Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1878-01-19
Editorial Brevities.

children have been made orphans py
the India famine.
Hot lemonade knocks the bottom out
of cold in less than no time. Put no
spikes in it.
1t is said that the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal company will have to pledge
its revenues and borrow from sl50,000
to 100000 to repair damages from the
late freshet.
Ben Butler is willing to meet lovely
woman at the bar. He says: of any
gentleman has anything 20 advance to
show that a woman has not as good a
right to practice law, everywhere and
anywhere, as a man, l would like 10
hear it.
This is the season when a man who
wants to remember the poor can sit
down and think of himself the whole
day long
w. L. Bridges, Superintendent Of the
Moundsville Penitentiary, is an appli-
cant for the position of Superintendent
of the Government prison at Washing
ton, D. g., with favorable prospects.
"No girl gets along well without a
mother, says moral exchange. This
may be true; but so far as our observa-
tion extends they are more intent on
mother-in-laws.
Quite a number of our fellow citizens
have shown their intentions to begin
the new year right, by subscribing for
the Register.
Congressman Walker, Of Virginia, is
in Philadelphia on business, it is report
ed, connected with Virginia railroad
erterprise-perhaps the Shenandoah
Val.ey-with which it is understood he
will actively connect himself after retlr-
ing from Congress.
Commodore Vanderbilt said: "Wo-
men are not fit to have money anyhow.
Crazy? OF course he was crazy.
If some men we know were measured
by the size of their hearts and souls, a
gun patch would make them suit OF
clothes, including au ulster overcoat.
A Boston stump speaker, turned cler-
gyman, so far forgot himself in opening
his sermon in New Hampshire town
as 10 shout Fellow citizens J!
1t is a sad sight TO see an intoxicated
person on the street. How much more
so is il to see dull and sickly Baby
rendered SO by the use of dangerous
opiates? DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup con
taius nothing injurious and may be
given to tie most delicate Baby. Price
20 cents.
/. Willis Machord, a colored Florida
ex-State Senator, made vigorous effort
to get the Belgian mission last summer,
and has been hanging around Washing
ton so persistently, as an office-seeker,
that he was finally presented with the
honorable office of night watchman at
the Postoffice Department, at salary
of $50 month.
Since Beecher has declared against
hell many persons are wearing more
smiling faces, but people who pin their
take one of these days TO their sorrow,
and Beecher may be there to plague
them.
The quarrel among the Massachusetts,
Good Templars, arising from the ex-
clusion of colored members from the
order, eliminated Monday in the dis
solution of the Grand Lodge of Massa-
chusetts, and the formation ofa new
Grand Lodge.
No other remedy has proved so eff
fectual in relieving Coughs and Colds
as DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup.
A London special says:-1n English
military circles war is considered almost
inevitable Arrangements are compile
ted and regiments allotted for an army
of $4,000 men, and steps are already ia
king toward the formation of the nu-
cleus for a reserve army. Profound un-
easiness prevails here and there is great
depression in trade.
Both the Russians and Turks are suf-
fering intensely from the rigors of win
ter in European Turkey.
A lady resident in Washington, D.
O., who lost valuable good watch at
the Centennial last year, recently had it
returned to her with letter stating
that the person who stole it was not a
professional thief, but took the watch
in moment of great temptation.
The monument which is to be put
over the grave of Andrew Johnson at
Greenviile, Tennessee, will remain Gov
cred until next spring, when it will be
unveiled with public ceremonies.
Miss Lizzie Caperton, the eldest
daughter of the late United States Sena-
tor Allen T. Csperton, of Union, Monroe
county, w. Va, has obtained clerk
ship in the Treasury Department at
Washington.