Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1880-08-07
Ediforini RreNifies.

A new and curious industry has
sprung up 10 Piitsburs. A glass tae-
tory there has begun the manufacture
Of glass balls Tor sportsmen, and is
making 10000 balls day.
A man who offered tor FIVE dollars to
put any one on the track OF u payingMs
ves,ment, seated an applicant between
the rails OF the Boston and Albany rail-
road.
One OF the FIRST things which the
class in journalism at Cornell university
want TO Learn is 90 make the customary
remarks after carsory glance over the
paper as 1t comes from the press
This is the season when the green
sward in the front yard is kept smooth
aud uuobstructei, and yet man viii
stumble on the lawn mower during the
, next lew months more than amy other
part OF the year
That which takes the conceit out Of
rising young statesman as quick rs any
thing is to be caught in the &C, Of 20
ING Tor cents worth of yeast in his
native village.
The Anichkofl palace, the residehcc
of the czlrevi,cI, is now connected with
the St. Petersburg Alexandrinsky the
alter by the telephone, and the cEare-
witch and his vile listen 10 the music
without going to the ,heaier.
a ierocious bulldog broke his chain
OF ,.l A
very old woman She made NIL the de
tense she conld, but he threw her down,
hil her with savage fury, and finally
killed her Her son, maddened by tho
sight, chopped The brute 10 pieces.
The Baltimore Sun believes the nom
ination of Gen. Hancock, with so clear
record, will drive out the false sec
tional issue aud force the campaign To
be fought on higher grounds, rs they
hardly dare fauut tho bloody shirt ia
the face of SO great Union general.
Standard silver dollars are accumula-
ting so rapidly in the Treasury. at
Washington that the officials are at
loss to know where 10 put them. We
could manage 10 take care OF lew of
EN- If Nh. Sherman chooses 10 send
them this way.
The Staunton TInJicdfor says that
Capt. G. c. Newport, the we'll known
conductor on tho Valley L. L., who in
four years has not lost fifteen days from
duty, commenced his vacation ON Tues
day last and proposes to make II long
enough 10 include going To Chicago
with his commandery in August.
Boating matters along the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal are in very unsettled
condition owing TO refusal Of many Of
the boatmen 10 load at one dollar per
ton, the price offered by shippers.
The Democracy are closing mp the
ranks all over the country. The breach
es are being healed as the campaign
warns up. lin New York the several
factions have waved their differences
and united against the common enemy:
aud so have they done in Philadelphia
In Virginia compromise is on foot
that will unite the party aud enable
them to go into the fight without ii.
vision.
There has been much ado by the Rr.
publican press about the hanging of
Mrs. Surratt by Gen Hancock. IL ap-
pears that every member OF the court
martial that was held on her case was n
Republican. Every one said she must
die, the order of that court was final
and had Gen. Hancock refused TO obey
tho order of that court he would have
been damned as rebel, anil charged
with resisting the Government.
Daniel Kern and bis wife. occupying
a small house near Melville, Lchigb
county, Pa, were tied 10y three masked
men on Sunday morning aud the prem
ises plurdered The burglars got
about $500 in money and $1,000 in
bonds, payment Of which has becu
stopped.
They have women tramps out in
Iowa and soon tbey1l bc monopofizipg
that business and poor men will have
TO 20 to work Tor a living.
liringbam Young left seventeen wid
oss, yet bis grave is totally neglected.
The same old story-"Too many cooks
spoil the broth"
The Democratic State Central Com
mittce OF Pennsylvania promises 10 cat
ry that State for Hancock and English.
John w. Forney also says Pennsylva.
MIA will 90 that way.