Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1878-02-16
Editorial Breyifies.

tlOl 10 ueCldIe tudt tuo hAS"SS ~
confidence in the administration OF the
Treasury Department. This resolution
is to be presented upon the passage IN
the House OF the amended Bland bill
after its return from the Senate. Butler
is also preparing silver speech, in
which his friends say he will make
many new points,
On Friday, Congressman Wilson, OF
the Wheeling District, made a short
! speech in which he set forth, with clear
ness and force, the hardships and wrongs
that many of his constituents have sut-
fcred, and are still suffering, at the
hands OF the Government, by virtue of
the unfortunate muddle the existing
laws have plunged the settlement OF
war claims into
An old Methodist preacher, going
around among the members of his con-
eregatiou, came across an old lady in
spectacles. "Do you love the Lord''
he asked. "Well, parson, I ant got
nothin' agin him."
a Mobile business firm came TO
sudden end the other day. II. II. Hop
per, one member, while at the store,
leaned over the desk, said his head hurt
him, and died; and half an hour after,
Thomas Duggau, the other member,
who was at home sick, died there.
Cassius +. Lee qualified in the City
Circuit Court OF Richmond, as receiver
OF the Washington and Ohio railroad in
bond Of $4,000.
A bill is before the Virginia Legisla-
ture proposing the construction Of a
railroad along the valley Of the James
river from Clifton Forge, on the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railroad, to Richmond,
Va. Mr.. Cyrus II. Mccormick, Of
Chicago, former Nirginian, is one of
the corporators.
The New York World states that ex-
Gov. Moses, of South Carolina, is now
in that city in such reduced circumstan-
ces that he is compelled TO importune his
friends for loans from ten down TO one
uOIidi, W NC aOIc " IIldhc OolIl eHUo
meet The World says that the wife
of Moses, who resides at Sumter, 5. G.,
charges that her husband has deserted
her, and robbed herself, his mother and
widowed sister of property, such as
clothing, jewelry, Sc, valued OF $4,000.
y warrant from South Carolina is daily
expected at New York for the arrest of
Moses for these alleged thetts.
On the recommendation Of Governor
Mathews and his associate Executive
officers Of the State, together with the
endorsements Of Senators Davis and
Hereford, and Congressman Wilson,
the President has appointed Colonel a.
J. Sweeney of Wheeling, one OF the
twenty paid Commissioners to Paris
A Boston lady, over sixty years of
age, has collected 100000 cancelled
postage stamps, having been offered for
doing so the 5000 necessary to obtain
her admission into hospital of that
city. The stamps FL Saratoga trunk,
and Will 6e sent to Europe to be made
up NV papISi HiaShS SOOuS'
The question arising in a Sunday
School as to why God created all the
animals of the fields and sea and air be-
fore he created man, no one gave d So
luton Oft until a little boy said l.: Il
know; it's because he didn't want the
man hanging around while he was max
ing EN-"
Sunday night the Episcopal, PresJy-
terrain and Methodist Episcopal church
os at Cumberland, were entered by
burglars breaking the stained glass win
dows in each church. They got no!h-
ing excepting gallon of communion
wine at the Episcopal church, where the
communion silver service was securely
bestowed. The silver services are not
kept in the other churches. No clue to
the burglars.
Gov. Holiday of Virginia, through
Gen. Echols, of the House of Delegates,
offered to reduce his salary one thons-
and dollars per annum. The offer could
not be accepted, on account Of constitu-
tonal prohibitions. Tie House, as a
compromise, amended the bill reducing
the salaries of State officials twenty per
cent, so as to allow the executive to
pay bis secretary out of his own funds.
This virtually reduces the Governors
salary eight hundred dollars per annum
if the bill is adopted.
Mr.. Leander Mccormick, of Chicago,
has offered his great telescope TO the
Legislature of Virginia for the use of
the grea; university of the State. A
bill is now pending before that body !
accepting the gift and making proviS-
ion for the conditions of the gilt.
Mr. J. Frederick Duvall, grand son
of the late Frederick Humrickhouse,
Esq, of Hagerstown, recently died in
Frederick city. He was Clerk in the
Post Office, and was very highly esteem
ed in the community in which he lived. /
Some ten grain firms are reported
failed at Belfast, Ireland, with $1,000
900 total liabilities.
Mr.. VIM. Welsh, brother of the
American minister to the Court Of st. |
James, fell dead of heart disease at
Wills's Hospital, Philadelphia, Monday,
at which place he was visiting at the
time.
Sixty-four clergyman ofthe Episcopal,
Church died during last year, and OF |
the forty three whose ages are given in
the "Churchman's Almanac, the aver
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