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

The EepuOllcans OF LOuislana ho'Eina
ted rebel brigadier for Governor, and
the party papers have little TO say now
on that subject.
The New York Sun has this at the
head of it's editorial column: "llancock
and Palmer, Rarus and Edwin Forrest.
Is there any republican double team
that can beat thisi
A girl went back on her bow-legged
beau because she said "she didn't like
10 waltz in brackets.
In one Of the road districts in Brown
township, Ripple county, Indiana, the
other day, while the workmen were en-
gagged in repairing the roads they TN
earthed myriads OF the seventeen-year
i, locust. They were only few inches
| below the surface, and in the larva state.
There are three Republican aspirants
! to the seat about 10 he vacated by Sena-
tor Thurman-Mr. Garfield, member OF
the present House; exAtty-Gen. TAFT
| and Ex-Governor Dennison. Taft rep
resents the the Grant interest and poll
cy: Dennison is said to he Shermans IA
vorte, and Garfield, whose chances are
the best in the lot, does not represent
anyone but himself.
The claims of Mr.. Blaine for the
Presidential nomination are strong. lie
shakes hands with the cordially OF
lightning-rod peddler and recalls names
with the memory of a colporteur.
When Mr.. Zachary Chandler declared
that Tilden was "rhe biggest fraud Of
! the age" his modesty must have kept him
from thinking of his own dimensions.
There was a Northern outrage on
Hudson Square in the city of New York
the other DAY. A woman horse-whip-
ped an Editor. There is serious defect
IN the laws of the country that will per-
mi; such crimes to 60 unpublished.
Hon. Charles Foster, the Governor
elect OF Ohio, says he had no doubt of
the success OF the republicans in Ohio
in 1880. He thought the Ohio victory
had materially strengthened Secretary
Sherman's chances for the presidency.
There is often something appallingly
beautiful about statistics. The state
ment is based on the official records that
during the last fifty years each hostile
Indian killed by our soldiers, has cost
the government only little less than
one hundred and fifteen thousand dol
lars. The price would seem high for an
ordinary corpse hut an Indian might be
worth il.
The express robber, James Gilmore,
under sentence Of seven years imprlson-
mcnt in the Ohio penitentiary, one only
OF which lac has served, refuses to d.
vulge the whereabouts of the $4,000
which he is charged with stealing. He
has told the express people that he in
tends TO keep the money for the support
of his family and TO recompense him,
when he shall get ont, for what he has
had 10 suffer for his crime.
4 large pottery firm in Staffordshire,
England, which does large trade with
this country, has decided to remove ius
seat of manufactures across the water
with a view OF locating in Philadelphia
Arrangements are now being made to
close up the home works, and the work
men are preparing to settle in new
land Several other owners OF potteries
are considering the dcsirability of per,
manen,ly settling in the United States
In his opening address at the Social
Science Congress, the Bishop of Man
chester introduced the subject Of crema-
ton, and said, that, though himself
greatly preierring burial, which among
other advantages, restores to the earth
her fertility, he spoke of cremation as a
system which might ultimately have to
he adopted, and repudiated the notion
that amy Christian doctrine could be
affected by the method in which this
mortal body is disposed of.
In little less than two years Phil
adelph;a firm has shipped over 500
street car wheels on axles 10 Brazil and
200 to the River Platte country, and
they have at present foreign orders
from the West Indies, South America
and Europe for some 2,3G0 OF their chill
cd railroad wheels Some are for roads
in Cuba and others trains in Great
Britain.
Gen. Butler, in a speech to Massa-
cbusctts audience on Wednesday night
last, said: The cry about solid
South is delusion and a snare. The
great West will dominate this govern
ment, despite the Sonth, North,or East,
because almost all the power and popu-
la,ion have drifted there.
CouXrY NEws.-Mr. John II. Baum
gardner, of Adams county, Pa, has pur-
! chased, through the Real Estate Agen-
cy Of Mr.. V. NJ. Firor, of this place, the
farm occupied by John Hess, Esq, and
belonging to the estate OF the late Hon.
VIM. Lucas, near lalltown, containing
about l25 acres, at about $50 per acre.
The two horse team of Mr.. Geo. w.
/ Packet ran away on Tuesday last from
the neighborhood of the Hawks Coach
Factory, taking spring wagon at full