Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1878-08-31
Editorial Brevities.

A correspondent OF the lIlpune say
that a secret order exists in this county
known as the knights of Labor, which
has membership Of 100000 working
men. Pennsylvania is put down as the
State most largely represented IN the
order.
The Cumberland Civilian says that
the names OF Hon. Henry w. Hoffman
and DIR. G. Z. Porter OF that county
have been prominently mentioned in
connection with the Republican noml-
nation for Congress.
Americans who are now sojourning
in Europe are surprised to see the wo-
men doing the Agricultural work, while
the men are Willing away the time IN .
neighboring beer saloon.
The iron founders in Italy are using
American anthracite coal in preference
to English coke, the former costing 81
less per ton than the later.
Lydia Berro, a beautiful young lady
of twenty, OF the city of Boston, Mass,
whose friends imagined that her illness
of late was caused by dropsy, were as
tonished TO learn that she had been
poisoned by wearing colored stockings.
In the town of Alta, Utah, the little
cotton works are in ashes, the fire hav-
ing originated from cigar of Judge
Warn, who was lying on a lounge in the
Swan House. 1t spread rapidly, con-
suming 200 wooden buildings. The loss
is estimated at 100000. n costly cigar.
The shipment of horses TO England
is becoming an important export. Some
of the steamers have one hundred stalls.
A pestilence which is sweeping over
a portion of Bolivia in South America
is horrible in many Of Its features. In
some causes the bodies OF entire families
are lett uncared for, aud many children
bereft of home and parents, sustain their
lives by catching and eating grasshop-
pers.
w. S. Douglas, who murdered David
Hiser, the mail-carrier, in Grant county,
w. Va, some time ago and escaped,and
was recaptured in Texas, has been sent
enced 10 Imprisonment for life and lodg-
ed in the West Va. peuitentiary.
Jefferson Davis is announced as a
candidate for the United States Senate
in Mississippi, to succeed Senator Bruce.
The potato bug in some localities
seems TO have fallen victim TO some
disease. The are doing the potatoes
but little harm and can be seen lying
dead under the vines in great numbers.
The usual second Matching is very light.
We learn that Hon. BEN. WILSON
was re-nomiDated for Congress by the
convention that assembled at New
Martinsvlle, on the 18th inst, oil the
eighth ballot.
De Kalb county, Qll.) must be a
pleasant place to live III. It is said one
halt of the population have been sun
struck, and the rest are running tor
sheriff.
Frost is said to have appeared in Iowa
a few nights ago. A visit Of Jack Frost
to the afflicted South would have beu-
eficial effect in dispelling Yellow Jack.
Wanted-By everyone who has an
intelligent conception of its value
Health. Health depends upon the pos
session of pure Blood and pure blood is
the sure possession OF those who use
DR.. Bulls Blood Mixture, acknowledged
as a superior blood purifier.
A barn in the suburbs Of Frederick,
in the occupancy of Simon Best, vas
destroyed by fire on Sunday night last
Among the contents consumed was
l,2OO bushels of wheat and sixty tons
of hay.
The Hon. Emerson Ethridge, Of
Memphis, was nominated as the Repub-
lican candidate for Governor Of Tennes-
see. The Convention was presided
over by ex, Governor Foote.
Lightning struck an oil tank of Church
& Co., at Petroleum, w. Va, Monday
morning, and 5000 barrels Of oil were
destroyed.
General Butler is about to accept the
nomination for Governor of Massachu-
sets on the strength of thirty-eight
thousand names that have been append
ed to the petition asking his consent.