Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-02-26

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Friday, February -. 1885.
The Morrison tariff bill will probably
become a law when employers Cypress
employees no more and when strikers
shall cease to strike.
Gov. WILSON, of West Virginia, has
appointed DR.. George Baird Regent oil
the institution for the Deaf, Dumb and
Blind at Romney, vice DIR. Hardesty re-
signed.
A NAN in Switzerland has invented
bicycle that is to be run by steam. Now
if some one will invent way to keep
fellow from falling off the thing we will
buy one.
4 NUMBER of New York soldiers will
soon visit the battlefield of Bull Run.
They expect to have more agreeable
time this visit than they did some twen-
ty years ago.
The statement is made that there are
not less than 20, 900 unemployed work
inSmen in London. How to prevent
these men and their families from starv-
ing is the question.
If the Secretary of the Treasury ex-
periences any difficulty in getting the
silver dollars into circulation he can
send few OF them to us. Well guar
antee to circulate them.
:. THE New York Sun says: (which
shall DE saved, the Democratic party or
the Pan Electric Company" The Sun
seems to be more anxious TO destroy
both than to save either.
MORE charges have been made against
General Hazen, Chief OF the Signal Ser
vice. 1t takes long time to get Hazen's
scalp, aud we ale beginning to think lie
has "a friend ut court"
WHEN the Baltimore Il Ohio Railroad
gets permission from Congress to bridge
the Kill Won Kull, to which New Jer-
sey objects, we hope that New Jersey
will not do anything rash.
JOHN B. COUGH, the renowned tenn
perance lecturer, died in Philadelphia
last week from the effects Of stroke of
paralysis received while making All adj
dress. He was SO years of age.
OUR friend and fellow editor, Capt.
Colston, of the Martinsburg Stdtesmdn,
has "gotten there" indeed and in truth.
The Senate has confirmed his nomina-
ton as postmaster at Martinsburg.
VIRGINIA seems TO be in a cOnsidera-
bic quandary as to the State debt. She
got rid Of one.third of it very easily
by saddling it OH to West Virginia-and
why shouldn't she divide the other two
thirds among some Of the other States?
OUR neighboring county Of Berkeley
did not do itself any credit by lynching
the negro Burns. The law covered his
case, and he should have been punished
by law. From all accounts the jailers did
not seem to have either backbone or
caution to any great extent.
Col. JED HoTCHKIss, Of Staunton,
Va. but a native Of New York, who
served on Gen. Stonewall Jackson's
staff during the late war, delivered a
lecture before the Lowell Institute, Bos-
ton, Friday evening last, in which he
sketched in a lively and entertaining
manner Gen. Banks unfortunate cam
paign in the Shenandoah Valley in 1862.
The woman sutfragists have been
holding a convention in Washington,
and reading thrilling essays on "Wo-
mans Work." "Woman's Liberty"
and so on. Some of the gallants Of
Washington had notion to break up
the convention by proposing marriage
to the fair members. But when the
time came Susan B. Anthony and 9TH
ers looked so tough that the young men
backed out. They were afraid they
would be accepted.