marble tombstone
in the centre Of the plot is affectionate-
ly inscribed: "Our Husband"
John S. Young, who was at one
time chief OF detectives in New York,
is dead. During the war he arrested
Captain John Yates Beall, of Virginia,
an alleged Confederate spy, who was
hanged on Bedloe's Island.
They do business with dispatch in
Texas. A man in certain neighbour
hood who had lost a valuable mare, re-
ccived the following by telegraph:
Mare here. Come get her. Thief
hung"
The venerable DR.. Nathan r. Smith,
one the most distinguished physicians