Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1878-03-23
Editorial RreYities.

Ohio, Missouri, Michigan, Kansas,
Nebraska and Illinois is said to be bet
ter than for ten years
A woman giving her name as Sally
Gay, Buckingham Co.. Va. threw her
baby from car window the other day,
near Charlottesville, Va,
There are new rumors of trouble with
Sitting Bull. He is making efforts to
embroil the Canadian Indians with the
mounted police.
| Gov. Holiday, of Virginia. has ap-
proved the salary reduction bill, which
is very sweeping In its character, aud
effects saving of about $l5o'Ooo a
year.
Mrs, Augusta c. Eccleston, who died
in Germantown, recently,was the widow
of Judge J, B, Eccleston, of Maryland,
and the mother OF Revs. John b. and
James FL Eccleston, of the Protestant
Episcopal Church. the former OF Brook
lyn and the latter Of Newark.
The consumption of oysters in the
! United States reaches the enormous ag-
gregate of fifty millions of bushels an
hually.
Brigham Young's 25 widows and AZ
children are making things lively about
the old mans property.
Mrs. A. T. Stewart owns the largest
single diamond in the land; value $685.
00O
George Washington wasn't always
first even in war oil in peace, He mar
RED q widow.
The Galveston News suggests that
after James Gordon Bennett has dis
covered the North Pole, he will proba-
bly, start Stanley on an expedition to
ascertain whether there is really such
place as hell.
An effort to secure an adjournment OF
Congress by the 29lh of June is being
made 1t is thought by many men-
beers that with ordinary expedition the
necessary business could be transacted
by that time.
A machine that will knit stockings
in one piece at the rate OF one a minute,
is the invention of Swede Of Rock
ford, III. Twelve machines can be
operated by one boy, whose wages,
81, so per week, make the cost Of knit
ting one cent for sixty stockings.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company are reducing the forces EN-
ployed in the several shops located
along the line of the road, owing to the
lack of work in the shops. We do not
know whether the reduction is only
temporary OF not.
The Cumberland Alleganian of Mon
day says that the water is now being
put on the Cumberland division for the
purpose Of getting the boats out OF the
locks and elsewhere, where they are in
the way of the conpany's boarding
house boats getting near the points
where repairs are being made.
Jay Gould promised female lobbyist
fifty thousand dollars to obtain for him,
before its public announcement, the
decision of the U. S. Supreme Court in
the Union Pacific Railroad case. The
required decision was obtained from
Mrs. Justice Miller, but now Mr.. Gould
refuses to comply with his contract
upon the ground of the immortality Of
the proceeding!
The Philadelphia mint began the
coinage of the new silver dollars on
Monday, and will be the first one in
operation under the new silver bill. 1t
will be run day and night, aud the coin
shipped TO Washington as fast as it is
made ...
The will of the late ex-senator Wade,
OF Ohio, leaves all of his property, real
and personal and wherever situated, TO
his wife, and makes her the executrix
without bonds, and requests that no in
ventory or appraisal be required.
The Paris Rothschilds, who are all
bankers, are said to work as hard as If
they were beginning their fortune.
They observe their office hours an pune
tually as does the poorest clerk. There
is popular belief that they hope to
execute the dream of the rebuilding of
the temple and city of Jerusalem.
Our popular and indefatigable rep
resentativr, Hon. B. +. Martin, is serv-
ing his constituency with untiring zeal
but coupled with a wise discretion. We
have already noticed his efforts to aid
the people of Harpcr's Ferry. and now
he is futhering a proposition to appoint
Martinsburg with fair prospects OF sue
cess, one of the places for holding q
term of the U. S.. District court. Mr..
Martin is also making a good record for
himself upon all political questions
touching the interests OF his constituen-
y.-Narfin,bmg Statesman.
S1- The Sheriffs Of this State are
now compelled to enforce the collection
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