Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1885-02-06
Executive Committee Meeti.g.


The members of the Democratic Ex-
eeutiye Committee of jefferson county
are requested TO meet at the Courthouse
in Charlestown, on Tuesday, Feb
ruary 10Th, 1855, at L O'Clock a. m.
A full attendance requested.
JOHN Il. CoLsToN,
Chairman.
THE public debt during the month
of January was reduced SO, APO, O46.
A MAN in Pennsylvania has named
his favorite hen Macduff, because he
wants her to lay on.
Mr.. CLEVELAND has engaged rooms
at the Arlington Hotel, in Washing
ton, for his use until he takes posses
sion of the White House.
CONGRESS has less than month yet
in which to transact the necessary
business of the session, and it does not
look as if it would get through with it.
Col. Robt. White, of West Virginia,
will represent this State on the staff OF
General Sheridan on the occasion Of
the dedication of the Washington mon
ument.
OF the twenty-six members compos-
ing the Senate of this State, eleven
are lawyers, twelve are farmers or
business men, two are editors and one
a physician.
A VERDICT of guilty has been found
against General Swain, who was re-
Gently tried by court-martial in Wash
ington for crooked practices in duph-
eating pay accounts.
A VERY rich old lady went to hear
Mr.. Moody in Washington. She was
so pleased with him that when she
went home she changed her will and
provided that SO, 900 should be given
to him upon her death,
The Legislature is not yet doing
anything in the way of making new
laws. A large number of bills have
been introduced and referred, and
some have passed one House. Only a
couple have become laws.
AN old fellow in New Jersey named
Kelp had 81 900 in cash, and was told
that he must die. He bought himself
cemetery lot and coffin, and arranged
for the funeral, and then burned
$4,000 by the flame of a candle.
THE large-mouthed agitator, O'Don-
ovan Rosa, was shot and slightly
wounded by woman in New York
on Monday. The woman said her
name was Mrs. Dudley, and she shot
him because he was an enemy to Eng
land.
WE do not think that many editors
in West Virginia grow opulent off of
their papers, so We hope that the bill
reducing the price of legal advertising
will not pass the State Legislature.
The prices now paid are anything but
high.
THE Committee of the West Vir-
ginia Press Association reports that it
could not arrange for free excursion
to the New Orleans Exposition. We
presume therefore, that there will be
no excursion at all-unless the walk
ing should improve.
THE Phelps Induction Telegraph
Company filed its certificate of incor-
poration in New York on Monday. 1t
has capital stock of $500, 900, and
its objects are to manufacture instru-
ments and apparatus to be used in
telegraphing to and between railroad
cars in motion and between the cars
and stations
LAST Saturday afternoon papers
were served on the officials of the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad Company,
at the instance of William o. Ross, of
Orange, N. j., shareholder in that
corporation, for the purpose of discov-
ering the relations that exist between
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com.
pany and the Baltimore and Ohio Tel
epranh Comneny the amount of poonay