Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1885-09-25

J.. w. & n. L. SNYDER, Publishers,
sHEpHERpsroWM, WEST VIRGINIA..
Friday, September 3S, 1855.
MORE one-dolar and two-dollar bills
are very m UGH wantcd.-N. Y. Sun.
We quite agree with our esteemed
contemporary.
SOME one has presented the Grafton
Standard with an onion l71a inches In
diameter. This is a mighty good thing
to keep away bores.
SULLIVAN, the pugilist, is travelling
over the country with show, his part
being to pose as a statue. He doubtless
assumes some very striking positions.
JUMBO is dead, and Barnum gets
tremendous lot Of free advertising.
What boom the show viii! get when
Mr.. Barnum himself shuflles of this
mortal coil
ROBERT GARRETT, president of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company,
has returned home from Europe. Prob
ably we shall hear of some Interesting
railroad news soon.
A BOY in Pennsylvania swallowed
Tin whistle, and now his parents are
dreadfully worried for fear the whistle
might begin to perform while the boy
is i'm church or Sunday school.
A VERY shrewd young widow In
Brooklyn published the following sug-
yestiye sentence with the announce
ment of her husbands death: "He has
beoueathed to his young widow S25, 600"
The various railroad companies are
cutting down the expenses of their
roads by reducing to starvation point
officials continue to draw fat salaries
though.
FRANK JAMES. the once dreaded out
law, is no longer terror to any one. a
peaceful farmer in Missouri, he is now
an invalid, quietly working and wait
He il m
of consumption.
PoLITICs are running high" in Phil
adelphia just now. The Republicans
have nominated set of regular machine
politicians and il looks rs if the Demo-
Gratis will do the same thing-ahd be
beaten out Of their boots.
In VIEW of the fact that four lynch
ings have recently taken place within
few miles of Baltimore, it might be
well to dispense with the courts alto
gether The lynchers conduct business
quickly and ineXpensively.
A RECENT tumble in the price of sill
yer has caused the real value of the
standard silver dollar to fall to about
70 cents. One Of these dollars will buy
just as much as greenback, however,
so we don't see why so much fuss is
made about them.
THAT the whippng-post is good
thing for wife. beaters is proven by
recent report of a Baltimore grand jury,
which says that 'since whipping has
been instituted for that brutal Otfense
there has been hardly case before us,
whereas before such cases occurred al
most daily"
The knights of Labor have resolved
that the Chinese must leave Montana
Territory, aud the Chinese are scatter
ing as fast as they can. Congress ell
acted a law preventing any more Chi
nese from coming to this country, but
PiOpOSS
out those already here.
Mr. JOHN SHERMAN continues to howl
about "Southern outrages." The great.
est outrage ever perpetrated in the
South was the stealing of the electoral
vote of Louisiana for Hayes in 1876,
and John Sherman was one of the chief
criminals. He don't say much about
this outrage at present, however.
OUR neighbor, the Charlestown Free
Press, finds fault with us for saying in
the REGISTER that certain gentlemen
had delivered addresses on a certain oc-
cason, when the truth was the afore-
said gentlemen were not present. We