Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1878-06-29
With Mexioans TO the south of US,

Indians to the west of Us, Fenians to
the north of US, and Stanley Matthews
to the east of us, we may claim to DO
surrounded by fearful evils. Now let
the potato bugs, the grass-hoppers and
the communists rise up and destroy us.
The Mobile Register has the follow
ing: Any person knowing of the where
abouts of the children Of Gen. Earl
Van Dorm will do an act of kindness by
communicating with Gen. Joseph
Wheeler, at CORTLAND, Lawrence coun
! ty, Alabama. 1t may be the means OF
greatly beneftting the children. South
ern papers are requested to copy this
notice.
A Large Colony OF Germans has set
tied in Tyler county, Texas, where they
are putting in farm of 10000 acres
under one fence. The residences OF the
colonists are built together in town
plat as in Germany. They have with
them doctors, merchants, blacksmiths,
etc, and are perfectly independent.
On Saturday last Mr.. Thos. Spickler
sold his farm adjoining the farm of Ex-
senator Hamilton, near Hagerstown,
Md, to Mr.. John w. Stonebraker, for
the sum Of SIP, 10000. The deed for
the property was made out to Mr.. Ellis
worth Stonebraker, the son Of the pur
chaser.
Mr.. Henry Strife Of Washington
county, Md, has taken the bankrupt
law, and his discharge from all debts
and liabilities under the bankrupt law
was signed by Judge Giles, Of the
United States court, at Baltimore, on
the 18th inst.
Mayor Geo. P. Kane, of Baltimore,
is dead. He was a noble man, and in
corruptible officer. The memory of
his social and civic virtues will long
live in the hearts of the people he
loved so well and served so faith
fully.
As far back as ls49 Emperor William
appeared in person in command Of the
German troops in the field. 1t was to
put down a revolution in the South
west; and in the first engagement he
was defeated by the insurgents under
the command Of Franz Seigel, who at
forwards came to this country and be-
came famous in the campaigns of West
Virginia.
The kissograph, new invention,
will enable lovers to sit ten feet apart
and stealthily indulge in osculatory ex-
ercises 10 the presence of the Old folks.
This is a great desideratum, certainly,
but unless each end of the instrument
is sweetened with some substance forty
degrees sweeter than the best refined
sugar in the market, the kisses will not
taste as good as if the old folks were III
bed or doing in the kitchen.
A most singular affair recently hap,
pened near Lynchburg, Va. While
Col. A. IL. Fukerson was riding over
his farm he was attacked by about one
hundred swallows, who assailed him
with great chattering and pecked away
Justify at his face and clothing. lie was
at first amused at the puny assaults, but
the wounds " hich they soon Inflicted
upon his face and neck convinced him
tina, he had nothing to laugh at, aud he
barely escaped with his life. 1t is fear
ed that he will lose the sight of both
eyes, ard his nose is so badly mutilated
that in all probability it will have to be
amputated.
The laboring men in some parts OF
Missouri have set their faces agains;
labor saving machinery of all kinds,
and openly threaten that if the self
binding machines are put into the field
by farmers they will burn them, and
that the grain stacks of all farmers who
employ these machines will be burned
also.