Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1884-01-19

United States 70 be Si3, 6i2 ,000, 900, but it
is mighty hard TO get any editor to believe
il.
WHILE Egypt, England and Turkey are
debating about him, FL Mahdi is steadily
marching on with his army and conquer
ing as he goes.
ANOTHER paper has been established ut
Piedmont, this State. 1t is called the
Adreytiser, and 5. A. Posten is the editor
and proprietor.
TIE Republicans are trying very hard
to find split in the Democratic party
large enough TO insert the point of a
wedge. Vain effort.
Ir is said that Malone never wears an
oyercoat, even in the coolest weather, and
The newspapers are wondering why 1t Is.
Maybe he hasn't any.
The Parkersburg Journal says: "Bishop
Pcterkin recently confirmed into the
Episcopal church 33 convicts ut the West
Virginia State Penitentiary." All the
others are under conviction, we suppose.
SEVERAL bills have been introduced into
Congress 10 increase the pay Of pension
ers. 1t is desired, we suppose, to give
them each a brick house on corner lot,
with sufficient cash to run the establish
ment.
"
elected President of the United States
Senate on Monday last. The honor was
offered To Senator Anthony, who was
compelled to decline it on account of fail
ing health.
IT is said that Il French firm of Bor-
deaux is engaged in the manufacture Of ar
tiiicial oysters, W hich are put in old shells
and sent TO market. Another cnterpriSing
Fremchman has invented an egg that is so
much like the real thing that chicken
NAV be Matched from it.
Gov. JACKSON last week appointed Col.
Philip Pendleton, of Morgan county,
Commissioner, and Col. Alex. Campbell,
of Brooke county, alternate, TO represent
this State az the Worlds Industrial and
American Cotton Centennial Exposition,
which opens ut New Orleans next De
cembcr.
The social atmosphere of Washington is
i'm great state of ferment just now. A
vcxed question is whether the Speakers
wife is higher i'm rank than the wife of
cabinet officer. 1t is also undecided which
of the two takes precedence, the great
aunt OF Il nlght-watchman or the mother
iu-law of Il day-watchman.
4 MEMORANDUM of fees paid counsel for
the Government in the late star-routc
eases has just been made public. The
amount foots up to sos, 900. This was
rather large sum to pay to men who ac-
complished nothing, and is more than
they would have been paid for their SER
vices by private parties in life time.
THE first Of four excursions to the
Southern States, inaugurated by the rail-
road lines and State and local authorities
of North Carolina, Virginia, West Nir-
ninia and Tennessee, will leave Boston
Saturday for Shelby, =. G. These eXcur-
sioas are arranged to give prospective
settlers and capitalists an idea of the OPP
portunities offered in the South.
JAMES J. LANE, formerly of Newberry,
6. c., now of Philadelphia, has given to
President Dreher, of Roanoke College,
81 .Oe0 TO establish prize scholarship in
English language and literature in that
institution. Mr.. Lane makes this gift us
an expression of his interest in Roanoke
College and his regard for President
Dreher, who was his teacher in South
Carolina in 1868.
GA DYING sailor on Russian ship in
the 2iraus wished TO see once more his
mother, a poor old peasant, living in Es-
thOnia. Queen Olga, of Greece, heard of
his longing and sent an aid-de-camp to
fetch the sailors mother, and, when all
was over, had him escort her back to her
Russian home" SO reads dispatch from
Athens. This goes to show that kings
and queens still have hearts.
PROHIBITION means something in POtta-
watome county, Kansas. Saloon-kecper
Hulen, having been convicted on twenty
counts, was fined one hundred dollars on
each count, and on the twcnty-tirst count
the court committed him to Jail, to stay
until all the money Is paid. Saloon-keeper
Shaw was sentenced to pay one hundred
dollars ard costs on each of thirteen
counts and spend thirty days in Jail, and
stays there until he pays up. Twenty
other dealers were treated TO big doses of
the SAME medicine.
CHARLES DELMONICo, of New York,
who is known all over this country rs the
famous rcstaurateur, for the past year has
been afflicted mentally, and had to be
placed under the care of an attendant.
On the 9th of January he suddenly disap-
peared, and nothing was heard of him
until last Monday his dead body was
found by some boys in Orange Mountain,
New jersey. lie had wandered from his
home to that place, where he persisted
from exnosnre. Mr.. DelmOnico leaves an