Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1878-11-02
Editorial B,-evities.

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Paul, Mimi, Monday A special from
Grand Forks, Red river of the North,
says slush is running, and navigation is
about to close.
Snow to the depth of nine inches fell
in the northwestern part of Ontario
Sunday night, doing great damage to
fruit and other trees.
The 800 illicit distillers convicted at
Nashville, Tenn, have been hopelessly
demoralized by the heavy penalties i'm
posed. Sixty have been fined from
800 to $1,000 each and sentenced to
Imprisonment from one to six months.
About $50 have fled to the mountains,
FORGETTING their bonds.
The rent of Wizards Hotel, at
Washington, under Breslin d Cookies
new lease, is $4,000 the first year and
$4,000 for each succeeding year of FIVE
years.
Speaker Randall has hopes of dem
ocra,c triumph in Pennsylvania, but he
thinks it probable that one or more of
the present democratic members from
that State may fail of reelection. lie
concurs entirely in the opinion hereto
fore expressed that there is nothing in
the cipher telegram business which can
injure democratic party prospects, what
ever effect it may have on individuals.
On Sunday last Rev Mr.. Talmage, in
his third sermon upon the wickedness
of New York, made the singular state
ment that, while looking on game of
roulette in one of the gambling houses
of that city he was told by the officer in
whose company he was that no one ell
tered there except upon the introduction
of patron or by ''police mandate"
Michael Leonard, brakeman in the
employ of the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road, stepped on the top of car on his
train which was ready to start from
Piedmont, w. Va, on Saturday after
noon. The train gave sudden jolt and
he was thrown on the track, a car run
ming over his limbs. 1t is thought it
will be necessary to amputate one OF
them.
In the last few days a pressure has
been brought to bear on the President
to induce him to authorize the detail of
troops in the vicinity of election pre-
cincts in South Carolina, Louisiana and
Texas, and PERHAPS one or two other
States. 1t is alleged that the colored
people have been so inundated that
they will not dare TO undertake to vote
unless armed by ocular proof of military
protection.
The Indian bureau at Washington is
in receipt of telegram from Col.
O'Bierne confrmatory of the press re-
ports of the capture of the marauding
Cheyennes. 1t is expected that the
leaders of this band will be turned over
bv the military to the civil authorities
of Kansas or Nebraska to be tried and
punished for the murder of settlers and
other outrages.
The frost and ice have given the fin
ishing stroke to the germs of the fever
at Memphis, and the board of health
will announce that refugees may return
with safety. At New Orleans the num-
Der of new cases is still diminishing as
well as the number Of deaths. There
were black frost and ice at Nicksburg
Sunday night, and the outlook general
~ in The fever districts OF the South is
becoming cheerful again.
Some of the new styles Of Mason d
Uamlin Cabinet Organs introduce
STYLE of finish with embossed gold
bronze ornamentation, by new pro-
cess, ut once the most elegant and
chaste finish vet employed on such in
Strumenls. Prices are very low fer
such workmanship.
On Monday morning masked burglars
entered tie Manhattan bank, New
York, hand-cuifrd the janitor, and made
him, under threats of instant death,
reveal the combination Of the safe to
them, and three millions of dollars, Sc
curities, were taken theretrom.
Cold piercing winds and driving
rains seldom fail TO bring on a cough,
cold or hoarSeness at this season, and
DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup should be kept
in every house. For sale by all Drug
giSts. 20 cts.
a very large and imposing demon
stration was made in Baltimore Mon
day by oyster shuckers who are on
strike against the packing houses for
higher rates of pay. The shuckers,
whites and blacks, about equally divid-
ed. and number ofthem white women,
walked in procession from Fell's Point
to Federal Hill, and afterwards hello a
mass meeting in Monument Square,
where there was speaking from the
strikers, including the views of one of
the woman. The procession was unique.
The line was enlivened by six or seven
full bands Of music, two of them being
of colored performers.