Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1884-10-31

You may just as well cast your ballot into
the ocean as vote for either of them.
WE would like to see West Virginia
give Cleveland and Hendricks ten thou
sand majority next Tuesday. Ole Jeffer-
son may be relied on to do her share.
OBSERVE carefully every name on your
ticket next Tuesday. Be particularly
careful that you vote no ticket that has
not Wilson'S name on it for Congress.
LET Jefferson county beat her best rec
ord next Tuesday. Fourteen hundred
majority for the national ticket, and two
or three hundred more for Hon. William
J.. Wilson.
An administration run by such men rs
Blaine and Logan would be an everlasting
disgrace to the nation. Some one has
trnthfully said that it would he the end of
the Republican party.
NOT much is known in this neighbour
hood of Mr.. Reynolds, the Republican
candidate for Congress in this district,
but after next Tuesday he will be buried
in deeper Scclusion than ever.
Ben BUTLER has just been aching for
some one TO start scandal on him, and
now he is satisfied. 1t is charged that the
condition of his bad eye was brought
about by winkng at the girls.
JUST imagine John Logan presiding
over the deliberations of rs intelligent
and refined body of men Us the United
States Senate. From the language he
uses he is better calculated to run canal
boat.
BLAINE and Logan are moving heaven
and earth in their desperation. If fraud
and cheating and bribery will win they
will be elected. Let every Democrat. have
for his watch-word, Commit no wrong;
submit TO none
The Republicans say that if Cleveland
is elected the business of the country will
become unsettled. Well, if it as duh in
other places as 1t is around these parts,
the business of the country needs 4 stir
ring up of some kind.
\ BANQUET was rendered to Blaine in
New York Wednesday night. Such Wall
street sharps and monopolists rs Jay
Gould, Cyrus w. Field, Levi r. Morton
anil others were with him, and they had
good time. Blaine is great friend TO
the workingmen-in horn.
THE National Labor party has adopted
and presented to the Democratic National
Committee resolutions dcnouncing Ben
Butler rs n liar, fraud, an impoStor, a
decoy, IN enemy of labor, and greedy
monopOliSt, and all workingmen are adj
vised TO "shake" him and vote for the
Democratic party.
TEMPERANCE people can find comfort in
this news item: There is not single sa-
loon in Martinsville, Va, or the country
surrounding, and business men say that
the absence of drinking houses has added
thousands of dollars to their prosperity.
Four-fifths of the people oppose saloons,
while the quality Of farm and other kinds
of labor is vastly improved since the clos
ing of the dram shops.
The long and bitter fight which has eX-
listed between the State administration
and the Wheeling Register, edited by
Lewis Baker, has ended. Mr.. Baker has
sold his interest in the paper to Mr.. Jas.
3. fancy, who will hereafter conduct the
Register rs an "unimpeacbable Democratic
paper" The new management took
charge last Saturday. The transfer was
effected on a basis of so, 900 for the paper,
goodwill and book accounts.
THERE are contests of almost every kind
to show superiority of skill or strength,
but we never before heard of praying
match. One is to take place, however.
Brother Silas Martin and Brother Jerry
Means, two colored deacons, have entered
into a praying contest, which is to take
place at camp meeting in Orangeburg,
5. c. A purse of $500 has been raised,
which is to be bestowed upon the one
showing the most fervor, skill and endur-
ance in supplicating the throne of grace.
lr is positively asserted, notwithstand-
ing contradictions, that President Arthur
will be married next spring to Miss Tillie
FIelinghuysen, daughter Of the Secretary
of State. Miss 'Fillie is the eldest child of
Secretary Frelinghuvsen, aud is about 30
years old. She is a tall and slender
blonde, with clear-cut features and a
shapely low forehead, brown hair, gray
eyes, and Il somewhat paliid face, and
although not wha: is called handsome
woman, has stately and commanding
presence. She is of very polished man
ners, exceedingly vivacious, an excellent
conversationalist, and has rendered her.
self very popular in all circles at Wash
ington. President Arthur is 81 years old,
ami has been widower for the past five
years. His first wife was Miss Ellen
Uerndon. His family consists of two
children, Allan, aged 81, now student
AT Princeton and Nellie AGED g.