Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-05-07

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sHEPHrRDsrowN, WEST VIRGINIA.
Friday, May =, 1855.
SonE one suggests that the next strike
should be made by poorly paid country
parsons for an increase of pay. They
deserve 1t.
We hope that Mrs. Cleveland-to-be Is
a good Democrat. We would rather she
should even be Republican than a
mugwump. Anything but mugwump.
IT Is quite likely that the constitution
al amendment changing inauguration
day from March 4th to April 30th will
be passed by Congress. 1t Is sensible
measure.
THERE seems to be unanimous opin-
ion that the President is really to be
married, and the 10th Of June has been
set as the day. Accept our congratula-
tions, Grover.
SECRETARY MANNING has almost en-
tirely recovered from his recent illness.
The reports are conflicting as to whether
he will resume his duties as Secretary
of the Treasury or not.
Rev. SAN JONES and Mr.. Sam Small
are in Baltimore preaching to immense
congregations. They will find the Bal
timore folks more tender and easier to
work on than The Chicago people.
MIR. 1. PARKER VEAzY, postmaster at
Baltimore, has resigned his position,
and the president has appointed MIR.
Frank Brown in his place. The old
saw will have to be changed to some
thing like this: Few die and mighty
few resign"
Two hundred citizens Of Albany,
New York, met the other night and
passed heroic resolutions against jeff
Davis. If they get alarmed so easily at
this late day they must have been in r
pitiable plight on account of fear TWEEN
ty-odd years ago.
CHINAMEN are not rated very high,
even by their own government. For
the thirty Mongolians who were re-
Gently murdered in the West the Chi
nese government only asks an indemni-
ty Of s147, 900, and this sum includes the
value Of the property destroyed.
Cheap enough.
TIE boycott is beginning to work
both ways-that is TO say, it is return
ing to the boycotters and harming them
more than those who were intended to
be boycotted. A number of ooycotters
have been arrested in New York for
conspiracy, and it looks very much as
il they will be convicted and given Sc
we're punishment.
HAVING been fed, clothed and shell
tered during the winter by the govern
ment, the Indians in Arizona and New
Mexico have started out on their usual
summer expeditions. They are muir
dering settlers and burning houses in
very savage fashion indeed. "The
troops are in pursuit"
CONGRESS- is particularly busy passing
pension bills that are taking millions Of
dollars from the Treasury. Republic
cans introduce them for partly capital,
and Democrats are afraid to defeat them
for fear they will lose votes. 1t might
be well to just give the pensioners free
entrance TO the Treasury and let them
help themselves. That would be popu-
lar-with the pensioners.
For many years Republican cam
paign orators have done their level best
to stir up sectional prejudice and fight
the war over with their mouths. Now,
when poor old JEFF Davis makes a speech
on the issues of the past, these same per-
sous raise most terrific howl, and cry
treason, rebellion, sectional hatred, and
SO on. What is sauce for the Democrat
ic goose is not sauce for the Republican
gander.
GATLING guns and first-clsss muskets,
well loaded, are needed in Chicago.
The vicious, frenzied rioters who have
been numbering human beings and de-
stroying property are deserving Of little
mercy, and society at large would BE-
we'll rid of the miserable foreigners
who call themselves socialist" and
anarchists. The honest, worthy