Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1885-06-26

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The King of Siam has 365 children.
We don't see how he manages to sup
port them i'm these hard times.
The Maryland postmaster who re-
Gently resigned with such flourish
will hardly pose as a martyr. His
salary was $13 a year.
A NEW cabinet has been formed in
England, with the Marquis of Salisbury
az Prime Minister. Lord Randolph
Churchill is Secretary of State for Ind ia.
AN observing politician says the diff
ference between those going in and
those going out Of office is that the for
mer are sworn in and the latter 70 out
swearing.
IT'S no wonder the Italians are such
miserable. garlic-eating heather. Out Of
the twenty-nine million inhabitants of
Italy only one million subscribe for
newspapers.
Gov. WILSON has appointed Clarence
l.. Smith, of Fairmont, Regent of the
West Virginia University, to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation Of
James Morrow, Jr.
A CHURCH in New York has a brass
band to assist in the services, but some
Of the congregation think that it will
not be complete until the minister
breaches from :rapeze.
PHILADELPHIA has 5000 places were
liquor is sold and 900 places where
bread is sold. 1t takes powerful sight
of liquor to wash down a small amount
of bread in Philadelphia.
THE cholera continues to spread in
Spain, and panic is seizing the people.
Thirty thousand persons have fled from
the town of Murcia in order to escape
the ravages of the disease.
The Quincy News says "the high Ii
cense law of Illinois has reduced the
number of saloons from $4,000 to 5000
and increased the revenue from licenses
from 500, 900 to 81, SOC, GOO"
Mr.. RICHARD Il. MERRICK, a prom;
nent lawyer of Washington, died on
Tuesday last. He was native of Mary
land. He was regarded as one of the
ablest lawyers i'm the country.
WILKES PosT, q. A. R., of Trenton,
n. j., has presented r. E. Lee Confed-
crate Camp, Richmond, with 5000
pieces of crockery for the use of the
veterans of tho Confederate Soldiers
Home.
In Baltimore last week Frank Pyers
was given fifteen lashes for cruelty
beating his wife. The punishment was
very severe, and it is thought to be
pretty certain that Mr.. Pyers will not
beat his wife any more.
A COUPLE of weeks ago, the Charles
town Democrat stated that when Hon.
James NJ. Mason took possession Of the
paper the fact would be duly announced.
Judging from the last two issues of that
journal, the promise has not been kept.
ACCORDING to the Washington Poet,
Commissioner JOS S. Miller is bent on
making clean sweep in his department.
Out of the eighty-iour internal revenue
collectors in the country he has appoint
cd sixty new ones, and the remaining
ones will be disposed Of as soon as pos
sible.
A START has been made on the West
Virginia postofices. Tho following
changes have been recently made ::
Bethany, Brooke county, Mary E..
Brown, vice NJ. n. Lockhart, removed !;
Berkeley Springs, Morgan county,
Thomas H. Hodgson, vice j. r. Smith,
removed.
AT the last session Of the State Legis-
lature a committee was appointed to Sc
lect site for another Insane Asylum.
II the committee wish to have the asy-
lum in place where the patients may
continually have the example Of good,
sensible people before them, then select
Shepherdstown and build on the beau
tiful banks of the Potomac.
In every department of tho govern
ment the new administration is causing
reforms to be made that no one can fall
to see. For Instance, Secretary Man.
ming has just cut off lot Of useless rev.