Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1880-07-31
Editorial Isreyities.

men: SIX VI inc largest maHuiacto-
ries of ladies' dry goods in. the
country have combined to start a fall
fashion that will demand twenty-eight
wards of cloth for address"
There are some two hundred visitors
at the White Sulphur Springs. Every
train arriving brings people from differ
ent parts of the country. BY the hrst
of August it is expected there will be
1000 or 1900 guests.
Hon. Samuel J. Tilden lately sent
Senator Barnun,, Chairman of the
National Democratic Executive Com
mittee, check for 100000. Accord
ing to our republican contemporaries
Mr.. Tilden was not going TO take any
stock in the campaign.
Two little Illinois girls raised chick
ems and sold eggs; and after making
a considerable sum of money they pur-
chased a monument for their grand
fathers grave.
Chicago has q policeman who can
speak the English, German, French,
Polish and Welsh languages. lie can
club a man in five different languages
in less time than it takes an ordinary
policeman 10 make an arrest IN hog
Latin.
The newspapers of Georgia claim
that Hancock's majority in that State
will be 100000.
Monday last Us the wife of Rev. G.
o. Cook, a Miss Armstrong and Sis
ter of Mr.. Cook were driving IT. a
buggy from Fliutstone to Cumberland
the horse became frightened while
crossing Martins mountain and ran off.
In her alarm Mrs. Cook jumped from
the vehicle, and in so doing fractured
an arm.
Jay Gould has not exactly pro
nounced for Hancock and English, but
gives il as his opinion that they will be
elected; and J. G. generally knows
what he is talking about.
Gen. Robert Toombs is one of the
best farmers in Georgia. He made
this yesr $50 bushels of white rust proof
wheat on IL acres of land. He gave
one hundred bushels worth $40 bush
el, TO the State for distribution among
the farmers Of Georgia TO SOW for the
next crop.
Judge II. S. Brown, prominent
Geeenbacker in the last Legislature of
West Va, says he will support Han
cock.
Col. VIM. #. Pelton, Nephew and
secretary of Samuel Tiden, did last
week and was buried in front Of his
Uncle's residence in New York.
CYRUS Ii. Mccormick & Co. grain
dealers in Chicago, lost $4,000 bushels
OF wheat and 10000 bush els OF corn 10y
fire last week.
Mrs. Greeuzwrit, of Williamsport,
Pa, lost her voice several years ago,
and the physicians could not make her
utter a word. She lately resolved to try
the efficacy of prayer, and now can talk
MS well rs ever. She says that al hour of
earnest prayer every day for a month
was required.
Mollie de Jarnette, who was shot by
her brother in house of i'll rcpute in
Danyille, Va, OH the night o. the 9Th
inst, died on the 18th. Her brother
remains in jail awaiting trial.
The Republicans have colonized over
six thousand negro voters in Indiana,
with the hope Of overcoming the Dem
ocratic majority.
The Mexican veterans are forming
Hancock clubs all over the country
Hancock fought with them, ard Gar
field opposed their pension bill.
The editor of newspaper that has
adopted phonetic spelling in measure
received postal from an old subscriber
in the country, which read as follows
II hev tux your paper for leven yeres,
but if you kant spell any better than 70
have been dom for the las to munths
you may jes stoppit."
We take pleasure in calling the at
tention of our readers 10 the advertise.
ment of Washington aud Lee tniversl-
~, chartered in 1892, endowed by
Washington and long presided over by
Robert +. Lee. This institution has
claims upon the patronage of the Sonlh-
ern people equalled by no other i'll the
country. We arc confident that the
fall session of 1880 will witness an i'll
crease in the number OF pupils most
gratifying to the friends Of the Uni
versity.
Gen. L. w. Barber, of Jackson, Mi
chipan, who was third assistant post
master general under the Grant admin
istration, has declared for Gen. Han
cock. lie was a staunch friend Of the
late Senator Chandler.
Gen. +. G. Marshall, another promi-
nent Pennsylvania Republican, is out
for Gen. Hancock. He says: Il have
known him for lifetime, having been
with him as young man in the Unit
ed States infantry, and have known him
from his boyhood to the present time l
have never known man more pure
than General Winfield Scott Hancock"
A Michigan farmer says tina, fifteen
years ago the livery stablemen Of De
troit were glad to give away their ma
nure, and frequently had to hire it re-
moved. II now brings from fifty cents
to Sl.50 per wagon load in the locality.
A western editor grimly remarked:
"Let me supply the bustles of the
women and my paper will have the
largest circulation i'll the world"
Senator Henry G. Davis has sold his
coal land comprising six hundred acres,