Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1885-12-18

closely. though.
THERE is a rumor to the effect that
Mr.. James NJ. Mason will buy and pub
lishthe Richmond Wing. We have been
of the opinion for some time that neither
West Virginia nor the Democrat are big
enough to hold Mr.. Mason.
A DISPATCH fIom Washington to the
Wheeling Register says that the COM
mission of Postmaster Leisenring, OF
Charlestown, will expire the last of
January, and that Mr.. Wilson has rec
commended Mr.. Geo. II. Flagg to succeed
him.
The supporters of the Hennepin Canal
scheme say that the canal is very badly
needed and will pay for itself in year
or two. Strange to say, however, Zone
of the capitalists will invest any money
in it. The government should not IN
vest any either.
In the Senate on Tuesday Senator
Vest introduced bill to incorporate
company to construct and operate ship
railway across the Isthmus of Tehuaate-
pee, upon the plan of James b. Eads.
The Government is asked TO guarantee
s., 800, 900 annually for fifteen years.
GEN. ROBERT TooMBs, the unrecon-
structed rebel and eX-Confederate gen
eral. died at his home in Washington,
GA. last Tuesday, at the age of 10. Cen
Toombs was one of the most brilliant
LAWYERS the South ever produced. He
was for short time Secretary of State
in Jefferson Dlv:s's cabinet.
AN effort will be made TO have Con-
gress pass a bill this session TO pay in
full all the claims of the negroes who
were swindled by the Freedmen's Bank.
II this bill goes through all right, WE
shall favor another bill making the
Government responsible for all money
due editors from delinquent subscribers.
FROM all parts of the couhtry are
coming petitions for appropriations for
rivers and harbOrs, and if one-tenth OF
the money asked for should be granted
the Government would be bankrupted.
The Democrats in Congress should re-
member that economy. not eXtrava'
gamce, in national affairs is what the
people want
ANOTHER sign of business revival is
the fact that ten per cent. additional oil
the syndicate coke ovens in the Con-
nellsville (Pa.) region have been fired
up, making 80 per cent. of the total
number now in blast, against 90 per
cent. few months ago. The coke trade
is now better than it has been tor years.
There is not an idle workman in the re-
gion.
BY recent decision of the Supreme
Court of Ohio, the State Senate Will
stand 20 Democrats and IL Republicans,
making a Republican majority of only
three in the Legislature on joint ballot.
As the Baltimore Sun remarks, this will
bear looking after in State where the
legislators are so thrifty. Mr.. John
Sherman may not succeed Mr.. John
Sherman, after all, in the United States
Senate.
NEW tramp law has just gone into
effect i'm Connecticut, and it we'll sus-
tains the reputation for meanpess that
New Englanders enjoy. BY the new
u
iail for thirty days, but if he asks tor
crust of bread he is imprisoned for six
months. Some awf ul disclosures have
also recently been made, showing the
treatment of paupers, which must put
that State to shame-if there is any
shame in it.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has
submitted the following estimates for
appropriations for rivers and harbors in
West Virginia: Continuing improve
ments of the Big Sandy river, $50, 900;
same for New river. s25, 900: same for
Elk river, $4,000; completing improve
ments of Buckhannon river, $1,000;
continuing improvements Great Kama
wha, s5OO.000; same for Guyandotte,
IS 900; completing improvements Little
Kanawha. $50 900; same for Mononga-
hela, 1921 900.
The Republican Senators IN caucus
have agreed to fight nominations made
by President Cleveland which displaced
Republican Office holders on the ground
of offensive partisanship. These Sena-
tors do not care three straws for the fact
that the American people expressed by
their votes last fall desire for a change,
neither do they give the President the
slightest credit for permitting very
large majority of Republicans to still
remain in Office. IL they persist in
fighting against the few changes the