Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1877-01-06
Editorial E2TrSiticS.


Under old Democratic rule the ballot
box Was supreme; under Republican
rule the Returning Board is sovereign,
and to it all a:e expected to bow the
, knee.
The Pinkston story, (old colored wo-
man) in Louisiana, about which so much
has been said. has been investigated,
and Elias tale turns out to be false
hoods.
The fire in Toxic, Japan, Nov. % de-
stroycd 5000 houses, valued with con
tents, at $I0OO0,O00.
David Dudley Field is to occupy the
seat in Congress made vacant by the
resignation Of Smith Eley, ,Jr., who was
elected Mayor Of New York, in Noyem
Der
The town of Crockett, Texes, was to-
tally destroyed by fire last week.
y Pennsylvania farmer writes to his
country paper that he cured his daugh-
ter of the Grccian bend by pouring wa
ter on her and holding her out to dry i'll
the snn until she warped back again.
Moody has found girl in Chicago,
lG years old, and ordinarily intelligent,
who had never heard the name OF Christ
except in profanity, and who had no
idea of who he is.
The Virginia House of Delegates has
! passed a bill reducing the pay of the add
/ jatant general Of that State from $4,000
/ TO Sl0J per anum.
A man named Pool, hailing from
Fairfax county, was arrested at hamlI-
ton on Tuesday evening OF last week,
/ and committed to the Jail Of Loudonn
county, charged with passing counter
felt silver halfdollars.
Does anybody suppos if the negroes
had shown a disposition TO vote the
Democratic ticket that they would ever
have been made voters!
The Baltimore & Ohio railroad is car
rying corn from the West i'll coal cars,
50 large has been the increase IN the
! traffic
The democratic candidate was elected
mayor Of Watertown, \ y, on Thurs
day, by Sc majority Last November
the republicans carried the city by l47
majority.
Mr.. Cronin, the democratic elcctor
from Oregon, is on a visit 10 his sister,
wife Of Rev. Thomas Dgges, a Metho
dist preacher living i'll Chesterfield coun-
ty in Virginia.
Chief Justice Waite says the result of
the presidential contest must depend
upon the factsin the disputed States, and
that the present aspect Of the contro-
versy points very strongly to the inaug
uration Of Mr.. Tildcn.
How American ideas do spread.
Young Arabs now greet the traveller
in Egypt with the familiar salutatlon,
"Black your boots?'
There has been another conference at
the house of VIM. +. Dodge. This time
il was in the interest Of temperance, and
is said to have worried Spotted Tail
Chandler worse than the other one.
The Cincinnati Commercial is sweat
ing again. 1t is trying to prove that
Louisiana went Republican in the last
election That would make anybody
sweat.
The worst case of sclfshness that has
ever been presented to the public ema-
mated from youth who complained
because his mother put bigger mus
tard plaster on his brother than she did
on him.
y party of young men dined sumptu-
ously at restaurant, and each one in
sisted upon paying the bill. To decide
the matter 1t was proposed TO blindfold
the waiter, and the first one caught
should pay the bill. lie has ut caught
any of them yet.
The PRESIDENT GRANpDA UGurEK-
The Washington Star, in noticing the
New Years reception at the White
House, says: NO lady present receiv-
ed as marked attention as Miss Julia
Grant, the infant daughter Of Colonel
and Mrs Fred. Grant This young
lady, aged six months, received in her
nurses arms, aud was not at all discon-
certed by the tiattering attentions show
cred upon her. She wore a dainty
robe of white French lawn, with narrow
strips OF insertion showing its pattern
over the pale blue silk. The robe was
high in the throat, and fastened down
the back with bows OF blue ribbon. a
gold necklace was clasped about her
throat, and dainty gold bracelets, with
tiny blue turquoise hearts pendant,
were worn over the long sleeves at the
wrist. Upon one of the dimpled fin
gers Sparkled a solitaire dimond ring
guarded by one set with turquoise.
HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.-The esti-
nation in which these medicines are
held by the public steadily Increases
their demand. They act directly on the
system, removing all distractions, rem
ovating the spings OF life, purifying the
blood, and totally graduating liver COM
! plants, indigestion, pain 10 the side aud
general debility. Sold everywhere. %
cents per box or pot. lS6 !
Why suffer for years with Liver Com
plant, Sick Headache, and Foul Storn-
.ach: when one box of STONEBRA- !
| kER'S VEGETABLE PILLS win
cure yoa s. Sold by all Dealers. % cents