Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-02-12

snEPHERpsToWN,W WEST VIRGINIA..
Friday, February ~. 1850.
WHEN The Bell telephone ia shown to
be a fraud. which is likely, the people
will get their dues.
IL even small per eentage of the
measures before Congress are made laws
there will be no trouble about any sur
plus In the Treasury.
So MANY great men are dying in these
days that country editors are begin
ming 10 feel very uncomfortable for fear
their turn is coming.
Mr.. GEORGE ii. FLAGG is the lucky
man i'm Charlestown. He has been APP
pointed postmaster there in place OF b.
f. Leisenring, whose term has expired.
THERE is cheerful news for the tax
payers from Washington. The House
is considering new pension bill which
comtemplates the expenditure Of $222,-
OOO, 200.
CoNGREssMEN ought to get solid with
their constituents this year. Each one
of them gets for distribution $500 pack
ages of vegetable seeds and 800 pack
ages of flower seeds.
Nh. WILSON introduced q bill into
Congress on Monday, to require the re-
coinage of the subsidiary silver coin in
to like coins of propOrtionate weight TO
the standard silver dollar.
Ir is said that Roscoe Conkling is
quietly working the wires to get back
into the United States Senate. Though,
like most Of us, COnkling has his faults,
he is, unlike most of us, giant in states
manship and politics.
IT is said that Senator Jones, of Flor
ida, has not been in his seat In the Sem
ate once this session. The noble Sena-
tor is counting a Detroit widow worth
$4,000, 900, and it takes all his time to
keep her from kicking over the traces.
The white settlers in Washington
Territory seem 20 be in earnest in their
resolve that the Chinese must 90. They
have been conducting the Chinese to
the steamboats, and paying their fares
to get them away, and those who refuse
to go will probably have very rough
time.
AN investigation has been made by
Major Jed. Hotchkiss and Prof. Seamon
of the alleged discovery Of tin ore in
Mason and Cabell counties, this State.
Not particle of tin was found in the
ore analyzed, and the whole scheme is
probably the work of Cincinnati specu-
lators.
Tis Just possible that Edmunds and
Sherman and Logan aud other Presiden-
tial aspirants in the Senate are overdo-
ing the thing in their efforts to pose as
leaders in their party. Each individual
named considers himself the Moses who
is called to save his people, and of
course too many Moseses won't do.
For some time past there has been
quite spicy newspaper discussion
going on between Gen. Thomas J.. Ros-
ser and Col. Il. L. Munford, both ex-
Confederate officers, Of Virginia, in re-
gard to the part each took in the war.
The affair ia waxing warmer and warm
er, and duel is not unlikely to be the
next move.
CONGRESS seems to be possessed OF an
ambition to increase the pension of ev-
erything that served in the Union army,
from the commanding general down to
the government mule, whether the OBJ
ject is deserving or not. Congress
would show more good sense by pen
sioning worthy persons who served on
the Confederate side.
In Chicago the Society OF Psychical
Research is hunting for spooks. 1t is
said that there are l60 haunted houses
in Chicago, and this Society intends to
investigate them. We do hope they
will succeed i'm capturing real, live
ghost, and put it OH exhibition in u dime
museum, where every one may have an
opportunity to see it.
The city Of London was the scene of
great riot on Monday. The Starving
mechanics Of the city held mass
meeting, in which they were Joined by
the socialists, and the result was riot
participated I'm by $1,000 persons. The
police were whipped, stores. private
houses and hotels were pillaged, and
many persons beaten and stored. At
ter doing an immense amount Of damage