Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1878-04-20
Editorial BreyifieS.

1t estimated that the new National
Praty polled about $4,000 votes at the
recent municipal election in Ohio.
When Miss Sherman becomes the
wife of Don Cameron, she will also be-
come of seven little Dons and DonnaS.
The eldest hopeful that she will thus ac-
I quire is young lady two years older
than her prospective mamma.
Bob, the veritable sorrel war-horse
which Stoncwal Jackson was riding
when he received his fatal wound, is
still living, at the age OF twenty-three,
on the farm of brother-in-law Of the
General, in Lincoln county, North Car.
| DINA.
An Illinois woman has written to one
of the assistant Postmaster Generals to
pick her out a good young man tor
husband, He at once replied that it
was no: his business to sort the mails,
and she wasn't an Ohio woman, anyhow.
Governor Holiday has issued pro
camation inviting all holders of Nir-
ginia securities to make an exchange OF
old securities for new three and four
per cent. bonds, as provided for in the
act OF March IA, 1873.
Dam No. of the Chesapeake and
OHIO canal, through which the Poto-
mac river swept and did such extensive
damage in the late flood, has been thor
oughly repaired, under the supervision
of Mr.. Lewis q. Stanhope of Hagers.
town.
Gold and greenbacks are on par with
each Others and the banks are beginning
to exchange one for the other, thus
resumption commences before the time
fixed for it by law.
Josh Billings makes $4,000 year
by writing misspelled rubbish.
The Republican members of Con-
gress have decided to make vigorous
and lively campaign the approach
ing fall. The chances are very tavora-
BILE to regain the control of the House
of Representatives.
Sam Steenburg, of Fonda, New York,
who was hung on the 18th instant, has
confessed TO having committed eleven
different murders, the first when he was
only IA years old. He says he murder
ed DR.. Parker some years ago.
A farmer residing near Oakland, in
Garret county, Nd, has cow which
recently gave birth to nine calves, which
are OF were alive at last accounts. More
over, the cow lies down in order that
as many calves may suck at time as
possible.
Bishop Andrews has decided for the
New York NJ f.. Conference, that the
licensing of women as preachers Is
against the doctrines of Wesley. The
disappointed advocates of the new de-
parture have taken an appeal to the
General Conference of the Methodists
of the whole country in 1880.
A few days since Twsnfy Dollar
note of the Hagerstown Bank bearing
date of 1886, signed by Ohio Lawrence,
Pres't., E. Beatty, Cashier, and payable
to w. V. Heard. was presented at the
conuter of the Bank for redemption. 1t
was fresh and apparently unused, and
had been slowed away until it had
twice eaten itself up in interest at legal
rates.
VIM. NJ. Tweed is dead, having ex-
pired in Ludlow Street Jail New York,
on Friday last; broken down old man,
at the age of City five. His history, or
at least the latter part it, and his con-
nection with the New York Ring frauds,
as they were commonly called, are well
known, and need not be enlarged upon
here.
A large gold brick was east at
Helena, Montana, Monday last, from
the produc. of the Penobscot mine, and
is valued at over $4,000. The mine is
located about Is miles from Silver
City, Mont. The brick is the product
of $50 tons of ore, and cost of produc-
ton $4,000.
Little by little our great mineral re-
sources are being developed and brought
to the notice of outsiders. A Pittsburgh
iron manufacturing company intend TO
purchase large vein of iron ore near
Keyser and begin active operations
soon.
Mr.. VIM. II. Ways, a worthy and
respected merchant of Frederick city,
Md, his son, daughter and grandchild,
were poisoned on Sunday evening last
by substance contained in sugar
cured ham, of which they had partaken.
In obedience to instructions of the
Judge of the court of Richmond the
names of twenty, one liquor dealers of
that city have been reported to the
grand jury for failing to observe the
Moffett law.
A few years before his death, Horace
Greeley said the child was born who
would see Kansas the fourth State iu
the Union. If the present tide of inn
migration continues, the prophecy will
som be realized.