Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1885-07-03

To-Day Is the twenty-second ami
versary of the battle Of Gettysburg.
WKwill venture the prediction that
In 1888 the Deliberate party will fur
nish few mugwumps.
THE President does not find any time
to 90 fishing these days. He has to
meet Just as many applicants for office
rs ever.
JOHN MCCULLOUGH, the tragedisn.
has been placed in an insane asylum oy
his friends, with the hope that his mind
may be restored.
A WOMAN in Baltimore hanged her
self with the halyards Of an American
flag the other day. Baltimore women
always were patriotic.
The tramps are complaining that the
business is lamentably overdone. There
are a hundred men now where there
was one fifteen years ago.
Ir is reported that Hon. Ben Wilson,
of this State, has been promised posi-
ton as an Assistant AttOrney-General
in the Department of Justice.
The President has appointed Edward
l.. Hedden customs collector at New
York, II. 5. Besttie surveyor, and Silas
w. Burt naval officer. Another plum
for the mugmumps.
The Director OF the Mint, Mr.. Bur-
chard, refused to resign by request, so
he was gently but firmly kicked on, by
Secretary Manning. Burchard was
defensive" partisan.
MRS, DUDLEY, the woman who shot
O'Donovan Rosa, has been acquitted
on the ground Of insanity. This is
wrong. The woman should have been
punished-for not taking better aim.
JAMES d. FISH, who as president OF
the Marine National Bank in New York
made himself such a monumental exam
pie Of fraud, has been sentenced to ten
years in the penitentiary. He is sixty
five years old.
Ir is really cruel for the President
and the heads of departments to keep
80 many Republican office-holders In
suspense. 1t would be an act OF charity
to turn them out and let them know
their fate at once.
Down i'm Kentucky remarkable
state of affairs prevails. Several coun-
ties are in possession Of armed bands Of
men who are hunting each other like
wild beasts and killing OH sight. The
authorities seem to be powerlsss to ar
rest the desperadoes.
TIE Lynchburg Trginian tells of a
stroke of lightning that knocked a tooth
out Of little boys mouth without 9TH
erwi.e injuring the boy. We believe
this story. And, Furthermore, We be-
lieve that it was the very same tooth
that had been aching for long time.
The ladies of Richmond recently as
sembled and passed resolutions favor
ing the introduction of the whipping
post for wife heaters. The ladies per-
ceive that the wife beaten who has
about twenty lashes well laid on shows
no inclination to repeat his brutality.
Miss ADA SWEET, a government PEN
sion agent At Chicago, was requested
some months ago to resign. She refused
to do so, and Gefied the power Of any
one to put her out. She still sticks, and
we have the novel spectacle Of person
in petticoats getting the best Of the
government authorities.
EDITOR DUMINGToN, of the Grafton
Sentinel, was shot and severely wounded
last week by some unknown person
who was hidden in an alley. 1t is sur
missed by some that Mr.. burlington
was mistaken for the unpopular mana
ger Of rink, while others think it ives
caused by some of his political enemies.
The LIST of July has come and gone,
and the anticipated "clean sweep" at
Washington on that day has not been
heard from. Fewer persons were dis
missed from government service this
year than was usual while the Republic
cans were in power. The Democrats
who anticipated change are cussing
mad.
IT is estimated that there has been q