Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1885-08-14

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Friday, August Ii. 1888.
Now it is said that Parson Newman
intends to write book. Would that
Newman had never been borh. ~
Mr.. A. S. ABEL, proprietor OF the
Baltimore Sun, celebrated his seventy
ninth birthday on Monday last.
NEW York is perfectly willing to DO
ANYTHING in her power to help build a
monument to General Grant-except
contribute money.
The President is i'm the mountains OF
New York enjoying vacation. NO one
can deny that be has earned rest, for
he has labored faithfully during the last
five months.
A BILL has been introduced into the
Georgia legislature taxing bachelors
$3.50 year. Some one has ungallantly
suggested that maiden ladies be subject
to the same tax.
The Secretary of It'd Navy has notified
John Roach that the contracts for the
construction of the ships being built by
him are forfeited on account Of delay.
The ships will he finished by the gov
ernment.
Mr.. STEVENSON, the First Assistant
Postmaster, is the man the Democrats
have been looking for. lie turns out Re-
publicans ard puts Democrats in office
at the rate of 500 a week, anG says lie is
just getting his hand in.
THE state of affairs between Russia
and England does not seem to be so very
peaceful. Both nations continue war
like preparations, and many persons be-
lieve that it is only question of time
when the conflict shall begin.
ROBERT GARRETT has cabled from
London that the Baltimore & Ohio Tel
egraph will certainly not be merged
with the Western Union, and that re-
ports to that effect are the work of Jay
Gould and other stock jobbers.
A PrrTsBURG preacher thinks he Is
heir TO property la New York City val
ued at $500, 200, 900, and will enter suit
to recover it. Well bet he will come
away from New York with great deal
less money than he goes there with.
The Wheeling Register is authority
for the statement that Hon. K. Boyd
Faulkner, OF Martinsburg, has been APP
pointed Consul General to Egypt. The
salary is $1,000 and fees. The appoint
ment has not yet been officially an
nounced.
JUDGE JAMES GARLAND, probably the
oldest judge in the world, and, it is be-
lieved, the oldest member of the Masonic
fraternity in the United States, died at
his home, i'm Lynchburg, Va, last Sat-
urday night, in the 95th year of his age.
lie had been Mason nearly "a years.
A SHORT time ago the President noti-
fed the cattle men who were trespass-
ing on the lands of the Indians that
they would have to "git." They tried
very hard to get him to reconsider and
allow them to continue to violate the
law, but he said "no," and sticks to it.
The Secretary Of War, Mr.. Endicott,
is engaged in most commenjable work.
He is sending the army officers who
have been loaling around Washington
for many years, occupying soft places,
to the frontier. This will give the Off
GERS who have been roughing it OH the
plains an opportunity to enjoy them
selves for season.
A REMARKABLE case of troubled con-
science comes from Richmond, Va.
Thomas w. Carpenter, Secretary of the
Virginia Base Ball Association, and
book-keeper for j. l.. Schoolcraft, bro
ker, some time ago stole s3s, 900 and de-
camped. The other day he returned and
gave himself up to the officers, and re-
stored $25, 900 of the stolen money. He
said he suffered the greatest agony of
mind while he was away.
AMONG the recent appointments by
Collector McGraw is that of Mr. James