Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1885-11-20
Letter from Washington.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. II, 1885

tice of that Territory, but whose liz
Judged choice Of Stephen w. Dorsey, of
Star Route notoriety, to select jurors in
one of the counties, naturally impelled
the President to remove him, makes an
appeal against removal. He will prob
ably have few sympathizers. That Vim
cent should put Dorsey in a position to
set the wheels of public justice in mo-
ton anywhere, considering Dorsey's
recent history, would seem to show that
Vincent must be a man of insufficient
mental calibre. No man in his senses
could suppose the President would
countenance anything of that sort.
Engineer Menocal's report on the pro-
posed Nicarauga canal states the whole
length at 10 miles, Of which 56 miles
would be in the lake, 70 miles in the two
rivers. and Al miles of canal digging.
Total cost $64 100000 He says it would
accommodate the largest ships and carry
twelve million tons per annum. Six
years in building.
Agricultural reports show that the
seventy-three and a-half millions of
acres devoted TO the growth of corn this
year, have returned the average of 2s4
bushels per acre, the crop being slight
ly above the average of ten years. Far
mers about here complain of the warm
weather as rotting the corn in store.
The years hay crop has been below the
average. Alfalfa has thriven we'll in
the far West. Potatoes poor, except in
few favored spot. Tobacco an aver
age, with the heaviest crops in the
Valley of the Connecticut. Sweet po-
tatoes have had too much rain as gen.
eral thing, and are not up to the aver
age in quantity or quality. Turnips un-
usually large and plentiful. Buckwheat
large crop, but inferior.
| mentioned some time ago that heavy
complaints were making in Maryland
of Senator Germans support of Mr..
Eugene Higgins, of Baltimore, as sue
cessful applicant for the place of APP
pointment Clerk in the Treasury De-
partment. These are now revived. Mr..
Francis Miller, law partner of A. c.
Riddle, attorney to our District Com
missioners, is a resident of Montgomery
county, Nd, and ran at the late cleo
ton as Republican candidate for Con-
troller of the State Treasury. He re-
ceived about 30, 800 too few votes, and
now addresses Il long letter to the Pres
ident rearraigning Mr.. Higgins for sur
reptitiously entering the Record office
in Baltimore OH one Saturday night af-
ter an election in 1875, and with several
others breaking open the ballot boxes
and substituting Democratic for Reform
tickets, thereby, as is alleged, reversing
the election. He is also charged with
having entered district of Howard
county in 1879, at an election, and at
the head of large body of Baltimore
rOughS, Of both cOlors. and under all as
sumed name, illegally, by the assistance
of Howard county officials, voting there.
Also with improperly indorsing a con-
victed felon as an honest man, and will
fully calling him by fictitious name.
The question is, what will the President
do with it?
Robert @. Ingersoll, the infidel and
disappearing lecturer, has sold his house
and furniture here in Washington and
is going to live in New York. He lee
tured there on Sunday night, and is
pictured in the World in way that Mr..
lnfidel Ingersoll will not like. 1t cut
him up root and branch, and pictured
him in numerous of his attitudes and
studied gestures.
Now that Riel is hanged, the Cana
dian-French will enjoy an opportunity
for carrying their threatened rebellion
into execution. Mr.. Riel dared his fate,
and his Canadian sympathizers appear
to be animated with similar sentiments.
The exhibitions made in Lower Canada
a few weeks ago hostile to sanitary reg
ulations, vaccination &C., puts the civil
lization of its people in no enviable
point of view. Quite possibly those
people backed up Riel with false hopes
and promises of political and even
physical support they could not furnish
at the pinch. The disturbances yester-
day in Quebec and few other places
seem to have arisen from religious and
race prejudices and passions which will
entail shame and not glory on the per-
petrators. 1t is stated that ten Indian
chiefs convicted of murders in the same
region of country will be hanged before
long, all at once.
The bloodshed in the Balkan States
seems unjustifable, but is probably the
result of secret Russian instigation.
The Car understands the principle of
counter-irritation, and tries to keep
trouble away from his own person and
court by exciting it among his neigh
bOrs.
Mr.. Cleveland indirectly promises to
attend to our District politics after Con-
gress has convened. Some have sup
posed that he has made engagements
with certain Of his Independent friends
at the North to spare and save from re-
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register of wills and the recorder of
deeds, especially the latter, for whom
Mr.. Beecber might be expected to in
tercede. The apparent apathy of the
President towards the Democracy Of
the District, which showed such enthu-
siasm for his cause, and then for him in
person, hangs like soaked blanket up
on the ideas and feelings of many