Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1881-03-26
Editorial BSreViticS.

The Rev. Dir. IIghbcc, formerly Of MGR
ccrsburg College, has been appointed by
Gov. IEoyt, OF Pennsylvania, oupcrintcn-
dent of the Common Schools Of the Com
monwral,h. The position has been held
for many years by DR.. Wickcrsham.
Gen. Emory Upton, of the |. 5. Army,
committed suicide at San Francisco, by
shooting himself in the head. lie was Il
distinguished officer and accomplished
man, who has published a work on Infant
~ Tactics which was accepted rs authority.
Depression of mind. in consequence of ina
bility to adapt his tactics tocertain require
ments, is supposed to have led to the act.
EX-Sccrctary Evarts, ex-senator Thur
man and ex-senator Howe have been nom
mated and confirmed ~ |. =. Commission
crS 10 the international Monetary Con-
grcsS soon to assemble in Paris. The de-
Sign is To establish Il basis by which the
value of gold and silver may be asSimilat-
ed, and Il bi-mrtalic currency thus rcCog-
niZrd among commercial nations.
Gen. Edgcrton, who is Senator VIM
dom'S successor in the l.. ). Senate from
Minnesota Is said to have voted some fifty
seven times for Jefferson Davis, ~ the
Democratic nominee for President, and to
have also helped to nominate Breckenridge.
HAYES has sent $50 to the engineer who
had charge Of the train which met with an
accident when he was on his way home.
Since Blaine has become Secretary Of
State there is talk of increasing the Navy.
Already there is war in the air-a hog
war.
General Butler told New York reporter
fiult
tmOnv ut the Whitaker court martial, he
''camc TO the conclusion that Whitaker
bit off his own ears"
''No important changes for sixty days,
and no removals until commissions expire,
except for cauSc, ;" il the Presidential an
nounccmcnt that has brought several West
Virginia aspirants home again to hogsand
hominy.
The Mexican National Railroad Compa-
ny-thc Palmer aud Sullivan or Jay Gould
party-has made contracts in Philadelphia
for 200 locomotives and 5000 freight cars,
said TO be the largest single contract ever
made for rolling stock in this country. In
addition, they contracted for steel rails 10
Law 900 miles of track.
Miss Hattie Dcul, of Iowa City, has not
taken a morsel Of food for % days, nor has
she spoken word for three years. She
abstaincd from food on the ground that it
was her religious duty to do so, and from
talking for the same reason. The pursua-
sion of friends is useless and she l. slowly
wasting away. Miss Deul is a maiden la
DIV of 81 years of age and has always been
highly respected.
David Plattner, one Of the three men re-
Gently taken from the West Virginia Peni-
Tertiary to Detroit, Michigan, on charge Of
having murdered an old man named Hill
ger, at Norris, Il small town near Dehoit,
three years ago, made full confession Of
the terrible crime duplicating his two COM
panionS and also two other men now in the
State prison for the same offense.
Gen. Benjamin Lincoln was the first
secretary OF war. lie was appointed in
1871. The last secretary Of war is Robert
Lincoln, appointed in lSSl-just one hun
drcd wears difference between the dates Of
appointment. A picture of the first secre-
tarv hangs upon the walls Of the depart
lnent. and picture of the present will be
placed alongside il. There il no relation
ship between the two.
James Gordon Bennett, the proprietor of
the New York Herald, is after another SEN
satiOn. He is reported TO have engaged
Strauss, the waiter, and an orchestra OF
sixty performers, at a cost Of about $50, 900
4 month, for his personal qualification.
Bennett proposes to take the orchestra
around Europe, and give concerts for the
enjoyment of his friends, and it is rumored
that he will bring them to America.
According to the New York Herald, ten
thousand brakemen are killed In this coun-
try every year.