Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-06-11
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WAsHINaroN. June 8. 1856.

gratu.ationS," on the PRESIDENTS mar
rage. While Mr.. Cleveland is not flat
tered, the lady is depicted as charm
ing specimen of the female face and
form divine. 1t is tribute with which
the happy couple must be genuinely
pleased.
They will be coming back, 1t is
thought, about the middle of the week.
Quite probably the GOODNESS and distance
hitherto so much marking Mr.. Cleve-
lands bearing toward the people of the
District, will melt away and cordially
succeed to hardness and Indifference.
Such, we hope, may be the mitigating
results OF late events.
Last week we had Judge Fullerton,
of New York, here before the House
War Claims Committee with speech
advocating the payment of the bonds
issued by the Confederate Government!
Judge Fullerton is no fool flor doubtless
he got froh his English clients, Confed-
crate bondholders, good round fee)
but he surely came on a FOOLS Errand.
A grimmer joke there could not be.
A specimen of the way evil seed will
take roo: and grow, is seen in the ef-
forts of the Maine and Massachusetts
members to sow trouble between us and
our neighbors to the north of us. When
this session of Congress was in its earli-
est youth Mr.. Frye, of Maine, made a
speech, perhaps more than one, in
which he alluded to the patent facility
with which the United States could APP
propriate British America. 1t was not
easy to think of anything more indecent
and ungracious. Then came along the
refusal of the Senate to concur with
President Cleveland'S proposition for
commission to re- establish treaty rela-
tons relative to the fisheries, the old
treaties having expired by limitation.
"No," said Mr.. Frye, ave don't want
any commission" which could have no
other meaning than that his policy was
unfriendly; nay, hostile. Subsequent
events giving color to the entertainment
in Down East quarters of some unpleas-
ant purposes, the British government
mot wisely, Think are strengthening
their naval and military forces in and
about Nova Scotia. This stirs up bad
blood on our side, and so on. The Bal
timore Sun seems to think that the
New England fishermen are after get
ting fish tariff, so that they can ''put
up the price of fish until fishing pays
enough to suit them" l. is not the
most impossible thing in the world that
Mr.. Blaine's known residence in Maine
had some weight with the cautionary
action of the British government.
Our latest intelligence reports the de-
feat in the House of Commons Of Mr..
Gladstone's Home Rule measure by
yeas 81, nays 34l. Then follow men,
aces of dissolution of Parliament,
which, considering that this Parliament
is not year old yet, looks not justifi-
able. Should there be dissolution,
the result will be cburning up Of re-
ligious and political feeling in the Brit
ish Islands not surpassed since the
stormy days of the Reformation. james
Anthony Froude thinks that Home Rule
i'm Ireland would have but one termina-
ton. viz: an abandonment of the island
by the Catholic Irish or by the Anglo
Scotch population, for the two could
not live together in amty. "The Irish"
he says ''are an unchanging people.
The Home Rule effort is but repetition
of the attempts which have been from
time to time already made to rid Ireland
Of the AnglO-Scotch settlers. The Par
nell party will not be content with
equality, but demand to rule in what
they call their own land. The question
| is, whether we are to allow the Empire
to be disintegrated and the Protest
ant and loyal interests so laboriously
built up by our Liberal ancestry, to be
trampled under foot. The world is
wide and one of the two essentially OPP
posite peoples will seek another home"
He concludes, "If England cannot keep
order in Ireland, which is at her own
doors, the fates will not trust her much
longer with the charge of an Empire"
Last Friday evening r. preventative
Wheeler, of Alabama, delivered a speech
in the House occupying more than a
score of columns in the Congressional
Record i'm which Secretary Edwin NJ.
Stanton's career was called severely to
account for many things he was charged
with whilst in Buchanan s Cabinet, and
then Mr.. Lincoln's. Yesterday Mr..
Kelley, of Pennsylvania GOTTEN known
as Pig Iron), moved to expunge this
speech from the Record and to-day he
made reply to Mr.. Wheeler in which
the words ISLANDER" "hyena," "cess-
POOL" "ghoul," and long series Of
similar odorous and olfactory epithets
were scattered with more than generous
profusion. Both copies of the Record
will be probably in request.
Senator Kenna has revised his refusal
to continue President of the Democratic
Association, and will hold on. He
seems truly rising man.
Recorder Matthews is not yet in the
stirrup, but is thought soon to be, our
peoples wishes and rights notwith-
standing.
There is rumor that President Cleve-
land got his Forrest Hill farm at very
much less than the published figures,
for the sake of selling the adjoining
lands. If so, he is lucky on all sides.
The jury of condemnation has been
| summarized and will soon DrOceed to as