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

In Chicago torty-two lndlvldusls ana
firms took advantage of the bankrupt
law during the month just ended.
Skobeloff has had six gray horses Kill
led under him, but he still persists in
riding an animal of that color.
We are always pleased to recommend
a good article. DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup never fails 10 cure Cough or
Cold in short time. The price is 20
cents.
The Stanton Vindicator prints
startling statement of the amount ot
eating in that vicinity. Between
eighty and one hundred pounds OF that
debasing drug are claimed to be retail
ed each week by the drug stores OF that
town. The statement also charges that
many of the young ladies attending the
excellent Female Seminaries Of the place
are addicted TO the habit.
Capt. Shenly, the largest property
holder in Pittsburg, Pa, died last week
leaving widow worth eight millions
of dollars. He was so years old.
Returning Board Wells. Anderson,
and Castanna are being tried at New
Orleans for changing the returns of that
State in the Presidential election. We.ls
had escaped the officers for time, but
afterwards surrendered. They will make
it hot for these radical scoundrels, and
place them where there are no more
"Returniug Boards"
More than a thousand people OF Lon
doun couaty, Va, want the question OF
granting licenses TO sell liquor submit
ted 10 the voters of that county.
Thomas Osbern has sold his farm
hear Round Hill, Loudoun county, Pas
acres, to }. Ii. Purcell, at SAL per acre.
Gen. Williams, the new Senator from
Kentucky, is "Cerro Gordo Williams,
the well known heru OF the Mexican
war. He has been prominent in Ken
tucky politics for thirty years.
In the Corporation Conrt OF Norfolk,
Va, on Tuesday last, Jorden Berry was
sentenced to 25 years in the Peniten'
,iary for poisoning bis wife and tour
children.
The best is the cheapest DR.. Bulls
Baby Syrup is acknowledged to be the
safest and most reliable medicine toi
Babies. Price 25 cents.
The jury in the suit of the United
States against ex-Gov Smith OF Va, toI
the $4,000 in gold he drew as salary
which the government claims 10y right
of conquest, has disagreed, standing
nine for the government and three fol
the defendant.
The Warrenton Solid South says
A dinner party was given last week by
one of our hospitable citizens TO his ole
lady friends. The twelve old lady guests
aggregated in age eight hundred years
They danced quadrille and the min
uette.
The public debt statement for tn
last month shows that Secretary Sher
man has succeeded in boarding up s64,
900, 900 il gold with which TO RESUME
This sum is, we believe, some $4,000,
O0D less than this functionary had II
the Treasury month ago. We seen
10 be crawling toward resumption tal
foremost.
Secretary Sherman declares that "th
old silver dollar, if any are in existence
coined before 1873, is legal tender 10
all sums.
Nearly six million cigars were mad
at Wrightsvile, York county, last year
The amount paid by the manufactures
OF these cigars for stamps alone wa
S35,5S6,9O.
George p Gorden, the inventor u
the Gordon printing press, died at hi
farm, Norfolk, Va, OH Monday, age
sixty-eIght.
A man who has been waiting for tn,
last fifteen years fer something TO turn
up is still in the same business.
Many persons are in advance OF thei
age, but old maids generally manage tc
be about ten years behind theirs.
Those young ladies at fairs who sci
five cent pincushions for s3 ought to bt
arrested for robbing the males.
A Montana justice of the peace
doesn't splurge any when he marrle'
a couple. lie says: arise! Graf
hands! Hitched Six dollars J. Aod
that is all there is TO it.
A new song is called, Always Keep
Smlle for Mother. Some young men
will drink every drop that is in the bot,
tie without giving thought TO their
parents; but mother, We think, is better
off without a smile. 1t is bad enough
tor the old mau TO take his daily
Smiles
A lady living near Cyuthiana. Ky,
has used the same six pins for twenty
years. She is eighty-three, but her
neighbors say she is the same old six
plus still.
OLD 81 Os HE'LL While they were
resting trom work at noon yesterday,
Amos said:
Il heahd er white man reediD' in de
paper dis morrin' dat foxes was 'batilI
now wbudder dere wuz enuy hell or