Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1879-01-11
Editorial IfrpyiiiCs.

General Longslrrct has accepted the
pusinaslcrship al Gainesville. Ga.
|, is expected that fully $1,000 Men
noilites will arrive from Russia in May
next. This is the last year of the Men
nonIes' exemption from military service
There is a probability of Judge Jack
son holding an extra session of the Fed.
eral Court in Wheeling, beginning
about the 18th instant.
The infant child OF Mrs. Kenney, IN
Brooklyn, n. Y, was frozen 10 death
beside its mother in bed on Friday
night last.
The Cornish Bank, one Of the oldest
moni, d institutions If England, has fail
ed. The Liabilities are 81 100000.
In this happy land 1882 peopl" were
killed by their tellcw-mrn in 1873: l.
OI9 dead victims of brutal mnrdrr. just
ifable assassination, childish quarrel,
chance miShap. insane or drunken iren
~. sleep the eternal sleep.
In spite Of the previous reports to The
contrary, the 'brll-punch is considered
successful in Virginia. Alter deduct
ing all rebates, the total gain Tor one
wear over the old law is $4,000, and
he Auditor believes the new law can he
so modified as To be "a most powerful
agency Tor raising revenue. The bell
nuurh NAV lie said therefore to have
been yindicatrd.
CYRUS w. Field and Samuel J. Til
den are believed TO have greatly in
creased their large fortunes by the eX-
lraordinary rise in the m"rlagage aud
stock of the New York Elevated rail
road.
Senator Ben Hill has, within three
years, lost $4,000 on his Georgia plan
talion. Regular plantation bitlers.
As a snow-plow, driven by five en-
gines, was pushing through the snow
ON the New York Central railroad, near
Batavia, yesterday, four engines left the
track aud Two of them, il Is said, eXi'l"-
dr,i. One fireman, named Thos. Law
lers, WIS caught under AN engine, aud
his leg had 10 be- cut IF in Order To tx
,ricatr him 1t is believed he will die.
Five others were irjnred more or less.
Gov. Holiday OF Virginia, has issued
n writ Ordering an election 10 De held
in the first congressional district on the
22,, of January To I'LL the vacancy cans
ed by the death vi Hon. Bev. Is. Doug
las
The President is much interested in
the next election in Ohio.an is anxious
ouIy that the republicans pick Out their
best man 10 run for Governor. He
makes no secret of his opinion that Gen.
Garfield is the man, though he does not
wish 10 APPEAR 10 dictate III any way.
Hon. Wm. =. Sheffield, lawyer and
ex-Corgressman, fell Oh the icy street
in Newport, K. l., Saturday, breaking the
same leg which he broke III New York
some ten wears ago, and Tor which he
recovered heavy damages from that city.
TIE death of Hon Caleb Gushing, III
his 18th GEAR, Is announced.
DR.. VIM. A. Mccormick has been ap.
pointed secretary Of the Winchester and
Potomac Railroad Company, in place
Of the late WIN. L. Bent.
Captain w. +. cambridge, Of Win
chester, has been appointed agent OF the
Ohio and Mississippi railway express at
Cincinnati. aud general agent of the
Marietta aud CINCINNATI express.
Gen. Thomas L. Rosssr, graduate
of West Point, who rose from the posi-
ton Of lieu. enant of artillery TO That OF
lieutenant general in the Confederate
service, has been appointed resident en-
gineer in charge OF the Norlhrrn Pacific
railway, on which, soon after the war,
he sought and obtained employment as
day laborer -. - i