Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1881-04-09
Editorial Ereyifies.


elected to fill the vacancy.
Advices received at Dallas, Texas,
state that the Indians are raiding in
Tomgreen county, and that consider
able damage has been done by them.
1t is believed at tie Land Office in
Washington that ithe Western swind-
lers have obtained titles TO more than
100000 acres of public lands, most OF
which has been sold to innocent settlers.
There are few pieces of machinery
more wonderful, or human in their ope-
rations. than the machine that makes
the pin. 4 coil of wire is put in at one
! end, and comes out at the other paper
Of polished pins.
! Judge Trear, in the L. S. Court at
st. Louis, on the DIST, decided that the
Singer sewing machine patents having
expired, any one may manufacture the
machines.
Malone is a little man, but he is a
big elephant on the hands of the Re-
publican party at the present time, and
in the next canvass the Republicans
will wish they had not made him the
dig end of their firm.
The New York flower trade is very
big. Within 10 mile radius there are
nearly 500 florists. The capital invest
ed is about eight millions and the prof
It's 100 per cent, on plants and some.
thing more on cut blooms.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, having been in
vited to deliver lecture in Macon, Ga,
under the auspices Of the Historical So
ciety of that city, has written a letter
expressing the hope that he will be able
10 make arrangements to accept the in
vilation rs he returns from New Or
leans, where he will deliver a memoir
al address in May next.
Although a great number Of persons
have been mentioned as the probable
successor of Fred. Douglas as Marshal
of the District, it is not yet settled that
he will be relieved The assertion that
Captain Henry, of Ohio, would succeed
Douglas is premature. His appoint
ment seems to depend on the Presi-
dents finding some position for which
Douglas would be willing to exchange
his present one.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company have made public an official
announcement of its purchase of the
Delaware Western Railroad, and its in
tention of building a competing line to
New York as rapidly as men and money
can build it.
The most tremendous tornado known
for many years passed over DanviIle,
Va, "Wednesday night. 1t bore down
distractions in its path with reslstless
fury. \ number of houses were blown
down, aud many trees were uprooted
and fences levelled. The full extent of
the damage in the surrounding country
| has not yet been ascertaned.
The Italian Opera House, at Nice,
Italy, was burned, March 23d. The
fire broke out at the beginning OF the
performance. The bodies Of fourteen
persons who had been sutfocated were
taken out and placed in church oppo-
site the theatre. 1t is feared that one
hundred men and women have persisted
in the flames.
DR.. d. Rawls, Of Connersville, 1ud.,
pronounccs DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup as
an infallible remedy in the community,
lie says 1t finds ready sale at all times.
Ii is the peoples remedy. Price % cents,
There was heavy frost and ice
throughout Louisiana Friday night.
Early vegetables in North Louisiana,
Mississippi and Alabama are badly
daddy damaged, and it is feared that
the peach crop has beey entirely cut
off
Only four States now remain as DC
tobcr States-Georgia, Iowa, Ohio and
West Virginia. Michigan and Rhode
Island vote in April, Oregon in June,
Alabama IN August, Arkansas, Maine
and Vermont in September. The 9th
ers, twenty -sevcn in number, and al
the Territories vote in November.
Saved a Doctors Bill.-Geo. NJ
Walter, Messenger Of the Adams Express
Co. BALTIC. Md, says: "IIaying used DR.
! Bulls Cough Syrup for the past ten years
in my family, IwiSh 10 say that ! con
slider it the best Cough Syrup I ever
used. 1t has cured my children o.
Group several times and saved me many
a doctors bill.
A dog in Cincinnati theatre smel'
smoke, traced it to a fire III dressing
room, barked an alarm, and thus saved
large audience from imminent danger
In consequence of his timely discovery
and human intelligence, his name has
been changed from "Bum" to that Of
"Hero," and his diet from hard crackers
to that of sponge-cake. tits to be hoped
that dogs hercabouts may be made &C
quainted with these facts, that their
usefulness may be, likewise, improved.
A convention oftbe Maryland Colored
Republicans held in Baltimore last week
delegated a committee 10 wait upon
! President Garfield asking Tor the recog-
milton ofthe colored ra;e 10 the distribu-
ton of patronage in Maryland, declining
however, at the same time to petition
for the removal of present incumbents
in federal offices.
The pressure for foreign appoint
menls is without precedent. Nearly
every ex-member of Congress thinks he
should have a comfortable consulate
where there is nothing to do but draw
pay. The force OF habit is so great
that they think they must ever enjoy