Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-09-03


FOR CONGRESS-, SECOND DISTRICT,
WILLIAM l.. WILSON,
or jefferson County.
THERE is no probability that there
will be any politicians at Morgan's
Grove next week. Oh, no!
AND now Mr.. James D. Butt, oil TINS
county, is spoken OF as candidate for
Congress against Mr.. Wilson. He may
lust AS we'll "Butt" his head against a
stone wall.
Mr.. Mason, Of the Charlestown Dem
ocrat, is doing good work for the party
we mean the Republican party. His
Republican contemporaries quote his
editorials with great relish.
Our greatly esteemed contemporary,
the Cbarlestown Free Press, has just en-
tered its seventy sixth volume. The
kittenish thing! We hope it may always
be as bright and readable rs it is now.
The West Virginia Press Association
met at Wheeling on Tuesday of this
week. The Editors were booked for an
excursion to Luray Caverns on Thurs
day. We hope none of 'em go' lost.
Mr.. WILSON got the nomination at
Keyser last week Gas easy as falling OIL
a log" The opposition was scattering,
and there was precious little of it. His
election will, we hope, be on the same
style.
The Pennsylvania Pohibitionists
have nominated Hon. Chas. 5. Wolfe
for governor. The Republicans and
Democrats will both try very hard to
keen the Wolfe from the door Of the gu
bernatOrisl mansion.
The thing that is worrying both the
Democratic and Republican parties
more than anything else just now is the
prohibition question. Both parties feel
as if they must straddlc it, and the result
will be as usual-the prohibitionists
will be fooled.
The Democratic convention at Point
Pleasant last week nominated Mr.. Chas.
E. Hogg, of Mason county, to succeed
Hon. Eustace Gibson. Mr.. Hogg is
gentleman of character and ability, and
will make strong candidate. Mr.. Glib
son has been an able representative, and
his retirement from Congress will be
regretted by many.
They have good snake story down
in one of the Southern States. A snake
swallowed an egg, and shortly after
ward crawled partly through the han
die of a jug. 1t then swallowed another
egg, and found itself in an awkward
fix. An egg was on each side of the
handle and his snakeship couldn't get
out, so he was caught. Nothing was
said In regard to the contents of the jug.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is
now running immigrant and express
trains through from New York to the
West. The trains run over the Central
Jersey and Philadelphia and Reading
roads to Birdsboro, near Reading, thence
by the way of the Wilmington and
Northern to Wilmington, Del, to the
Baltimore and Ohio's own line, crossing
at Canton to Locust Point, and then
running directly West.
THE latest thing which seems inno-
cent and yet conceals great danger is the
hustle. They are made of celluloid
now, and celluloid burns like powder.
In New York the other day woman's
dress caught fire from u cigar OH a
street car, and when a spark touched the
hustle it exploded and enveloped the
woman in flames, burning her so badly
that she died. We shouldn't wonder if
bustles should become questionable af-
ter this.
GEN. NATHAN GOFF authorizes the
Wheeling Inteuigencer to state that he
not only positively declines to allow his
name to be used in connection with the
nomination for Congress in the first dis
trict Of West Virginia, but if nominated
will not accept. The Intelligencer con-
cedes that Gen. Golf is the strongest Re-
publican in the district, and says he
would have been renominated by accla-
nation. The Democrats have strong
hopes Of carrying the district.
Mr.. THOMAS f. BENEDICT, Of New
. York, has been appointed by the Presi-
dent Public Printer. Mr.. Benedict is a
native Of Warwick, N. Y, and about
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